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exponentu (September 8, 2008 at 8:57 pm)
As much as I admire Richter in general, I think this is, for him anyway, a poor performance. Off-hand, brusque, too uniformly loud. This piece needs above all Innigkeit, and I think that is missing here.
gspaulsson (August 19, 2008 at 8:56 pm)
Classical: "of ... the formally and artistically more sophisticated and enduring types of music ...". Maybe we should use "rococo" for the classical period, to avoid confusion. And what's with pre-1900? Plenty of greats post-1900: Rachmaninoff, Strauss, Sibelius, Elgar, Rodrigo, Villa-Lobos ... the moderns: Debussy, Ravel, Stravinsky, Shostakovich, Prokofieff, Bartok, Schoenberg, Britten, etc. There will be many more.
Not all of it big stuff. This is a mere bagatelle.
dmcII (August 16, 2008 at 2:21 am)
Horowitz (for most of his career) was first a showman and technician and secondly, an artist. Thats not to say his playing was dull. He was awesome. But it wasn't until much later in life that he started to show the emotion that Richter did. Richter could pretty much hold his own against Horowitz technically. But he also had an artistic dimension that made him more interesting. Horowitz reputedly once said that the only contemporary Russian pianist whose playing he liked was Richter.
spookyben (June 14, 2008 at 1:12 am)
One of the rare artists who puts himself so much into the music that you feel closer to the composer. Have loved his recordings since first hearing him in the 70s.
bookguy12000 (May 29, 2008 at 5:59 am)
haha. funny shit.
otterhouse (May 19, 2008 at 5:19 am)
Great performance!
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grayhazer (May 15, 2008 at 11:21 pm)
and this is one of his mellowest pieces
hazeofmarijuana (May 15, 2008 at 9:25 pm)
Mothah fuckah plays a piano like a g, man!
mrn93 (May 10, 2008 at 10:56 pm)
nope not a dad just gay =]
davidweiner23 (May 10, 2008 at 10:54 pm)
thanks dad, for that lesson. |
