I had the honor of moving the 1941 Horowitz Steinway 3 times for its dealer here. One evening I brought it home in my truck and slept with it to protect it. Around 3AM I awoke to hear Mr Horowitz's ghost play it one more time. It was a wonderful concert, if only in my dreams. I very carefully repact it in its custom travel case and was thanked by the piano movers on NBC in Atlanta.
One of my great memories was meeting Vladimir Horowitz by chance when I was a college student, about age 18, in New York around 1976. I was taking a walk through Central Park when I passed by Mr. Horowitz sitting on a park bench with a friend. I did a double-take and turned to face him, surprised and delighted to see one of my favorite pianists of all time. He looked at me and gave me a big smile. I bowed my head in deep respect and he smiled again and nodded. I was too shy at the time to approach him or to talk with him and didn't want to intrude on him. But nobody else in the park but me seemed to have any idea who this distinguished man was with his friend sitting on the bench; so Mr. Horowitz seemed to appreciate my expression of delight and deep admiration as our eyes locked for the moment.
In Horowitz's biography, he performed this concerto in Los Angeles with Rachmaninoff in the audience. After the performance, Rachmaninoff announced to the crowd that Vladimire made a wonderful interpretation of his composition and that NOBODY can play it like him. I'm sure that silenced a lot of critics who aren't that crazy about Horowitz.
While there are millions of useless nonsense on social media, we can witness an unforgettable night in 1978 at the Lincoln Center NY with Zubin Metha and the icon Vladimir Horowitz performing Rachmaninoff's Concerto No. 3 with the New York Philharmonic. This reminds me of memorable nights I had the privilege of participating in a club for classical music lovers in São Paulo, Brazil, in the 80s and 90s where personalities like Horowitz were worshipped in our nights through the technological innovations of the time: the CD and the Video Laser. Good memories. Thank you for making this video available.
What outsiders fail to understand is that artistry and perfection are at odds. The reasons they criticize this performance are exactly why it is by far and away my favorite recording. It is raw, guttural, beautiful, and feels like it is tearing itself apart under its own sheer weight. I am in tears by the heavenly end of the third movement, without fail, every time. I will continue to come back to this recording for many more years to come.
I already have this Blu-ray, but Horowitz's comments before the performance and the multiple curtain calls after the performance have all been cut. I just watched the full version. Thanks for sharing!
I always was taken by those slender flat hands in total command of the keyboard and rendering a classical performance which at times entered another dimension of sound. His modesty of movement and almost static pose seems almost incongruous, yet frankly rather wonderful...
Éste es un concierto muy especial para mí. Lo he oído muchas veces por mucho pianistas y Vladimir sigue siendo el que mejor lo toque . Mi sueño hubiera sido oír lo tocar en vivo❤❤❤ 18:47
To the detractors, yes there are bunches of wrong notes. It was a live performance. Do some pianists today play fewer wrong notes? Yes, of course. But this man actually KNEW Rachmaninov, and the composer loved his interpretations of his piano music. 45 years ago, hardly any other pianist even attempted this concerto. This is a historically important concert.
Aurthur Rubenstein once stated that if you took all the wring notes I made in a concert you could make a another concert with them. It's how you respond to the mistakes that count.
Wrong notes are parts of the game. Yes he made wrong notes, as Kempff for instance or Edwin Fischer. But they were real musicians, which is much more important...
I was surprised. Not a sound out of the audience during the performance. They were hung on every note from the MAESTRO.......A performance that has and always will go down in history...
