Argerich on Horowitz (with English Subtitles) 

Amazing beauty...

I love that Martha still performs (she turns 80 tomorrow, June 5th) incredible! Love them both, peace!

Don't you hate it when there's a voiceover over a language that you actually speak

I can't put this into words, the way I feel about Horowitz near his end.... I truly believe he was aware that the end of his life was approaching and his music at this stage was full of intimacy, serenity, and peace. We are overwhelmed with these emotions. And if you dare give yourself over, there will be tears.

“To play a wrong note is insignificant; to play without passion is inexcusable.” -Beethoven

Maestro Horowitz and his wife Wanda were very kind to me when i came to NYC as a young French horn player. Vlodya had tried playing the horn in his youth, but decided on piano (thank God!) and his wife Wanda was Toscanini's daughter & very familiar w/all our problems and needs. Oh well, there is much more to say---he was the greatest pianist known to me, and the kindest of human beings. RIP, maestro ~

« Martha Argerich, Pianist. » Mmh quite an understatement.

My all time favourite piano players are Horowitz, Argerich and Rubinstein. When Rubinstein plays Chopin my Heart explodes of love. In Martha’s, given that is a God level technical player, rigorous in terms of abilities, you can feel what being a woman can give to a great script in terms of sensibility. When you hear Horowitz... you simply hear what emotions, beauty and soul is All about. You see how life, even if it’s tough, is, and remains, wonderful.

How emotional it is to see Mrs Argerich listen to Horowitz, just as we now listen to her, it touches the Soul.

My two most loved pianists Martha n Vladimir. Thank you from deepest part of my heart. It’s so wonderful to watch Martha’s responses to his playing.

Sometimes you think he is searching for something, the next moment you realize, this is perfection. He understands every phrase better than anybody else.

His triple pianissimo phrases during the Chopin piece are _unbelievable!!!!_ You can just barely hear the notes, but at the same time, the notes are absolutely clear....how did he DO that, lol???

of course you see it always what a sweet, gentle soul Vladimir is with his childlike smiles and expressions - he can play so purely because he is such a pure soul himself

When Horowitz is playing no comments from other pianists are needed. We know Martha admired Horowitz and was seeking lessons from him in New York. Unfortunately it never happened but I can imagine those two playing octaves for each other.

I love his childlike nodding to the audience after each piece- before the sound has even ceased-, as if to say ‘I am just a vessel, and my transmission of this beauty from another world to you is now done’.

"He's the best lover a piano can have. The best!" 💗

His playing is so beautiful, it makes me want to cry. 🥺

I met him briefly in the 1980s. He was a wonderful person, modest. A giant, a one of a kind, like Nilsson.

I just noticed that Horowitz has an ability that really makes you feel the slower passages because of his style of playing

Probably the most maddening mix of audio voice-over pudding I've ever heard.

I must say: Horowitz is not only a pianist. He is an architect of many, many monumental musical adventures to the listeners. Nowadays, most of the listeners mostly look for virtuosity, flashy showmanship and crazy passages. They get bored when they listen to later works of Liszt, Beethoven, or even Schubert. It is very unfortunate, but that is the reality today. That's why when you listen to Horowitz, listening to LangLang just doesn't click with you - at least for me personally. I miss Horowitz very much. There's a reason why we constantly return back to these recordings of older legendary pianists from the 20th century: the honesty, humbleness, and musical craftsmanship which many of today's generation will never understand.

I love how you have him playing Liszt, Scriabin and Rachmaninoff and there's regular commentary over the playing, but you don't need to have any comments about him playing the Schumann because you can just see what his playing of this piece does to people, and then you realise that it doesn't matter what anyone says, the playing there speaks for itself and it's stunning.

Back in the 70's my pano instructor was known to say that Horowitz played from a composers point of view, but that the composer was always Horowitz. He takes enormous liberties, but his performance is always nonetheless enchanting. I love the scenes of the Soviet audience (This was 1986) - they are so engaged, leaning forward, as if not to miss a note.

We're waiting for you Martha this season!

The best pianist ever, because he always felt what he played was for us all and to memory all the greatest that have passed. Feeling...love you big man!

Thank you for uploading this valuable video! All my favorite pianists❤️ Thank you!!☺️🥰

Merci beaucoup from Paris 👍👍👍👍👍👍.

This a very nice documentary, thank you.

I love Martha, a huge talent who is humble enough to enjoy another

it's like when your grandfather told you fairy tales. my soul lost in memory, floating in the enchanted forest or perhaps among the stars. pure fluctuation. Thank you Master.

Thanks a lot for sharing this jewel ! It is wonderful seeing a big piano monster expressing her opinion about another big piano monster. Maestro Horowitz and Maestro Argerich are ( and always be ) two of the greatest pianist in the whole world. I love both.

