No, but from his history as a pianist and his interviews he seemed very approachable with a lovely disposition. Did you have the pleasure of meeting him?
@@TwelfthRoot2 So very often we find in my family that many songs are this way. We may only remember the beginning or the chorus, but once we begin, often our mind remembers the pathway to the rest!
I was at a concert with him in Orchestra Hall in Nov 1977. I paid $50 to sit on the stage next to him. I was 19 and was in the American Conservatory of Music in Chicago at the time. $50 was an incredible sum of money for a college student then. This concert changed my life. What this man did with the piano blew my mind. I remember riding the L afterwards to my studio apartment and thinking to myself, "You are looking at getting into the wrong business!" That turned out to be true. This man was not from the same planet as me. I was in the bleachers to the left at 49 seconds.
It's funny but seeing him play must have made many young pianist give up their pianist career dream out of pure rationality. But in fact, i believe Horowitz when he say it's not true he could do things other pianist couldn't, the reverse is also true.
I was holding the sign at 1:53 in this video. I never saw the original broadcast and have been trying to locate it for 30 years. 60 minutes arranged stage passes for us courtesy of the Maestro. We sat in the risers shown on stage. This was one of the greatest days of my life. Thank you so much for posting this video!!!
@@essencejoyclairv People today are just incredibly sensitive and weak. This is how people used to talk to each other. I listen to this interview and there is nothing even mildly offensive here. The difference is that today an interview is really all about publicity and image. You interview someone to get them publicity and show that they are, 'important.' Interviews and the media used to be about information. Horowitz was a global sensation since 1920 - no one doubts his skill. They wanted to know about him. The interviewer is asking about him. That's only rude in a world where an interview ISN'T an interview. Media ISN'T about information anymore.
The first time I saw 2:55 I thought the audience messed up and didn't let him finish the LIszt sonata, but now that I think about it... he's Horowitz. He's legendary. He can do whatever he wants and he definitely pretended to have finished on purpose. He probably was feeling tired that night and thought: "you know what, people? The sonata is over. Bring on the applause and good night!" lol
I think it was probably one of many many encores. He makes a comment when he comes off stage “I’ve worked enough tonight” lol. Hilarious. But he can do it.
After he stopped, he put both arms stretched out resting on the piano rim in front of him still looking at the keys. That is strong body language for having enough humility to quit as he knew he did not have what it took that night out of respect for the art of performing. That is a masterful display of healthy ego that would not be possible in today's egocentric conventions.
@@ericastier1646 no....he put the arms on the rim because he was exhausted....look at Yundi Li's video performing the Sonata at Baden Baden, almost the same attitude....
All these moans about the Interviewer... Horowitz is CLEARLY enjoying being interviewed by someone challenging, cheeky, and confident. Someone of Horowitz’s character and chutzpah will respect an interviewer for those qualities, not someone who’s going to put him on a pedestal and pander to him with gentle questions. It’s the reason journalists and interviewers like Stephen Sackur and Louis Theroux are so revered here in the UK. Really can’t understand people’s abuse of this interviewer.
Wallace obviously adored Horowitz, but he feels with enough moral to talk in a straight way. And you are right Horowitz was pleased with Wallace, like if he was an alter ego 🤔
I love his laughing at the end! 14:28. This guy really enjoyed playing! It is inspiring and very enjoyable to see this man play! So much love for his instrument!
He replied, "after 50 years of hard work I finally got 80%" "No I'm not proud, but I guess that is so.." For some reason the interviewer is trying to downplay how humble Horowitz was...
Okay, Horowitz fluffs the occasional note, he's also in his 80s when this was filmed, but his comment on his lack of perfection "I don't seek perfection, I am Horowitz, not a typist" IS perfection. The all-time greatest, Vladimir Horowitz.
Horowitz not the Greatest! More beautiful colorful piano Sound than Horowitz=Wilhelm Kempff Emil Gilels Radu Lupu Artur Rubinstein Vladimir Ashkenazy! More powerful Louder than Horowitz=Mikhail Pletnev The Supernova Explosion Power!( Prokofiev piano concerto no 1 by Pletnev!) The Second Loudest was Lazar Berman! More Genius than Horowitz=Sviatoslav Richter Solomon Cutner Grigory Sokolov Maurizio Pollini Alexei Lubimov Stanislav Igolinsky!
@@RaineriHakkarainen Pollini more genius? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 If we want to get serious, we might talk about Hofman, Friedman, Moisewitsch, Backhaus, Koczalski, Siloti, Cortot, Katchen and others. But I don't like to rank in this category.
i remember this 60 minutes segment like it was yesterday, i was a senior in HS...when he pulled stars and strips forever out of his head after 32 years it just blew me away...now here it is 35 years later, and i get to see and hear mr horowitz again...wonderful! many TYs for the post!
Great interview between two legends! This was very entertaining and showed Vladamir Horowitz both as a brilliant musician and interesting man. Mike Wallace was also a great interviewer. May they both rest in peace. Thanks for sharing this wonderful video :-)
I think the interviewer is very respectful and empathic, but not afraid to ask critical questions. Furthermore, he is not groveling, which, in these times, is very refreshing. We need more of these journalists. For instance for interviewing central bankers.
