Some say God is IN everyone. When I was 20, I got to play my first Bach cantata in a church in St. Louis with the choir of St. Louis University. In that wonderful cathedral, and this choir of college kids, I felt like they were angels singing as I accompanied them, heard the lofty soloists sing. They might have been playing Super Mario 20 minutes later at the break, but for that moment they were transformed. Perhaps I am the most poetic of observers, and I often feel the Divine in music.
Horowitz was a GENIUS. You can't categorize a genius by "he's better, he's worse" and all that. He was Horowitz,nobody every played like him, and never will, like him, or not. I put him over many others, despite some flaws, because nobody has ever interpreted music like him.
Horowitz is one of the few players who emphasizes the D at 1:07 to prepare the dissonance between the D and Eb at 1:09. This is one of the most sublime parts of the entire piece. Many other pianists who do a great job playing this piece miss this detail, which can make it kinda sound like they're sounding from the same voice. When played on the organ the dissonance is a lot more clear and you can understand more fully Bach's idea here.
This performance grips my soul. It is so very beautiful, made even more beautiful by the honesty and humility of Horowitz. I never met him, but how I miss him!
Busoni intended his transcriptions to make Bach's works better known to the public but the result is that most people know ONLY the transcriptions. All those who admire this piece should listen to the complete "18", one of the supreme masterpieces of all music (and then to the rest of the organ works and then to the rest of Bach).
The slow tempo, the liberty in tone, colors, embellishments and articulation, the incredible rendition of the polyphonic lines... these are the qualities of a genius.. actually three geniuses are at work here, Bach, Busoni, and Horowitz... This is to me the true representation of the sense of great expectation for the Advent of Our Saviour...this really is for good-will people... thank you for posting this video (look at his fingering and posture, please!!)
What's not in this performance?! Beautiful singing tone and phrasing, endless colours, superb voicing, expression written in capitals. No mister Howowitz, you didn't compose it, but you did create something eternal.
Another aspect of this recording is the feeling of relaxation I see in him, and that I feel in me. The piece is unhurried. It is like a lullaby. After listening to it perhaps 20 or 30 times, I still find it refreshing. It is the mark of great artisty (and great empathy from a listener) to be able to enjoy something so often and walk away with the same joy. I find this quality in most pieces of JS Bach when they are played well and with heart. Amen.
@@beatlessteve1010 Amen. Recently someone quoted Yo Yo Ma saying "Perfection is not very communicative." I don't know exactly what he meant. Howver I too have experienced someone playing with such CD quality presentation that it did not inspire me. How can you say to such a performer, "That was too perfect?" (Rhetorical question there.)
i admire him in this piece for his flexibility of rhythm He takes time to make the phrases. It's also a very interesting video to watch because it gradually focuses on what he is doing with his hands. I simply don't get to see pianists at work this clearly. This music is complex. The independent melody lines weaving in and out you can follow in his fingers. One of the early commenters here said it was great to see someone just play. There's no show-off body mannerisms.
"..it was very beautiful, very beautiful..." Horrowitz: " But I didn't compose it.... " In this line he shows his sadness. His dream was to become a composer afterall. I bet he is composing in the life after ;)
Es una de las mejores interpretaciones de esta enorme pieza musical, coral de Bach con arreglos de Bussoni, es impresionante ver a Horowitz ya en el final de su vida dejando en el piano toda la maravillosa plenitud de su arte una joya para el devenir de los tiempos.Gracias maestro para toda la eternidad.
This piece is taken from a collection of 18 chorales called (not by Bach) "18 chorales of various kinds" or "The Leipzig Chorales" or simply "The 18". This collection could be considered to be the summit of Bach's organ works if only there weren't so many other candidates for this title ...
I feel with the "I didn't compose it" he indicated that even with all his talent and skill he said "Bach was a much greater musician then myself" in a very humble way.
Quel dì HaSchem lo illuminò e gli mandò un angelo a guidar le sue vecchie mani affinchè noi tutti potessimo gioir di cotanta sublime bellezza e umiltà . Grazie Vladimir
How Horowitz enriches my life, even after his death! To thrill at his pyrotechnics that cause others to give up on the piano! Then this! Reaching into my soul! Thanks to TH-cam and thank you brianting for this gift and blessing!
His playing is so transparent watching his hands that you can almost see his thoughts. At 2:09, and it happens only once, he realizes his left thumb isn't where it needs to be in the next microsecond and he immediately corrects it. If you were just listening or blinked at that moment, you'd miss it. When something is so close to perfect, little things like this become notable .... like a birthmark ... and in his case makes us remember he is human as well as god-like in this moment of art.
