I was in the audience at Carnegie Hall. I etched his interpretation in my mind and played it myself at Mahattanville College as an encore the following year. My heart was in my mouth!
Listening to Horowitz in person is near the top of my “I wish I could’ve” list in music. I’ve always heard his playing was electric and that his pianissimos would somehow carry across the whole hall.
@@mlr3188 sultanov is absolutely incredible, but lacks the maturity we see in Horowitz, this video is a piece of art that has been tirelessly developed for years
Sultanov has great flexability and the counter melody is indeed unique. This is (amazing), yet he still lacks the maturity and balance of Horowitz. It may be a question of which you prefer, however a developed sound is in most cases the deciding factor
Yes, I pointed that segment out in another coment, for me he is the only one who plays that part correctly from all versions I've heard of this piece, and really hard to accomplish as a pianist.
It shows the depth of his heart and life experiences as a human at the time of this performance. No other interpretation that I've heard from any other pianist comes close to his depth of fiery loud to incredibly soft and gentle as if in a dream.
@@MarcAmengual correctly? just because you like it doesn't mean it's the only 'correct' way to play that part. a pianist can choose not to do that despite the composer's marking on the score and it's still equally correct because anyone can interpret a piece of music and it's in no way disrespectful towards the composer.
@@ruoyunshen You feel smart after saying that? I said "for me" for a reason, and by "correct" I'm not saying academically correct, I'm saying for me it's the way it sounds better and enhances the phrasing of that part which few pianists do like him. Relax dude.
Exactly! This is what makes his rendition so great; some call it "breathing hands". I am even more impressed by how he suddenly goes the opposite direction - from thunderous forte to pianissimo. I have not heard anyone capable of doing this. And nobody has been able to make such a climax in this piece, let alone mind-boggling agogics.
Many amazing pianists have played this piece incredibly well. However, I have not heard anyone else do the part from 1:00 to 1:18 quite like this. Been playing it for years myself, and am nowhere close, even the murderously difficult final section gets easier by comparison once you get comfortable with all of the notes. This part, though, to get "just right", it NEVER gets easier! Horowitz was a master of emotion, nobody can do it like him that i have seen.
Max, contrary to common held belief that the most important stumbling block of virtuosi piano playing requires genius to overcome, it does not. It requires the correct pedagogy. As a piece requires more advanced techniques there might be a thousands way to learn it that will get you stuck at 80% and will never master it, and only a handful of ways that will master it 100%. It's the pedagogy, not the man. It takes years to learn the correct pedagogy assuming you have the one teacher in a tousands to teach you. Though the best way is to be reborn and learn piano from age 3 then your brain will find it by itself.
could you explain what you mean? I've listened to a handful of other recordings, but not super actively, and I always thought they phrased that part more or less the same. but that could just be that I wasn't listening super closely and had the echo of Horowitz' interpretation in my head.
I like your figure of speech: piano massacre. Mr. Horowitz even jumped a bit on his stool to make a real statement with his basses. This is what I call "man's playing". However talented female players might be, they just lack physicality and male strength to "massacre the keyboard" as you so aptly put it.
He has played this same etude when he was older in another performance. Wasn't flawless and didn't have the "full power". This is one of the best performances I have ever seen!
Exactly. Also, I have now listened to dozens of other artists play this piece, INCLUDING many well known concert pianists and just to be fair even listened to some " Internet " stars and prodigies and what sets HOROWITZ apart from all of them is the CLARITY and POWER of his LEFT hand because in this piece the bass line is what carries this whole piece...although the treble melody ain't too bad either...WOW With most other pianists you can barely make out the notes in the BASS line...;with HOROWITZ it stands out in a way that if you do not watch the performance you can almost believe it is TWO pianists playing This was true of almost all of HOROWITZ'S performances and what distinguished him from all the other great pianists I have stopped trying to learn how to play these pieces...and just leave it to these extra-terrestirals
This is from the album "Horowitz on Television. The music on that DVD were taken from two concerts at Carnegie Hall, given on Tuesday January 2nd and Thursday February 1st in 1968. The concerts, which were aired live on CBS, and which contained the same works and encores, were for invited audiences.
As far as your wondering how Horowitz manages to play with FLAT hands, is concerned: This position gives your fingers (vectors) all the grip/strength you can imagine. Being in itself an unique technique, it permits a firm develpment of every finger (permiting brain separation of arms), thanks to the WEIGHT of your forearms and, outmost, flexibility of wrists ! Perfektion at the highest level !
Rachmaninov commented, on Horowitz's mechanics, something like: "He does everything the way you aren't suppose to, but for him it works" Glen Gould is very similar.
@@alannahashlie6761 It's certainly not good to play with flat hands in the 1st decade of learning piano, but after that you get the most control and expression by eliminating superficial tensions in the muscles, especially if you have big hands. This piece in particular is just about bashing chords rapidly and doing large leaps, no quick chromatic runs or anything requiring curling the fingers.
