Absolutely breathtaking....... he plays 300% as if his life was in danger... it's so moving... He has nothing to prove anymore, and during 5 minutes, he just dives into his own world... RESPECT forever.
Literally a staggering performance! Notice when he gets up at the end! Considering this was an unplanned performance in his living room this is fantastic, enough to make anyone a Scriabin/ Horowitz fan WOW!!!
E’ assolutamente impossibile trovare spiegazioni o comprensioni che possano aiutarci a capire cosa realmente fosse il talento pianistico di questo incommensurabile pianista!! Quando si raggiungono questi livelli, E’ PURO MISTERO!!
This is it! This is the performance that solidified my fascination with Horowitz. This is even better, for me, than his official recording. The color and power are beautiful and startling. Fantastic!
Great performance of an extraordinary piece. I love way the Horowitz explodes at 3:54. His trills are more metallic and pronounced than most other performances and he adds some notes towards the end which works as he stretches the tempo a bit. Incredible viewing and listening.
Acoustics of his living room.not really conducive to the requirements of this piece.....one should have heard him as many times in Carnegie Hall ...and once in Amsterdams Concertgebouw........
An electrifying performance of the sort that only Horowitz could produce - and what a priceless piece of film footage we have here! Many thanks to Monteverdi XV1.
This is truly beautiful. The dissonance only adds to the overall feeling of the music. The vision of rising flames, burning through everything. Simply beautiful.
Ha while I have no doubt his piano was made able to produce louder sounds than normal, his motions to produce sound are absolutely incredible...he's amazingly fast in his release, and always comes out of the keys...fantastic
In fact, it can be very scary but you have to realize that there's a big world out there for musicians to explore. Why should we limit ourselves to the same thresholds of perspective? Especially when it can offer such excitingly complex music that can induce such strong emotions.
@Malaka57 ha guys, i'm not trying to say anyone could be horowitz, or take anything away from his playing. his techinque of playing the instrument is unlike anyone else's, his bell like tone is his and his alone, and his ability to control both ends of the dynamic spectrum is incredible. let's put aside any debate regarding his piano and just agree, he's a terrific pianist.
The wrong note at the end (during the ascension) only made the piece better. It gave it a hint of consonance, which might just work well in contrast to the overall dissonant nature of this piece.
He is an old man here, still dedicated to perform an art at its pinnacle. Did you notice the CEO of Steinway and Son obediently taking his jacket at the beginning of the video?
Frightening, terrifying, demonic as only he could be. What impresses me also, is with all the joking and silliness, just before he starts his mood suddenly changes, and he says let's go. In that instant you feel the immense Horowitz will, that drove him all those yrs. There is a Barenboim Beethoven master class you can find, where he tells about playing for H as a boy. What he kept with him all his life was Horowitz's remark about-you must have the will, you must want to do this.
@serox901 ... I actually had the opportunity to play his piano... the touch was like butter, but no matter how much I tried, my attempt to create a beautiful sound was 1 millimeter versus Horowitz's lightyear! Horowitz was plain and simply a genius, he could have played a dinky upright and made it sound (my piano teacher used to visit him on Sundays, Horowitz could make grand sound STANDING UP... Horowitz doesn't play the piano, he amalgamates with it.
I used to say that Scriabin's later music was tuneless and directionless, and then I "got it" so to speak. It's not so much that his later music lacks melodic and harmonic direction, it's just he honestly thought that the universe revolved around him and that viewpoint is reflected in his later music. You can sit in the middle of it listening and let it surround you.
it takes a very developed ear to really appreciate Scriabin, and even more of a genius to bring it out of the page, especially before widespread recordings to mimic. Horowitz really was the last of the greats in that respect
It has Horowitz written all over it (a good thing). But I think he's slightly lost it, gone overboard and let himself go, he changes everything and gets lost in the middle. Still absolutely love it. It's Horowitz!
@hagstromman345 i've noticed it too, i agree. that's completely supra-human. and the progression of the intensity from the beginning untill the end is musically done with a master command
@BirchBarlow Mystic chord is not a bunch of fourths, it's made of two 7 dominant chords with the 6th "Appoggiatura" of the 5th (Chopin chord), the two chords basing on an augmented fourth
If this is in Vlad's house I got to play this piano over the summer. They had his personal model D on display at the local (Pittsburgh) Trombinos. Was amazing to play. They had it back to back with Van Vliburn's. My personal preference was VC's. It was very heavily weighted with ivory keys. It had a very dark and thunderous sound.
