@@phenometal2420 What you call maniieres, is what makes his interpretations so emotiona, but you have to forget the omnipresent dogma of playing "regularly".
@@georgescompositions8872 I just listened to it now. Thank you. Michelangeli is quite magnificent. By the way, I believe Michelangelis Greig Concerto is among the greatest performances of all time.
Controversy over Horowitz and especially his Chopin often centered on something that critics were reluctant to comment on: the mixture of masculine and feminine in his playing. Chopin himself undoubtedly mixed these elements too as did de Pachmann and Cortot, but with the Rubinsteins, Anton and later Arthur, the feminine side of Chopin came to be disparaged as decadent, smacking of the salon. Horowitz, like a latter day castrato, was both heroic and androgynous. His life and performances had their ups and downs but for a fair assessment read Joachim Kaiser’s Great Musicians of Our Time. And listen to recordings like this from Horowitz’s remarkable last great period just before his death.
Thank you Jack I love information like this....Horowitz is one person that always delivers a smile through my ears ... digital sexuality means nothing to me
I think Horowitz would have been less controversial in today’s more tolerant climate, Patrick (and I write as a straight man). On the other hand, his genuine romanticism is in short supply. I just heard a recital by a celebrated pianist who butchered Schumann and Chopin with banging and brutally forced rubato.
What I love about his playing of this piece compared to others is how crisp and clear his playing is, not a lot of excess rubato or super legato playing, it really sounds like a mazurka to me.
Nobody else plays the Mazurkas better than Horowitz. His wife Wanda Toscanini did fall in love with him because of his performance of the Chopin Mazurka's.
That's true J. Like a pianist Rubinstein listened to destroyed without songline chopins pianomovement 'balley' from pianoconserto 2,and how Frugoni killed mostly of Chopin mazurka
Far be it from me who could never learn piano at any level; but why the hand crossover instead of just moving the left hand down? Not gonna argue with a virtuoso performance; just wondering.
Well first of all because its written like that in the music score, so there's that. But it also makes sense because - to put it simply - the left hand plays the accompaniment, the right hand the melody. Since the melody moves to a lower part of the keyboard than the left hand is, the right hand crosses over!
@@hankkingsley2976 Yeah you could switch, but one reason you might not do that is because you want continuity in the accompaniment. If you switch hands, the musical line/phrase could be interrupted. He could probably pull it off but its actually easier to keep the left hand there when he wants to make it flow nicely
Also, it turns out that it is much harder to move two hands at once (accurately and consistently) than to leave one in place and just move the other, even if it has to cross over and move a farther distance.
Seek God's kingdom and then you got the rest like with Chopins heart dreamy harmonic that gives supercomposition supermethods TITANTECHNIC welldressed, NOT HURTING HIMSELF OTHERS
Malcuckinsky nous donne le meilleure aproche. Profondement une danse polonaise. Lisse Liszt dans ca biographie de Chopin. Deux caracteres opposes: la femme delicate, et le homme, guerrier!! Autrement, ce nest pas une Mazurca. ( ce nest pas chinois ou francais, russe non plus... Horowitz essaie, Rubinstein aussi...mais seule Malcuckinsky sait le faire..!!! Et c est une danse tres exagere!!! Tres virile et tres femenine....a caprice!!!
I listen to a lot of pianists. But in the end im always with him again...
it's just perfection
I dont like this playing sorry.
Too much manieres.
@@phenometal2420 What you call maniieres, is what makes his interpretations so emotiona, but you have to forget the omnipresent dogma of playing "regularly".
I have listened to this Horowitz's about plus than 200 times.
My personal favorite of all the Chopin Mazurka's!
My head is swinging with a smile on its face.
Incomparable! In a class by himself with no competition whatsoever.
Have you heard: ruclips.net/video/e41MCDEhHoE/видео.html Michelangeli's rendition?
@@georgescompositions8872 I just listened to it now. Thank you. Michelangeli is quite magnificent. By the way, I believe Michelangelis Greig Concerto is among the greatest performances of all time.