Scriabin is an underestimated genius and a revolutionary in music, inventor of light-music, the singer of flame and light, a great philosopher: just listen to his Poem of Extasy!
Horowitz tells a story of tragedy within this 2 min etude. If you read works by Puschkin, Tolstoi or Turgenew you get close to the heart of russian drama and lyricism. For me Horowitz interpretations embody those forgotten and utterly beautiful virtues.
one year after, hours after hours spend trying to recreate a world where my music is as beautiful, crazy, poetic as him. I cannot be as good as him . Thanks horowitz.
Unfassbar. Viele Pianisten würden ein solches Stück dazu benutzen, ihre eigene Virtuosität heraus zu stellen. Horowitz spielte es einfach. Nichts weiter, aber genau darin liegt die allergrößte Meisterschaft.
Since I listened/saw this interpretation by Horowitz I have thought this is one of the gems of classical music in TH-cam. This literally extra-ordinary piece from Scriabin is played 100% with the heart out by an already oldish Horowitz with full expressive and passionate power. It is a top among the best videos ever.
Я просто не могу наслушаться!!! Это так неповторимо сыграно!!! Нет лучше пианиста на свете, которой так тонко может передать произведение и которое потом западает в душу!!!
@Данил Алексеев Какой там Мацуев - даже Кисин не смог. Послушайте его исполнение этого произведения и сравните с эталонным исполнением Горовица - и вы найдете минимум 7-8 исполнительских приемов, которые выдающемуся пианисту Кисину просто неведомы.
@@musicclassic5938, на исполние этюда СУЛТАНОВЫМ вы написали, что Горовиц исполнил его в 10 раз лучше. Стоит ли " поверять алгеброй гармонию"? Тем более известно, что великий ГОРОВИЦ был одним из значимых ориентиров в мировом пианизме для талантливого молодого пианиста Алексея СУЛТАНОВА. Я не буду сыпать музыкальными терминами типа tempo rubato, которые вы разбрасываете налево и направо, а просто с превеликим удовольствием послушаю замечательный этюд СКРЯБИНА и в исполнении великого ГОРОВИЦА и гениального СУЛТАНОВА.
@@ninarubcova7348 Рад за вас. Фраза "на порядок" в моем посте - это просто фигура речи, не более того, не нужно толковать так буквально: "в 10 раз". Поверьте, я прослышал исполнение этого произведения всеми известными пианистами и сделал свои выводы. Но похоже, вы лишаете меня права на личное мнение. Ни в коем случае не претендую на абсолютную истину.
no other pianist can carry this guy's jockstrap when it comes to conveying the sense of possessing a seemingly infinite reserve of savage, almost brutal power- always deployed with finesses and mercurial flashes of aching tenderness- yet the demons always just around the corner. Stupendous.
It's amazing how his hands "breathe"; this is what makes his manner of playing so distinct from others, but not only that, of course. Scriabin's Etude certainly has some connotations with Chopin's Etude No. 12, but I'd say this is a more powerful and cooler piece of music: the dramatic tension is absolutely unprecedented. Scriabin is a genius; no wonder Rachmaninoff had him in the highest esteem and Scriabin's death was a great tragedy to him. Mr. Horowitz certainly knew how to interpret every phrase of this outstanding piece. He knew Scriabin in person.
I love Scriabin and you give such an eloquent description of it, beautiful interpretation under the fingers of Horowitz that there is nothing more to add. What intensity in this music that day in Vienna.! merci
I have rarely seen HOROWITZ so invested in a piece....he must really like Scriabin in a way that is different and more emotional than the way he loves and plays Chopin, which he does very artistically but more mechanically. I have also never seen Horowitz so physically " animated '....he is usually very stoic and not very active bodily, with only his fingers usually doing the " walking " Very interesting. Also, good to see one video example of a much younger, much physically stronger and dynamic Horowitz. Most of his videos on TH-cam are of a much older man when he can hardly walk or breathe...although it never interfered with his playing
I just recently found out about this piece and saw that this video was posted 15 years ago. Idk why but I check what date and it was a day before I was born. I just think it’s really cool lmao
Talk about nailing a piece, WOW, 50 years ago about 12-14 pianist played this piece at the VERY VERY GOOD level, now it seems there are 40-50 who play it at the same level. Because it is such a great piece pianist can't resist it. Classical music is not dead, real music will always hang in there, things like hip hop will be like the Charleston given enough years.
i don't know if you know that but scriabin was a good friend of horowitz uncle. when vladimir horowitz was a child, he asked scriabin to come hear his nephew. Scriabin said " he will be one of the greatest pianist if he has access to learning culture" like art poetry reading etc. this is the best way to return his respect for scriabin. i find this very inspirational.
