Vladimir Horowitz - Preludes, Op. 32 No. 12 - Rachmaninov 

That’s awesome though

That's epic !

Wow🎉

Simon Ubsdell yes I couldn’t care less of speed in a pianist

Yes. I grew up with the idea that Horowitz had the best technique in the world at that time. However, it's all about tone control and color. I look at his playing totally differently now, from that perspective.

100% agree. Horowitz matched strong technique with the need of absolute faithfulness to the n.1 principle in piano playing: legato&cantabile.

Beautifully stated and describes Horowitz's playing perfectly....the word color is a great way to describe Horowitz's playing, a real true artist!

Come on Simon! Stop telling The Big Lie=Horowitz the Greatest Pianist! The Truth is Horowitz not the Greatest!! Better more colorful beautiful piano sound than Horowitz=Wilhelm Kempff Emil Gilels Radu Lupu Artur Rubinstein Vladimir Ashkenazy!! MORE POWERFUL Louder than Horowitz=Mikhail Pletnev The Most Powerful Loudest Pianist Ever!!=( Prokofiev piano concerto no 1 by Pletnev!! Pletnev the Nuclear Bomb Powerful!) More Genius than Horowitz=Sviatoslav Richter Solomon Cutner Maurizio Pollini Grigory Sokolov Alexei Lubimov Stanislav Igolinsky!!

This is forbidden today . Didn't you know ?

If you have not already, look up Daniil Trifonov. Sergei Babayan is wonderful as well, but he does not have as many things up on RU-vid as Daniil.

But we have lang lang hahaha

Aall Pprr Lang Lang is way too over expressive. I prefer Valentina Lisitsa or Evgeny Kissin

DBD P4nda i hate lang lang interpretations btw that was a joke

I think you can and will.

The most astounding reserve note in history.

Omg

Horowitz was a humble man full of culture and poetry, not a pop music employee.

I highly doubt that. He likely put forth all his effort into every performance he gave until his death... Do you not hear the attention to every detail in this piece?

There were others....................................

There were others, many others. But could any of them bring you to tears of joy listening to them or watching them as Horowitz could? Few, if any at all could. There was no one like Horowitz.

@@grubbetuchus There were many like Horowitz, but very few have recordings that survive to this day.

Funny you think that. I actually heard a bit of vader's theme in the middle section

biz bizo means: This initiated me to classical music when it was on TV in 1986. I was hypnotized for the second time in my life by what I heard; I knew nothing alike in music. Only hearing the music of Liszt had a similar effect on me. Such a love, big as the world [my goodness].

@@Leo-jc8el I understood biz without it being translated :)

Il dio sceso dagli Urali......

Its like Taking away Far away On a breeze

Il n'y a pas de mots pour décrire le jeu d'Horowitz, un jeu qui rend fade la plupart des interprétations contemporaines

It does, when someone is genius 😅

Just difficult

Hi Jim Donahue, you can find this kind of informations below our videos, in the description. This performance took place at the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory (Moscow, Russia), in 1986. Have a nice day, Medici team.

Tamarkina , Lim , Erdmann , Lipatti

Richter

Lang lang xd

Gould

and 1:34?

Dank Memes i listened to it while watching the sheet and i think he doesn't miss anithing

Dank Memes maybe just some notes played with some imperfection

I just compared it with the sheet and I agree that he didn't really miss anything

yes, he splattered the dominant chord a bit, missed a couple notes in the Rh and hit g# m chord at the top of the scale a little messily, AND WHO CARES! I loved this performance when it was broadcast!

Now please share your performance of this piece.

Most pompous comment I've seen all day. Keep it for yourself next time

@@MJ-sq7gd You can see and hear it on my FB Profile

@@albertlanda1146 I can't because I don't use Facebook.

@@MJ-sq7gd It's on You Tube.