Phénoménal... de lyrisme et de poésie. Merci. ❤
Controversy over Horowitz and especially his Chopin often centered on something that critics were reluctant to comment on: the mixture of masculine and feminine in his playing. Chopin himself undoubtedly mixed these elements too as did de Pachmann and Cortot, but with the Rubinsteins, Anton and later Arthur, the feminine side of Chopin came to be disparaged as decadent, smacking of the salon. Horowitz, like a latter day castrato, was both heroic and androgynous. His life and performances had their ups and downs but for a fair assessment read Joachim Kaiser’s Great Musicians of Our Time. And listen to recordings like this from Horowitz’s remarkable last great period just before his death.
Thank you Jack I love information like this....Horowitz is one person that always delivers a smile through my ears ... digital sexuality means nothing to me
I think Horowitz would have been less controversial in today’s more tolerant climate, Patrick (and I write as a straight man). On the other hand, his genuine romanticism is in short supply. I just heard a recital by a celebrated pianist who butchered Schumann and Chopin with banging and brutally forced rubato.
love to hear your opinion about Michelangeli's rendition.
Michelangeli's rendition: ruclips.net/video/e41MCDEhHoE/видео.html
Combine CHOPIN and Horowitz and what do you have?
Answer: Musical Heaven.
Einfach wunderbar, ich wünschte ich könnte auch so spielen oder so ähnlich. So versuche ich es halt....
Lieber Rudolf, das versuchen wir alle!
What I love about his playing of this piece compared to others is how crisp and clear his playing is, not a lot of excess rubato or super legato playing, it really sounds like a mazurka to me.
This piece doesn’t sound crazy hard but to perfect it it’s actually a hard piece to play that’s why a lot of people don’t make it sound that great.
Nobody else plays the Mazurkas better than Horowitz. His wife Wanda Toscanini did fall in love with him because of his performance of the Chopin Mazurka's.
Those last eight measures blow your socks off!
Horowitz .... surely Mr. Chopin must be smiling from above at this genius below him ?
Should i even comment on this? I'm not worthy enough
❤
Wow
Actually, this mazurka is in B minor, not B-flat minor.
It's a professional-like comment.
Thank you for correcting the error.
American tuning...?
Was the same tuning in Chopin time?
N0.
Was Chopin a pupil of Julliard? NO
Bravissimo
Only and only Horowitz can do this!
That's true J. Like a pianist Rubinstein listened to destroyed without songline chopins pianomovement 'balley' from pianoconserto 2,and how Frugoni killed mostly of Chopin mazurka
Chopin composed and so got rid of comparing, follow others
Far be it from me who could never learn piano at any level; but why the hand crossover instead of just moving the left hand down? Not gonna argue with a virtuoso performance; just wondering.
Well first of all because its written like that in the music score, so there's that. But it also makes sense because - to put it simply - the left hand plays the accompaniment, the right hand the melody. Since the melody moves to a lower part of the keyboard than the left hand is, the right hand crosses over!
@@luukkrijnen638 But if you're that good, couldn't you switch?
@@hankkingsley2976 Yeah you could switch, but one reason you might not do that is because you want continuity in the accompaniment. If you switch hands, the musical line/phrase could be interrupted. He could probably pull it off but its actually easier to keep the left hand there when he wants to make it flow nicely
@@luukkrijnen638 Gotcha. Thx.
Also, it turns out that it is much harder to move two hands at once (accurately and consistently) than to leave one in place and just move the other, even if it has to cross over and move a farther distance.
Perfect.
Very similar to Ferenczy’s recording
Seek God's kingdom and then you got the rest like with Chopins heart dreamy harmonic that gives supercomposition supermethods TITANTECHNIC welldressed, NOT HURTING HIMSELF OTHERS
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Malcuckinsky nous donne le meilleure aproche. Profondement une danse polonaise.
Lisse Liszt dans ca biographie de Chopin.
Deux caracteres opposes: la femme delicate, et le homme, guerrier!!
Autrement, ce nest pas une Mazurca.
( ce nest pas chinois ou francais, russe non
plus...
Horowitz essaie, Rubinstein aussi...mais seule Malcuckinsky sait le faire..!!!
Et c est une danse tres exagere!!!
Tres virile et tres femenine....a caprice!!!
My Chopinheart was mainly crashed by a people how once took neck pee poo on germans