Sviatoslav Richter plays Schubert Sonata D.960
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- 00:00 - Allegro moderato
25:54 - Andante sostenuto
35:55 - Scherzo - Trio
39:30 - Allegro ma non troppo
Prague, 1972
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This is heroic. Monumental. I have this recording, and when I listen to it, my depression about the pettiness and violence of human beings lifts for a bit, and I know as a species we are capable of wonderful things. We are capable of wonder.
i agree so much with the way you put this...but i am also inspired this way by many other works of music from this era.
This tempo, with the depth put in this sonata by Richter, is simply genius. We may dispute what Richter does here, but we ought to know that this master will always exceed our knowledge and insight of this piece. What grace he puts into this sonata; Richter was one of the greatest pianists.
Exactly
@raoultak: Fanstastic comment, I do totally agree!!
I've come to love this version so much I can't really bear faster tempo for this piece it's such a meditative piece
Richter was one of the best interpreter of Schubert.
wonderful! Played as slow as possible without losing the rhythmic pulse, and this gives it great depth of feeling
and the thread do's not break
Over the course of my entire life, three things have had the distinct ability to make me shed tears at any moment. This recording is one of them. It is a gift to humankind. Happy birthday, Slava...
Agree...
+Deniz Erdinc What are the other 2?
+cdiegorodriguez Tchaikovsky's 6th symphony and the end of Beethoven's op 111...
+Deniz Erdinc. You therefore, if music brings you to tears, cannot have heard Portsmouth Sinfonia playing 'Also sprach Zarathrustra'. (It's on TH-cam)
+Deniz Erdinc Nice taste :)
Beethoven op 111 ...Rudolf Serkin
Schubert D 960 ...Sviatoslav Richter (specialy the andante)
Tchaikovsky symphony 6 ... Bernard Haitink, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra / Mravinsky Leningrad Philharmonic
But don't forget Rachmaninov Moment Musical op 16 no.3 Nikolai Lugansky
Tabula rasa Arvo Part
Beethoven string quartet op 131 last 2 movements
Mahler symphony 6
Verdi requiem libera me
And much more !!!
Un Richter exceptionnel: un moment privilégié
The repetitive structures that sometimes appear in Schubert's late piano pieces often stymie even gifted players. No so with Slavo...Kempff and Gieseking get very close, but Slavo simply does it better. Richter was sent to us to us as a gift.
i agree with you Miles; his depth will be forever unmatched by anyone..
I also agree 100% 1000%
The best performance I ever heard of this masterpiece. I am speechless
Un andante sostenuto d'une beauté incroyable...quelle retenue...une merveille !
The slow tempo - especially in the first movement - is arresting. I've never heard it played this slow and it is profound played this way.
+Tim K Yudina is even slower
When the police think you've committed a crime, but don't want you to be to stressed and are taking you somewhere 25 min away. (plays this piece through police car sound system).
(no offence)
Without You Tube I would never have discovered all these Richter versions (and the scores).Thanks for putting them on line.
for those of you who think the tempo is too slow just because you're accustomed to a faster tempo, open your ears. a reminder: 'molto' means 'very' in italian - the tempo marking is 'very moderate' - moderate just won't do - and richter was one of the few great musicians of the 20th century - i personally find this performance mesmerizing -
I think pretty much all music historians are in agreement that tempo was generally faster in the 18th and 19th centuries than it is now. To say that Schubert wanted this played so slowly is objectively wrong. (Of course, that does not prohibit you from doing it anyway.)
@@Tomsfilipsons how all historians, you relay to, would know the exact tempo played in 19th , especially in the 18th century, when there were no recordings in those days. Schubert lived in the first half of the 19th! If you refer to the tempos in general, we must remember most instruments were “ plucking”, not percussion type,there were no pedals and to connect sounds, fast tempos were required. So there could be no comparison.
Also great masters would always listen to their own intuition, not some experts, to play. There are no constraints to each musician on tempo ( unless its specified by the composer in min, where you have to use a metronome). Besides, I wouldn’t trust music historians or critics- they always have their own agenda and quick to scorn anything out of conformity. Richter as a superb interpreter of Schubert, Schumann, etc earned to be outside of conformity. The hell with “historians”.
