This piece of music was played on the radio at the end of WWII. The studio didn't know what to play...it was over. Millions were dead. The guns were silent. So they played this piece. I'd guess from the date of this performance, and the white hair of that gentleman, that he might have been one of the young soldiers or just kids, who heard that silence, then this piece on the radio. I'm old enough to remember the silence in the US, and we were LUCKY, just 250,000...so I know why he was in tears.
@@eduardalavanja9607 Eduard Alavanja This piece is sung in Russia on victory day every year. It means alot to them in remembrance of the brave men who defeated Hitler on the Eastern front. The crowd is moved to tears because of how much Horowitz playing Traumerie means to the Russian people.
@@banzobeans the Traumerei is played, perpetually, at several war memorial sites in Russia. It is also broadcast annually as part of remembrances. If you Wiki Traumerei you can get more info and there are several videos of one of the memorial sites where this piece is hummed by choir a capella
I remember when this performance was rebroadcast in the USA 30 years ago. I was transfixed. He had come home to Russia after 61 years and this was his farewell. The audience, made up of music students and appreciators but no politburo politicians, was full of tears. Scriabin's 86 year old daughter was in the audience! I cried then and I cry now, 30 years later. It was a moment in history.
this one-of-a-kind poetic performance epitomizes something Horowitz told me back in the 70s when i ventured backstage after one of his Toronto recitals. his recital had just blown me away, & i told him that what i'd just heard (including one of his encores, the 3rd mov. of Rachmaninov's 2nd sonata) seemed to excel his already amazing recorded performances. i'll never forget his reply; sitting & signing autographs, he just looked up at me smiling & said: "Each performance is like a postcard."
That night, people who couldn't get tickets, stood outside, in the rain, even though they couldn't hear a note of the concert. Just knowing he was there.
Supposedly, Horowitz's expression to the audience immediately after the end of this clip was that of "That's the best I can do". For him to be such a humble performer, to say that he didn't feel like he did Schumann's piece justice...I have endless respect for this man.
Here we have Horowitz, one of the greatest pianists of the 21st century, performing one of the most beautiful and endearing works of Shumann, the most Romantic of the Romantics, in a land that has the strongest emotional and sentimental attachment to this particular piece. ...truly a historic moment in music
You first see an elderly 81 years old, unconsciously you forget he is an elderly, because his play presents a pure heart and mind of an innocent child, wondering a round, day dreaming.
He understands Schumann perfectly. He plays it with emotion and within the strict classical structure which Schumann composed. When Schumann is played like this, his music is just as masterly as Chopin or Mozart.
This song is so beautiful and means so much to me. My father, who passed away at age 91 (last year), loved this song and played it often. I cannot listen to a phrase without tear rising. It is incredible how a simple melody can carry such meaning and feeling. Wonderful.
When I was a baby, mom used to let me listen to the classic music of which the melody was very soft and sweet. Now I could know the title of the music and the player, Vladmir Horowitz! I missed him!
Then I began to listen to Mr Horowitz, and after this piece of music I found myself sitting there having my tears quietly running down. The tears tasted salty, but my heart felt soft, touched and gently beautiful. Mr Horowitz's play is the cure for my withering heart.
Every time I listen to this piece I am moved. It's breathe taking...and Horowitz is by far and away, my favorite concert pianist. Even now, years after his death, his playing is still so inspired and briliant.
He does SOOO MUCH with so "little". Make no mistake, "Traumerei" is not an easy piece despite how it sounds. What this giant of a man is doing its nothing short of incredible.
This piece of music was played on the radio at the end of WWII. The studio didn't know what to play...it was over. Millions were dead. The guns were silent. So they played this piece. I'd guess from the date of this performance, and the white hair of that gentleman, that he might have been one of the young soldiers or just kids, who heard that silence, then this piece on the radio. I'm old enough to remember the silence in the US, and we were LUCKY, just 250,000...so I know why he was in tears. (Comment posted 7 years ago by ffurgy. Im just reposting it because no one seems to know where the tears come from...)