Редко бывает что слушаю классику , но это исключительный случай . Учитель, исполнитель и мастер от Бога - Горовиц ни кем ни повторим уникален на всегда .
I am not a pianist, but I just love watching him play. So many young professional concert pianists appear to think that hammering at the instrument gets more sound from it. This man, God Rest his genius soul, gets more out of those ivories by tickling them with those gifted long fingers, than any ten young performers. He is very much missed.
L'interprétation est sublimissime. Les images ont un intérêt quant à la relation entre technique et 'expression corporelle. Les apprentissages de la technique étaient tellement différents de ceux que l'on enseigne aujourd'hui où la souplesse du corps et surtout des poignets sont présentées comme des obligations incontournables pour une expressivité maximale. Horowitz en l'occurrence joue davantage avec la pointe des doigts et l'avant bras comme dans une continuité complice. Cela n'empêche pas l'expressivité et une belle mise en valeur des nuances piano. Il est vrai que , bien humblement, j'observe chez des artistes plus jeunes un jeu globalement moins dur et une recherche du son qui va vraiment au fond des touches. Il faut reconnaître aussi que la prise de son de l'époque ne sert pas totalement la puissance de l'expressivité. C'est tout de même grandiose et presque inégalé. JJC
Even through the genius of Horowitz you can tell how tough this 2 minute scrap of a piece is! Most other phenomenally difficult pieces he virtually breezes through, here he is utterly focused and, I think, a little relieved when it is over so spectacularly well and he can get off the stage! Horowitz and Scriabin special geniuses both! Dr M
@@CLASSICALFAN100 Easy, but playing it like this, impossible. Obviously not easy for everyone, but should be easy for someone who's done all their grades.
I love the way he breathes in just after he's finished, and then right at the end of the video, as he walks off as if to say: "F***, that's difficult, I can't believe I just pulled that bleeding piece off!"
they are similar in a way that both are: -very dramatic -one of the more popular pieces by the composer -both are etudes -right hand playing powerful chords and octaves and left hand playing a major role too
@@vivvpprof They are as similar as you can possibly find, no need to be elitist over nothing. He’s not comparing the revolutionary with Mozart’s 40th symphony is he.
This is one of the greatest pieces of music ever written for piano, played by one of the greatest pianists who ever lived. How can 26 people NOT like this?!
Horowitz hands ARE the piano . This is one of the greatest pieces of music ever written for piano. Played by one of the greatest ( to me) pianist's who ever lived. His changing pianossimo's to fortissimos are astounding to me.... the piano after all, is only a hammer instrument..It takes huge skill and a millions of different ways one must touch the hammer (note) with miniscule. minute changes in pressure and weight and memory. . It is the greatest of all instruments to master, as you cannot compare the ability, as H displays, what it takes to read and play so many notes compared to other instruments scores. The pianist must have needed strength for dynamic physicality, but a gentle barely there touch also required, the many rub your tummy complex bars of different rhythms from left and light hand...all maybe except for melody...very like drummers. I don't worship religious leaders, but Horowitz and their other worldly musicians, I do worship ♥ 1960's concert in Russia... the piano made a thunderous noise under his hands. Best version in a hundred years, even more than Skryabin playing himself🤣🎶
Fantastic magnificent stirring,inspiring passionate glorious truly moving I told you he knows how to convey its spirit Thank you so much for finding it and putting it on Love you so much I love to share my love for all this great music
This a work of genius It would rank as amongst the greatest 40 one movement pianistic works Arthur Rubinstein said on film that he had actually met Scriabin and Horowitz sdid knew Rachmaninov For me , the greatest composers for piano are Chopin and Rachmaninov , though Beethoven and Liszt and Debussy rank very highly too and Ravel is commendable too
I may have not been born during the time that Scriabin was alive, but I still feel tremendously grateful, not only for having been born on the same planet as Scriabin, but even for being born in the same universe as Scriabin. Thanks to Horowitz I get to listen to this piece of music that moves me like nothing else in this world does.
Pain, power, passion, wisdom and technical brilliancy combined - a cry of a soul. Can only equate to same during his welcome/farewell concert in Moscow...
I have never heard an interpretation like this. This man is a genius. His ability to control volume and tone is second to none
Meet the Russian violin school in all of its grandeur! Rachmaninoff was another pianist and composer of genius.
I really like how he emphasizes the left hand bass notes “da-dum”... Many other pianists don’t do it. It creates a nice dramatic effect.
It needs more cowbell
@@johnbartlett9568 Agree, was a little disappointed
Horowitz had a special piano "tuned up" for those things.
@@AlexAlguacil Like John Cage?
@damniod dion The joke went RIGHT over your head. r/wooosh
I was in the audience at Carnegie Hall. I etched his interpretation in my mind and played it myself at Mahattanville College as an encore the following year. My heart was in my mouth!
Very impressive!!