I don't think that's a correction, actually! It looks to me like his left hand is slow-marching down those bass octaves, and then he jumps his thumb over to help his right hand get that A in the lower-middle voice while his right hand is tied up with the C at the top. *Amazingly* smooth and sensitive playing.
@@BrassicaRappa Hah! Now that you mention it, yes he looks like he *is* striking a note there and then going back to the bass side! It happens so quickly and confidently I didn't see it before. To twist Clairol's hair dye slogan, "Only Busoni knows for sure!" I'm a violinist myself. When I see another instrument played so artistically, I am awed. Non-sequitur....... Composer Anton Bruckner was a very shy person. He was at a dress rehearsal for a premiere of one of his new symphonies. The conductor stopped at one point and turned around to him seated in the audience area and says, "Herr Bruckner, should this note be a G# or a G natural?" Bruckner, being his diffident self, says, "M-m-m-m-Maestro...what do think?"
There a childish delight in Horowitz’s smile 4:52 that reveals his inner joy of accomplishment, of a job well done. The old man is moved and he moves us all.
1:40 is the best moment. I just read your comment now after discovering this upload a few months ago and listened to it many times. I am a violinist myself, and if I can always muster the interpretive power that Horowitz demonstrates in this piece, that is my highest hope in music.
This is unmatchable. I would be happy to go to my grave with this video being played. The lifetime of experience and sensitivity that he conveys, with the most utter control of the keyboard sound - in his mid 80s - it's just incredible.
My understanding is that towards the end of his life, he had some regrets about spending all his time focused on his performance career and didn't explore composition more. So there may be an extra layer there.
@@BrassicaRappa Don't think so. He had a very heightened sense of quality (he even criticized some pieces by Chopin), so he undoubtedly was aware of his own shortcomings as a composer. Repeatedly he disqualified his early compositions as old-fashioned (he said it in German: altmodisch).
El piano bajo las manos del Maestro Horowitz cobra vida y se convierte en un manantial de sensaciones sonoras capaz de tocar la sensibilidad en su expresion mas profunda. Horowitz no era un pianista mas, fue uno de los genios de la interpretacion del siglo 20, un monstruo un genio un talento completo
'Do weep for me, I go to where music is born'. J. S. Bach 'Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of turning'. James 1:17
There is so much sadness in this piece expressed not only by the author but also the performer. It's almost as if Horowitz' life would gone by note by note as he was playing. I wonder, what went through his mind? His modest smile at the end was followed by a puzzling comment, is there a regret in "just" performing? I guess we will never know...
Was so moved when I first heard this at Carnegie Hall when the film premiered. Then listened to the record and watched students emulate Horowitz. After reading all the comments, comparing to others on piano and organ; Horowitz is still to me astonishing. Different from the original Bach but true to the spirit of Busoni - new colors, dancing around a central pulse.
I made a playlist with only this piece of music in it so every time I am writing a poem I can listen to my life being told by the sounds coming out of that piano.
absolutely beautiful interpretation i love how soft and delicate he plays it without losing the tempo, the phrasing is perfect and the ending bars are heavenly played!
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Some say God is IN everyone. When I was 20, I got to play my first Bach cantata in a church in St. Louis with the choir of St. Louis University. In that wonderful cathedral, and this choir of college kids, I felt like they were angels singing as I accompanied them, heard the lofty soloists sing. They might have been playing Super Mario 20 minutes later at the break, but for that moment they were transformed. Perhaps I am the most poetic of observers, and I often feel the Divine in music.
He is so lyrical. His phrasing is breathtaking. His understanding is so deep
Love him. He was a giant and yet so modest. That beautiful smile at the end as well as this simple "i didn't compose it"...
He is (was)also the very finest performer of Chopin I have ever heard, a true giant of the art.
Año 1,924. México Yucatan.
The magic happens on 1:39. That pianissimo. My god!
Only horowitz can
Always get me... straight in the soul
Jesus... indeed...
His smile at the end is just so precious 🥺
Horowitz was a GENIUS. You can't categorize a genius by "he's better, he's worse" and all that. He was Horowitz,nobody every played like him, and never will, like him, or not. I put him over many others, despite some flaws, because nobody has ever interpreted music like him.
Horowitz is one of the few players who emphasizes the D at 1:07 to prepare the dissonance between the D and Eb at 1:09. This is one of the most sublime parts of the entire piece. Many other pianists who do a great job playing this piece miss this detail, which can make it kinda sound like they're sounding from the same voice. When played on the organ the dissonance is a lot more clear and you can understand more fully Bach's idea here.
