Sviatoslav Richter plays Haydn Piano Concerto in D - video 1983 best quality 

Maybe Richter loved Haydn's humor and more "rustic" style than Mozart's perfect elegance. Mozart is champagne, Haydn is a robust beer...I like both!

Richter gives Hyden wings, wings which Haydn sometimes needs.

I remember his performances in Moscow in 80th, I believe, at Pushkin Museum. Of maybe it was 70th? Life has past so fast, though it was so rich, eventful, interesting.

May be....

He was a complex person. Not everything could be in a documentary, or rather, yes, if to focus only on his artistic life. In Soviet times people were respectful and never touched his personal life. He was a great man; great soul and he was also an intellectual.

Только хорошая музыка - навсегда!

ben wang dang wang

Danny B. It's true. He grimaced at that wrong note. There were others but his face was not on camera to capture. A true "orangutan" of a man. My recollection at the RFH in 1961. I was but 12!!!

Even in the gnashing of teeth, you can feel the famous power of Richter.

Doremi Fasolla no it was last year

19 december 1983

@@МихаилЭман-в8е 3 days before i was born

The only person on youtube so far who REALLY plays the MUSIC!!!!!! of this piece. gorgepus!

@@naturalississimo , you are absolutely right!

Иван Иванов Thanks. This concerto is wonderful, and he doesn’t feel compelled to play too fast, to show off. Wonderful!

@@naturalississimo I played this as a child and I remember how hard it was to keep the tempo steady and give each note its due. The urge is to make it fly!

@@giovanna722 yes, youth often tends towards rushing and overly fast tempos, but here, Richter is a seasoned performer, and he understands the structure and content and character of the music. It was hard to find a really musical performance of this, but Richter’s is great. It is a delightful piece, and that comes through with Richter, who plays other Haydn pieces beautifully as well.

Cosi all of us.

The audience

William Shakespeare Haydn himself!

@@andymilsten9096 No, That's not the original cadenza, i have the sheet with the cadenza wroten by Haydn.

@@MichelVegaPiano Каденции Нино Рота.

@@MichelVegaPiano Me too, and this is it!

2003

Именно она. Она в то время ему почти на всех концертах помогала. А я был на этом концерте. Помню Гайдн был с Рихтером и на бис весь концерт был исполнен. За рубль билитершам прошли.

@@luka6227 So you were there. I would have lose my mind if I had the chance to hear Richter live. But did you see that often, I mean playing the whole concerto again as an encore ? This is very generous. I mean I never saw this, maybe in Russia this is something musicians do ?

Cosi it’s very unusual anywhere for a whole concerto to be encored. The nearest I experienced to that was in 1970 when Radu Lupu came to the Guildhall in Cambridge to play the Emperor Concerto with a student orchestra, not long after he won the Leeds competition. He played the last movement again as an encore. It was a thrilling concert. The conductor was Anthony Beaumont, now a distinguished musicologist, I believe. Richter was not always generous with encores, and notably refused to play any after his Mozart and Chopin recital at the Barbican in the late 80s (which I attended), probably because he was angry about aspects of the lighting and the filming of the recital.

Can you tell me what you meant by: (yes, this is a girl who - "Of course I believe you")?

@@petkoff42 Ohoh) Surely! In the USSR there was a good kind children's film about space travel. Very popular, all the children knew him then. Lyudmila Berlinskaya played there when she was a girl) And she sang a beautiful good song about magic and pure love - "Of course I believe you". Here's a link ) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-D8RxVniN_r8.html In the clip, footage from the movie with her)

In his own words age reduced his ability to memorize the music so he thought it was better to use the sheet music rather stop doing concerts. Anyway, it sounds the same with or without the score so its not important :)

How many concertos have you memorized?

he's gay? according to whom & where to read more about it?

He is more German than Ukrainian. His father collaborated with Nazi.

Никакой не было в 1915 году Украины. Послушайте, как об этом Монсенжону уже после советской власти подчеркнуто - специально для украинских националистов - говорит сам Рихтер.

Космический болван!

ты не дорос.

услышь здесь пение птиц,природу и голос Бога.

Он великолепен, а вам похоже это трудно видеть за своим величием, спуститесь на землю...

Привет. Вас уже вылечили?

Хлестко сказали, Алиса, и тут вы можете, разумеется, все, что угодно писать, только самому Плетневу при встрече подобного, пожалуйста, не говорите, тотчас выставит вас за дверь и не велит больше никогда пускать.