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Wow, note how at 06:36 the bass notes accelerate the tempo taking over the higher ones.

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This has to be sped up? WOW.

What a god!

Rachmaninoff died earlier in the year of this performance, which was 25 November 1943, the way Horowitz plays the concerto is almost completely different than any of his previous recordings.

Like, was this before or AFTER the death of the great ol' Sergey Vasilievich Rachmaninoff my goodness sake.

I NEED TO KNOW IF RACH WAS THERE, because he died the same year!! I gotta know.

Horrible. If I played like that my teacher would whip me.

Horowitz has been criticized many times because of the wrong notes, but it's clear that those people only judge him by his later performances: the clarity (together with the agility) of the young Horowitz on many passages of this concerto never cease to astonish me. It seems to me that many modern pianists only care about making rapid executions that often compromise the final rendition, with fast passages nearly unaudible.

これを実際にホールで聴いていたら人生になんの悔いも無くなるだろうな。

Little did the audience know that they were going to hear the most staggering cadenza ever

I love the accelerando at 31:22 to the end! Most thrilling ending of all his versions, in my opinion.

Increíble. E insuperable (si acaso sólo por su grabación con Barbirolli). Gracias.

Полная неожиданность - нет перевода на русский язык! Жаль, ведь как много можно было узнать из комментариев!?! Моё потрясение от исполнения этого концерта невозможно описать! Всё б о ж е с т в е н н о !

Every other performance, except for Rach himself, sounds like a child compared to this one.

Imagine if we could listen to this with a better audio quality

Both Horowitz and Artur Rodzinski knew Rachmaninoff personally. Composer directions came from the first hands.

I love the Zubin Mehta performance, too. And we can watch it, which is great.

Spectacular. Stupendous. Sublime. And to think-- he was playing this at 19 years old. Thank you for sharing this with us. Horowitz would have loved the internet and knowing how much we (SO MANY people all over the world) love him and his playing. Thank you for this, a treasure indeed.

C’est de la radio!......

I can only imagine being in the audience and experiencing this performance. What goosebumps and ecstasy must have permeated those in attendance.

Adorable Utube, thank you for pleasure. It's like time machine. Can listen to recorded in 1944 and then when Horowitz in Vienna, when he was 80+ life between.. fantastic feeling. Thank you very very much.

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I, too, am totally astonished by this performance. Thank you for sharing it!

I agree with all these comments. I have listened to scores of recorded performances of this work. Horowitz’ recordings, both studio and live, have always been near the top of the heap. However, the very top for me, for 40+ years, has been William Kapell’s live performances of the concerto (1947 and 1953, respectively). Kapell is my favorite classical pianist, and his live performances of Rach III have been my gold standard. I had pretty well settled into that opinion, for a long time, and expected that I would continue in it, until shuffling off the old mortal coil, if you catch my meaning. (Just to clarify, I’m not saying Kapell was a better pianist than Horowitz, or that Horowitz didn’t own this work, or that the stamp of approval for Horowitz’ performances of this work by the composer, was in error as it were. I just have a somewhat sentimental favorite in Kapell and I thought his Rach III’s were musically superb, and very moving). All the above about Kapell, UNTIL I heard this Horowitz/Rodzinski collaboration. My God. There are moments here which are hard to believe. That a human being could do on the piano, what Horowitz did, I mean. Honestly I sometimes think a spaceship must have dropped him off from another planet. Technically and musically, this is a superhuman performance. I think Horowitz defied the laws of pianistic physics. One is not supposed to be able to change the sound, once a note has been struck. Dynamically, or with regard to tonal character. But Horowitz manages somehow, to do it. I could go on and on. One of the comments above, says this performance will be released, commercially. I want to be first in line for that purchase!

Cadenza: 9:30

The year of Rachmaninoff's death, middle of WW II, ...explains the flaming urgency of the performance.Wonderful and idiomatic collaboration from Rodzinski and the orchestra.Well...all in America then were blessed with S.R. playing. yearly,.his favorite orchestra with the great romantic conductor, Stowkowki.Actually once S.R. and V.H. left Bolshevik Russia, the Russian romantic tradition moved to America and the UK,,,,,with Lhevinne, Medtner, Heifetz, Elman, Milstein,Piatagorsky, Koshetz all safer ...and richer in the West.

I have often been wondering if the playing speed is different in these old recordings, usually littlebit too fast. I mean, recording is played faster than the original concert have been. It is most clearly seen in Soviet recordings (those Richter playing Chopin etydes etc. where the whole tonality is half step up due to faster speed). Also this recording is very much relaxed if you slow down it littlebit. Its possible to do in settings and own setup -> 0.9x or 0.95x. If you do that, tempos are somewhat same than in late Horowitz-Mehta performance. Its worth of try, tell me what do you think! Edit: I did check, a1 is around 440hz here, but it can be modified in remastering. You never know :)

There are no words to describe this terrifyingly glorious performance-supernatural!!

Fantastic!

9:57 and just like that, all time ceases to move

After more than 30 years of knowing and loving this concerto, today I just heard for the first time again... I am still shaking... What a monumental treasure this recording is! And to think that for so many years I held tight to a few favorites... That has all changed today.

I like the one with Zubin Mehta better is more mature.and conveys the message more clearly. This is only fast and showy. Young Horowitz had something to proof.

Never heard it better...!

Amazing playing, thanks for sharing.

Love it

WOW

Very special, outstanding!

Genius performance.

him has blood in his fire and fire in his blood he like water or like crystal or like a thunderstorm alchemist of music who understood and mastered the elementary basics of music was still connected to real life without the electronic dragen that eat all magic power of people nowdays

30:06: this is from outer space. Nobody ever played it that way. Not even himself….

Actually The Great Horowitz! similar to his recording with conduct reiner but this has more passion and his crazy(?) bursting sound. Thank you for such a rare, speldid performance.

Of course Horowitz remains one of the best performers of this concerto (if not the best). But why he always slows down in the finale at bar 39 (21:06). It is so heavy and not very tasteful (at least for me). Rachmaninoff himself did not play it like that.

I have 45 recordings but this one takes the cake.

This is the account Horowitz made in 1892 at age 10. Poor sound even for the 19th century.

10:31 to all pianists here ..... try this at home , my friends ....

This is absolutely fantastic ........ extatic .................

is this available on CD ?

7:00 .... orgiac ..... demence , psychiatric music ..... the walls of reason just falling down , ... Horowitz on the most dangerous and toxic way ...... but THE FANTASTIC ONE ! And always this tremendous , tremendous beauty ..... !

31:51 ..... this rage ...... this incredible rage , always present with him in the summital moments ...... as he would like to destroy , to exterminate even the music itself ....