Vladimir Horowitz having fun with his piano at home (1985). 

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Proving that even the kings of the world are not immune to the nonsense that we all go through with women.

@@richardaltieri8528 why do you write this sexist bs?

80 plus actually

Because that was actually right and accurate

@@maikolmaru1902 that's not the point. Just makes it more impressive imho

Even at 80 plus...he was a phenomenon

A lot of them do, but most of them probably Dunning Krugering. Horowitz was fr.

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Sad that his wife was such an insufferable crab

For sure

His wife? No

So emotive close and humble

Unfortunately for us, life is hard and cruel

@@CatLover69420 Life, on a fundamental level, isn't any different for you or me than it was for yesterday's people.

@@matsu820 yeah we might have a chance

Just listen to his recordings! Full of humour, all of them.

I wish as well, but there is a recording for Richter that is magnificent

I completely agree, before I swore to Kissins recording but this is unbelievably beautiful

I was thinking the same thing. It was so pretty. He made everything sound like gold.

He is such a lovely.man...seems quite loved by all around him .i wouod have liked to have had one lesson with 😢 it would be 6 hours wrong xx

Also overrated

@@JSBach-pd4yg so is Bach

@@JSBach-pd4yg Nah def not tell me who is the best then in your opinion

@@JSBach-pd4yg i think con fari, yout opinion Is truly posterdati with two Also a Little antani. But vicesindaco tells Trinita confraternita pulitina

@@arctica3037 Maybe his wife Wanda.She has played an important role in the life of Horowitz.She was,like her father Arturo Toscanini a hard task master/mistress.

Horowitz saying that Rachmaninoff was a composer, pianist and conductor and was great in all three. And his wife saying he was a gentleman.

Bernstein and Previn were the American versions of triple threats. Both immensely talented. Rachmaninov said after hear Horowitz play the 3rd Piano concerto, he said “he couldn’t match it Paraphrasing).”

His smile was so happy

It sounded like a Mickey Mouse cartoon.

They still exist, check out Denis Matsuev!

I believe this is more of an arrangement than an improvisation, as there is a story about Horowitz composing his own arrangement of T42 and showing it to art Tatum, only for Tatum to blow him away with his own version. Horowitz asked Tatum for the sheet music and he told him it was improvised. That being said, I can't say for sure if the playing in this clip is from that arrangement of his as it never surfaced as far as I know.

Really. Music is so stagnant nowadays. Nothing that great is being made nowadays.

Really. Music is so stagnant nowadays. Nothing that great is being made nowadays.

Plays it anyway

Plays march. Hahaha

Hahaha exactly. So cheeky 😂

@@timothyasbridge8562 And with such vigour in the bass. I'm sure Souza would have approved!

Why is she being so annoying lmao. Telling him not to play

That’s from Rachmaninov’s piano concerto no 2 if I’m correct

@@Deeznutsmynamejeff21 Yeah that's correct. I was referring to the tone quality he gets outta the piano. I've never heard Rach 2 sound so crystal-ey. Wish he had recorded it.

@@musical_lolu4811 my mistake. He makes Rachmaninov absolutely magical, do you know if there exists a full recording of Horowitz playing this concerto?

@@Deeznutsmynamejeff21 pretty sure he never recorded it

He wasn't even looking

Horowitz didn’t agree with competitions

@@Ari-gv3bc i think you fail to see the point 🤣 but duly noted

@@kickintheshamrok lol I think so

@johnthreesixteen 14 thank you john ☺️

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I thought the exact same thing..that is just crazy!!

All people turn to childs with age

She was a piece of work

Why is she even annoyed in the first place? Seems like a miserable woman

He actually said it about Claudio ARRAU.

He was kept a child in many ways. Protected from the outside world from Wanda who peeled his bananas.

I can always hope but I can never play the piano the way he plays it.

@@chris93703 no one can

it must have been for her father he stayed with her

Supposedly she was one of the few people he allowed to critique him. As for the breakdowns, he was a deeply closeted homosexual, which is much more likely the source of his depression. Though, to be fair, Wanda does come off as an absolute shrew in this...

​@@galenschultz3239agreed, they seemed to have a fairly loving relationship, if not romantic sense.

I don’t get why she is so mean and short with him in this video. He is clearly enjoying himself and she stands over there like a bitch telling him to stop. Like what?

Me too I am right with you

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Cziffra was amazing too. And Horowitz was legendary !

i was just thinking the same thing, no good music to wait for, not good composers to aspire or to inspire from...I guess we are lucky to be able to hear the old masters and get a glimpse of greatness.

@@mousikopaigmonas23 hopefully not for too long. But there is so much old music to discover that we'll have time to catch up before something amazing is made.

Le seul problème c'est que lorsqu'on a entendu et aimé Horowitz, on a du mal à se satisfaire de nos pianistes contemporains. Outre ses qualités d'interprétation il disposait de cette liberté de jeu pianistique qu'on retrouvait chez les anciens et que l'on retrouve aujourd'hui seulement chez les jazzmans ou autres musiciens qui jouent de la musique plus récente. Le pianiste classique d'aujourd'hui est trop habité par la partition et formaté par les écoutes des disques, la liberté du jeu pianistique n'est plus ce qu'elle était ...

@@Will78137 exactement

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or, she's a tyrant

She's not a tyrant, she's probably been a lot of years with him and every time she had to hear this piano play ... Every day... I get it, it's hard sometimes. I get very stressed when in rehearsals everyone arrives and starts to play before the conductor starts, I just need silence to do my thing. I understand her so much. I am reading about him, and as he was a prodigy, he was probably so submerged in his art he didn't realize the tool his constant music had on people around him. Trust me, for normal people it's hard sometimes

@@sarabenassi1981 Not only from an artistic perspective. His character was of course also difficult, something with which Toscanini had to cope with for many years; not to mention of course his homosexuality....

Same with my grandpa who used to play saxophone. He forget almost everything, in some occasion his son and grandchild to 😁 However he still can play the saxophone clearly at 85s, playing many Stan Getz and Frank Sinatra songs.

@@User_39sankyu It's a different kind of memory.

You haven't heard Richard Burnett play it on an authentic "Turkish" piano (the sort of instrument for which it was written). Unfortunately the only clip I know is of when he was about 80 and failing, but his enthusiasm still comes through, despite the many inaccuracies. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ZetRIKHu0kA.html (I think it's strictly Rondo, rather than March.) [The piano was actually made around Vienna; "Turkish" was named for the style of the itinerant ("gypsy") musicians around there at the time, who weren't necessarily Turkish.]

he's improvising

@@user-tj8fe7or7u A darn good one, too

Scriabin etude op8 no12

First one is a Rach piano concerto… 2nd or 3rd can’t remember

3:55 is the third scherzo of Chopin

Rachmaninov piano concerto 2

Chopin revolutionary etude op 10 no 12

Scriabin etude op8 n12

@@danielhinrichsen6927 Thank you very much!

Chopin Scherzo 2 - Bb minor

@@Maffchops thank you so much

Chopin Op. 31 Scherzo in B-flat minor :D all of his recordings of it are great.

I think it was improvisation

@@LudwigvanBeethoven2 thank you!

Jazz tune 'Tea for two', his homage to Art Tatum.

Mickey Mouse version of tea for two.