@Labienus you admit yourself the action was personalized, action is lighter=faster hammer speed=louder sound. I've spoked with people who have played on his instrument, including the chair of piano performance at MSM, and everyone speaks of the huge power the instrument holds. there is definitely a distinct increase in volume capacity throughout the years of his playing. no doubt, however, that the magic of horowitz is his ability to create the quietest pianissimo to match his fortissimo
Amazing recording. The way Horowitz pulls back a little at 2.50 creates an extra dimension. Then ridiculous 'left-hand only' trill at 3.42 introduces explosive 'full power' mode. Where has he got to go after that? Still more (4.58), sheer volume. Things may be getting a little TOO extreme at 5.20 (7-second double hander!)... But then he adds octaves to the climax, in the bass, and to the two-note main theme, all the while maintaining the intensity of the trills. There aren't many people who can play it this way. The truth is, the constantly increasing intensity of this piece is beyond pretty much everyone. Horowitz perhaps peaked a little early, in fairness he kept going at that level (with trills to die for throughout!) and just managed to go beyond that at the end. ruclips.net/video/GddKn6tPXvs/видео.html
How can music you enjoy be dissonant? You misunderstood me. There is far more "dissonant" music than this that I love-like Carter, or Ives. Music functions effectively or it does not. This piece is very effective and very beautiful.
It is the kind of music film score composers produce to accompany a man going insane. Yet, this piece is still a relevant and fascinating work of genius for those who have ears for it.
You seem to misunderstand. Why does "dissonant" have to mean "bad"? Dissonant is a state of being, an adjective for a sound. You shouldn't think that dissonance is bad; there is beauty in even the most cloudiest days. Dissonance, to me, is just another flavor of sound. This song is dissonant. I have heard it played, and have played it. But this sort of dissonance in this piece is so unimaginably beautiful.
This is the Scriabin/Horowitz Vers la flamme. Yes, it's exciting, but so far from the printed score as to be another piece. Richter does a great version of this piece but the best is Sofronistsky. Find a recording and hear for yourselves.
@serox901 Personalizing the action doesn't = super piano or cheating your implication and others is that the piano made the sound his sonority was held in awe in the early yrs. when he played what was available pianos that everyone else played -his Berlin, NY debuts the sound alone was shocking-who says there was a distinct increase in volume? fact that over the number of pianos he played others couldn't make that sound proves my pt.
Again, you assume that dissonant=bad. Because I describe this song as dissonant, you assume I speak ill of it. This is effective, this is beautiful, and it is dissonant.
@ilikehaku1100 I'll agree with all those but Mephisto Waltz 1, which I feel is so lyrical it doesn't deserve to be called "Devil's Waltz." Some of the passages are just to breathtakingly ethereal.
This is a difficult piece but nowhere near as difficult as Scriabins sonatas. Horovitz does actually make it more difficult than it is by adding stuff, and consequently hits a few wrong notes...but despite it all this he produces an extraordinary performance with a very heightened sense of drama. Vers La Flamme is a piece about the earth being engulfed by the sun (something like that) and you can't get more dramatic than that....
7 лет назад
ukpianoman2015 you never read of 'vers la flamme' being planned as his 11tv Sonata?
7 лет назад
ukpianoman2015 it was his 11th Sonata. He to publish precedentately cause of financial concerns.
Please elaborate because at this point I feel as if you mean that you can let each little sound represent something that is going on around you (which is something that I can imagine). It took me a while but I "got it" too. I was able to hear each sound as "words" of a complex language. Like in the beginning, it sounds like a radio channel broadcasted by Satan himself speaking to the universe in a sinister voice about it's end. Then when the melody comes in, the heat starts to rise slowly.
Trying to rate his way of playing and his mistakes it's a valueless attempt. What music really is and represents? Human nature. All of us can recognize this is a masterpeice - it speaks to the very bottom of our human fears. Horowitz really makes anyone understand what Scriabin thought the end of the world would be like. And that's all. One note being mistaken does not change the monstrosity, the tragic flowing of this peice.
Horowitz is brilliant... sin for a few "sporcatura" of the line of bass. I think that the only to express a similar intensity but more balanced and clean is Pavel Egorov. go to see it!
Absolutely breathtaking....... he plays 300% as if his life was in danger... it's so moving... He has nothing to prove anymore, and during 5 minutes, he just dives into his own world... RESPECT forever.
"Be prepared for big sound" This warning should apear before all Horowitz videos.
Call the fire brigade!!
