Sviatoslav Richter plays Beethoven Piano Sonata no. 31 op. 110 - video 1991 

Beethoven shines through "so hold und schön und rein". I might have said the 1st movt is too fast, but Richter makes it utterly convincing: the arpeggios flow like water. There is something especially pure about this recording that I don't hear in others. But it is not cold or mechanical; I was in tears by the end. I think Beethoven would approve-if he could hear it!

Thank you for posting this astounding performance. Bravo: Richer. Bravo Beethoven. Bravo Homo sapiens sapiens.

The one and only... Richter ...

absolute excellence

completely unique and organic in its origin

A god playing a real prince of music.

touching. beutiful. thank u

IMPRESSIVE

Mil gracias !!! Maravilloso

Simplesmente maravilhoso.

Richter looks majestic from 20:41

당신이 돌아가시기 직전에 예술의 전당에서 만나뵌걸 평생 추억으로 간직하겠습니다.

💙💙💙

화질 정말 좋다

❤❤❤❤❤

It's utterly moving! Shame with the audio adjustment and sync...can't you re-edit the edited version? If you did, I'll give you Martha Argerich's chopsticks. :>

19:12. 20:26. 20:57. 20:59. 3:12. 3:26

僕はリヒテルのバッハの平均律を手本に練習しています。ピアノは ヤマハです。

I love Richter's playing, but the second movement is painfully slow (and the third is too). Ich bin lüderlich becomes Ich bin schläfrig...

Есть всего 22 человека которые сыграют лучше.. Как меня бесят люди которые ставят дизы таким метрам..

10:53

史上最高のピアニストリヒテルが1番好きです。

Even in his later years, Richter could play with such grace and utter feeling, eliciting untold sonorities from the piano, such as here with such fidelity to the score and precise technique, yet interpretive genius; heis just astounding! RIP Sviatoslav Richter.

I. Moderato cantabile molto espressivo 0:00 II. Allegro molto 6:24 III. Adagio, ma non troppo - 9:15 Fuga. Allegro, ma non troppo 13:36

Only someone like Richter can play 110. Not a sonata for students but for consummate musicians

Unbelievable. I have no words. A 76 year old playing as such... the great Richter.

ich bin Sviatoslav Richter noch jeden Tag endlos, endlos dankbar......

Favorite composer and favorite pianist. Brilliant performance.

Sensational performance by Richter of the great opus 110 (as usual!), but it's the video quality that is truly astonishing. Captivating from beginning to end! Thanks so much for sharing this audio-visual marvel.

Гений на все века-РИХТЕР!!!

Это был концерт памяти Дмитрия Журавлёва 3 декабря 1991 года.

This video/performance is an exquisite work of art in itself. Thank you for sharing it. Richter was a genius. As, of course, was Ludwig van Beethoven. A transcdendent performance of a transcendent masterwork.

Absolutely superb performance!

oh........... how lonely lovely lonely.... but very clean pure!! devotion!!! i can feel old beethoven's lonely and sorrow solitude also can feel beethoven's more clear mind! start is star fall in the lonely night!! finish is delight of overcome!! richter show beethoven's victory for the good!! this is overcome the wall!!

Monumental by the standards of any period since this piece was composed. He rarely misses in any Beethoven sonata and often surpasses the reference recordings. As he does here.

Absolutely phantastic in any respect! Thanks for uploading!

What a great video, I've never seen it before on RU-vid. The interpretation is very deep. Richter is impressive, because he plays Beethoven with an incredible balance of sound and control, nevertheless he never seems to me cold and detached.

Richter's dynamic range was unrivaled and he had an extremely large repertoire. I am not fond of some of his slower tempi in late beethoven but he was a bright light -one of the brightest of the 20th century.

할말을 잃게 만든 연주

I like the unusually slow tempo with which he opens mvt. 2.

귀한 영상이네요. 노년의 리히터도 신기하지만 리티테르의 연주 모습을 가까이 보는 것도 영광입니다

A true master. I was lucky to hear Tichter live with this sonata - memorable.

Великий Рихтер !!!

TY ADGO very much for the wonderful upload

quinto34 tonight,I send you 2 Richter video. I think you love them.

Just Brilliant as usual...!!

SR would have been the perfect partner for old-age Klemperer in the Beethoven Piano Concertos.

Всех слушателей поздравляю с днём РОЖДЕНИЯ Святослава Теофиловича РИХТЕРА! Он родился в г.Житомире 20.03.2024. СЧАСТЬЕ,что Он с нами! Поклон ему от меня… 20.03.2024.