As for Reverie, he came “home” to Moscow for the first time in I think more than 50 years. He is at the end of his life and plays a piece that has special meaning for these people since the end of World War Ii. Many of the people in the concert hall, like the older gentleman who is crying, still remember World War II and those who they have lost. And that’s the memory this piece evokes for everyone in the hall who is old enough to remember. And he plays it with absolute freedom, the memory and daydreaming it is supposed to be.

This is hugely interesting. For the piano lover (or music buff), beyond words. Thank you very much!!!

Wonderful video. I grew up listening to Horowitz and his album of Scriabin is a great treasure to me.

Exquisite! He caresses those keys and draws out such tenderness and emotion. I’ve never heard such beautiful playing. Wow!

Martha with her Monalisa smile! One of the greatest pianists! The best I like playing Rachmaninoff! Watch her playing the 3 concerts!

What can words convey? His brilliance is unmatched in soft passages, which are the hardest to pull off. What a personality and player! This must have been an emotional happening, with nostalgic regret all around. Mr. H handles it with the utmost dignity and aplomb. Thank you, Will. These are treasures for posterity. Horowitz is a memory. Martha won't be here forever, though still beyond amazing. Thanks for capturing these moments for us. Very important, gravitas.

Best reaction video so far

These extraordinary musicians are part of the saving grace of humanity in terms of the music they produce..

Say what you will, Horowitz was absolutely unique in every way. Today's pianists should emmerse themselves in Horowitz. One will never match Horowitz, but anything one can copy and use in their own way is a huge win.

Thank you 🙏

0:35 --- love it. He just looks like relaxed as anything, as if chewing on bubblegum, and playing excellently. He doesn't need to move around and do unnecessary inefficient things. Just gets on with it, and focuses on getting the desired result. He's amazing.

Sublime! Horowitz came from a heartbreaking past, hence why he had so much to say from the bottom of his heart. I first heard his Concert in Moscow (1986) in 1991, and I still marvel at his sensitive pianism and ineffable music...

God, I love this. The greatest living pianist displaying such unremitting joy and admiration for one of the the greatest of his time, perhap the greatest of his time. I read that Horowitz had no hesitation in declaring Martha the greatest when she was taking the world by storm, and here we have Martha returning the accolade. Such humility warms the heart of we lesser mortals.

Will thank you for this very interesting post..I always wondered what great pianist think if each other...if one can make Martha get goosebumps from your playing .. nothing more need be said !

A lifetime of expression in one concert.

His range and control over the dynamics is incredible. His Mozart and Schumann are exquisite!

Wonderful dialogue between artists across generations

I love her so much! Mrs. Martha, I became to love your country you were born in and thank .

When Horowitz plays I can hear all those years of experience and the result is sublime.

I love Horowitz and Argerich both for different musical reasons and by far they are two of the greats of the 20th century however, though there were dozens and dozens of top tier titans of the instrument in the last 100 or so years from Busoni to Rachmaninov to Brendel to Serkin to Rubenstein to Richter, I must say that the pianist who, in my humble opinion communicated dutifully the integrity of the great composers' music of the piano most faithfully, with beauty, fluidity, line of melody, nuance, fire, tender subtlety and gentleness, dynamics, passion and with perhaps unsurpassed ease of technique, no matter the difficulty level of a composition was.....Arrau.

I am fangirling over Martha Argerich "fangirling" over Horowitz. I love so much when people I admire lavish their praise over other people I admire!

a pianist for pianists. difficult to appreciate. first time i heard him, i was struck how odd he sounded. didnt even sound like the piano. definitely the greatest i ever heard in concert.

I have a recording of Horowitz from 1941 with Sir John Barbirolli conducting playing the Rach 3 and Tchaikovsky 1st....just unbelievable....it's easy to see why Martha Argerich reveres him so much....

Don't even need subtitles. Just watch the expressions of joy, appreciation, and wonderment of each commentator. The same feelings transcended many members of the audience, who were fortunate to have been present. Horwitz shares his own joy and admiration at the end for the opportunity to return to Moscow and play this beloved music.

Lovely!! just lovely!

Interesting listening to a genius (Argerich) comment on and admire another genius (Horovitz). Wish there was more of the Scriabin Etude Op8No12 - that was truly one of the most extraordinary performances of this piece.

I don't know why each time Martha smiles, I smile with her. I loved only her comments 😉.

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Que maravilla, sus frases son tan bellas, expresivas, melancolicas,🇦🇷

8:27 私の1番好きなホロヴィッツの演奏。 初めて聞いた時、あまりの美しさに、涙がこぼれました。 彼は、それをハープを弾くように奏でる。 遠くから響いてくる美しい波紋の様です。

A perfect example of why we listen to great artists playing and not speaking, the inanity of the comments is spectacular, I heard Horovitz many times live and his skill was the strength of his melodic line over the harmony, and his rubato to tell the story and milk the emotional context. I would add he had unique instruments adapted for his playing, they were loud, extremely loud, dominating everything, not to mention his choice of repertoire. Whilst he always denied it, he had a music studio with several pianos in east Manhatten and would go everyday, like Lizst I suspected he practised 10 hours a day, he worked so hard and never took a day off, as he famously said, "If I take a day off, I notice it, if I take two days off, my wife notices it, and is I take three days off the world notices it".