And also before Nyiregyhazi videos ... ruclips.net/video/_9w1Ol9QuZI/видео.html
Horowitz is absolutely amazing. He is still my favorite pianist and I love Scriabin's piano works.
I am totally speechless...... Who could ever play this piece like he did? Amazing......sooooooo amazing!!!
Literally a staggering performance! Notice when he gets up at the end!
Considering this was an unplanned performance in his living room this
is fantastic, enough to make anyone a Scriabin/ Horowitz fan WOW!!!
E’ assolutamente impossibile trovare spiegazioni o comprensioni che possano aiutarci a capire cosa realmente fosse il talento pianistico di questo incommensurabile pianista!! Quando si raggiungono questi livelli, E’ PURO MISTERO!!
This is it! This is the performance that solidified my fascination with Horowitz. This is even better, for me, than his official recording. The color and power are beautiful and startling. Fantastic!
Only Horowitz seemed to be able to conjure up the primal, mystic side of Scriabin to its greatest intensity.
Richter is incomparable
Igor Zhukov was the most intense in this piece ... ruclips.net/video/FW6S_Oz4uag/видео.html
@@jacquesaubin4454 u mean Sofronitsky*
Great performance of an extraordinary piece. I love way the Horowitz explodes at 3:54. His trills are more metallic and pronounced than most other performances and he adds some notes towards the end which works as he stretches the tempo a bit. Incredible viewing and listening.
Acoustics of his living room.not really conducive to the requirements of this piece.....one should have heard him as many times in Carnegie Hall ...and once in Amsterdams Concertgebouw........
An electrifying performance of the sort that only Horowitz could produce - and what a priceless piece of film footage we have here! Many thanks to Monteverdi XV1.
"be prepared for big sound"
thats awsoem
The music has a scary beauty and Horowitz performance is mind-boggling.
Thank you for posting-John
This is truly beautiful. The dissonance only adds to the overall feeling of the music. The vision of rising flames, burning through everything. Simply beautiful.
incomparable and in a class by himself.
Yeah! that very moment is almost art in itself. Fascinating!
And then he died a few years later...wonder what killed him.
Among the wittiest remarks EVER! This
deserves a thumbs up from every viewer.
Guess you and I are the only two who have a sense of humor, so far!
Probably old age 🤷♀️ idk just a guess
Quelle virtuosité! admirable Horowitz au service du grand Scriabine.
Ha while I have no doubt his piano was made able to produce louder sounds than normal, his motions to produce sound are absolutely incredible...he's amazingly fast in his release, and always comes out of the keys...fantastic
In fact, it can be very scary but you have to realize that there's a big world out there for musicians to explore. Why should we limit ourselves to the same thresholds of perspective? Especially when it can offer such excitingly complex music that can induce such strong emotions.
Да, необычное произведение. Виртуозно!
The sound on the B-flat chord at 3:52 is unbelievable.
...Horowitz said something was difficult...
thanks so much for uploading this. I am learning this piece currently.
One of the greatest pieces Scriabin wrote.
ホロビッツの80代の、しかもテレビでしか演奏を聴いた事がなかったが、人の話では全盛期、すごいビルトゥオーゾだったと聞いていたが、この動画にその片鱗を垣間見て、ぞくぞくした。若い？時の全盛期の演奏を生で聴いてみたかった。
Puts words to my thoughts exactly
The master had no limit.
@Malaka57 ha guys, i'm not trying to say anyone could be horowitz, or take anything away from his playing. his techinque of playing the instrument is unlike anyone else's, his bell like tone is his and his alone, and his ability to control both ends of the dynamic spectrum is incredible. let's put aside any debate regarding his piano and just agree, he's a terrific pianist.
3:41-Hold on to your seats!! 5:28-Take off!! lol
this should be called Horowitz/Scriabin - Vers la flamme since he doubles so many octaves and chords haha
The wrong note at the end (during the ascension) only made the piece better. It gave it a hint of consonance, which might just work well in contrast to the overall dissonant nature of this piece.
This man is so amazing. :)
He is an old man here, still dedicated to perform an art at its pinnacle. Did you notice the CEO of Steinway and Son obediently taking his jacket at the beginning of the video?
Yes, V.H had the respect of many..
Frightening, terrifying, demonic as only he could be.
What impresses me also, is with all the joking and silliness, just before he starts his mood suddenly changes, and he says let's go. In that instant you feel the immense Horowitz will, that drove him all those yrs. There is a Barenboim Beethoven master class you can find, where he tells about playing for H as a boy. What he kept with him all his life was Horowitz's remark about-you must have the will, you must want to do this.
