Music: Richter on Schubert (from FB)

Sviatoslav Richter plays Schubert's Sonata in G: https://youtu.be/gcei2nCYbNs

Richter's performance, for me, is definitive. As I am not a musicologist and this is not a journal, I'm free to use words as I wish, and I claim that a word like "definitive" is only useful in musical contexts to indicate that a performer has brought out several powerful story arcs in a piece and given it a life that, while not immediately discernible from a once-over of the sheet music, is very instinctively its own (as in when Guildenstern calls out "Rosencrantz!" after a brief confusion over who's who--Guildenstern: Natural? Rosencrantz: Instinctive!). The second condition would exclude, for example, Richter deciding to play this as stride (which would probably be pretty cool anyway).

This needs quiet and at least twenty minutes. Disorientingly beautiful and mysterious, great as a break from editing articles (and equivalent work).