I first came across this video 10 years ago. I was in my early 20s, doing a "bird course" in music as an undergrad, and I thought it was funny/ overdramatic that the man in the audience shed tears during this. Im turning 31 this October and I just cried uncontrollably after I came across a nursery rhyme I used hum along as a kid. I thought of this video immediately, and I understood him now. Some of us will always, always miss that special place called childhood.
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So soft and sweet melody... One of my favorites of Robert Schumann. Amazing performance by Vladimir Horowitz. Great pianist.
I think this must be the video that I have watched most times in youtube. I never get tired of it. The best version I havee heard of this masterpiece. When you hear the last notes it sounds like Horowitz is saying good bye.
I am in the beautiful part of you tube ! and I forgive all weirdo vids posters again for this masterpiece. What a presentation ! Enchanting ! To Great Schumann and Horowitz - Thank you for allowing us to enjoy your music and and thank you for having us in your era. God bless you, rest in peace in the sweetest place on heaven !
I remember watching this concert on CBS Sunday morning in 1986 on a show hosted by Charles Kuralt. The first concert by Horowitz in the Soviet Union since 1925. The sweet sounds of Schuman as an encode were bittersweet but lovely. At 1:30, the tear-drenched face of that Russian gentleman is heartbreaking in a way.
This is the first time that I've watched this master pianist and heard his interpretation of this piece. I have played it for many years but never with the emotion and dreamlike quality he gives it.
Makes me think of being on a boat with my dad in the middle of the ocean just sitting next to him fishing and talking I was 7 years old but every time I hear this piece of music that's what I remember very powerful only music can do that
Horowitz seemed to have been searching much of his life for the perfect Traumerei. Fortunately, many performances exist and are available for all to hear. They are each, very different from any other, as Horowitz's quest was guided by his unparalleled ability to find an endless number of new ideas. Since I first heard this from Moscow (the concert was broadcast live on TV here in the USA) this was my favorite and has remained so. It is so deep in its stillness, its quietude, so constant in its spontaneity and so delicately expressive with the use of a seemingly endless number of subtle rubatos. It holds one in a sustained sense of wonder that only Horowitz could create.
When I was a teen, my piano skill set was not a big deal to me and never really thought of music as something this profound. Then, I saw this recital on DVD back when RU-vid was not yet a thing. I then realized what an enormous gift it is to be a musician. I looked at my hands and realized, as I practice, I am befriending these great composers from the grave and what is it that they know that I feel so profoundly. Why do I feel this depth of beauty? I felt like I was in communion with the universe in this desire of great beauty. This was one of those pieces that turned me around to truly understanding what art is all about. It was not an emotional experience, but, as Rodin puts it, it was truth revealing itself.
What a gift to listen to this genius play and make the years of war and pain dissolve into "...Dreams." No wonder the audience was a respectful, silent throng who realized they were witnessing the performance of a lifetime. There has never been a finer "Traumerei."
So exquisitly beautifull, it brings me down to my knees and to an unquenshing overflow of tears and peaceful joy. Thank you Maestro, where ever you may be.
Yes, there are other pianists who may play faster, more accurate, technically more sophisticated etc. than Horowitz. But NOBODY else but him is able to give music such a beauty, such magic, such an emotion, such a wonderful sound that is not from this world. He is the greatest of all times and will always be.
I can't stop crying every time I listen to Horowitz's Troimerai. In his final performance and pyojing, which he returns to his hometown in his later years, there is an indescribable sense of sadness and sadness. His performance is more like a god.
So, so gentle and so beautiful! I'm learning to play this piece at the moment and I hope that one day I can infuse at least a fraction of this emotion into the playing of it.