Переживает мелодию как жизнь.

маэстро!!!!!

Thank you for this video, really a privilege to listen to this one.

Поплакать мне что ли? -от жалости и от любви… Спасибо… 8.04.2024.

Wow, I didn't expect a flawless performance out of this video and at Richter's old age. mainly because I have a horrible recording of his at Decca lable on the Beethoven's Sonatas. Trust me don't buy that. lol

What a jewel, thanks!

Thanks for uploading this! :))

Maravilhoso!

Do you prefer the arts or sports? In-depth conversations or small talk? What gives you the most anxiety: living in a universe of consumption or music?

Amazing performance, transcendent! I have 35 recordings of this sonata performed by him but, perhaps, this is the most beloved.

wow, enlightning

I will never know why Sviatoslav chose to play Yamaha over Steinway or equivalent. (This was before the much better S series or the CFX.)

II Mov 6:24 III Mov 9:17 Fuga 13:37

18:19 makes me think of wittgenstein: "where u cant speak, you must remain silent"

10:57 ... 16:17

Bien trop lent le deuxieme mouvement, lui qui a la technique pour faire ce qu'il veut, curieux qu'il ait choisi de tempo.

Bei Sviatoslav Richter kann man stets den unweigerlichen Eindruck gewinnen, als ob Beethoven oder Bach sich genähert haben und im Raum mit anwesend sind.. So ist mein untrügliches Empfinden...

Is this the best unterpretation of this sonata?

Thanks a lot !!!

No little lamp this time?!

A écouter à genoux !

내 인생 최고의 연주자. 리히터

An electrifying performance.

13:38

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Только кажется, это 1992г.

Sure this isn't from 1891 and not 1991? The attire of the page turner seems a bit out of date.

Those high notes in the first movement should've been octaves.. Maybe , if Beethoven could hear , he would write octaves.. The performance is very mature, and well refrained, but for me , gilels makes it more intimate and personal . Gilels sound more suitable for Beethoven, in my taste. Rip gilels+richter.

5:26 immer noch kein "pp" , only this damned mezzopiano .... das steht doch fest in der Partitur, verdammt noch'mal !!!

Excellent play by John Malkovich.

Malgré le fait que l'on sent que vous ne possédez pas l'oeuvre parfaitement entre les mains (vous la possedez bien quand même !), votre interprétation n'est pas trop mauvaise en ce sens où vous respectez bien l'esprit beethovenien de la sonate. Quelques erreurs sont regrettables. La première, où vous finissez par vous reprendre (2'15") est plutôt d'un attendrissant gauchisme. La deuxième passe quasiment inaperçue dans la rapidité du tempo final (20'40"). D'une manière générale, c'est un jeu inutilement très dur que vous adoptez pour cette sonate ; vous réduisez la musicalité à son degré zéro. Le deuxième mouvement est très lent mais la manière dont vous l'amenez, notamment avec l'enchaînement du troisième mouvement, permet à votre interprétation d'être admissible. Un contresens est cependant à déplorer (19'10") : vous ne faites quasiment pas entendre le crescendo de la note répétée. Cela s'ensuit d'un autre contresens logique, lors de la fin du dernier mouvement : vous ne semblez pas comprendre la superposition des quartes menée par Beethoven : marche descendante ("re, la / do, sol / si fa# / sol, la, si"), vous ne mettez pas en valeur le passage de la marche descendante à la marche montante par le demi ton inversé (main droite : do si ; main gauche : fa# sol), et la fin manque grandement de dynamisme. 11/20

Sorry but as a Chopin lover I find this B. sonata boring....feel free to disagree. I'm not talking about the performer...

This is quite a bad performance! However let's consider that Richter had a different approach to canceling recitals than most top-performers.

Richter always played from the music after a memory lapse in the middle of playing a Liszt piece. Richter looking glum as usual; reduces the enjoyment of the music when you have to look at a morbid face.

This is beautiful music of course. But, at least, this is only a melancholic and pathologic song of two (supposed) depressive and old bodies, Beethoven and Richter, complaining about their lumbagos, rheumatisms, and all possible parralel diseases. This is NOT of any interest. I do not think that Ludwig van wanted to expose his complete medical problems. The 110 is about other matters. Inner anguish, revelations, visions, hallucinations, metaphysic, faith and death. This is what I am waiting for. And here it is not. Artur Schnabel knew everything about it, and also the young beautiful extatic Kate Liu.