Astute observation.
Methinks Gould paid attention to this kind of thing as well.
That is an absolutely great observation. Horowitz has a deep understanding for those hidden notes and this unique sort of articulation
This performance grips my soul. It is so very beautiful, made even more beautiful by the honesty and humility of Horowitz. I never met him, but how I miss him!
Honesty and humility , are two adjectives that seem to fit his charisma well..and is very poignant..
Rest in peace V. Horowitz. You were truly sent from the heavens.
Busoni intended his transcriptions to make Bach's works better known to the public but the result is that most people know ONLY the transcriptions. All those who admire this piece should listen to the complete "18", one of the supreme masterpieces of all music (and then to the rest of the organ works and then to the rest of Bach).
The slow tempo, the liberty in tone, colors, embellishments and articulation, the incredible rendition of the polyphonic lines... these are the qualities of a genius.. actually three geniuses are at work here, Bach, Busoni, and Horowitz... This is to me the true representation of the sense of great expectation for the Advent of Our Saviour...this really is for good-will people... thank you for posting this video (look at his fingering and posture, please!!)
It is everything and all it once. You said it perfectly.
What's not in this performance?! Beautiful singing tone and phrasing, endless colours, superb voicing, expression written in capitals. No mister Howowitz, you didn't compose it, but you did create something eternal.
The humility to say “I didn’t compose it” meaning - praise belongs to Bach. Truly beautiful human being
thanks i was about to say the same
Such a beautiful tone on the piano, and not flat and dull like so many piano recordings;
this to me is a breath of fresh air
One of the best ... !! A voice from the depths of the Earth and Skys ... !! ❤
Мне много лет. Слушая эту музыку в прекрасном исполнении Горовица, я думаю о прожитой жизни.
Иосиф Вульфсон and I hope you do sir
Gran comentario. Saludos desde Argentina señor ruso cordiales saludos.
Another aspect of this recording is the feeling of relaxation I see in him, and that I feel in me. The piece is unhurried. It is like a lullaby. After listening to it perhaps 20 or 30 times, I still find it refreshing. It is the mark of great artisty (and great empathy from a listener) to be able to enjoy something so often and walk away with the same joy. I find this quality in most pieces of JS Bach when they are played well and with heart. Amen.
It's true I have heard Bach played very robotically and while technically impressive it leaves you empty
@@beatlessteve1010 Amen.
Recently someone quoted Yo Yo Ma saying "Perfection is not very communicative." I don't know exactly what he meant. Howver I too have experienced someone playing with such CD quality presentation that it did not inspire me. How can you say to such a performer, "That was too perfect?" (Rhetorical question there.)
i admire him in this piece for his flexibility of rhythm He takes time to make the phrases. It's also a very interesting video to watch because it gradually focuses on what he is doing with his hands. I simply don't get to see pianists at work this clearly. This music is complex. The independent melody lines weaving in and out you can follow in his fingers. One of the early commenters here said it was great to see someone just play. There's no show-off body mannerisms.
"..it was very beautiful, very beautiful..."
Horrowitz: " But I didn't compose it.... "
In this line he shows his sadness. His dream was to become a composer afterall. I bet he is composing in the life after ;)
I think he was just being modest - giving the compliment to JS Bach instead of accepting it for his performance.
Beautifull ...
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@@alainjames9556 it was his dream to be a composer.
Now he is decomposing.
how is such sound possible?
this recording is a gem of piano playing.
Magnificent. Untouchable. ✨✨✨
His smile at the end is everything.
💗
He is in such control of the dynamics. I can never listen to anyone else play this without immediate comparison.
"That was very beautiful!"
"I didn't compose it"
"That's right, but you play it very well"
My God, this is absolutely marvellous!!!! 😍
Es una de las mejores interpretaciones de esta enorme pieza musical, coral de Bach con arreglos de Bussoni, es impresionante ver a Horowitz ya en el final de su vida dejando en el piano toda la maravillosa plenitud de su arte una joya para el devenir de los tiempos.Gracias maestro para toda la eternidad.
absolutely phenomenal.. I want to be a better person after listening to this video..
Bach romantico come Chopin. Strepitoso!
Imbattibile, inarrivabile!
Bach's music is the soul in conversation with itself.
At its centre it is a community as diverse as it is complete in itself.
The oneness of being.
"I didn't compose it." :)
"No, that's right"
Великий композитор! Великий пианист!
The engineer says, to Horowitz, "You played it very well".
Yes. You might say that.