Your heart was in your mouth from nerves at playing such a difficult piece or something else? How special a memory for you 🙌
How many years ago was this?
Listening to Horowitz in person is near the top of my “I wish I could’ve” list in music. I’ve always heard his playing was electric and that his pianissimos would somehow carry across the whole hall.
just here to say it's 2021 and this is still the best interpretation of this piece on youtube
Yes
No sultanov is better
@@mlr3188 sultanov is absolutely incredible, but lacks the maturity we see in Horowitz, this video is a piece of art that has been tirelessly developed for years
@@caleblayton7836 i disagree sultanov is more fluid and the counter melody is unique
Sultanov has great flexability and the counter melody is indeed unique. This is (amazing), yet he still lacks the maturity and balance of Horowitz. It may be a question of which you prefer, however a developed sound is in most cases the deciding factor
the tonal change at 0:37 is something horowitz does incredibly well, not just in this piece. he was truly a master of tonal control
That part gives me chills
Yes, I pointed that segment out in another coment, for me he is the only one who plays that part correctly from all versions I've heard of this piece, and really hard to accomplish as a pianist.
It shows the depth of his heart and life experiences as a human at the time of this performance.
No other interpretation that I've heard from any other pianist comes close to his depth of fiery loud to incredibly soft and gentle as if in a dream.
@@MarcAmengual correctly? just because you like it doesn't mean it's the only 'correct' way to play that part. a pianist can choose not to do that despite the composer's marking on the score and it's still equally correct because anyone can interpret a piece of music and it's in no way disrespectful towards the composer.
@@ruoyunshen You feel smart after saying that? I said "for me" for a reason, and by "correct" I'm not saying academically correct, I'm saying for me it's the way it sounds better and enhances the phrasing of that part which few pianists do like him. Relax dude.
Simply the greatest. Not a single month goes by without me listening to this recording...
Octavi Martínez make it a day for me. This piece is like a shot of adrenaline.
This specific recording takes all the pain away, I don't go without for more than a week
do you still listen it ?
@@hhll6442 You should try listening to metal. :D
I do it for inspiration too: Scriabin is a genius but it took another genius in Horowitz to unlock Scriabin's design for general public.
His volume control adds a whole layer of depth that puts him on a whole different level
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It's unfair how well he plays this. Any other performance of this song is hard to listen to after hearing this.
Totally agree
Piece, not 'song'.
@Mookie Spindlehurst Sultanov comes closest th-cam.com/video/a77SEOjA7Vw/w-d-xo.html
Daniil Trifonov performance is equally good or even better
th-cam.com/video/_dP8FMZr2sA/w-d-xo.html
The others are often a little too soft from most of the recordings I heard
Always impressed by his dynamics. He could go from amazing pianissimo to thunderous!! Incredible.
Is perfect.
Tony Smith The better the piano the easier it is to do this to don’t forget... if you’re good! 😂
"Breathing" fingers!
Exactly! This is what makes his rendition so great; some call it "breathing hands". I am even more impressed by how he suddenly goes the opposite direction - from thunderous forte to pianissimo. I have not heard anyone capable of doing this. And nobody has been able to make such a climax in this piece, let alone mind-boggling agogics.
8-12、別のピアニストさんのものを聴いてすっかり好きになったのですが、ホロヴィッツはやはり別格です‥‥素晴らしすぎる🥹
Horowitz, as well as Arthur Rubinstein and Richter were the true piano masters! All their playing is astonishing!
Maybe Anton Rubinstein? All those men spoke Russian.
@@musicclassic5938
Arthur Rubinstein!
The Russian school calling the shots as well as in the violin
@@musicclassic5938 Anton Rubinstein died in 1894😆
This is certainly the best playing of this piece that I have ever heard.
Try Sofronitsky.
Try Scriabin's piano roll :O
Try Scriabin himself...
Many amazing pianists have played this piece incredibly well. However, I have not heard anyone else do the part from 1:00 to 1:18 quite like this. Been playing it for years myself, and am nowhere close, even the murderously difficult final section gets easier by comparison once you get comfortable with all of the notes. This part, though, to get "just right", it NEVER gets easier! Horowitz was a master of emotion, nobody can do it like him that i have seen.
Max, contrary to common held belief that the most important stumbling block of virtuosi piano playing requires genius to overcome, it does not. It requires the correct pedagogy. As a piece requires more advanced techniques there might be a thousands way to learn it that will get you stuck at 80% and will never master it, and only a handful of ways that will master it 100%. It's the pedagogy, not the man. It takes years to learn the correct pedagogy assuming you have the one teacher in a tousands to teach you. Though the best way is to be reborn and learn piano from age 3 then your brain will find it by itself.
I have NEVER heard anyone phrase the melody at 1:33 like that before. Absolutely breathtaking .