I loved the comment about how he always scheduled his concerts for 4PM Sunday afternoon so that attendees would be relaxed and I suppose mentally and emotionally available. He goes the extra mile. He's devoted to the music and the experience of the music.
The march. He was SO right on! I wish the Stars and Stripes Forever was slower. He blew my mind with what he said and its great to hear someone understand this
Maestro Horowitz is phenomenal on 13th November in his second recital in Chicago's Orchestra Hall in two weeks in row here in CBS 60 Minutes. Thank you for posting this gem.
Interviewer Mike Wallace was a friend of the Horowitz's. He did this piece for "60 Minutes" at CBS News. It was hard for him to 'attack' this legend, as was his normal routine. But his admiration was genuine. As TV journalism on a news magazine during Prime Time, this was a great interview. As a deep music interview, it was not a great interview. He captured Horowitz's personality for a public which might not know anything about him.
The age of pianism died with Horowitz. It's just not the same anymore, and never will be. He was the last in the long line of truly great pianists. I don't mean to imply that there aren't truly accomplished pianists today. But the spirit of piano as a solo or featured instrument has been diminished by a lack of connection with the era that brought the piano to its height. Very few pianists even come close to knowing how to handle a Chopin mazurka or polonaise these days. There's an ethnicity to the music that is lacking. I can't do it either, but pianists like Horowitz and Rubinstein could. It makes me sad knowing they're gone.
mysterytrain3 I'm not so sure about that. Try listening to Daniil Trifonov, now that's one guy that could very well become a Horowitz in a couple decades.
mysterytrain3 I think Yefim Bronfman is a great interpreter, in a class by himself, however i agree most of today's pianist are just classical clowns, it's about them not the composer, just living for the fame and money and it shows in their playing(if you call it that) that i resent with the prices they charge, however at least you know they will never get another cent of your money.
its because today the most important things are speed and no mistakes. Today you have pianist who at 27 years have nearly all the repertoire in their fingers. Like the Liszt sonata for exemple, that piece was written by a mature and advanced Liszt, and today, the best way of playing it is faster as you can... leraning it as fast as you can, without the deep thought about the piece. Rubinstein was saying about young pianists, "they don't take any risk anymore. They try too much to be accurate". I listen about a study of Chopin played by Lang Lang and Yuja Wang, I was amazed by the sound and the easiness of their playing. then i saw a link to rubinstein playing the same study, bad sound, bad recording, but after few bars, I was in the piece with him and totally forgot about the technic. I was just on the musicality. That pianist make you forgot about technic. Rubonstein was saying "if someone says about my playing, What an incredible lzft hand technic, so fluid, then I feel hurt because its mean that he did not been touched by my playing !"
But I choose to speak about the big star, but you also have very good pianist out there with an incredible musicality. Just not the star of youtube unfortunately...
Olga Kern hits close to the mark. If she had been born a couple of generations before, she would be up there with the "old school" pianists. She's still young and has time to secure her position among the ranks of the finest. I can actually feel the heritage of the great Russian pianists in her playing. I state this as my opinion, only. But like everyone else, I'm entitled to mine, too. :-)
Mike Wallace is a master interviewer. He knows "older" people with as many accomplishments as Horowitz are not insecure and don't take offense at direct questions, but instead find humor in it. He was actually being very respectful. You people who think he's being a dick will understand when you're older yourself!
Nonsense. He's using a pretense of frankness as an excuse for being rude. It's a familiar ruse of television interviewers which others imitated because they found it enhanced their sense of self importance and mollified their envy. And you've evidently been taken in by it .
I can't stand any TV interviewers today who start a sentence on the Imperative style of speech : "Tell me this or that.. " instead of using the polite form "Could you tell us about.." To me that is extremely rude, just because they provide the platform for the interview they think they can drop polite forms. I'd kick them with a boot.
@@pianoman551000 there is a lot of theories around Horowitz. Unlike Shura Cherkassky, for example, I can't find any element or behaviour that denotes some desviations.....who knows. The fact is they were a couple strange, bizarre and neccesary for each other....🤷♂️
God! With the unexplainable expressiveness of music, imagine the pleasure he must have been able to feel...being able to play any song he ever wanted to..to express any mood he wanted to...anytime he wanted.
omg!?....the way he just banged out "stars and stripes" after 20+ years like it was nothing where before hand he was telling the interviewer he doesn't remember...such a humble, modest and gracious pianist. A virtuoso! RIP Horowitz...
Just watching him smile and laugh while playing the piano near the end puts a smile on my face knowing that this was a man who TRULY loved to play the piano. He didn't just play for wealth or money, he embraced music and the piano as his passion to the very last day of his life. It's a shame I never could have attended his concerts.
Thank God I found this. I remember seeing this on 60 Minutes. How wonderful for him to still have had that absolute unbridled joy in playing. Start watching at 12:56 and you'll see that he can barely contain himself.
It’s amazing to hear him speak about the things that he is unable to do, and how he sometimes messes up. Even when he wasn’t playing technically perfect, he was making beautifully art.