A magical interpretation. Heartfelt. Transcendent. Beautiful.
anyone who just heard this would be left speechless
This piece is taken from a collection of 18 chorales called (not by Bach) "18 chorales of various kinds" or "The Leipzig Chorales" or simply "The 18". This collection could be considered to be the summit of Bach's organ works if only there weren't so many other candidates for this title ...
I feel with the "I didn't compose it" he indicated that even with all his talent and skill he said "Bach was a much greater musician then myself" in a very humble way.
Exactly!
I miss him so dearly, what a beautiful mind, and this is in fact very well done.... his touch is so amazing...perfection. R~
this comes from a very deep place. thank you, maestro.
Quel dì HaSchem lo illuminò e gli mandò un angelo a guidar le sue vecchie mani affinchè noi tutti potessimo gioir di cotanta sublime bellezza e umiltà . Grazie Vladimir
How Horowitz enriches my life, even after his death! To thrill at his pyrotechnics that cause others to give up on the piano! Then this! Reaching into my soul! Thanks to TH-cam and thank you brianting for this gift and blessing!
Mike Karren luckily YujaWang didn't quit. but I am quitting seeing him and her...
TH-cam: But we didn’t compose it...
3:02 This voice is so beautiful.
Nobody beats the old man. View the "Vers la Flamme" video.
I totally miss him.
Listening to Volodia always means witnessing a sort of miracle.
Horowitz is the core of piano music. In my opinion everything he performed meant to sound exactly like this
I was reminded what a glorious instrument the piano is.
Божественная музыкв в гениальном исполнении
What a master... he managed to create organ sonority with such an intensity and deepness , which nowdays is very rare to listen to...
The way his fingers gracefully dance on those keys is spectacular.
Every time at 1:39 my heart skips a beat and I end up holding my breaths...such beauty can't be expressed with words only can be felt with heart...
I've never heard this piece before. It's beautiful and I love this performance.
It's amazing how he accentuates the melody with such ease
His touch on the keys is heavenly!
Only Horowitz could make such a huge study of bass octaves sound as beautiful as this! Miss him!
A true marvel of astounding emotion, purity, beauty, proportion and restraint.
Oh, I love this. I love his smile at the end. I love.... the complete lack of pretension here.
His playing is so transparent watching his hands that you can almost see his thoughts. At 2:09, and it happens only once, he realizes his left thumb isn't where it needs to be in the next microsecond and he immediately corrects it. If you were just listening or blinked at that moment, you'd miss it. When something is so close to perfect, little things like this become notable .... like a birthmark ... and in his case makes us remember he is human as well as god-like in this moment of art.
I don't think that's a correction, actually! It looks to me like his left hand is slow-marching down those bass octaves, and then he jumps his thumb over to help his right hand get that A in the lower-middle voice while his right hand is tied up with the C at the top. *Amazingly* smooth and sensitive playing.
@@BrassicaRappa Hah! Now that you mention it, yes he looks like he *is* striking a note there and then going back to the bass side! It happens so quickly and confidently I didn't see it before. To twist Clairol's hair dye slogan, "Only Busoni knows for sure!" I'm a violinist myself. When I see another instrument played so artistically, I am awed.
Non-sequitur....... Composer Anton Bruckner was a very shy person. He was at a dress rehearsal for a premiere of one of his new symphonies. The conductor stopped at one point and turned around to him seated in the audience area and says, "Herr Bruckner, should this note be a G# or a G natural?" Bruckner, being his diffident self, says, "M-m-m-m-Maestro...what do think?"
There a childish delight in Horowitz’s smile 4:52 that reveals his inner joy of accomplishment, of a job well done. The old man is moved and he moves us all.
One of the most beautiful thing I listened during my life...Horowitz: the best sound=the best pianist!
Not True!! More colorful beautiful piano sound than Horowitz=Wilhelm Kempff Emil Gilels Artur Rubinstein Radu Lupu Vladimir Ashkenazy!!
I have the Bach-Busoni transcriptions on my bookshelf, and it's high time I learn them. This video just hit me with a wave of REAL inspiration.
1:40 is the best moment. I just read your comment now after discovering this upload a few months ago and listened to it many times. I am a violinist myself, and if I can always muster the interpretive power that Horowitz demonstrates in this piece, that is my highest hope in music.
This is unmatchable. I would be happy to go to my grave with this video being played. The lifetime of experience and sensitivity that he conveys, with the most utter control of the keyboard sound - in his mid 80s - it's just incredible.
Supreme, Superlative, Incomparable!!!
A music for soul.........a stunning,flawless work of art,,
Exquisite~ tone... intensity... beauty... and how his soul is imbued throughout.
