He was really energetic when he was young, but when he got older, he kept that energy... it was just tempered with something much deeper. His late recordings, are by far my favorites, I think.
Used to borrow this concert from my local library when I was in highschool. Some years later I found it on DVD and managed to get it signed by Horowitz's tuner that he toured with at a Piano Technician's Guild meeting. Shaking a hand that had touched his felt kind of awesome.
So many incomparable thing to treasure about Horowitz but his rhythm is quite simply breathtaking - so many, if not most pianists simply don't get it. He breathes the supplest, most perfect rhythm out of every phrase, which is why he can take such crazy, heart-stopping risks with everything.
@@ToskoOv yea that’s about right 😂,don’t get me wrong, I do like a broad spectrum of music, but I’ll pass on him🤦♂️ . I’ve just about learnt the WR polka and now on to Lieberstraum no3 and making decent progress.
@@frazzledude He only thought this tune would be of his father. Later he found out that the theme is out of Franz Behr´s Lachtäubchen Scherzpolka op 303, but then he did not change the name of the piece.
Horowitz at his very best would be the televised concert of Feb. 1, 1968 which is posted in segments here on TH-cam. Works by Scarlatti, Schumann, Chopin Scriabin wrapped up with the definitive (and white hot) version of Horowitz's "Carmen" Variations. Spectcular!
@SeanFitandSmart U don't think this piece is all that insignificant. It's not only really charming and lovely in the melody, it also has really nice harmony, interesting rhythms and its fair share or counterpoint. I think it's a really interesting miniature with a variety of different moods.
Astonishing. For a piece that is really little more than a kitschaw, the Maestro extracts every bit of musicality. And so little pedal! At the age of...oh, who cares? He gives you a musical experience even out of a little morceau such as this.
I agree that what sets H apart is his rhythm. The rhythm or pace of every measure is usually slightly different. And when the rhythm suddenly changes, it's breathtaking.
Wow ....What a gem of a video. Thanks for posting! Spectacular playing at age 82... and the look of adoration on the faces of the audience. I haven't always understood the reason for what I saw as the "Horowitz mystique", but more exposure to this level of performance could win me over easily. Can anyone recommend other videos of him at his very best?
Here's a live one of him playing the same piece in the White House in front of President Carter (1978): th-cam.com/video/VGIC8TyyyFI/w-d-xo.html Meanwhile, here's one of his rather famous (and infamously pyrotechnical) encores: th-cam.com/video/rAZ2I08CkP8/w-d-xo.html I still don't quite understand how ONE person plays that piece, LOL.
Prendo atto che il prossimo 22 luglio si modificheranno la condizioni di servizio. Ringrazio per le opportunità di ascolto finora consentite. I take the view that the conditions of service will change on 22 July. Thank you for the listening opportunities so far allowed.
@casalsfan whatever you pick of horowitz is genius, you know he was a composer as well - and everybody knows that composers play so free and improvisatory ;)
Rachmaninov played this work superbly, of course. The difference in the Horowitz version is that Horowitz transforms the piano piece into an orchestral work, where instruments of the “orchestra” bring out inner voices and contrapuntal lines with astounding clarity as the tutti sections fill the hall with blazing sonorities. The inner voices are there in R.’s recording too, but only a musician’s ear can appreciate all of the composer’s intentions. In short, Horowitz presents the listener with a much wider color palette, as well as a freer improvisational style, truly the apotheosis of Romanticism.
This is just gossip and a weak insult for legendary musicians, same thing with Tchaikovsky… it’s all lies. Yeah sure Horowitz is gay 😆, but why does he have a wife? He even had a daughter… doesn’t seem gay to me at all.
@@VadimGolovetskiy you need to do your research. He underwent electric shock treatment for his homosexuality. And Tchaikovsky was indeed well known to be gay also. Horowitz married and was very much in love with his wife for many years but that doesn’t mean he wasn’t struggling with his sexuality. He lived in the wrong time.
@@FoxyJohn people will create false info on whatever they want these days, show me a letter or a page from his diary where it mentions homosexual behavior. Tchaikovsky was an orthodox Christian and just didn’t have luck in finding his other half (he didn’t even care that much about sex or marriage, he cares about music), the gossip that he is homo started after his death, after he rejected some sort of fan, that was in love with him. But you won’t believe me so I think it’s useless to argue with you.