For me the conclusion is: Follow your heart and intuition and according to what you think is beautiful or the right tempo. Don't play it in a tempo which is "acceptable" or "normal" or following the herd of obedient notes-players with exact execution of tempo indications.
Be an artist and to hell with all discussions like " Richter should not play so slowly this or that piece"
Thank God for Sviatoslav Richter! What a gem, what a brilliant. No one comes close to him. The absolute "primus inter pares"
Sublime...never really loved a Schubert piano work until today.
Very profound and deep interpretation into late Schubert piano work.
He ( Richter) understand better than anyone what lay "behind" these notes, bars.
He knew and understand unbelievably well the inner meaning of the music, he played.
That's why he ( with Sergei Rachmaninoff) was the two greatest pianists of the 20th Century.
Hear the inner voices and rhythm of the Andante sostenuto here... .
Who are able to do this better? No one.
Funny that some arresting music is laying 'behind the bars
La più grande esecuzione di questa Sonata, in assoluto. Richter è l'unico pianista che abbia compreso fino in fondo e abbia saputo rendere perfettamente il senso di morte - e trasfigurazione - che aleggia su tutta la Sonata (e su tutta la musica di Schubert).
Absolutamente de acuerdo, esta música toca el alma!
I fully agree with you. It is the absolute genius Sviatoslav Richter who is able to follow his own heart and brains and musical intuition an performs on a heavenly level, way above all the notes-players who follow obediently the tempo indications on the score.
When I hear people complain: Richter is playing this way too slow! It's outrageous!
I get upset. I think here is a genius at work, it sounds superb and you are going to complain about the tempo he is playing the piece. Be humble, shut up about tempo and enjoy the hard-headed genius the one and only SVIATOSLAV RICHTER.
NO ONE LIKE HIM!!
@@janwillemheijbroek9107 wonderful comment, you could not say better. Richter is an ABSOLUTE Genius. Thank you!
A beautiful, personal and deeply moving interpretation of a masterwork. That chord at 32.50 gets me every time - so simple yet so profound...
AND the bars that come after that chord! Heaven before our eyes (ears).
What a gift that you added the score for all 48 minutes!
Einfach großartig! Richter war der Beste! In dieser Aufnahme hört man Dinge, die man bei anderen Aufnahmen schlichtweg nicht hört. Amazing performance, absolutely excellent, moving and touching, brilliant.
oui dès le début de la pièce ,on est dans un autre monde que les autres interprètes géniaux soient-ils ne créent pas vraiment.extraordinaire
+Lenis Keks Stimmt. Niemand spielt Schubert wie Richter.
meditative....compelling in how Schubert's lyricism is highlighted. Very personal and creative how he maintains line and mood.
I can't hold my tears back
Sometimes less is more. With that it mind, I want to say only, "Yes!"
c'est la version la plus extraordinaire que j'ai jamais entendue.
+ShuShu Mad _Richter es un gigante del piano........... esa es la razön............
This is unbelievable. I am in awe of this profound interpretation. Thank you Sviatoslav!
When a young pianist played the first movement of this sonata without taking the repeats, Richter asked him after the recital "Aren't you ashamed?" Richter was relentless in observing repeats!
Who gives a damn about the repeats? It's not a law, it's optional
@@ignacioclerici5341 I am one who gives a damn about the repeats--because they plunge me even more deeply into the pain and the the beauty that Schubert is experiencing/expressing.
@@jamesnickoloff6692 Well said.
@@joshuaslater7858 Thanks, Joshua.
A repeat is NOT optional unless the composer says so.
If there is a God and perfection...this is it.
At the slowest tempo, yet the music goes by so fast
It's amazing. It's a live performance so unfortunately we are missing the unique atmosphere that was created during the performance between Richter and the audience. I am sure it was something all the people remembered for the rest of their lives. I love how much time he has to bring the philosophical beauty of the first movement.
I'm not sure there is a more beautiful recorded piano sound than here. The pianissimo is simply breathtaking.
This divine piece has been a bit of an obsession recently and I have had the good fortune to listen to several recordings on youtube. At one end of the spectrum is Andras Schiff, with this recording at the other end. Choosing between them is pointless: they are both artists of the highest rank. We can only be grateful that such a piece exists.
I cannot find any greater interpreter for this piece. Richter as a being perfectly suites this piece.
