Damn!
Good way to not get the audience to clap -.hold the pedal through the rest…
He looks so awkward with his sholuder constantantly raised. God knows how he got so much power.
Holy Hell! Now that’s earth shattering fury! The effect is even greater because of the stillness he cultivates in the contrasting slow chordal passage, especially how he allows the sound to decay before he unleashes his ferocious virtuosity.
Nobody cares what that mofo thinks.
He’s still probably selling sheeyat that he got in trades.
That’s the ultimate shock effect!
It’s interesting what he does with the pedal - he holds the bass notes of the last fortissimo C major chord into pedal, so that it blends with the following pianissimo chord - instead of instantly lifting the pedal, so that you have a sudden, “mystic” silence, which is what most modern pianists do.
It must be some sort of Russian tradition possibly coming from Igumnov - Moiseiwitsch did it the same way, so did Nikolaj Orloff, Maria Grinberg, Leo Sirota, Horowitz…
I’ve heard the name but wasn’t sure why or from where.
He’s a shit head who thinks Cziffra is the deepest artist who ever lived. Clearly a nut job.
The funny thing is that the only Richter antagonists I’ve come across, have been Cziffra fans. A former friend of mine (and nut job in his own right) felt just the same as Mombeek - that Richter was a charlatan, and Cziffra the greatest pianist ever. I interrogated him a little at the time and it turns out he felt Richter was lacking in imagination, which - if Cziffra’s kind of imagination is what gets you going in music - I can understand since SR doesn’t play in that way. But even if he’s not to your liking, which is perfectly fine with me, that you’re not even able to recognize the quality in his playing…?
Incidentally, this is a dangerous place to go, but when I first got in to piano and began talking to other enthusiasts I was surprised by that whenever I met a Richter fan, it seemed like that person turned out to be a scientist or someone otherwise highly educated. Whenever I met a Horowitz fan, that turned out to be a musician or artist, and whenever I met a Cziffra fan, that was someone who had had little use for his intellect in life. The Ziff series has since been broken - one of my favorite people in the piano world is a huge Cziffra fan, a musician, and highly intelligent - but that shifting of musicians towards VH and scientists towards SR actually largely remains true. In spite of the small sample set I honestly don’t think it is coincidental. I think it tells you something about what kind of mind SR and VH themselves had, and which people can easiest identify with them.
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That dude has serious issues
I would know 
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That is such a brilliant solution to the fake ending problem in the Ballade.