NOSEhow2LIV (August 11, 2008 at 5:49 pm)

After reading Richter's memoirs+much written about him,i find dificult to take seriosly many of his statements,he was so contradictory.That's not a criticism of his artitsic qualities,he was a great individualist!But he memory-lapsed EVEN WITH the notes before him in London,probably looked up at the wrong bit of the page!Generally,for soloists in Romantic repertoire,i find it better,more freely expressed with no score in front,well memorose.

VikingBerserker (August 11, 2008 at 1:11 am)

It had nothing to do with a memory "crash". He stated in the documentary that some strange thing happened with his mind that altered his sense of pitch. He said he used to have perfect pitch, but it changed to be a half tone too high. Because of this, everything he played sounded wrong to him, which made him decide to rely on the score.

chopinandliszt (August 7, 2008 at 2:27 am)

LOL! listen at 0:02

samanthacourtney1 (July 22, 2008 at 5:44 pm)

Miraculous as ever, but where is the "Piu lento" ?!?

NOSEhow2LIV (July 8, 2008 at 8:42 pm)

He had phenomenal memory but complexed after disastrous lapse(in 1970's?).For me,his best was done before dependence on scores,and he systematically used Yamahaha later on which ruined his tone & touch...and YET,he still convinces musically!This incomplete clip is better than when i heard him live,pity not to have the whole piece,sorry..SONG!

Linuxenka (July 7, 2008 at 9:32 am)

simply...it's legenda!!! Fantastic!!!

TheOneWingAngeI (July 4, 2008 at 3:06 am)

you are a terrible human beingits obvious that he had trouble memorizing pieces towards the end of his life

URAMESI41 (July 2, 2008 at 1:38 pm)

巨匠「リヒテル」のショパン！　　これは珍しい！

54spiritedwill54 (June 5, 2008 at 10:53 pm)

another fantastic Richter video

francorussie (April 13, 2008 at 10:16 am)

P.S. Adding to that absolutely exceptional (broad) repertoire: scores are only a + in his case.Not only emotional power or amazing, unbelievable technical skills.