Witty! Wow! I bring my food with me too. and aromatherapy. What a beautiful marriage! The best interpretation of Stripes I ever heard!!! What a treat, this interview is!!!
Interesting relationship Horowitz and Xanthip- sorry Wanda have. She must have helped him a lot, and it's cool to see that bit and the way the interact after so many many years... thanks for the upload!
13:52 😂 I love this man so much! Joke aside, he is favorite pianist when it comes to interpret my favorite piece "Mozart - Sonata No.13 in B flat major, first movement". RIP Horowitz, you are truly missed.
The real eye opener about this interview is that few major networks pay any attention at all to serious music today. They'll do hours and hours on no talent pop singers and ignore what is lasting.
Funny, I’m reading the Schoenberg biography of Horowitz and he says this interview was seen as hugely embarrassing for Horowitz amongst his circle. Personally I love it. I like seeing the childish side of him. He’s just a human like everyone else. Trying to maintain some mysterious, serious aura is a waste of time. We are all lost children.
(guest) ".....you have no intention of retiring?" "Oh my god, no !" What a sil!y question...to a phenomenal pianist who has loved and played music all his life ?! You might as well ask him to retire from breathing.... Bless dear Vladimir. 😊🎼❤🇬🇧🎼😊🎼
What an invigorating and endearing couple. Listened to his Scarletti cassette, as I wandered around Rome many years ago. He's still a part of my life. See you on the other side maestro and his dear wife
Horowitz ist eine Legende, Nicht nur als Pianist, sondern als Mensch mit seinem Humor, und seiner Menschlichkeit. Und Wanda, seine Frau, hat einen guten Einfluss auf das Genie!
This was Mike Wallace's favorite interview he ever did, his words. And after watching it umpteen times and listening to Vladimir on Spotify a bunch more I've concluded that I genuinely agree.
You are the one who needs to chill. I didn't start this, you did. And thank you for correcting my spelling teacher. I had a few a couple of typos, which happens when you are typing quickly and do not proofread, because it doesn't freaking matter. But alas, you have truly humbled me and have given me something to think about. I guess really need to examine my life and its meaning, especially my typographical errors.
Damn...I love that guy! Horowitz was one heart of a man :D Smart, honest, realistic and modest. By the way, screw that interviewer, he could have made the whole thing sound more interesting, instead, he remained one cold bastard and kept asking stupid questions and didn`t even smile
No such thing. Every pianist has different qualities. Horowitz excelled in some areas and not in others. But without a doubt he reached his own ultimate potential and that is only what matters.
♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️ I remember watching this interview with my Uncle George and his comment that Horowitz laughs at one point while playing , only because he made a little error. An error which at the time I didn’t hear, but my Uncle, who studied the violin, did.
The interviewer has feet of clay. The questioning is overbearing and intrusive, a maestro with the unique stature of Horowitz deserves a more intelligent and respectful approach.
Yep, disagree. Awesome interviewer, who doesn’t fall into the trap of worshipping or pandering to the subject. Horowitz and Wanda aren’t the sort of people to respect over-reverent interviewers
I don't think reporter realizes how good Horowitz's playing, hearing him play some excerpts was actually breathtaking. The speed was insane but still controlled with obvious emotional incentive. Dude he's on another level
All of you who bash Mike Wallace are jerks. I love horowitz and had the opportunity to see him in concert many times. Wallace was able to show the personality of Horowitz and his genuineness and sincerity. Horowitz is very honest and I am thankful that Wallace gave all of us a better understanding of this amazing artist...there will never be another Horowitz!
Like this interview very much. It is now part as an important document on Horowitz. Wallace he did the interview the right way. He know that great pianist was interview many time as he was a porcelain man. The comments from his wife make the document a different touch of secret.
+Will Shaw Yes, interesting to see how obnoxious, classless, and stupid Wallace's questions and whole interviewing demeanor are, especially when he's trying to jump on every sentence or even phrase that sounds the least bit "controversial." I didn't realize that style of interviewing, practiced by everyone today, went back as far as 1977.
In those times, it was apparently normal to talk to these great people in such a dismissive manner. This interviewer is just arrogant. It is freaking Horowitz you are interviewing, you small man!
Well that was part of who Wallace was - I always felt uncomfortable with his tone, which was clearly intentionally dismissive. At the same time however, I have little fear that he did truly respect Horowitz. And pushing buttons, for better or worse, is and effective strategy for helping to reveal someone's character - almost certainly Wallace's intent.
Mike Wallace's style is what got him the great interviews, these soupy fluff pieces we get today have become the standard... It's time we go back to throwing the hardball questions. You notice Horowitz didn't have a problem with it..... Most entertainers/public figures today would have had ego trips and walked out, because God forbid they answer the tough honest questions. Smh!
Ok I’m going to say something controversial but there are quite a few modern great pianists that I enjoy hearing more than Horowitz. Murray Perahia for one.
Hey! It was Mike Wallace's style. He was known for this. Wanda and Volodya knew this well before the interview. It appeared to me like they both rather enjoyed being interviewed and pushed a bit by Mike Wallace. Most that so-did 'kissed behind oh-so-gently,' so my guess is that it was a welcomed change for the Horowitz's from that usual. Cloying sycophants can be very tiring. From what I recall of the original from back-in-the-day, this was not "complete" as it left out parts such as when they are on the stage alone. Then, Horowitz got very serious and business-like and revealed another side of his then not ordinarily seen - no clowning there. The still shot is from that moment.