Not even HOROWITZ can save this bizzare disjointed piece or make a silk purse out of this pig's ear...not one of Rachmaninoff's most melodic compositions
You'd definitely be better off with two silk purses than with those pig ears of yours. No offense. Towards real pigs, who are sensitive, sophisticated beings. For their part.
He was really energetic when he was young, but when he got older, he kept that energy... it was just tempered with something much deeper. His late recordings, are by far my favorites, I think.
Horowitz’s range of tonal colors and shadings is remarkable. Breathtaking…
To leave a Russian audience in a state of hysteria like this after a piano recital is a very rare event.
Савецкую....
The sound of Horowitz.......unique.
Секрет -спецподгонки молотков...само звукоизвлечение отсутствует-абсолютно....но каково-совершенство динамики...
Used to borrow this concert from my local library when I was in highschool. Some years later I found it on DVD and managed to get it signed by Horowitz's tuner that he toured with at a Piano Technician's Guild meeting. Shaking a hand that had touched his felt kind of awesome.
It's like wine of the best cast....the sound of a mature genious...a life put into soud...Thanks for having exist
So many incomparable thing to treasure about Horowitz but his rhythm is quite simply breathtaking - so many, if not most pianists simply don't get it. He breathes the supplest, most perfect rhythm out of every phrase, which is why he can take such crazy, heart-stopping risks with everything.
He plays from a meditative state. A true Master.
3:45 That grin and look at the audience is priceless! :)
I remember watching this program LIVE on "Sunday Morning" in 1986. It was mesmerizing from start to finish.
How on earth can 7 people do👎 to this. One of the best if not the best pianist in the 20th century
Rachmaninov called it the Green Monster.
@@ToskoOv yea that’s about right 😂,don’t get me wrong, I do like a broad spectrum of music, but I’ll pass on him🤦♂️ . I’ve just about learnt the WR polka and now on to Lieberstraum no3 and making decent progress.
still my favourite performance of all
Incomparable, leaving all others in the shade.
The greatest pianist of the twentieth century, without any doubt!
In the shade .. ? In gloomy abysses, yes .....
Not really
Рахманинов завидовал..открыто....
What a mesmerizing and moving performance!
No' 1 for ever !!! only Horovitz can play like this !
Cziffra got 25 and Cliburn 9. I honestly think that Horowitz deserves at least 1 hour of applause, just for the Polka :)
Delightful. Thank you for posting this!
What a finale!
Amen, asi sea, un artista unico, una magnifica interpretación del maestro Horowitz.
a crazy piece one doesn't expect from rachmaninoff ... yet there it is
He composed this piece using a tune his father wrote. V R is for Vasily Rachmaninoff.
@@frazzledude He only thought this tune would be of his father. Later he found out that the theme is out of Franz Behr´s Lachtäubchen Scherzpolka op 303, but then he did not change the name of the piece.
@@tommytrekky855 Thanks. That's good to know.
@@frazzledude and he dedicated this piece to Leopold godowsky
Horowitz at his very best would be the televised concert of Feb. 1, 1968 which is posted in segments here on TH-cam. Works by Scarlatti, Schumann, Chopin Scriabin wrapped up with the definitive (and white hot) version of Horowitz's "Carmen" Variations. Spectcular!
何回聞いても素晴らしいのです。やっぱりこれが音楽。最高‼️
This is music ...
This video needs more views!
@SeanFitandSmart U don't think this piece is all that insignificant. It's not only really charming and lovely in the melody, it also has really nice harmony, interesting rhythms and its fair share or counterpoint. I think it's a really interesting miniature with a variety of different moods.
なんというエスプリ！ 浮きたつリズム！すばらしい・・。
What an era!
Astonishing. For a piece that is really little more than a kitschaw, the Maestro extracts every bit of musicality. And so little pedal! At the age of...oh, who cares? He gives you a musical experience even out of a little morceau such as this.
That was a magical evening.
Mesmerising piece played by the master himself. 😮
Awesome!
I agree that what sets H apart is his rhythm. The rhythm or pace of every measure is usually slightly different. And when the rhythm suddenly changes, it's breathtaking.
Наслаждение......................
SUPER ❤️❤️❤️👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏TOP
Amazing!!!
@BenMcCormack91 not to mention the Mozart, just omg.... He can make piano sing like no others.
