Cannot believe I'm sitting in my house on my couch listening to **Richter** play Schubert! A god of the piano plays a god of composition. Just the 3 of us, and all of you. Suddenly life's not so terrible.

the second movement is a masterpiece. I could listen to this all day and night…

Yesterday I woke up humming this melody. I didn't recall which work it was, neither its composer. So I was thinking all day about it, and somehow I remembered it was a Schubert sonata. I went through all of them until I found it! Such a simple yet beautiful melody, it stays with you forever!

Schubert - A role model to many Richter - An inspiration to many KZfaq - The bridge to world-class music *Thanks to one & all* and of course, to the uploader

Schubert's electric sonatas are specially recreated at Richter's fingertips. Every song sounds special when he plays it. It was a beautiful performance, shining like a star in the night sky.

When it comes to Schubert, it’s only Richter, no one else even from 20th century’s greats is not nearly in the same zip code with Schubert as Richter is. Bach had to wait 250 years for Gould, Schubert had to wait 150 years for Richter so people could finally hear not only the notes of this miraculous music, but feel that unique subtle Austrian spirit of Sehnsucht, as simple as that, and it just can’t get any better. Absolute perfection.

It is absolutely extraordinary to hear (and see!) Richter playing Schubert. Apart from the sheer beauty of the sound he catches something mercurial in the music as well as an deep vein of melancholy. Thank you so much for sharing

I'm sitting at my piano listening to him while following along with my book and thinking how beautiful!! I'm speechless.

My ULTIMATE pianist...touches my soul with his playing...

Questa sonata è incantevole e Richter ne dà una interpreazione straordinaria. È proprio ispirato.come direbbe lui : " possiedo la chiave di Schubert" . Ed è proprio così.

I have heard him for hours and hours but I had never seen a video of Richter up to now... thanks a lot!

1. Allegro moderato - 00:02 2. Andante - 11:45 3. Allegro - 18:18

그의 아름다운 피아노 선율은 이 낡은 음질을 이기고 살아 남았다. 가슴 시리게 아름답다.

Andante extraordinaire ! Quelque chose comme la dignité absolue de l'âme humaine.

Deep warm touch/sound - a real trance.

流石，巨匠ト呼ばれる人の演奏はすごい｡音楽を楽しみながら｡よどみなく歌い上げていくすごさ。流石リヒテル。

Shubert's piano music that he plays is beyond beautiful 🎉

A great, great pianist...Thank you !

When i listening this recording aways would like to cry!!!!! He is my favorite pianist while i am alive!!!! :))

This sonata was probably composed during the summer 1819. It is not a work of the last period of Schubert, raher of his very early maturity. The first movement is awfully beautiful thanks to his singing first theme. The sonata is in three movements. The rendering of Richter is already supernatural by its melodic flow and his hideen but efficient structure. It is for sure one of the best renderings of this sonata.

The first time to see Richter playing not off the score. Glorious! Both the piece and the playing.

The andante is beyond words. It is also in many ways deceptive by its simplicity. Some harmonies are premonitory of jazz and modern classicism of ravel and Debussy

Wunderschöne live Aufführung dieser fein komponierten Klaviersonate im gut phrasierten Tempo mit anmütigem Anschlag und angenehmer Dynamik. Echt faszinierend!

Wie aus einer anderen Zeit - und dann noch in diesem sakralen Raum. Er muss sehr berührt gewesen sein. So stimmig alles.

And all from the mind of a 22 year old visionary.

wonder of wonders. such sweet melancholy. Just him and Schubert with nothing getting i the way.

A glory of the piano........for me the best between the bests..........

what a sound!!!!!

One thing for sure, this haunting melody still rings in my ears.

Wie Joachim Kaiser schon in den Sechzger-Jahren in seinem Pianistenbuch im Zusammenhang mit Richters Spiel der (vor allem frühen und mittleren) Beethoven-Sonaten drauf hingewiesen - offenbart Richter auch hier immer wieder seinen Sinn für die sich durch das ganze Werk ziehende Struktur: da fällt nichts raus; auch bei Schubert hören wir die Einheit - "da fällt nichts raus".

Thank you for sharing this jewel!

When i listen to richter play the 2nd movement i just sit and think what can possibly go wrong? And guess what? Nothing goes wrong. Sublime from start to finish. Richters schubert is beyond words but i try to put it into words what these two great spirits mean to me.

grazie tanto Vittoria per questo meraviglioso augurio di buon anno. Una vera speranza luminosa

Микеланджели назвал Рихтера первым пианистом, не говоря о всём творчестве СВЯТОСЛАВА, уже одна эта запись гениальной сонаты ШУБЕРТА подтверждает мнение ГЕНИАЛЬНОГО АРТУРА !

Рихтер_великий пианист из всех !

Wow....hervorragend! Toll!

Che grande pianista!!!!!! L' andante è di una bellezza sconvolgente!!!!!!!!

Die Kostbarkeit einiger früheren Werke Schuberts ist erhaben. Diese Sonate, das Forellenquintett, einige Lieder. Wunderbar.

Beyond words

Played the third movement of this- so nice!

So sublime ~~

Insondable et d'une telle évidence. La grâce!