The camera can’t keep up with his hands as he plays the piano. Such a personality and an amazing man as well as being the most brilliant pianist. Don’t you just love his wife?❤️
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I didn't realize Horowitz was such a charming and entertaining man. A whole side of him I'm so happy to learn about.
drewqq Yes, he was really a dear person.
martha jane Did you know him?
No, but from his history as a pianist and his interviews he seemed very approachable with a lovely disposition. Did you have the pleasure of meeting him?
Indeed, what a brilliant, charismatic funny man, I can see why he captivated audiences, not just a musical genius!
now you learn
"shes not always right but she talks" lol
"I tell you, i dont know it!" and then he playes it grandly from memory love it!
his mind didn't know it during the question, but his hands did! I = mind, they = hands
@@TwelfthRoot2 onika burgers
@@TwelfthRoot2 So very often we find in my family that many songs are this way. We may only remember the beginning or the chorus, but once we begin, often our mind remembers the pathway to the rest!
"You have no intention of retire?" - Horowitz: "Oh my God, no!" - Beautiful
his smile is wonderful
ur so gorgeous
childlike? yes
creepy but safe? yes
joker / evil-clown-like? yes
wonderful? not the adjective I would choose :P
I literally just came here only to rewatch the moment at 1:15. :)
I literally just fell in love with his personality. I would love to meet him, if only he were alive
He sounded so genuine not like typical musicians who are so politically correct and careful. He said as it is.
Me too!!
me too. Horowitz is the first maestro whom I've drawn into his life story too, not just his skills. Hope to meet him in Heaven one day.
He still is alive he hust turned into music
You still could meet him in Heaven!
the nuance in Horowitz's playing is unmatched. amazing touch! no wonder he demanded his piano be carted to every performance
That is the absolute key to such level of performance, you can't play like this unless the action is going to be exactly like your own piano.
I was at a concert with him in Orchestra Hall in Nov 1977. I paid $50 to sit on the stage next to him. I was 19 and was in the American Conservatory of Music in Chicago at the time. $50 was an incredible sum of money for a college student then. This concert changed my life. What this man did with the piano blew my mind. I remember riding the L afterwards to my studio apartment and thinking to myself, "You are looking at getting into the wrong business!" That turned out to be true. This man was not from the same planet as me. I was in the bleachers to the left at 49 seconds.
Wow. Would love to have seen him play in person, but I can understand that it would probably tempt you to burn your own piano!
It's funny but seeing him play must have made many young pianist give up their pianist career dream out of pure rationality. But in fact, i believe Horowitz when he say it's not true he could do things other pianist couldn't, the reverse is also true.
I was holding the sign at 1:53 in this video. I never saw the original broadcast and have been trying to locate it for 30 years. 60 minutes arranged stage passes for us courtesy of the Maestro. We sat in the risers shown on stage. This was one of the greatest days of my life. Thank you so much for posting this video!!!
As a young pianiste I really really really wish I was born earlier just To meet him and his gorgeous smile....RIP MAESTRO !!!!
Damn interviewers in the 70’s were brutal
Wow you really did order 66 didn't you
Yeah, that interviewer really gets on my nerves with his arrogant and at times rude remarks. But maybe it's just interviewing style at the time.
@@essencejoyclairv People today are just incredibly sensitive and weak. This is how people used to talk to each other. I listen to this interview and there is nothing even mildly offensive here. The difference is that today an interview is really all about publicity and image. You interview someone to get them publicity and show that they are, 'important.' Interviews and the media used to be about information. Horowitz was a global sensation since 1920 - no one doubts his skill. They wanted to know about him. The interviewer is asking about him. That's only rude in a world where an interview ISN'T an interview. Media ISN'T about information anymore.
Lol
Agree
"You really love to play the piano, don't you, Maestro?"
No, he hates it.
Dumb fucking question if I've ever heard one
@@DanielMartinez-nw1pn it is a beautiful question. It is a human question
Hatred is also a form of love
It was a rhethorical question you dumbass
This journalism is better than 95% of todays BS
I MEAN, YOU REALLY LOVE TO PLAY THE PIANO
The pure joy of a musician playing his instrument has no price, it's just the most profound feeling you can ever experience.
The first time I saw 2:55 I thought the audience messed up and didn't let him finish the LIszt sonata, but now that I think about it... he's Horowitz. He's legendary. He can do whatever he wants and he definitely pretended to have finished on purpose. He probably was feeling tired that night and thought: "you know what, people? The sonata is over. Bring on the applause and good night!" lol
I think it was probably one of many many encores. He makes a comment when he comes off stage “I’ve worked enough tonight” lol. Hilarious. But he can do it.
He did finish the sonata....that is almost the ending where your stamina is getting over but you are to excite to quit 🤔
After he stopped, he put both arms stretched out resting on the piano rim in front of him still looking at the keys. That is strong body language for having enough humility to quit as he knew he did not have what it took that night out of respect for the art of performing. That is a masterful display of healthy ego that would not be possible in today's egocentric conventions.
