THE most luminous sound imaginable. Just the right blend of fragility -- like spun glass figures refracting sunlight through the windows of an exquisitely furnished drawing room -- combined with plaintive, songful warmth. Remarkable clarity with no hard edges -- no self-conscious expertise saying, "Look Ma, I'm a virtuoso." It's glorious, inimitable, tender-hearted playing, and I love it.
He was that rarity if rarities -- an artist completely devoted to the music without the faintest hint of interest in self-aggrandizement. Like Casals, Horszowski was truly "a musician's musician."
When I used to go to his recital at Town Hall in NYC, I always used to see other concerts pianist and once Ashkenazy was there listening intently to his Bach and Beethoven. What a golden tone!
@@TJFNYC212 - Thank you for your musical comments and memories - I am emotionally moved - visited Carnegie Hall several times for concerts around 2000! - I heard this late Mozart sonata, written two years before his death, live this week with András Schiff, who also plays in NYC again and again! My best wishes and greetings from Vienna!
THE most luminous sound imaginable. Just the right blend of fragility -- like spun glass figures refracting sunlight through the windows of an exquisitely furnished drawing room -- combined with plaintive, songful warmth.
Remarkable clarity with no hard edges -- no self-conscious expertise saying, "Look Ma, I'm a virtuoso."
It's glorious, inimitable, tender-hearted playing, and I love it.
He was that rarity if rarities -- an artist completely devoted to the music without the faintest hint of interest in self-aggrandizement. Like Casals, Horszowski was truly "a musician's musician."
When I used to go to his recital at Town Hall in NYC, I always used to see other concerts pianist and once Ashkenazy was there listening intently to his Bach and Beethoven. What a golden tone!
@@TJFNYC212 - Thank you for your musical comments and memories - I am emotionally moved - visited Carnegie Hall several times for concerts around 2000! - I heard this late Mozart sonata, written two years before his death, live this week with András Schiff, who also plays in NYC again and again! My best wishes and greetings from Vienna!
One of the very greatest.
incredible beautiful
Tears!
It is OK but too hesitant. Insufficiently philosophical. Soem Annie Fischer like moments. Makes little of the chromatic LH moment and crashes.