Don't try this at home!
@Peter the Sarcastic Rabitt The spirit of Scriabin... 😆
hysterical, wonderful !
Will we ever be that Great again?
Scriabin/Horowitz.
Hoping so!
@serox901 ... I actually had the opportunity to play his piano... the touch was like butter, but no matter how much I tried, my attempt to create a beautiful sound was 1 millimeter versus Horowitz's lightyear! Horowitz was plain and simply a genius, he could have played a dinky upright and made it sound (my piano teacher used to visit him on Sundays, Horowitz could make grand sound STANDING UP... Horowitz doesn't play the piano, he amalgamates with it.
Is this when he went to Scriabin’s home and played on Scriabin’s piano for Scriabin’s widow? It was on the CBS sunday morning show, I think.
what a document ,thank you SO much Mr. Monteverdi:-)!!!
How can you NOT love Vladimir Horowitz,ah well.....
Extraordinary!!!
However, I like it more than some other performances because this breathtaking and frenzied piece needs breathtaking performance ;)
And many times on concerts.
I used to say that Scriabin's later music was tuneless and directionless, and then I "got it" so to speak. It's not so much that his later music lacks melodic and harmonic direction, it's just he honestly thought that the universe revolved around him and that viewpoint is reflected in his later music. You can sit in the middle of it listening and let it surround you.
it takes a very developed ear to really appreciate Scriabin, and even more of a genius to bring it out of the page, especially before widespread recordings to mimic. Horowitz really was the last of the greats in that respect
Unique. Merci Scriabin. Merci volodia.
It has Horowitz written all over it (a good thing). But I think he's slightly lost it, gone overboard and let himself go, he changes everything and gets lost in the middle. Still absolutely love it. It's Horowitz!
Genial, muchisimas gracias.
Awe inspiring.
@hagstromman345 i've noticed it too, i agree. that's completely supra-human. and the progression of the intensity from the beginning untill the end is musically done with a master command
@BirchBarlow Mystic chord is not a bunch of fourths, it's made of two 7 dominant chords with the 6th "Appoggiatura" of the 5th (Chopin chord), the two chords basing on an augmented fourth
A titan plays the music of another titan.
Careful, he's gonna take his jacket off :)
If this is in Vlad's house I got to play this piano over the summer. They had his personal model D on display at the local (Pittsburgh) Trombinos. Was amazing to play.
They had it back to back with Van Vliburn's. My personal preference was VC's. It was very heavily weighted with ivory keys. It had a very dark and thunderous sound.
IL PIU' GRANDE...!!!
The music is not dissonant-at least to those who listen.
Here..hold my jacket..
@Labienus you admit yourself the action was personalized, action is lighter=faster hammer speed=louder sound. I've spoked with people who have played on his instrument, including the chair of piano performance at MSM, and everyone speaks of the huge power the instrument holds. there is definitely a distinct increase in volume capacity throughout the years of his playing. no doubt, however, that the magic of horowitz is his ability to create the quietest pianissimo to match his fortissimo
Fantastic!
L'interpretazione di Horowitz in questo pezzo è superlativa, da brividi, un genio!!
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just listening to this piece exhausts me
Amazing recording.
The way Horowitz pulls back a little at 2.50 creates an extra dimension.
Then ridiculous 'left-hand only' trill at 3.42 introduces explosive 'full power' mode.
Where has he got to go after that? Still more (4.58), sheer volume. Things may be getting a little TOO extreme at 5.20 (7-second double hander!)...
But then he adds octaves to the climax, in the bass, and to the two-note main theme, all the while maintaining the intensity of the trills.
There aren't many people who can play it this way. The truth is, the constantly increasing intensity of this piece is beyond pretty much everyone. Horowitz perhaps peaked a little early, in fairness he kept going at that level (with trills to die for throughout!) and just managed to go beyond that at the end.
ruclips.net/video/GddKn6tPXvs/видео.html
Best, best, wow...........................
the original heavy metal. Horowitz is a rock giant.
I think that between 5:20 and 5:30 is the only footage of dear old Volodya going completely mad! He almost let go of his leash for a few seconds...
@v4liumfrance "this is more percussive piano "
How can music you enjoy be dissonant? You misunderstood me.
There is far more "dissonant" music than this that I love-like Carter, or Ives.
Music functions effectively or it does not. This piece is very effective and very beautiful.
Hahahaha!! That "let's go!" at 0:29 : Horowitz => Chuck Norris!