He made every piece of music his very own
could you explain what you mean? I've listened to a handful of other recordings, but not super actively, and I always thought they phrased that part more or less the same. but that could just be that I wasn't listening super closely and had the echo of Horowitz' interpretation in my head.
@@voskresenie- i don't know about the melody but its amazing how at that point the tension starts to build .
@@bgandjsco1 You can feel the all-devouring flame which Scriabin was so much obsessed with.
Did anyone else notice Horowitz's sigh of relief at the end when he walked off stage?
The dislikes are the piano keys that got absolutely annihilated
Dont forget Pop snobs and Jealous Simply Piano musicians
@@yashbspianoandcompositions1042 do those people really exist??
@@derekpintozzi2498 I would say so.
This is real man performing another real man's absolutely insane piece.
迸る情熱とロマンチックな薫り、まさに針が降り切れようとしている極度の緊張。ホロヴィッツ以外ではなし得なかった奇跡の演奏！
1:43 While the piano was brutally massacred , he still has his face acted normal.What a legend.
I like your figure of speech: piano massacre. Mr. Horowitz even jumped a bit on his stool to make a real statement with his basses. This is what I call "man's playing". However talented female players might be, they just lack physicality and male strength to "massacre the keyboard" as you so aptly put it.
@@musicclassic5938 thx man
@@musicclassic5938 some females be punching the keyboard too... Haha Valentina Lisitsa is pretty strong too
"Music comes out of the fingers, not the face" he said something like that
The climax of this piece sends shivers down my spine.
Love Horowitz. So much passion. When he plays, the piano needs a "safe word".
JUST AMAZING.
So good to see him when he was a bit younger and at full power.
You are right he was at full power!!!!
He has played this same etude when he was older in another performance. Wasn't flawless and didn't have the "full power". This is one of the best performances I have ever seen!
Exactly. Also, I have now listened to dozens of other artists play this piece, INCLUDING many well known concert pianists and just to be fair even listened to some " Internet " stars and prodigies and what sets HOROWITZ apart from all of them is the CLARITY and POWER of his LEFT hand because in this piece the bass line is what carries this whole piece...although the treble melody ain't too bad either...WOW
With most other pianists you can barely make out the notes in the BASS line...;with HOROWITZ it stands out in a way that if you do not watch the performance you can almost believe it is TWO pianists playing
This was true of almost all of HOROWITZ'S performances and what distinguished him from all the other great pianists
I have stopped trying to learn how to play these pieces...and just leave it to these extra-terrestirals
Leon Maliniak imagine if we had good recordings of Horowitz in his prime in the 30’s and 40’s
This is from the album "Horowitz on Television. The music on that DVD were taken from two concerts at Carnegie Hall, given on Tuesday January 2nd and Thursday February 1st in 1968. The concerts, which were aired live on CBS, and which contained the same works and encores, were for invited audiences.
This is Horowitz playing Scriabin live. He was incredibly great.
"Capriccio" th-cam.com/video/W4VngotB6XE/w-d-xo.html
Anyone with even a remote understanding of the keyboard instruments should appreciate the execution of this piece. The man was is a true legend.
NOT OTHERS LIKE HIM.
The final part is indescribable,elettrical,powerfull .. GENIUS! ❣️
Легенда...
To this day, I still wonder how he managed to play this piece wonderfully with his hands flat on the piano.
As far as your wondering how Horowitz manages to play with FLAT hands, is concerned: This position gives your fingers (vectors) all the grip/strength you can imagine. Being in itself an unique technique, it permits a firm develpment of every finger (permiting brain separation of arms), thanks to the WEIGHT of your forearms and, outmost, flexibility of wrists ! Perfektion at the highest level !
Rachmaninov commented, on Horowitz's mechanics, something like: "He does everything the way you aren't suppose to, but for him it works"
Glen Gould is very similar.
thenameisgsarci 😂😂😂
froehlicherelter I still don’t think playing with flat fingers is the best way to play.
@@alannahashlie6761 It's certainly not good to play with flat hands in the 1st decade of learning piano, but after that you get the most control and expression by eliminating superficial tensions in the muscles, especially if you have big hands. This piece in particular is just about bashing chords rapidly and doing large leaps, no quick chromatic runs or anything requiring curling the fingers.
I simply love his interpretations. And I love many of Scriabin's works.
Imo, 42sec-1min10 is the best part ever written in a piano piece. Just pure genius
Cannot agree more. Scriabin is grossly underrated in the music world.
This was performed at Carnegie Hall in 1968.
Xiao Long 50 years ago!
So he was 65 during this recording? amazing
@@andrewc9643 He was actually 64. This concert was recorded in the early months of 1968 and he turned 65 only on October 1st
was this the concert of the century?
I would fallen out of my seat....
we are in december 2022 and it is still the Best interpretation
I have listened to this show 147 times... and it still continues
So have I
❤❤❤Rest in peace Grande Maestro Vladimir Horowitz ❤I'm crying crying ❤Giuseppe Perego Monza 16.2.1962
This,ladies and gentlemen, is what God given talent looks like. Bravissimo!