I love this. I think the effect of the tempo depends on how i am feeling. It is perfect today but maybe not tomorrow. Thanks for the score
Semplicemente un rito di passaggio tra le epoche interiori di ciascun ascoltatore passato , presente , futuro .
Little that I can add to Roy Doughty´s comment. The song quality of each mvmt brings me closer to the music. Knowing something of Schubert´s life and sufferings makes it so more a treasure.
how wonderful. His playing seems to glory in the sheer beauty of the notes on that particular piano on that particular day, but paradoxically that allows him to reach out to the listener and share the ineffable nature of the piece. I had never imagined the first movement so slow, but it makes sense. Schubert wrote MOLTO moderato - a kind of paradox in a way - how can we play VERY moderately, well Richter shows how.
John Harmer I was surprised too by the slowness of this. Enjoyable, indeed. But the tempo varies a lot (accelerates around 1:47 and slows down when the theme comes back), which I find annoying. Isn't it a sign that it started too slow? In the end I think I prefer Brendel's version, faster and more stable
John Harmer Kissin takes it even slower, I believe, in his studio recording.
am listening to the slow movement...and crying beyond control....
Yes! This is the version I grew up on. It is truly awesome and one that for me set the "standard" for playing Schubert. I got in trouble with my piano teachers because of it too because I used to attempt to emulate his style. :-)
Bravo bravo bravo brilliance grandiose genial
This man really knows how to read music.
Yes !!
An achingly beautiful piece reviled by the master, Richter.
reviled?
revealed, of course, but thanks for pointing out my spelling weakness :>
Eurisko Lontano I get the impression that English isn't your first language (and if it is, I apologize - no offense meant), but just so you know, "reviled" means "despised" or "loathed," so it seemed like you said Richter hated this piece. It's a pretty important distinction to make. =)
Will Buck
Let me be clear here: I am an English speaking professional music educator (ret.) who types poorly and occasionally misspells words, at a most unfortunate point it would seem ;-). I love both masters referenced in this post, so may all forgive my unfortunate shortcomings, please.
Бесподобное исполнение ! Просто нет слов ! Нечего добавить ко всем написанным комментариям ! Это величайший музыкант !
А комментарии то разные....Великая музыка и исполнение.
For those who try to pick holes in Richter's playing, remember that he was largely self-taught and didn't carry the baggage of some snotty non-gifted piano teacher trying to tell him how to play, Even his only 'teacher' the celebrated Neuhaus admitted that he had taught him nothing, and referred to him as a genius. Hence the sometimes 'different' interpretations, his stunning keyboard technique, his amazing control of tone and supreme poetic vision are his alone. There will never be a pianist of his stature again, so just be glad that you are privileged to hear him and stop quibbling about his tempo and 'incorrect rhythms' unless you think you are even a millionth as good as him!
In...deed.
On a parfaitement le droit de ne pas admettre le tempo du 1° Mvt sans pour autant être un crétin inculte; Je suis d'autant plus à l'aise pour le dire que je suis un fan absolu de SR, et qu'il atteint des sommets sur le reste.
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What the f=uc.k are you talking about. I..di?ot
Schubert is simply too awesome!
Heartbreaking, the very best !
Thanks! wonderful performance. Love it.
Ecoutez les deux premiers mouvements et puis... mourrez !
La rencontre d'une œuvre d'émotion absolue et d'un pianiste complètement imprégné.
Dire qu'il y en a qui compare Richter à Gould qui avait trop d'ego pour aborder le modeste Schubert.
Unlike anything I've heard others play this piece. Brings out new highlights.
Thanks for uploading!
Schubert's music is monumental in the sense that vast emotions are held in check, only ever so often we get a (shattering) glimpse. Richter is trying to do something here. Most would find it impossible to play this slow. Most are not Richter.
Será la energía para tocar el piano ,pero siempre extrañe sus interpretaciones muy claras y audible .no opacas ni poco audible e interpretaciones perfectas ese es Sviatoslav Richter el.mejor de lo mejor .
Einfach großartig!!!! Richter war der beste!
It's just such a warming performance; whether it's the performer or the instrument.
The first movement is played incredibly slowly. Surprising at the first time - but then convincing! Richter is probably right when playing it so. This is in the mood of Schubert's last year.