He actually finished the Liszt sonata… you can listen to the recital here: th-cam.com/video/Y2Sziz6ec6s/w-d-xo.html
@@ericastier1646 no....he put the arms on the rim because he was exhausted....look at Yundi Li's video performing the Sonata at Baden Baden, almost the same attitude....
All these moans about the Interviewer... Horowitz is CLEARLY enjoying being interviewed by someone challenging, cheeky, and confident. Someone of Horowitz’s character and chutzpah will respect an interviewer for those qualities, not someone who’s going to put him on a pedestal and pander to him with gentle questions. It’s the reason journalists and interviewers like Stephen Sackur and Louis Theroux are so revered here in the UK. Really can’t understand people’s abuse of this interviewer.
Wallace obviously adored Horowitz, but he feels with enough moral to talk in a straight way. And you are right Horowitz was pleased with Wallace, like if he was an alter ego 🤔
Watching this just left me with a huge smile on my face. It's gems like this that I love about TH-cam. Thanks for posting.
I love his laughing at the end! 14:28. This guy really enjoyed playing! It is inspiring and very enjoyable to see this man play! So much love for his instrument!
"You tell one other pianist who gets 80% of the gross"
That statement was uncalled for, its none of his business!
Actually musicians fee is like a tabboo, and it is not bad to have some idea about it.
He replied, "after 50 years of hard work I finally got 80%"
"No I'm not proud, but I guess that is so.."
For some reason the interviewer is trying to downplay how humble Horowitz was...
@@RockinTheDub it is okay. The interviewer doesn't have half the super cool accent Horowitz has.
@@jameslorenz3718 Russian Jews?
@@sebengkoh Russian-jews missed a great opportunity to be movie stars (;
Okay, Horowitz fluffs the occasional note, he's also in his 80s when this was filmed, but his comment on his lack of perfection "I don't seek perfection, I am Horowitz, not a typist" IS perfection. The all-time greatest, Vladimir Horowitz.
Not Heifetz
@@beatlessteve1010 Gesundheit !!
Horowitz not the Greatest! More beautiful colorful piano Sound than Horowitz=Wilhelm Kempff Emil Gilels Radu Lupu Artur Rubinstein Vladimir Ashkenazy! More powerful Louder than Horowitz=Mikhail Pletnev The Supernova Explosion Power!( Prokofiev piano concerto no 1 by Pletnev!) The Second Loudest was Lazar Berman! More Genius than Horowitz=Sviatoslav Richter Solomon Cutner Grigory Sokolov Maurizio Pollini Alexei Lubimov Stanislav Igolinsky!
@@RaineriHakkarainen 🙄
@@RaineriHakkarainen Pollini more genius? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
If we want to get serious, we might talk about Hofman, Friedman, Moisewitsch, Backhaus, Koczalski, Siloti, Cortot, Katchen and others. But I don't like to rank in this category.
i remember this 60 minutes segment like it was yesterday, i was a senior in HS...when he pulled stars and strips forever out of his head after 32 years it just blew me away...now here it is 35 years later, and i get to see and hear mr horowitz again...wonderful! many TYs for the post!
Che meraviglia! Non solo dotato di grandi virtù musicali ma anche straordinariamente divertente e ironico. Un grande!
"Sometimes i'll do it better sometimes less good like any human being" the last romantic 👏👏👏
I wish I could understand that :P
Great interview between two legends! This was very entertaining and showed Vladamir Horowitz both as a brilliant musician and interesting man. Mike Wallace was also a great interviewer. May they both rest in peace. Thanks for sharing this wonderful video :-)
If I feel slightly down not only does Horowitz's music lift me but watching the interviews he made are sweet and charming and bring out a smile.
4:06 dang straight, Horowitz. American news is so damn unbearable today.
Georg Solti said the same about Claudia Cassidy
I wish I could have seen him.
i wish i could see you...:-))
I think the interviewer is very respectful and empathic, but not afraid to ask critical questions. Furthermore, he is not groveling, which, in these times, is very refreshing. We need more of these journalists. For instance for interviewing central bankers.
I loved the comment about how he always scheduled his concerts for 4PM Sunday afternoon so that attendees would be relaxed and I suppose mentally and emotionally available. He goes the extra mile. He's devoted to the music and the experience of the music.
The march. He was SO right on! I wish the Stars and Stripes Forever was slower. He blew my mind with what he said and its great to hear someone understand this
Maestro Horowitz is phenomenal on 13th November in his second recital in Chicago's Orchestra Hall in two weeks in row here in CBS 60 Minutes. Thank you for posting this gem.
"I tell you, I don't know it! It's too difficult!"
*plays perfectly*
Interviewer Mike Wallace was a friend of the Horowitz's. He did this piece for "60 Minutes" at CBS News. It was hard for him to 'attack' this legend, as was his normal routine. But his admiration was genuine. As TV journalism on a news magazine during Prime Time, this was a great interview. As a deep music interview, it was not a great interview. He captured Horowitz's personality for a public which might not know anything about him.
How fun person he is! And a wife! I am so glad I watched this video!