Così straordinario nella sua raffinata semplicità. Io l'adoro!
2:30 Incredible control. He plays those two-note slurred phrases like a string player would.
A lot of piano players, and there is/was Horrorwitz. "I didn't compose it": Sign of his humility, a great gesture.
Horrorwitz!!! I love it.
My understanding is that towards the end of his life, he had some regrets about spending all his time focused on his performance career and didn't explore composition more. So there may be an extra layer there.
@@BrassicaRappa Don't think so. He had a very heightened sense of quality (he even criticized some pieces by Chopin), so he undoubtedly was aware of his own shortcomings as a composer. Repeatedly he disqualified his early compositions as old-fashioned (he said it in German: altmodisch).
He was making a joke - that’s all
El piano bajo las manos del Maestro Horowitz cobra vida y se convierte en un manantial de sensaciones sonoras capaz de tocar la sensibilidad en su expresion mas profunda. Horowitz no era un pianista mas, fue uno de los genios de la interpretacion del siglo 20, un monstruo un genio un talento completo
'Do weep for me, I go to where music is born'. J. S. Bach
'Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of turning'. James 1:17
Voice of GOD!
ONER Klig Fuck God.
+Benoit Obled
Goblins, goblins, wherever you go on TH-cam...
+Benoit Obled Thank you for setting the record straight!
Benoit Obled oh you’re hard
Benoit Obled I’m sure you f yourself up since you wrote this. Since you are god.
"I didn't compose it" reminds me of an episode of Brahms praising Johann StraussⅡ for his Donau.
He was the unique player of last romantic times... He was special...
There is so much sadness in this piece expressed not only by the author but also the performer. It's almost as if Horowitz' life would gone by note by note as he was playing. I wonder, what went through his mind? His modest smile at the end was followed by a puzzling comment, is there a regret in "just" performing? I guess we will never know...
Was so moved when I first heard this at Carnegie Hall when the film premiered. Then listened to the record and watched students emulate Horowitz. After reading all the comments, comparing to others on piano and organ; Horowitz is still to me astonishing. Different from the original Bach but true to the spirit of Busoni - new colors, dancing around a central pulse.
Справжнє Божество!
nice comments.
isn't it a shame how some people choose not to enjoy all the great music we are fortunate enough to be able to watch and hear here!?!?
I made a playlist with only this piece of music in it so every time I am writing a poem I can listen to my life being told by the sounds coming out of that piano.
The King .
Beautifull!!
Simply magnificent. Thank you so much for posting.
He did, my friend. But also, he made his own transcriptions. GG made his name as a Bach interpreter; Horowitz played everything. Both are fantastic!
gorgeous
thank you for posting!
Просто. Непринужденно.ГЕНИАЛЬНО.
beautiful. this melts my heart!!
STUNNING PERFORMANCE
Jesus Chris Almighty, shit shit, I am out of breath, please help!!!!! I am stunned, humbled, .....no words
tomaspianist the same reaction I've had in my first time)
Excellent !!!!!!!!!!
Eternal music played by eternal genius pianist…💕
Vladimir Horowitz really turns this piece into a very emotionally charged masterpiece...
OMG I referred to this in my book. This is a game changer for our humanity!
That was so soulful! Bliss.
simply beautiful
absolutely beautiful interpretation i love how soft and delicate he plays it without losing the tempo, the phrasing is perfect and the ending bars are heavenly played!
The best, irrational, beautyful sound....
Not True! More colorful beautiful piano sound than Horowitz=Wilhelm Kempff Emil Gilels Artur Rubinstein Radu Lupu Vladimir Ashkenazy!!
고등학교때 음반으로 들었던 곡인데 이렇게 들을수 있다니 감동적이네요
A legend,,,last of the romantics,,,,,in short a chatacter who breathed art and its beauty,,
welcome to the age of note perfect digital souless musak.
This real miracle! What amazing possession of a sound!
Memoria enciclopedica, musicalità e tocco eccelsi in ogni esecuzione.
ending smile is so pretty !
Beautiful........
Hace años dió una entrevista de 4 horas en TV es encantador 🇮🇷❤️😘
How wonderful!
Technically a fairly simple piece of music, but played by a master like Horowitz, it transcends its simplicity and becomes a thing of elegant beauty.
How is it simple? The inner voices sound canonic to me and the ornementation the chorale is very sophisticated.. And the bass line
The ones that sound simple are the toughest by my opinion. No chance to cover up any mistakes or gaps.
I wrote many songs but no one among them sounds so great like this piece, thanks Great-Bach !
this is sublime - very moving