5:28 is so powerful... MASTER
Actually, that is a very good explanation of what I meant. Thank you!
@GregLile He enjoyed to tell stories about Scriabin´s "ticks".
Horowitz was a Petzliesel
It's very special, it's completely special =D
madness.
It is the kind of music film score composers
produce to accompany a man going insane. Yet, this piece is still a relevant and fascinating work of genius for those who have ears for it.
@@miltonmoore5294 couldn't agree more. This piece is an insane piece of art
🔥
Exactly.
such a beautiful piece, and a great interpretation. Have to say though, the Ruth Laredo Vers la Flamme is probably superior in my opinion.
I would like to hear Ruth's interpretation of Vers La Flamme. You've got me motivated!
Sviatoslav Richter is THE MASTER. His performance is flawless.
Impressionnant Horowitz ; mais quelle belle leçon technique et musicale ; et bien, j'ai du boulot, Patrick Korngold.
lets go.....
@5:28 that chord is unbelievable.
You seem to misunderstand.
Why does "dissonant" have to mean "bad"? Dissonant is a state of being, an adjective for a sound. You shouldn't think that dissonance is bad; there is beauty in even the most cloudiest days. Dissonance, to me, is just another flavor of sound.
This song is dissonant. I have heard it played, and have played it. But this sort of dissonance in this piece is so unimaginably beautiful.
This is the Scriabin/Horowitz Vers la flamme. Yes, it's exciting, but so far from the printed score as to be another piece. Richter does a great version of this piece but the best is Sofronistsky. Find a recording and hear for yourselves.
and suggestion diabolique by prokofiev. those come to mind quickly along with scriabin etude op 65 no 3
I don `t have any recordings with me playing Scriabin. But I will post some later with chamber music.
Великий Скрябин! Великий Горовиц!
What a document!
@serox901 Personalizing the action doesn't = super piano or cheating your implication and others is that the piano made the sound his sonority was held in awe in the early yrs. when he played what was available pianos that everyone else played -his Berlin, NY debuts the sound alone was shocking-who says there was a distinct increase in volume? fact that over the number of pianos he played others couldn't make that sound proves my pt.
Wow!!!!
Hola, hay alguien que todavía escuche música de esta índole?
this is one of them for sure. scriabin sonatas 6,7,9,10. also le gibet by ravel and maybe scarbo.
Again, you assume that dissonant=bad.
Because I describe this song as dissonant, you assume I speak ill of it.
This is effective, this is beautiful, and it is dissonant.
@ilikehaku1100 I'll agree with all those but Mephisto Waltz 1, which I feel is so lyrical it doesn't deserve to be called "Devil's Waltz." Some of the passages are just to breathtakingly ethereal.
I'm looking forward to it, please notify me :)
6 people had to hold Horowitz's coat
Have you ever played it as well, or after a psychosis of seeing the world end in fire?
This is a difficult piece but nowhere near as difficult as Scriabins sonatas. Horovitz does actually make it more difficult than it is by adding stuff, and consequently hits a few wrong notes...but despite it all this he produces an extraordinary performance with a very heightened sense of drama. Vers La Flamme is a piece about the earth being engulfed by the sun (something like that) and you can't get more dramatic than that....
ukpianoman2015
you never read of 'vers la flamme' being planned as his 11tv Sonata?
ukpianoman2015
it was his 11th Sonata. He to publish precedentately cause of financial concerns.
Please elaborate because at this point I feel as if you mean that you can let each little sound represent something that is going on around you (which is something that I can imagine). It took me a while but I "got it" too. I was able to hear each sound as "words" of a complex language. Like in the beginning, it sounds like a radio channel broadcasted by Satan himself speaking to the universe in a sinister voice about it's end. Then when the melody comes in, the heat starts to rise slowly.
Trying to rate his way of playing and his mistakes it's a valueless attempt. What music really is and represents? Human nature. All of us can recognize this is a masterpeice - it speaks to the very bottom of our human fears. Horowitz really makes anyone understand what Scriabin thought the end of the world would be like. And that's all. One note being mistaken does not change the monstrosity, the tragic flowing of this peice.
Horowitz is brilliant... sin for a few "sporcatura" of the line of bass. I think that the only to express a similar intensity but more balanced and clean is Pavel Egorov. go to see it!
@ryder187mac you realise pianists play concertos of up to an hour from memory regularly?
Or Beethoven's 32 piano sonatas over several evenings!
don't forget about trois gnossiennes by satie. number 3 is really haunting...
Pure virtousity
Гений, неповторимый, единственный!