This is my favorite piece ever written. Absolutely beautiful.
No came on!
i agree.
Scriabin is an underestimated genius and a revolutionary in music, inventor of light-music, the singer of flame and light, a great philosopher: just listen to his Poem of Extasy!
演奏が見れてとてもとてもウレシイです。ひとりPCの前でブラボーと言ったり拍手したりしています。
私は演奏家でも音楽家でもないので専門的なことは分からないから心のままのコメントしかできませんが、
カッコよくて、凄くて、素敵で、この上ない演奏を聴かせて頂けて 幸せです💗
Just here to say it's 2022 and this is still the best interpretation of this piece on TH-cam
Absoutely THUNDEROUS!! Horowitz with the bass drops, holy hell this has gotta be the best recorded solo piano performance in existence
Horowitz tells a story of tragedy within this 2 min etude. If you read works by Puschkin, Tolstoi or Turgenew you get close to the heart of russian drama and lyricism. For me Horowitz interpretations embody those forgotten and utterly beautiful virtues.
one year after, hours after hours spend trying to recreate a world where my music is as beautiful, crazy, poetic as him. I cannot be as good as him .
Thanks horowitz.
Probably my most favorite piece in the world! I get chills down my spine every time i listen to it. Currently studying it.
That's what Scriabin genius does.
Unfassbar. Viele Pianisten würden ein solches Stück dazu benutzen, ihre eigene Virtuosität heraus zu stellen. Horowitz spielte es einfach. Nichts weiter, aber genau darin liegt die allergrößte Meisterschaft.
Since I listened/saw this interpretation by Horowitz I have thought this is one of the gems of classical music in TH-cam.
This literally extra-ordinary piece from Scriabin is played 100% with the heart out by an already oldish Horowitz with full expressive and passionate power. It is a top among the best videos ever.
I have this saved in my liked videos but whenever it comes up in my feed organically, I HAVE to watch and listen to this. Unmatched and sublime.
Я просто не могу наслушаться!!! Это так неповторимо сыграно!!! Нет лучше пианиста на свете, которой так тонко может передать произведение и которое потом западает в душу!!!
полностью согласен, Мацуев своей игрой не смог передать то, что передал Горовиц
@Данил Алексеев Какой там Мацуев - даже Кисин не смог. Послушайте его исполнение этого произведения и сравните с эталонным исполнением Горовица - и вы найдете минимум 7-8 исполнительских приемов, которые выдающемуся пианисту Кисину просто неведомы.
@@musicclassic5938, на исполние этюда СУЛТАНОВЫМ вы написали, что Горовиц исполнил его в 10 раз лучше. Стоит ли " поверять алгеброй гармонию"? Тем более известно, что великий ГОРОВИЦ был одним из значимых ориентиров в мировом пианизме для талантливого молодого пианиста Алексея СУЛТАНОВА.
Я не буду сыпать музыкальными терминами типа tempo rubato, которые вы разбрасываете налево и направо, а просто с превеликим удовольствием послушаю замечательный этюд СКРЯБИНА и в исполнении великого ГОРОВИЦА и гениального СУЛТАНОВА.
@@ninarubcova7348 Рад за вас. Фраза "на порядок" в моем посте - это просто фигура речи, не более того, не нужно толковать так буквально: "в 10 раз". Поверьте, я прослышал исполнение этого произведения всеми известными пианистами и сделал свои выводы. Но похоже, вы лишаете меня права на личное мнение. Ни в коем случае не претендую на абсолютную истину.
I waited 10 years for this priceless DVD of the 1968 TV concert!
0:45 ppppppppp? NAILED IT
Гениально...
Владимир Самойлович Горовиц моя бесконечная любовь. Он не играет. Он живет. И какую голову надо иметь, чтобы так жить...
no other pianist can carry this guy's jockstrap when it comes to conveying the sense of possessing a seemingly infinite reserve of savage, almost brutal power- always deployed with finesses and mercurial flashes of aching tenderness- yet the demons always just around the corner. Stupendous.
It's amazing how his hands "breathe"; this is what makes his manner of playing so distinct from others, but not only that, of course. Scriabin's Etude certainly has some connotations with Chopin's Etude No. 12, but I'd say this is a more powerful and cooler piece of music: the dramatic tension is absolutely unprecedented. Scriabin is a genius; no wonder Rachmaninoff had him in the highest esteem and Scriabin's death was a great tragedy to him. Mr. Horowitz certainly knew how to interpret every phrase of this outstanding piece. He knew Scriabin in person.
I love Scriabin and you give such an eloquent description of it, beautiful interpretation under the fingers of Horowitz that there is nothing more to add. What intensity in this music that day in Vienna.! merci
My favorite interpretation of this piece! Horowitz is a legend!