The age of pianism died with Horowitz. It's just not the same anymore, and never will be. He was the last in the long line of truly great pianists. I don't mean to imply that there aren't truly accomplished pianists today. But the spirit of piano as a solo or featured instrument has been diminished by a lack of connection with the era that brought the piano to its height. Very few pianists even come close to knowing how to handle a Chopin mazurka or polonaise these days. There's an ethnicity to the music that is lacking. I can't do it either, but pianists like Horowitz and Rubinstein could. It makes me sad knowing they're gone.
mysterytrain3 I'm not so sure about that. Try listening to Daniil Trifonov, now that's one guy that could very well become a Horowitz in a couple decades.
mysterytrain3 I think Yefim Bronfman is a great interpreter, in a class by himself, however i agree most of today's pianist are just classical clowns, it's about them not the composer, just living for the fame and money and it shows in their playing(if you call it that) that i resent with the prices they charge, however at least you know they will never get another cent of your money.
its because today the most important things are speed and no mistakes. Today you have pianist who at 27 years have nearly all the repertoire in their fingers. Like the Liszt sonata for exemple, that piece was written by a mature and advanced Liszt, and today, the best way of playing it is faster as you can... leraning it as fast as you can, without the deep thought about the piece. Rubinstein was saying about young pianists, "they don't take any risk anymore. They try too much to be accurate".
I listen about a study of Chopin played by Lang Lang and Yuja Wang, I was amazed by the sound and the easiness of their playing. then i saw a link to rubinstein playing the same study, bad sound, bad recording, but after few bars, I was in the piece with him and totally forgot about the technic. I was just on the musicality. That pianist make you forgot about technic. Rubonstein was saying "if someone says about my playing, What an incredible lzft hand technic, so fluid, then I feel hurt because its mean that he did not been touched by my playing !"
But I choose to speak about the big star, but you also have very good pianist out there with an incredible musicality. Just not the star of youtube unfortunately...
Olga Kern hits close to the mark. If she had been born a couple of generations before, she would be up there with the "old school" pianists. She's still young and has time to secure her position among the ranks of the finest. I can actually feel the heritage of the great Russian pianists in her playing. I state this as my opinion, only. But like everyone else, I'm entitled to mine, too. :-)
Mike Wallace is a master interviewer. He knows "older" people with as many accomplishments as Horowitz are not insecure and don't take offense at direct questions, but instead find humor in it. He was actually being very respectful. You people who think he's being a dick will understand when you're older yourself!
Very interesting
Nonsense. He's using a pretense of frankness as an excuse for being rude. It's a familiar ruse of television interviewers which others imitated because they found it enhanced their sense of self importance and mollified their envy. And you've evidently been taken in by it .
I can't stand any TV interviewers today who start a sentence on the Imperative style of speech : "Tell me this or that.. " instead of using the polite form "Could you tell us about.."
To me that is extremely rude, just because they provide the platform for the interview they think they can drop polite forms. I'd kick them with a boot.
golden comment!
I wish we got so much more of this side of the maestro as well. His personality is beaming! I love it.
He seems cool 😎 like you can actually be yourself around him and not feel uncomfortable...
totally agree
Behind Wanda's "witch" face, we can see a woman completely devote and in love with her husband. And she was very proud of him.
She was in love with Horowitz the MUSICIAN, not the man!! It's difficult to be married to an avowed homosexual and claim him as her husband.
@@pianoman551000 there is a lot of theories around Horowitz. Unlike Shura Cherkassky, for example, I can't find any element or behaviour that denotes some desviations.....who knows. The fact is they were a couple strange, bizarre and neccesary for each other....🤷♂️
God! With the unexplainable expressiveness of music, imagine the pleasure he must have been able to feel...being able to play any song he ever wanted to..to express any mood he wanted to...anytime he wanted.
omg!?....the way he just banged out "stars and stripes" after 20+ years like it was nothing where before hand he was telling the interviewer he doesn't remember...such a humble, modest and gracious pianist. A virtuoso! RIP Horowitz...
Just watching him smile and laugh while playing the piano near the end puts a smile on my face knowing that this was a man who TRULY loved to play the piano. He didn't just play for wealth or money, he embraced music and the piano as his passion to the very last day of his life. It's a shame I never could have attended his concerts.
Thank God I found this. I remember seeing this on 60 Minutes.
How wonderful for him to still have had that absolute unbridled joy in playing.
Start watching at 12:56 and you'll see that he can barely contain himself.
Interviewer: "You're still learning, you're still..."
Horowitz: "All the time" - The man was a class act.
What a gift this man is to music! Thank you, Mr. Horowitz, for bringing so much beauty and joy into my life.
10:50
Horowitz is the only pianist I know who can make THAT MANY mistakes and still have it sound good hahaha
+Lemontech74 Just like in his rach g minor prelude xD
+Lemontech74 . perfection is boring. watch a midi and find out
Hope you're that good at 87
nonsense Lemonade
He's a bit like a mountain - you don't look at the scree but the peak, and it is towering.
It’s amazing to hear him speak about the things that he is unable to do, and how he sometimes messes up. Even when he wasn’t playing technically perfect, he was making beautifully art.
Witty!