Enchanting. Absolutely enchanting!!

This was filmed in 1978, apparently with no audience present.

Sorry, I don't have any more details for this recording, but I would also guess that it's from the early 80s.

I have never forgotten the first movement melody. Schubert was a genius, and I would love to have heard a first piano concerto from him had he not died at only 31. Would he have written us one? Richter, here, is telling us a story about the heart of Schubert. (Too bad this Richter video is slightly out of sync. We can forgive that, though.)

Wooww just perfect.one ond only for all time.

Thank you!

Excelente!

L'andante è magnifico.

Richter is in schubert what gould is in bach. Having said that i also love to hear richter play bach. I dont think gould ever played schubert or i might be mistaken.

I think Richter is one of the best player of Schubert, together with Alfred Brendl. However, I slightly prefer Richter. His bouncing touching of the notes with ""ff or sf" are much more powerful yet with great purity and clarity that makes the sudden change in the tempo of the pieces much more impressive and expressive.

Bravísimo!

J'adore!

Two types of pianist : technical and musical....Richter is the second type 👍👍👍

Interesting, ( to a much lesser degree than Gould) he seems to ‘talk’ quietly to the music also. So peaceful!

Finally, I'm hearing Adagio with correct Tempo--Rhithm!

las manos de un genio.

シューベルト。歌曲も、素晴らしいけど、ピアノ曲が、大好きです。初期の頃の、後、晩年の頃の、ピアノ曲素晴らしいです。歌曲王って、言うより、ピアノ王な感じ。リヒテルさんも、素晴らしいです!

ВЕРШИНА ПИАНИЗМА !

Это так сентиментально, hearty, nice.

top of the top

Соната эта всегда напоминает весну. 2. ое движение, вот тишина в лесу вокруг Вены 19. ого века, природа дремлет после зимы. А 3. дв., дети весело играют в колесо.

It’s as if there is no “interpretation” taking place. This is how I imagine the music sounded when Schubert himself played it. Alternatively, if this is the art that conceals art, then the concealment is perfect. Where today are the musicians of this calibre?

Absolutely fabulous. Great mastery of the piano keyboard. He might have spent at least 20,000 hours practice to achieve this higher level of mastery.

Y dijo el egregio y gran maestro del piano Emil Gilels: si les he gustado yo, esperen a escuchar a Richter. Un genio, no hay duda...el otro tambien lo era (en Gilels era cada nota lla que se calibraba y en Richter, maestro del legato, era la sucesión de ellas: lo qu sucede entre dos notas).

You could touch a bag of dirt, Slava, and it would turn into pure gold..

ClassicVault 1 when was made this recording ? Thanks!

Maestro

hello, do you know when was this recorded? thank you!

신이다 ...그는 신이다...

Richter is also the greatest player of schumann.

МСС(ц)МШ имени Гнесиных представляет I Часть ГП - 0:01 ПП - 1:07 II Часть 11:45 II Часть 18:18

Where was this filmed?

2- 11:47 3- 18:19 -22:12

素晴らしいです～。シュベルトピアノの、仏さんです。

His hands look abit like mine. Thats the only parallel i can draw unfortunately. Richter was and is the greatest especially in the romantic music

Лучше нельзя!

I would forego all of beethovens piano sonatas and just listen to this one by schubert til the day i die.

Which year and where was this record?

Beautiful performance, but why people upload videos that are so obviously out of sync bewilders me.

Denis, you are rigth.

Que interprtacion ta perfecta ,posicion de manos .Voy a averiguar en su biografia ,por que la melancolia; no me acuerdo de su modo de ser .Lei las biografias para niños y las demas veces ,cuando cresi .varias de todos ellos

I think there is an error. The sonata No 11 in A(1819,D 664). The No 13 is D840.

Actually he died in 1997, 1 august.

Интересно, в каком году это записано?

Im Legendenton

I enjoy playing this sonata, but I cring when I think of Richter, the giant, playing it, on film, no less! My wife saw him live, in Philly in the early sixties, but I was not so lucky!!

somebody once commented that Richter's hands looked like he could bench-press 200 lbs with his pinky finger.this andante though......

No timeline!?

Transcendant...

yet to be equaled, after all these years....

He died in 1997

Subito67 - Do you know when this was performed. He died in 1991, and this is late in his career obviously. So would this have been sometime in the late 70's or 80's?

❤1978

实在迷人

Schubert...Richter...un binomio ultraterreno....chissà come sarebbe Schubert interpretato da Michelangeli...😮

Видео и звук не совпадают!!! Картинка опережает звук , ужас

Like Chopin , experienced deep emotional trauma of his country's destiny since young, Richter's father a German pianist teaching in Odessa (Little Russia now Ukraine) was expelled twice in Moscow conservatory in the first year for refusing political classes (like his mother). Later he learned his father was excited before German came to Odessa, mother had to remarry and changed names. Great musicians have deep emotional feelings: Rachmaninoff went thru red Revolution and the execution of the Czar family, became US citizen the year he died 1943.

Сонаты Шуберта лучше всех в исполнении Микеланджели и Рихтера, великих пианистов мира.