Speechless, because words can't describe the brilliance of this man and the composition he so brilliantly plays.
I have rarely seen HOROWITZ so invested in a piece....he must really like Scriabin in a way that is different and more emotional than the way he loves and plays Chopin, which he does very artistically but more mechanically.
I have also never seen Horowitz so physically " animated '....he is usually very stoic and not very active bodily, with only his fingers usually doing the " walking "
Very interesting. Also, good to see one video example of a much younger, much physically stronger and dynamic Horowitz. Most of his videos on TH-cam are of a much older man when he can hardly walk or breathe...although it never interfered with his playing
He loved and met both scriabin and rachmaninoff
He definitely gets wrapped up in this one, more than usual.
Exalted,noble,tragic,psychotic...exhilarating!
Horrowitz
HORROWITZ! SCRIABIN! SATAN! and LIFE! Truly a shining example of free will and the black flame. know thyself. hail thyself, Hail Sathan!
i think he gets the award for the most insane verison.
I just recently found out about this piece and saw that this video was posted 15 years ago. Idk why but I check what date and it was a day before I was born. I just think it’s really cool lmao
you like exhibition-piano opposite to recordings by Alfred Cortot it's a fact ; we listen Cortot since one Century if you don't known
This video was posted about 2 weeks before I was born. I'm from May 2, 2008
I think this is the most perfect climax I have ever heard and seen executed on a piano.
Великий пианист и великий композитор.❤
Шопен или Рахманинов?
Talk about nailing a piece, WOW, 50 years ago about 12-14 pianist played this
piece at the VERY VERY GOOD level, now it seems there are 40-50 who play
it at the same level. Because it is such a great piece pianist can't resist it.
Classical music is not dead, real music will always hang in there, things like
hip hop will be like the Charleston given enough years.
Absolutely!
March 2022 and I’m still here. I’m 18 and this piece is masterpiece and Horowitz is master of this piece.
i don't know if you know that but scriabin was a good friend of horowitz uncle. when vladimir horowitz was a child, he asked scriabin to come hear his nephew. Scriabin said " he will be one of the greatest pianist if he has access to learning culture" like art poetry reading etc. this is the best way to return his respect for scriabin. i find this very inspirational.
by the way 2022 and i'm also here listening the best youtube version of op 8 no12
Happy Birthday Mr. Horowitz 🎼🎵🎶
Редко бывает что слушаю классику , но это исключительный случай . Учитель, исполнитель и мастер от Бога - Горовиц ни кем ни повторим уникален на всегда .
Horowitz just absolutely destroyed that piano like a mad lad and walked away like nothing happened
This is how the Demon is unleashed.
Yes. Audiences are hypnotized.(゜ロ゜)
Perfect description!
thank you, exactly.
@@Ici-st4hg gnosis
Carlo Cabz he wasn’t insane til around his 5th sonata.
I’ve been playing this piece for years, and now i’m listening to this after a while and i’m barely breathing… Vladimir invaded my soul.
Владимир Горовиц величайший пианист 20 века
The shifts in dynamics and mood are so dramatic and the emotion and magic he creates makes him the greatest! Genius!
Потрясающее исполнение,сколько других слышала, но такой драматургии в исполнении... каждый раз возвращаюсь именно к Горовицу.
А Султанова слышали ?
Нет. Надо послушать. Спасибо.
Рекомендую послушать Алексея Султанова.
Wonderful, how I wish I could be there.
Прекрасное исполнение. СКРЯБИН гений!
I am not a pianist, but I just love watching him play. So many young professional concert pianists appear to think that hammering at the instrument gets more sound from it. This man, God Rest his genius soul, gets more out of those ivories by tickling them with those gifted long fingers, than any ten young performers.
He is very much missed.
Tocaste la cuerda de mi alma, te admiro gran compositor Scriabin, en honor a ti llegare a estudiar más.
L'interprétation est sublimissime. Les images ont un intérêt quant à la relation entre technique et 'expression corporelle. Les apprentissages de la technique étaient tellement différents de ceux que l'on enseigne aujourd'hui où la souplesse du corps et surtout des poignets sont présentées comme des obligations incontournables pour une expressivité maximale. Horowitz en l'occurrence joue davantage avec la pointe des doigts et l'avant bras
comme dans une continuité complice. Cela n'empêche pas l'expressivité et une belle mise en valeur des nuances piano. Il est vrai que , bien humblement, j'observe chez des artistes plus jeunes un jeu globalement moins dur et une recherche du son qui va vraiment au fond des touches. Il faut reconnaître aussi que la prise de son de l'époque ne sert pas totalement la puissance de l'expressivité. C'est tout de même grandiose et presque inégalé. JJC
The best!! 👏👏👏
Even through the genius of Horowitz you can tell how tough this 2 minute scrap of a piece is! Most other phenomenally difficult pieces he virtually breezes through, here he is utterly focused and, I think, a little relieved when it is over so spectacularly well and he can get off the stage! Horowitz and Scriabin special geniuses both! Dr M
Simply Piano: “YoU cAn PlAy ThIs In LeSs ThAn A WeEk!”