Wow! I bring my food with me too. and aromatherapy.
What a beautiful marriage!
The best interpretation of Stripes I ever heard!!!
What a treat, this interview is!!!
Interesting relationship Horowitz and Xanthip- sorry Wanda have. She must have helped him a lot, and it's cool to see that bit and the way the interact after so many many years... thanks for the upload!
13:52 😂 I love this man so much!
Joke aside, he is favorite pianist when it comes to interpret my favorite piece "Mozart - Sonata No.13 in B flat major, first movement".
RIP Horowitz, you are truly missed.
Phenomenal interview and HOROWITZ HIMSELF! Superbly enjoyable and knowledgeable.
Fascinating interview - fabulous pianist and personality.
Dude I have not watched his interviews, idk why, I LOVE him even more.
The last true maestro... The last romantic
+drovid008 Na. Mahler thought romanticism would end in the early 1900's. It didn't. There are still plenty of virtuoso romantics out there... :)
+drovid008 check out Daniil Trifonov
+drovid008 check out Daniil Trifonov
+BenjaminGessel no, the last individualist, as he had put it. he didn't believe he was the last romantic
BenjaminGessel Where are these Rachmaninoffs, Godowskys, and Friedmans of our day?
Years ago I went to see Horowitz perform the theater in Pasadena. The time was the Sunday at 4 PM. So glad I was able to see him play.
Love that smile of his when Wanda describes his pranks.
the joy on his face is amazing
THE TRUE... last GREAT romantic..... WE LOVE and adore you Maestro... RIP
His smile inspires me
The real eye opener about this interview is that few major networks pay any attention at all to serious music today. They'll do hours and hours on no talent pop singers and ignore what is lasting.
today the news and culture in the mainstream seem to be completely driven by political agenda
Funny, I’m reading the Schoenberg biography of Horowitz and he says this interview was seen as hugely embarrassing for Horowitz amongst his circle. Personally I love it. I like seeing the childish side of him. He’s just a human like everyone else. Trying to maintain some mysterious, serious aura is a waste of time. We are all lost children.
(guest)
".....you have no intention of retiring?"
"Oh my god, no !"
What a sil!y question...to a phenomenal pianist who has loved and played music all his life ?!
You might as well ask him to retire from breathing....
Bless dear Vladimir. 😊🎼❤🇬🇧🎼😊🎼
What an invigorating and endearing couple. Listened to his Scarletti cassette, as I wandered around Rome many years ago. He's still a part of my life. See you on the other side maestro and his dear wife
Powerful playing, despite the few blue notes. Even the ragged edges made it more real. Excellent.
so you see that's where the trouble began
9:34
that smile
that dammed smile
Oh my. Now I realise I’ve only heard Horowitzes music up to now. Seeing him being just as charismatic while talking really warms my heart
Horowitz ist eine Legende, Nicht nur als Pianist, sondern als Mensch mit seinem Humor, und seiner Menschlichkeit. Und Wanda, seine Frau, hat einen guten Einfluss auf das Genie!
This was Mike Wallace's favorite interview he ever did, his words. And after watching it umpteen times and listening to Vladimir on Spotify a bunch more I've concluded that I genuinely agree.
You are the one who needs to chill. I didn't start this, you did. And thank you for correcting my spelling teacher. I had a few a couple of typos, which happens when you are typing quickly and do not proofread, because it doesn't freaking matter. But alas, you have truly humbled me and have given me something to think about. I guess really need to examine my life and its meaning, especially my typographical errors.
What a joy. He scheduled his concerts at 4pm for the working man. Nice!
Damn...I love that guy! Horowitz was one heart of a man :D Smart, honest, realistic and modest. By the way, screw that interviewer, he could have made the whole thing sound more interesting, instead, he remained one cold bastard and kept asking stupid questions and didn`t even smile
I agree on both Horowitz and Wallace (the interviewer). There's a video here on TH-cam where he interviews Callas - he's very rude to her.
If only Wallace was around to interview Brahms. That would be a much more fair interview. (:
A great interview with one of the best pianists of all time.
Maravilloso! Amazing! to see and listen this great artist! Being so kind and seeing him laughing like a child...a true artist!
Thank you maestro!
The best pianist in the world! Horowitz❤❤
No such thing. Every pianist has different qualities. Horowitz excelled in some areas and not in others. But without a doubt he reached his own ultimate potential and that is only what matters.
@@ericastier1646 That and what resonates with you mostly.
It is great to see footage here that did not air in 1977. Thanks for this treasure!
Mr. Wallace is so vulgar to talk about Horowitz's fees.
+JD Clarkston Well, you know, what did you expect? Wallace is just like that... :)
+JD Clarkston
how VULGAR to ask a question that EVERYBODY WANTS TO KNOW. ewwww. so vulgar. you ARE a BRIT right?
+genius mchaggis fuck him. Nobody wanted to know or even gives a shit
+genius mchaggis "EVERYBODY WANTS TO KNOW". Not everyone is a materialistic pleb you know. Or well, you probably don't.
TausMunk
i know. youre a superior upper cruster who is always "polite". ya right.
♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️ I remember watching this interview with my Uncle George and his comment that Horowitz laughs at one point while playing , only because he made a little error. An error which at the time I didn’t hear, but my Uncle, who studied the violin, did.
The interviewer has feet of clay. The questioning is overbearing and intrusive, a maestro with the unique stature of Horowitz deserves a more intelligent and respectful approach.
I'm pretty sure your interview of Horowitz would be stock, fawning, predictable, and boring as hell. But soooooper respectful.....
I absolutely disagree, both the audience and the Maestro have loved being pushed there, c'mon !
That's Mike Wallace! The LEAD reporter for CBS for YEARS! He is the TV journalistic equal of Horowitz...He pushes people...That's what he does.
Yep, disagree. Awesome interviewer, who doesn’t fall into the trap of worshipping or pandering to the subject. Horowitz and Wanda aren’t the sort of people to respect over-reverent interviewers
I don't think reporter realizes how good Horowitz's playing, hearing him play some excerpts was actually breathtaking. The speed was insane but still controlled with obvious emotional incentive. Dude he's on another level
only other pianists know...
It's so great to have this conversation between Mike Wallace and Vladimir Horowitz from thirty years ago. It is genuinely funny and entertaining.
That growing smile from 9:30 is probably one of the best things I've seen in a long time
I love him so much! Such a precious soul!
again, thank you, TH-cam!!! Something like this interview with Horowitz wouldn't be possible without you!
Something tells me he was putting on an act when he was asked to play the President March...he was a deceptively humorous man
All of you who bash Mike Wallace are jerks. I love horowitz and had the opportunity to see him in concert many times. Wallace was able to show the personality of Horowitz and his genuineness and sincerity. Horowitz is very honest and I am thankful that Wallace gave all of us a better understanding of this amazing artist...there will never be another Horowitz!
They were friends!
Wow.....bless youtube that I could watch epic moments like these. Viva Horowitz!!
Like this interview very much. It is now part as an important document on Horowitz. Wallace he did the interview the right way. He know that great pianist was interview many time as he was a porcelain man. The comments from his wife make the document a different touch of secret.
he played so deep on the keys. Amazing....
Love it when he is saying that 0:55
He's always learning and inspiring by others (above) him
Horowitz is lovely.
That interviewer, however, is utterly insufferable.
Absolutely insulting...
+Will Shaw Yes, interesting to see how obnoxious, classless, and stupid Wallace's questions and whole interviewing demeanor are, especially when he's trying to jump on every sentence or even phrase that sounds the least bit "controversial." I didn't realize that style of interviewing, practiced by everyone today, went back as far as 1977.
+Will Shaw Yeah, the interviewer made it hard to really get to know Horowitz.
I would have knocked him out!
I agree. The interviewer is an asshole, his questions are the worst i've ever heard.
What an absoloutly splendid man!
In those times, it was apparently normal to talk to these great people in such a dismissive manner. This interviewer is just arrogant. It is freaking Horowitz you are interviewing, you small man!
Well that was part of who Wallace was - I always felt uncomfortable with his tone, which was clearly intentionally dismissive. At the same time however, I have little fear that he did truly respect Horowitz. And pushing buttons, for better or worse, is and effective strategy for helping to reveal someone's character - almost certainly Wallace's intent.
znamoperu Mike Wallace was ghetto to the core, he didn't have a clue he was being an insufferable asshole.
Mike Wallace's style is what got him the great interviews, these soupy fluff pieces we get today have become the standard... It's time we go back to throwing the hardball questions. You notice Horowitz didn't have a problem with it..... Most entertainers/public figures today would have had ego trips and walked out, because God forbid they answer the tough honest questions. Smh!
Im sure horowitz prefer someone who treats him normal than someone who is being Seen as a god
@@G3Number exactamente!
I hate that this man is no longer with us but I am glad he recorded so much.
He’s a very humble man. A genius
At 2 mins 46, I was afraid he was going to break the piano !
Wonderful pianist, one of my great favourites.
😊🇬🇧❤🎼🇬🇧😊
Love that laugh! What an awesome genius. Mike Wallace really enjoyed this time with the maestro.
Ok I’m going to say something controversial but there are quite a few modern great pianists that I enjoy hearing more than Horowitz. Murray Perahia for one.
What kind of "courteous" person interviews an artist like Horowitz like that?!
An american that explains everything.
I'm sure he didn't mind
Horowitz was Russian, afterall
Вот так и надо жить! Горовиц - самый красивый человек на планете. Король.
Hey! It was Mike Wallace's style. He was known for this. Wanda and Volodya knew this well before the interview. It appeared to me like they both rather enjoyed being interviewed and pushed a bit by Mike Wallace. Most that so-did 'kissed behind oh-so-gently,' so my guess is that it was a welcomed change for the Horowitz's from that usual. Cloying sycophants can be very tiring.
From what I recall of the original from back-in-the-day, this was not "complete" as it left out parts such as when they are on the stage alone. Then, Horowitz got very serious and business-like and revealed another side of his then not ordinarily seen - no clowning there. The still shot is from that moment.
The camera can’t keep up with his hands as he plays the piano. Such a personality and an amazing man as well as being the most brilliant pianist. Don’t you just love his wife?❤️