OMG! HOW SWEET THE SOUND
Thanks for showing the score on screen. I heard it first from Daniel Barenboim. The second movement is the most significant thing I ever heard. Nothing like the Roamantik that was to come with all its hybris of passion. Its serious, deep and innocent like the longing of a child's heart.
Thanks to all that corrected me so kindly. Really thank you. The point is that we have an excellent filter mechanism to discern between noise and signal so we don't have to concentrate on a mobile ring or cough - we can skip it easily (unless under excessive stress, thereatened and reading all the signals as potential threat). There are two points to mention then:
The way he emphasises the RH, instead of the LH theme, at 2.59, is deeply noble and profound
Glenn Gould quite famously well I don't know how famously but in the documentary about R said that he never could bear the repeats in Schubert until he heard Richter play them in concert and then for the first time he understood what the repeats were about this is my single favorite recording of this piece and I have about 10 favorites but this is the most favorite of the favorite the most profound
The harmonic change from 19:40 - 19:45 is really spectacular
This piece is insanely beautiful and incredibly difficult in terms of musicality.
Correction:
00:00 - *molto* moderato
25:54 - Andante sostenuto
35:55 - Scherzo - Trio
39:30 - Allegro ma non troppo
Божественная Музыка в исполнении Гения! Это наш русский Гений!!!
Best interpretation out there. Slow, thoughtful, but still explosive when needed.
L'art de Richter me semble plus dans le raffinement que dans le spectaculaire...
Dans cette sonate D.960, que de poésie dans cette rêverie douce et apaisante...
Thank you. The best.
sorim1967: Absolutely agree = Venite adoremus, Dominum. I dream of playing this sonata someday. I may never master it but I can still fantasize.
That's the first semi colon I've ever seen in a you tube comment. Respect.
Richter plays the first movement extremely slow, though (in my opinion) more beautiful than anyone else. I think the same is true for his interpretation of D.894
a pure wonder !
Well, if you think, this is too boring, just doesn't listen to it. I don't understand at all, why 7 minutes makes you pain. This is so pure joy here...
I think one of the best moments of the 1st movement is the outbreak at the end of the exposition and the calmth afterwards and the return to the exposition. Really. Something is missing, if this is not there.
It will still take me a sort of enlightenment to accept Richter's interpretation. I was deeply touched in the first few measures but somehow the structure still wants to take over that's why there is this need to move the tempo. I still love Richter and I respect his insights...
I feel quite the opposite. Of all the interpretations, this is the most resounding and unique of all of them. I have heard 960 played by many a man, but this is the interpretation I think of whenever the song comes to mind.
FirstPublicChannel, thanks for sharing. I don't know much about Schubert's intention for this masterpiece regarding to the interpretation or piano performance, but Richter's playing always gets to me.
Les dernières sonates de Schubert ont quelque chose d’ultime et au même temps sans limite; horizon qui démarque la vue sans fixer l’espace ni déterminer le songe. Si tant est qu'on puisse inclure la sonate D.840 en ut majeur inachevée, je me réfère autant à la D.958 en do mineur qu'à la D.959 en la majeur et, avec plus de raison, à la D.960 en si bémol qu’inspira ces lignes remarquables à Philippe Jaccottet : «La dernière sonate pour piano de Schubert m’étant revenue hier soir, par surprise, une fois de plus, je me suis dit simplement: “Voilà”. Voilà ce qui tient inexplicablement debout, contre les pires tempêtes, contre l’aspiration du vide ; voilà ce qui mérite, définitivement, d’être aimé : la tendre colonne de feu qui vous conduit, même dans le désert qui semble n'avoir ni limites, ni fin» (Notes du ravin, Fata Morgana, 2001 : 31).
this is briliant. So this is what Schubert wanted to say...
Have you ever been in Russia? I guess the concert was in winter, it might have had been -25 Celsius and the reaction of your respiratory tract to a drastic change can not be resisted. I would rather admire people who came despite weather which would have kept most of us at home.
Música clássica a salvação da humanidade! Um presente para alma! Magnifico!