Like Horowitz said, “The Art should be spontaneous.…” , I know why I was trying while watching and listening to this ever masterpiece performance..., thank you so much for sharing ❤
0:35 interview subtitle texts: i improvise each time i am on the stage i improvise i never played twice the same the conductors are always very much afraid because he said that you rehearse one way you play in concert another way i cannot do it all the way because everything what you do in life especially in art should be spontaneous that's very important ~ i have tremendous amount of integrity and i criticize myself much more than anybody else who criticize me in the newspaper a magazine and everything i'm the greatest critic of myself and so that means i will never be happy if i don't give everything i have so you know human being is not a machine some day is better some days not everybody every one of us and i hope the 24th of Sep. at from five to six i will feel well everything will be balanced and all my emotion all my spiritual control will be there in the place and i will give you a good performance and then it will satisfy the people that's all
Oh my god. He found, then isolated, and voiced, tamed and rendered fresh inner lines, hidden lines, cryptic, coded, sacred, lyrical, melodic lines, messages to a sad and distant future that Rachmaninoff wrote, wanting to share his healing powers, perhaps, but without even knowing why. Entire careers could be productively devoted to this concerto's first movement alone. In spite of the composer's legendary passion for chromatic discursions, anyone of sufficient passion could themselves justifiably claim this work is possessed of Medieval diatonic peasant prayers: one to forbid Spring floods, one to cleanse the plague from the good-hearted, and one to lift high the children of the village burdened with cruel parents and careless teachers. But at 15:21, we are all rescued from those tragedies, and given instead lives of deliciously sweet and warmly nourishing music, songs without tears for a world that needs dreams, that runs too fast, hurts too much, remembers not enough and knows that a loving future depends on a loving present, which will be the past before anyone can define recapitulation or spell coda with their tears tied behind their smile. We love you Vladimir--can you hear us from 1978? Of course, if we sing loud and pure enough!
My mom loved this recording, she'd watch the original video on youtube almost every day and listen to it in the car whenever she'd drive to the beach. She passed last September but I just know that she would have been overjoyed to know that this video had been so wonderfully remastered. Thank you so much for doing this, it's such a gift to be able to match the album recording with the hand movements.
I like to think of this performance as the two absolute titans of musicality, working together to produce one of the most extraordinary sounds ever. Horowitz and Rachmaninoff are everything to me in the world of music. For me, this is undoubtedly the pinnacle of music and the most legendary concert ever! It would be so amazing to have the opportunity to meet both of these legends. Every time I play piano I aspire to be like Rachmaninoff and Horowitz, but nobody can really have their charm.
우와...... 우와...... 우와............... 오르멘디 협연과 더불어 전설로 남은 1978 주빈메타 협연 라흐3번 연주실황 전부를 개인 한 명이 전부 리마스터링한 영상을 유튜브 채널에서 아무 대가도 없이 감상 할 수 있는 사실에 너무나 과분합니다.. 정말, 정말 수고많으셨습니다. 전 세계의 호로비츠 팬 분들이 모두 이 영상을 역사적인 자료의 한 축으로써 귀하게 다루리라고 믿습니다. 최소한 저 한 명만은 그리 생각할겁니다. 평소에도 이 채널에서 제공하는 리마스터링 음원들에 매우 큰 감사를 하고있으나, 오늘만큼은 전에 없을 정도로 정말 감사를 올립니다. 슈퍼챗으로 감사금이라도 올리고싶은 마음입니다..
Hello! Thanks a lot for this. I wanted to say, in the thumbnail it says "legenary" instead of "legendary" and "vlaimir" instead of "vladimir". Maybe the d doesnt work so well xD
He made today's young aspiring lions look like pygmies!. The astonishing power and control at his fingertips were unique, AND no visual theatrics or facial contortions.
Thank you for this remastering and the new video parts that you showed to Internet users. Until now I thought I had seen absolutely all of Horowitz's videos on RU-vid but you have proven the opposite! what a shame he didn’t play an encore!
In Horowitz's biography, he performed this concerto in Los Angeles with Rachmaninoff in the audience. After the performance, Rachmaninoff announced to the crowd that Vladimire made a wonderful interpretation of his composition and that NOBODY can play it like him. I'm sure that silenced a lot of critics who aren't that crazy about Horowitz.
I'm one of those fans that have been hoping a digital remastering of the original video would eventually be available. While I understand your need to drop an advertisement graphic over the remastered video, would it be possible to purchase the same remastered video without the graphic from you. Best Regards from Houston TX !
Ich bin froh, das ich Horowitz 1986 in Berlin bei seinem Zusatzkonzert noch live erleben durfte. Die Eintrittskarte dafür bekam ich 15 min. vor dem Nachmittagskonzert von einer alten Dame, die noch einen Karte übrig hatte.....
My dad and my mother were in the audience, and mom didn't know she was pregnant with me yet. By the time I was age 4 I knew I was a pianist. Coincidence?
Благодарю-Благодарю-Благодарю!!! Великий пианист-виртуоз! Я увидела своими глазами(хоть и в записи),как выступление Владимира Горовица, привело слушателей в неописуемый восторг. Есть за что! Браво ! Легендарный…!
No comment on the performance - it is absolutely legendary and unparalleled. However, I understand he liked his own Steinway but it really is unfortunate. There could be so many pianos with better sound than this one...
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