Ludwig van Beethoven Piano sonata n°30 op.109 I. Vivace ma non troppo 0:00 II. Prestissimo 3:22 III. Andante molto cantabile ed espressivo 5:47 Sviatoslav Richter Live recording, Moscow, 22.I.1972
Juste la plus belle version dans ses moindres détails, inégalée ! fluide, maitrisée, intériorisée, déchirante, naturellement chantante et expressive . Richter au sommet nous délivre un message humain au delà des notes de musique, comme bien souvent !
Marvellous performance! What a genius this Sviatoslav Richter! I love his romantic poetical play! Unequalled in combination with his technically perfect performance! This touches your heart and soul immediately. Great respect for this always surprising Sviatoslav Richter and of course also great respect for Beethoven!
I'm tempted to say that there's something of a "double miracle" here. For not only is Richter's performance breathtaking in its customary brilliance -- the expected miracle, as it were; but for one of the rare occasions in his live recordings, he was actually blessed with an audience that generally held their coughing to a minimum! I hope this Opus 109 has found its way to an available Richter CD. Thanks for sharing this sublime display of Richter's grand artistry!
Well said, you are absolutely right. And indeed the Russian public behaved much better than normal in regard of coughing. It irritates me enormously in general. I think if you have to cough get out, leave the concert hall.
Kräftige und zugleich lyrische live Interpretation dieses perfekt komponierten Meisterwerks im vielseitigen Tempo mit gut phrasierten Töne des Klaviers. Bestimmt die beste Kombination der höchsten Technik und der angeborenen Lyrik!
Erick Verran Oh yes , I am . Bach breathes with light in his fugues , Beethoven with flesh and hallucinatory revelation . More simple , the first is sure about his own hope , the second is waiting on God's phone call .
Fritz Maisenbacher That sounds like hindsight to me. If you take an ahistorical point of view, a fugue is a fugue. Its directness has the same effect as rap music: forceful yet moving easily. In Bach this is normal, but for a romantic composer the baroque is the freedom enjoyed after a struggle.
Erick Verran Excuse me to be rude , but fuck off with your "historical point of view" . Listen to the fucking fugue , for God's sake ! This is beyond every rationality , this is emotionnal lava , exterminating every rampant intellectualism in front of it ! This is High Metaphysic falling from Heaven on our bloody earth ! And now the racist comment : I think you are French or something like that .... so please , wait outside , or go away from this stuff , this is NOT for your culture . Good night .
