@@user-vc2od1wg9o Since the concert was performed in Moscow, Russia, is it not correct to call it a Russian audience, even though they might originally, like Gorowitz, come from another country in the former Soviet Union?
He was really energetic when he was young, but when he got older, he kept that energy... it was just tempered with something much deeper. His late recordings, are by far my favorites, I think.
So many incomparable thing to treasure about Horowitz but his rhythm is quite simply breathtaking - so many, if not most pianists simply don't get it. He breathes the supplest, most perfect rhythm out of every phrase, which is why he can take such crazy, heart-stopping risks with everything.
@@ToskoOv yea that’s about right 😂,don’t get me wrong, I do like a broad spectrum of music, but I’ll pass on him🤦♂️ . I’ve just about learnt the WR polka and now on to Lieberstraum no3 and making decent progress.
Used to borrow this concert from my local library when I was in highschool. Some years later I found it on DVD and managed to get it signed by Horowitz's tuner that he toured with at a Piano Technician's Guild meeting. Shaking a hand that had touched his felt kind of awesome.
@@frazzledude He only thought this tune would be of his father. Later he found out that the theme is out of Franz Behr´s Lachtäubchen Scherzpolka op 303, but then he did not change the name of the piece.
@SeanFitandSmart U don't think this piece is all that insignificant. It's not only really charming and lovely in the melody, it also has really nice harmony, interesting rhythms and its fair share or counterpoint. I think it's a really interesting miniature with a variety of different moods.
Horowitz at his very best would be the televised concert of Feb. 1, 1968 which is posted in segments here on RU-vid. Works by Scarlatti, Schumann, Chopin Scriabin wrapped up with the definitive (and white hot) version of Horowitz's "Carmen" Variations. Spectcular!
I agree that what sets H apart is his rhythm. The rhythm or pace of every measure is usually slightly different. And when the rhythm suddenly changes, it's breathtaking.
Astonishing. For a piece that is really little more than a kitschaw, the Maestro extracts every bit of musicality. And so little pedal! At the age of...oh, who cares? He gives you a musical experience even out of a little morceau such as this.
Wow ....What a gem of a video. Thanks for posting! Spectacular playing at age 82... and the look of adoration on the faces of the audience. I haven't always understood the reason for what I saw as the "Horowitz mystique", but more exposure to this level of performance could win me over easily. Can anyone recommend other videos of him at his very best?
Here's a live one of him playing the same piece in the White House in front of President Carter (1978): ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-VGIC8TyyyFI.html Meanwhile, here's one of his rather famous (and infamously pyrotechnical) encores: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-rAZ2I08CkP8.html I still don't quite understand how ONE person plays that piece, LOL.
Prendo atto che il prossimo 22 luglio si modificheranno la condizioni di servizio. Ringrazio per le opportunità di ascolto finora consentite. I take the view that the conditions of service will change on 22 July. Thank you for the listening opportunities so far allowed.
@casalsfan whatever you pick of horowitz is genius, you know he was a composer as well - and everybody knows that composers play so free and improvisatory ;)
Rachmaninov played this work superbly, of course. The difference in the Horowitz version is that Horowitz transforms the piano piece into an orchestral work, where instruments of the “orchestra” bring out inner voices and contrapuntal lines with astounding clarity as the tutti sections fill the hall with blazing sonorities. The inner voices are there in R.’s recording too, but only a musician’s ear can appreciate all of the composer’s intentions. In short, Horowitz presents the listener with a much wider color palette, as well as a freer improvisational style, truly the apotheosis of Romanticism.
Not even HOROWITZ can save this bizzare disjointed piece or make a silk purse out of this pig's ear...not one of Rachmaninoff's most melodic compositions
You'd definitely be better off with two silk purses than with those pig ears of yours. No offense. Towards real pigs, who are sensitive, sophisticated beings. For their part.
This is just gossip and a weak insult for legendary musicians, same thing with Tchaikovsky… it’s all lies. Yeah sure Horowitz is gay 😆, but why does he have a wife? He even had a daughter… doesn’t seem gay to me at all.
@@VadimGolovetskiy you need to do your research. He underwent electric shock treatment for his homosexuality. And Tchaikovsky was indeed well known to be gay also. Horowitz married and was very much in love with his wife for many years but that doesn’t mean he wasn’t struggling with his sexuality. He lived in the wrong time.
@@FoxyJohn people will create false info on whatever they want these days, show me a letter or a page from his diary where it mentions homosexual behavior. Tchaikovsky was an orthodox Christian and just didn’t have luck in finding his other half (he didn’t even care that much about sex or marriage, he cares about music), the gossip that he is homo started after his death, after he rejected some sort of fan, that was in love with him. But you won’t believe me so I think it’s useless to argue with you.
