Arguably the greatest Horowitz recital ever. Here he is found at his absolute peak celebrating a renaissance of his extraordinary career, his playing by now had grown in artistic depth and vision. Such extraordinary playing will surely resound through decades to come.
@@jackcurley1591 As I comment above: Some of the middle movement is positively Chopinesque. Horowitz is not distorting it - he's bringing out what's there!
Horowitz brought Scriabin to our ocidental world. A wonderful Russian composer devoted to wake up our senses in a kinesthethic and magic way . I think nowadays people became more perceptive to his large and inspired work. And Horowitz was faithful to him as he was to Mozart. And push him to us since almost a hundred years ago. Big job. Thank.
As pointed out by some critics, Horowitz' command of pianism, coupled with his nuanced artistry, is comparable to Rembrandt's mastery of oil portraiture: contrasts, chiaroscuro, bold impasto, highlights to the highest level possible. If we were to draw any literary analysis to his "pellucid pianism," I could only think of Henry D. Thoreau, the Walden Pond. At any rate, Horowitz's unbelievable multifaceted artistry as a pianist and musician, could well reach all the aspects of the piano in all its tones, from the most crystal-cleared bells to the lovely cello-like meanderings of the cantabile-sostenuto. But what it is even more stunning is Horowitz' command of the "damper pedal" which, like a portal to the spirit realm of the piano, could summon up a veritable phantasmagoria of illusive "ghost notes." In other words, there is an element of transcendentalism, which, like the stuff of genius, sometimes verging on the demonic, may escape our comprehension.
Eddie Beato, “pianism” has been evolving, pretty much as our collective consciousness become more receptive to works of genius, which, like anything of extraordinary perfection and intelligence, would require akin understanding. By this time, and as we have been initiated in the uncanny secrets of pianism, that is to say, as it brings our consciousness to a higher pitch of sentience and bliss, we realize that Horowitz's greatness was his ability to scoop up, from the stringboard, a baffling spectrum of tones alike pellucid and liquescent, crystal but also ghostly, and even honeycombed in the amazing profound pond of his gifted mind!
Quel talent! Quelle énergie, quelle fougue dans le discours, il nous fascine d'un millier de manières, dans tous les caractères, une rhétorique magnifiquement menée, qui se déroule parfaitement grâce à une maîtrise instrumentale hors du commun... un des plus grands de tous les temps!
Come on Michael!! NOT TRUE!! Horowitz not the greatest best not the unbeatble master! Why not the truth=Horowitz one of the best!! Better piano sound than Horowitz=Wilhelm Kempff Artur Rubinstein Radu Lupu Vladimir Ashkenazy! More powerful Louder players are Mikhail Pletnen the most powerful Loudest ever,! The second Hardest hitter of the keyboard was Lazar Berman!! More Genius than Horowitz! THE GENIUS RANKING=1:Alexei Lubimov Mozart piano concerto no 27! 2:,Grigory Sokolov( Brahms piano concerto no 2 ,4th movement!)3; Maurizio Pollini( Schubert piano sonatas!) 4: Wilhelm Kempff Beethoven piano concerto no 4!) 5; Sviatoslav Richter Rachmaninov piano concerto no ,2! The best ever! The Truth is Artur Rubinstein the GOD) Emil Gilels=THE REAL KING PIANIST!! Grigory Sokolov=THE GIANT OF THE PIANO!! THE TITAN OF THE PIANO!!!!
@@RaineriHakkarainen I'm coming out of the bunker with my hands up. Don't shoot! My superlative was written in a moment of mushy sentimentality for which I apologise and recant without reservation. Just kidding! Horowitz is unsurpassable :)
I grew up listening to this recital as a boy. The Schumann...divine. It is still one of my favorite recordings, the definition of what a 'piano recital' should be. But why-oh-why-oh-why didn't he record the entire "Années de pèlerinage" cycle? : (
wow I thought Lang Lang rondo ala turca was a beast. But Horiwtz made it more colorful, crystal clear clarity, not just as speed as possible like Lang Lang did. Every lines are meaningful and telling stories. SUBLIME!