Martha often said "I don't know or I don't know why", she gives me a feeling that she's the type of person that has a lot going through her mind but she doesn't really say it out. (I probably sound very weird and "cringy")

I love at 14:40 and throughout this second movement of of the Mozart how Horowitz keeps the fifth finger of the right hand curled/tucked away until it's needed to play a note, then he rolls/curls the pinkie back toward the palm again. Most pianists keep the fifth finger arched but never rolled back toward the palm.

I get goosebumps when I hear Martha play, too 😌

Trifonov is so beautiful listening to the Träumerei. Argerich and he are two giants, two generations following in Horowitz's line of a few great pianists. Nuance, imagination, surprises.

I remember seeing clips of Horowitz giving this recital.

Such a kind face... A beautiful emotional face... I love it like I love him!!

C'est beau d'entendre Martha Argerich, immense pianiste, aussi modeste devant Horowitz.

Maestro- V. H. - ABSOLUTLY GREAT Performance!

Unbelievably beautiful !!!

Thank you

Even the audiences at the concert look amazing

This is a wonderful video... to hear Martha Argerich voice her feelings and opinion of Horowitz' other-worldy interpretations and performances of these classic compositions is so enriching. One of the greatest, giving her opinion of 'the' greatest. Horowitz' interpretation of "Traumerei" here in Moscow 8:26 is the most moving performance I've ever witnessed amongst all the videos of any field of art. To think he waited all those years and finally had the opportunity to give a recital in his homeland - and perform this 'Scene from Childhood' - should pierce the heart of anyone with a pulse.

people back then really understood what classical music is and knew its true value! the girl with the binoculars looking at Horowitz reminded me of the movie : a song to remember

Man that schumann brought me to tears.

Adoro a Martha Argerich !!!

His playing remind me of the fluency and poetry of notes like Claudio Arrau. Two legends of a bygone era.

Magnificent! Wish he could have lived forever.

Gracias ps podemos oit estas joyas. Cómo lo agradezco.

Commovente....Straordinariooo

I am lossed for words to describe this man . Just lets say Horowitz is at the key board so a grand times is guaranteed from this very unassuming man.

Great to finally find a video of someone other rhan myself, who is allergic to Horowitz.

When you are in trouble facing the existence Horowitz gives you an answer. Eternal sens of life is inside him..

Immenso ❤

An audience with no smartphones between them and their full absorption in the performance. Like time travel indeed.

My brain had to process three languages and it hurts...

Big big fan of Horowitz ....can't explain my feelings better

Pianists have to realise Horowitz had his piano's prepared especially for him. He travelled with two grands of his own and never played anything else. Their keys had been weighed much lighter than on ordinary stage piano's. This was revealed to us when he arrived in Amsterdam for his concert in the grand Concert Hall. He did not touch any of the five grands prepared in the basement. He had brought his own. And when you touched the keys, they felt very different. It was one of his secrets. Perhaps he had found that the keys used to be much lighter in the early 1800's. I don't know.

Performance of the soul. A person who has been chasing for a long time.

Magical.

Martha is right "He is the best". Horowitz is not just the best pianist, he is also the best musician. In his playing you can hear everything in music, both technical and emotional, that every serious musician strives to achieve in their own playing. No matter what instrument you play, you won't find a greater role model than Horowitz.

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When I was first listening to pianists as a young boy in Ohio, I rapidly undestood Horowitz as from another dimension. The 1966 Carnegie Hall record is still my favorite . I once had a friend who had met Horowitz in NY under rather, um, louche circumstances.

Love the concept of the video. The relation between Argerich and the other pianist in the interview is however excruciatingly painful.

3:36 wow Beethoven was watching Horowitz play 😱😱

i don't care about no subtitles. All that matters is the beauty of Horowitz playing, always.

I graduated music school in 2010, and for some reason, it was becoming very popular to criticize Horowitz to the point where most of the students were beginning to look down on his playing. The consensus was that he is not technically accurate enough nor stylistically sensitive enough except to romantic music. We are entering strange times, my fellow artists and Horwitz fans!

What a wonderful opportunity to share the reaction of one great artist to the playing of another. And not surprisingly. Martha Argerich's comments are remarkably astute and so very heartfelt..."He's the best lover a piano can have. The best!" Indeed!

saw him once om a cold Sunday afternoon in Chicago. What you dont get on recordings is the tremendous dynamic range, down to a whisper. You could have heard a pin drop. And it seemed he could crescendo a sustained chord, although I know that is not physically possible. The subtitles would have been nice, but I got the gist of it.