Yeah, right...lol
@@CLASSICALFAN100 Easy, but playing it like this, impossible. Obviously not easy for everyone, but should be easy for someone who's done all their grades.
His snorting at the end says all about this incredible hard piece :)
Vladimir Horowitz is the piano. There's literally no separation between the two.
@Samuel Doesema hahahahahaha
He traveled with this one, if I’m not mistaken. Always used it.
Che maestro!!! Inarrivabile
2:06 a guy in the audience is looking for his jaw
2:08 Looks like ol' Vlad is checking to make sure his own jaw is intact. 😆
I have this performance by Horowitz on cd and have probably listened to it close to 100 times...
#BRILLIANT!
☆☆☆☆☆
💯
Scriabin would be proud - truly proud! This piece - this performance - moves me!
I love the way he breathes in just after he's finished, and then right at the end of the video, as he walks off as if to say: "F***, that's difficult, I can't believe I just pulled that bleeding piece off!"
Браво браво браво! !!!!!!!!
Декабрь 2021 года.
Владимир Горовиц- браво !
As much as I love Chopin's Revolutionary Etude, I must admit that Scriabin's one is more powerful.
The two pieces are totally different.
they are similar in a way that both are:
-very dramatic
-one of the more popular pieces by the composer
-both are etudes
-right hand playing powerful chords and octaves and left hand playing a major role too
@@АсылжанМустафа In Scriabin's etude the strain is absolutely insane.
@@vivvpprof They are as similar as you can possibly find, no need to be elitist over nothing. He’s not comparing the revolutionary with Mozart’s 40th symphony is he.
@@eugenelevin9809 Don't you think you're assuming things which I didn't say in my comment?
Одно из лучших исполнений... ❤
Спасибо огромное!
Ah, his last face expression goes like, 'Tough stuff!'
Verse La Flamme is even a tougher piece by Scriabin, according to Horovitz himself.
Beautiful music ! Bravo and thank you for uploading this
Одно из лучших исполнений. Не Этюда, жизни!
Grazie Maestro Grande!!! ❤❤❤❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉🎉 Giuseppe Perego Monza 16.2.1962
This is one of the greatest pieces of music ever written for piano, played by one of the greatest pianists who ever lived. How can 26 people NOT like this?!
Horowitz hands ARE the piano . This is one of the greatest pieces of music ever written for piano. Played by one of the greatest ( to me) pianist's who ever lived.
His changing pianossimo's to fortissimos are astounding to me.... the piano after all, is only a hammer instrument..It takes huge skill and a millions of different ways one must touch the hammer (note) with miniscule. minute changes in pressure and weight and memory. .
It is the greatest of all instruments to master, as you cannot compare the ability, as H displays, what it takes to read and play so many notes compared to other instruments scores. The pianist must have needed strength for dynamic physicality, but a gentle barely there touch also required, the many rub your tummy complex bars of different rhythms from left and light hand...all maybe except for melody...very like drummers.
I don't worship religious leaders, but Horowitz and their other worldly musicians, I do worship ♥
1960's concert in Russia... the piano made a thunderous noise under his hands.
Best version in a hundred years, even more than Skryabin playing himself🤣🎶
Fantastic magnificent stirring,inspiring passionate glorious truly moving I told you he knows how to convey its spirit Thank you so much for finding it and putting it on Love you so much I love to share my love for all this great music
This a work of genius It would rank as amongst the greatest 40 one movement pianistic works Arthur Rubinstein said on film that he had actually met Scriabin and Horowitz sdid knew Rachmaninov For me , the greatest composers for piano are Chopin and Rachmaninov , though Beethoven and Liszt and Debussy rank very highly too and Ravel is commendable too
His left-hand fortissimo is unsurpassable.
Высший пилотаж!😯👍👏👏👏👏👏💐
I may have not been born during the time that Scriabin was alive, but I still feel tremendously grateful, not only for having been born on the same planet as Scriabin, but even for being born in the same universe as Scriabin. Thanks to Horowitz I get to listen to this piece of music that moves me like nothing else in this world does.
Браво!!!!!
Amazing. I've been waiting for years to hear such an amazing work of art❤️
Буйство красок! Браво!
Deaf?
Изумительное исполнениение, спасибо!!!!!!!! Настоящий Скрябин!!!!
Горовиц лично знал Скрябина, поэтому понимал, о чем его музыка.
So beautiful that takes my breath away and touches my heart deeply
Pain, power, passion, wisdom and technical brilliancy combined - a cry of a soul. Can only equate to same during his welcome/farewell concert in Moscow...