Искупительная жертва Иисуса Христа - спасение для всего человечества,она до сих пор изливается на всех людей, чтобы каждый,поверивший в неё, пришёл к точным знаниям из Библии и Спасся,проверяя постоянно в Вере ли он!! Слушаю Святослава Рихтера всегда,- это как глоток воздуха в безжизненной пустыне!!!
i think its perfect!!!!!
So much Drama and at the same time wisdom and sweetness and magic and doubt
so beautiful~
maravilhosa obra....
Would you pass on a Richter concert because of a small cough?
I wouldn't.
Alicia de Larrocha, elle a une belle interpretation de cette sonate, elle inclus la repetition du 1er mouvt!
SR here, very compelling, and realizing singularly the tempo given by Schubert
Je partage avec Glenn Gould l'avis de que Richer réussi à créer l’illusion d’un lien directe entre lui et la partition et, par là, nous aide à créer « le sentiment de participer non pas tant à l’interprétation qu’à la musique elle même ». Grace au rapport eurythmique qu’il établit avec l’instrument, il est en mesure de se débarrasser [et de nous libérer] « de toutes les considérations superficielles de virtuosité ou d’exhibitionnisme instrumental pour, au lieu de cela, diriger son attention sur les qualités spirituelles inhérentes à la musique elle-même. […] Ce que Sviatoslav Richter accomplit en réalité consiste à insérer entre le compositeur et l’auditeur l’élément conducteur de sa propre et immensément puissante personnalité. Ce faisant, il nous procure l’avantage d’avoir l’impression que nous redécouvrons l’œuvre à partir d’une perspective différente de celle à laquelle nous étions habitués ».
+pedro a. cantero
Seule question : pourquoi Gould n'en a t-il jamais fait de même ? Lui qui jette tout de suite un estampillage sur ce qu'il joue , en disant : "ha ! Vous voyez , ça , c'est à moi ! "
Excellent !!!!!!!!!
13:38 - 14:13 Could be the most beautiful thing I've ever heard.
Agree, Darren. BTW, there's the (Artur) Schnabel version, recorded around 8 decades, ago. THAT version, IMO, is how this, extraordinary piece can hold-TOGETHER. .... in a way that's almost irreproachable.
everything and the kitchen sink!! a great masterwork for both composer and piano player-
Yes. The 1st movt. coda sounds like "O come let us adore him" from "O come all ye faithful" (hymn tune by Mendelssohn, I think).
The very best - all others seem to go by comparison...Here we have interpretation and technique at the absolute service of the composer and so much bettered by a live performance: I cite both Brendel and Schiff as being the text-book players of lacking insight.
Sublime.
i am far too mean to the piano! richter has the touch of an angel
В середине 1 части волшебный фрагмент. 15.54. Чудесно. ❤
La alegría del viajero se ve opacada por un sonido grave, lejano que viene tras él. apura el paso con más entusiasmo pero ése sonido profundo le llega y parece estar más cerca.
La jornada es larga el paisaje cambiante entonces se puede hacer un breve alto y recapitular el camino recorrido y cuánto resta para llegar a Destino... otra vez ése sonido grave y amenazador. En marcha otra vez con más ahínco y fuerza que nunca. Después de todo un día de agotadora marcha ya se siente un cansancio infinito pero está cerca de su meta cuando descubre con sorpresa unas huellas de pies humanos delante de él. Las compara y son iguales a las suyas. Son las suyas!!! Ríe como un loco desesperado. Ha estado caminando en círculos y por días y días su corazón late tanto que parece estallar se sienta recostado sobre una roca plana a un lado del camino. Le falta el aire siente que se ahoga y ahora el sonido bajo es más fuerte y en el recodo del camino tras él un tornado oscuro y rugiente viene lento pero firme.
La Muerte venía siguiendo sus pasos desde el principio y ahora caminante tu jornada ya se ha cumplido.
Wow.
Maravilhoso.♥♥♥♥♥♥
Andante, the Andante
Profound GRATITUDE (-_-)...
Take Care,
KIMY
Saw Uchida perform this at Carnegie Hall last night as part of a performance off Schubert's last three sonatas. No matter more who plays it though the intimate interplay between defiance and resignation (almost joyful at times) that the end is near near fails to move me.
Do you have details on this release? Which performance, what release, which label?
Thanks!
i love this interpretation and the version of alfred brendel like more light but really deep to.
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so here you're .... the Way, the Truth, the Immortality.....