Il y a quelque chose qui remonte de l'obscurité des temps anciens dans son toucher si bouleversant... Il donne la parole à la marée des sentiments de ceux qui nous ont donné la vie à assumer.
This one piece of music that I hadn't heard yet just dissolved several months... no, years worth of stress and mental block. I finally figured out the solution to what I've been pondering for so long. What an amazing sense of relief.
You can understand why he never smiled....think of the period he was alive in......post-war Europe - and the fact that he was Russian with German ancestry made it all the more complicated for him. The two countries he had a connection with ripping themselves apart and fighting each other......now perhaps you might see why he never smiled. Had he been alive now in the 21st century, I'm sure he'd be a more cheerful and affable man. He was stilladored by millions wordwide despite of this.
Это - только Ваша гипотеза, основанная на Вашем собственном отношении к миру. Есть много фотографий, гле Рихтер не только уоыбается, но и смеётся. А не концете он не улыбался, потом что был сосредоточен на великой музыке.
Rob Tyman Look at the important Richter movies by Bruno Monsaingeon. There you can see charming Richter smile, the most dramatic at the end of the movie when after speaking in very pessimistic tones on ”not feeling anything after playing” (the quote is not verbatime, which is often shown also without context. Well, after these deadly comment we see a warm and childlike smile creeping on his face. So, he smiled! What he thought is another thing....
No, definitely a 20th century piano. By way of contrast, here's a performance of the same piece (by Andrea Bonatta) on the 1873 Eduard Steingraeber instrument at Bayreuth: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-H2KAExWaMkc.html
