Sviatoslav Richter in Prague, 1956 - Pictures at an Exhibition 

Best Richter I have ever heard among many his many recordings. Every note lives.

Richter recorded "Pictures" many times, but this early recording is, IMHO, if not the best surely near the best. Nobody else has come close to his performances of this piece. There is an orchestral version, but I prefer this, the original version, to the finest orchestral performances.

Thanks a lot for sharing! As so often with Richter, I got the impression to hear the piece for the first time. Remarkable rendition of the piano's sound, with all its nuances. What a huge palette!

There has never been and, chances are that, there will never ever be a better performance than this. This is it, period.

Genial Slava, como siempre!

Extremely wonderful ~~~

This is one of those performances by Richter where I think, why does anybody else even try to play it?

Mussorgsky en Richter both perfect ! Geweldige muziek !

concert historique à plus d'un titre,et unique

Magnificent performance, as expected from the incomparable Richter. The real surprise is the sound quality. Is this a digitally remastered release?

22:09 to the end wonderful, but I shamelessly admit that all of Horowitz’s performances of this are preferable to me.

My understanding is the the original piano version was basically forgotten, until Richter's signature revival brought it to public attention. While Ravel, etc are fine orchestrations, nothing captures the intensity of Richter's piano.

historic .

This is a piece for piano by Modest Mussorgsky, named "Pictures at an Exhibition" or "Bilder einer Austellung".

Jeden Anhänger dieses in seiner von anderen Weltklassepianisten wie Rubinstein, Gould, Lugansky ausgesprochenen magischen Weise seines Spiels müssen seine "frühen" Aufführungen besonders neugierig machen. Tatsächlich auch sind die "Bilder" Mussorgskys ein besonders reicher Quell der unerschöpflich vielseitigen Ausdrucksfähigkeit des unvergesslichen deutsch-russischen Künstlers.

It seems to me his hand is in concrete/ plaster ?? please a short anser to this ? (my English is terribly bad but reading is no problem )

But the music is very very fantastic and totaly Richter. I know he's no alive but he is Éndless (?) Eindeloos !!! For me, when he is playing.. for me he is totely alive.