2:57 best part
Wow ....What a gem of a video. Thanks for posting! Spectacular playing at age 82... and the look of adoration on the faces of the audience. I haven't always understood the reason for what I saw as the "Horowitz mystique", but more exposure to this level of performance could win me over easily. Can anyone recommend other videos of him at his very best?
See. Horowitz in Vienna 1987
Here's a live one of him playing the same piece in the White House in front of President Carter (1978):
th-cam.com/video/VGIC8TyyyFI/w-d-xo.html
Meanwhile, here's one of his rather famous (and infamously pyrotechnical) encores:
th-cam.com/video/rAZ2I08CkP8/w-d-xo.html
I still don't quite understand how ONE person plays that piece, LOL.
Great❤
The sounds of good earing for time
woooow!!!
An infinite grace!
Goes this piano has an annoying sibiling noise on the pedal ? On my sound system is hard to isolate from the sound of the piano.
Yes this is really annoying, it is in the recording.
@The55555SSSSS That's the opus number for the original work. This polka is merely a transcription of a work by Franz Behr.
After which concert or piece did Cziffra receive that applause?
THE BOSS
Prendo atto che il prossimo 22 luglio si modificheranno la condizioni di servizio.
Ringrazio per le opportunità di ascolto finora consentite.
I take the view that the conditions of service will change on 22 July.
Thank you for the listening opportunities so far allowed.
Op. 303 ?
Don't you think its a little inaccurate ?
@morakeo what about it? This a year before, in Moscow
@casalsfan whatever you pick of horowitz is genius, you know he was a composer as well - and everybody knows that composers play so free and improvisatory ;)
Rachmaninov played this work superbly, of course. The difference in the Horowitz version is that Horowitz transforms the piano piece into an orchestral work, where instruments of the “orchestra” bring out inner voices and contrapuntal lines with astounding clarity as the tutti sections fill the hall with blazing sonorities. The inner voices are there in R.’s recording too, but only a musician’s ear can appreciate all of the composer’s intentions. In short, Horowitz presents the listener with a much wider color palette, as well as a freer improvisational style, truly the apotheosis of Romanticism.
....образно ....хорош ....какова утонченность ....блеск..
Прекрасно, музика вічна. Україні слава !
I think this version is the best it has ever been played IMO. Beats his white-house performance for jimmy carter.
U.R.
The Kif in my Coffee,
The Cream in my Tea,
The Lemon in my Toffee,
My "Sabor a Mí". . . .
Y como lo quería la gente
😊😅😊😊😎👍👍😂
everyone looked strange in the 80s....
Not stranger than how people look now. Now they all look too fake and repulsive at sight.
@Daniel Charry there's no way anyone but a trained athlete could clap for 25 minutes!
haha yes there is! Even in Film Festival de Cannes they clap for 20 minutes at some movie premieres...
VIRTUOSITY is not enough to produce GOOD MUSIC!... Horowitz is a living example -:) Shared on Google+
only him could make 4 minutes of clapping
wowed Russian audiences like a rock star.
Is Horowitz really gay?
Я Воль ...фаст ...
Yes, he was
This is just gossip and a weak insult for legendary musicians, same thing with Tchaikovsky… it’s all lies. Yeah sure Horowitz is gay 😆, but why does he have a wife? He even had a daughter… doesn’t seem gay to me at all.
@@VadimGolovetskiy you need to do your research. He underwent electric shock treatment for his homosexuality. And Tchaikovsky was indeed well known to be gay also. Horowitz married and was very much in love with his wife for many years but that doesn’t mean he wasn’t struggling with his sexuality. He lived in the wrong time.
@@FoxyJohn people will create false info on whatever they want these days, show me a letter or a page from his diary where it mentions homosexual behavior. Tchaikovsky was an orthodox Christian and just didn’t have luck in finding his other half (he didn’t even care that much about sex or marriage, he cares about music), the gossip that he is homo started after his death, after he rejected some sort of fan, that was in love with him. But you won’t believe me so I think it’s useless to argue with you.
Not even HOROWITZ can save this bizzare disjointed piece or make a silk purse out of this pig's ear...not one of Rachmaninoff's most melodic compositions
Fool.
You'd definitely be better off with two silk purses than with those pig ears of yours.
No offense.
Towards real pigs, who are sensitive, sophisticated beings.
For their part.