Lang langs technique is commendable thou... Horowitz is an artist but lot of times he bangs the bass in unnecessary spots which was not written in the score like his early live recordings of chopin ballads... Virtousity must be in the service of music to play as it is intended.... Maybe it is due to his stage fright and depression... I respect him as an artist but there are so many wrong notes worse than cortot... But on slow movements his lrycism and Piano singing is Divine.... he is a great pianist because in that sense
@@jasperpabroa4737 Horowitz's Mozart is different than both Lang Lang' and Yuja Wang's as he plays it as a true march not a show piece to prove how fast you can play!
How many great performances of Hungarian Rhapsody might there be, even on youtube? BUT when Vladimir Horowitz performs it, oh my goodness! The listener gets to be in another world. Great is great, but when it's Horowitz, greatness isn't the issue, I don't think. Opportunity to listen is the issue. The piece is transformed in ways unique only to Vladimir Horowitz.
Big Swifty I can't find any Hungarian Rhapsody on this recital , but I agree: Horowitz recordings of Hungarian Rhapsody no.6 as well as his own transcription of no. 2 and 19 are fabulous.
@@ulfwernernielsen6708Nielsen, don't forget Hungarian Rhapsody no.15 (Rakoczy March) - some think it is Horowitz's most barbaric display of overwhelming, heavily-layered virtuosity.
Quede extasiado en todo el concierto, Cada autor exaltado en su brillantez e inmensidad.... sin embargo no creo lo mismo del "Valle de Obermann" .... aun así" Bravo" Horowitz!!! ... alzo mi copa de vino hacia vos en el tiempo y la distancia..... Salud!!!
Hi baxitorch, Do you have some lives of youhts Horowitz? Or live records of the Prokoviev sonata 6? Or extracts of "visions fugitives" of the same composer ? If so would you kindly post them on you tube for the sake of all Horowitz fans. In advance thank you very much for all concerts you've posted. Regards, Cälin Matei
I usually find most of Mozart's piano music rather uninteresting, but Horowitz is able to do something truly magical that lets me truly appreciate this music for the first time.
+Gerbil Jim I usually also dislike Mozart but did play this Sonata myself as it is one of the few that can be played with some emotion but this interpretation just wins ... slower is better for sure (usually this whole piece is played 30% faster at least, especially with the Rondo Alla Turca which makes that piece rather ridiculous and only interesting as a showpiece, this version actually sings.
@dj stefan de jong if u looking for emotion in mozart pieces, the way u enjoyed mozart is not correct. Mozart is master of melody, dialogue. Listen carefully, no empty dialog in all mozart sonata, always full of dialogues. The phrases always say something.Try to imagine what scene that suite the dialogues, ppl chatting, ladies gossiping, etc. Mozart not like today's composers, many just playing with chords, show off how to jump chords, playing with harmonies, but not telling any stories, other composses playin nuances, but Mozart always telling a story
@@DJStefandeJong As well, research of Mozart's works, through his own writings, letters and contemporaries have shown that up until the 20th century, his music was played far too slowly. Horowitz studied Mozart for m any years and it is generally accepted by conductors and musicians that the faster tempo is absolutely correct. Full stop.
I agree that this was Horowitz's greatest recital ever; it is an absolute triumph. I especially like his interpretations of the Mozart sonata, Liszt's Valle d'Obermann; but most of all the Scriabin Tenth piano sonata. I believe that Scriabin's fanciful instructions were the result of his theosophical beliefs in the 'over-soul' and etats-ames(soul states); also Scriabin was under the spell of Nietzsche's Uberman, as well as, Richard Wagner's operas; not to mention the ragas of Indian music(which I once discussed with Ravi Shankar, after I heard him perform on the sitar). Vladimir Horowitz is undeniably one of the greatest pianists of all time!
Great! I lucked out with front-row seat a glance from the Maestro, at Queens College, New York City around 1965....Ahhhh, that F# minor Polonaise....he'd stare right into my head.....Wow!
The music on this upload, glorious as it is, could not have constituted a single recital. I seriously doubt that Horowitz would have played both the Haydn and Mozart sonatas on the same program. Nice to hear them together, though.
Can someone explain to me why Horowitz did not take the repeats in the first movement of the Mozart? It made it sound rushed and out of balance to me without those repeats.