Horowitz's return to Moscow is enough to invoke an awe inspired feeling in light fleeing himself. Additionally ,the piece, and its significance as poignantly described by Doubleklunk, sends me into a deep burst of emotional appreciation
This is just wonderful. There are no words to express the beauty in the composition and the passion in the performance. Bravissimo Mr Horowitz, and thank you Mr Schumann.
jillgivler, I saw your comment about Brahms waltz in A flat major. The same tearful feeling it gives me. I connect it with some melancholy film, but cannot remember the title. The music is very beautiful and moving. But NOTHING beats this wonderfully played "Träumerei"!!
Danke "volowitz" für's Einstellen! Einer der berührendsten Klavierabende des 20. Jahrhunderts (zumindest in diesem Ausschnitt) - und hier zeigt sich die Größe von Horowitz' Genialität: das scheinbar Einfache scheinbar ganz natürlich gespielt - und immer voller spontaner Musikalität ...
Sir Paulo...what can I say? this isn't music..this is poetry...no!..Better..this is emotion,emotion,emotion!!!! TRUE LOVE for art...TRUE LOVE for life!An endless childhood! thanks! nina
His interpretation is very lovely in its own way. On first listen, I had a few disagreements with how he was playing it, yet by the end of the piece I nearly had a tear in my eye despite myself. Touched me subconsciously, I suppose.
I saw this live on TV. AWESOME. Complete control of the Piano, and anything he played on it. I'ts great to know we can still listen & see this performance, years later. And decades to come.
Many great musicians such as Horowitz present quite different interpretations of the same piece of work. That individuality and interpretation is what makes them great. Horowitz emotion and expression often brings tears to my eyes.
Incredibly lovely performance. Horowitz showed how charming he was even through his playing. He was charming and captivating, unlike pianists these days who just play music for it's technical value. This and Scriabin by Vladimir Horowitz are my favorite pieces of all time.
Roland Feller, the world has been so blessed by the great peoples of your Germany; astronomy, sciences, physics, aeronautics, medicine, geographical exploration, the fine arts, especially music, which needs no translation.I am thankful to have occupied a small portion (one acre) of this planet. Let’s pray for peace. God bless you. Elizabeth 🇺🇸
The faces in the audience are anything but expressionless. The sadness and memories of those lost to the sands of time are seen in the eyes of this audience. The music combined with the faces of those who have experienced the wrenching pain of loss make this vignette so much more powerful for me.
Truly out of this world that beautiful! This is the best rendition I've ever heard of this beautiful piece. Horowitz his touch was awesome he understood what in between the notes means.
Looking at this even more than 30 years after I first saw it on American television, I am even more impressed now. Seeing the audience being THAT attentive adds to the power of the performance, especially when you notice (since this was 1986) - not a single cell phone, not a single person taking a video, not a single person taking a picture - sometimes "old school" beats out the technology of 2019.
I agree with you Senor Juancillo. Horowitz, as a child cultivated a great love for opera and singing (at the expense of practising his scales, much to his mum's chagrin) and admired the portamento of the great Italian bel canto baritone Mattia Battistini. He loved Caruso also and would often try to imitate their singing on the piano. He said that he always remembered Anton Rubinstein's advice to his students: "Try to imitate the sound of the human voice." sd goh (malaysia)
gorokhovtseva those tears are sincere. those are tears of people who remember when WWII ended and this piece was played over the Russian airwave. Those are true tears of rememberance of those who never made it to the end of the war.
I first heard of this song on the jack Benny show. As wretched as he tried to play it. He could actually playing was for laughs. I thought one year I'd figure out how to spell the find a copy. I was most fortunate to find Horowitz. The Muscovites were enraptured. So was I. Since then, every few months I relisten to it. His emotions with the audience's could be plainly seen. Superb!! My gratitude
GBJPhotoWorks - THANK YOU! Since I first saw this concert back in 1990 or so when it aired on PBS, I have been trying to describe that gesture without success. You have hit the nail on the head! "So, there you have it, such as it was" - Perfect.
