And the last arpeggio is pure magic, how he touches the last note... Well, the whole second part, specially the coda. First time I heard it, I cried like a baby.
@ I agree with Daniel. Quality of performance should not be rated on the percentage of right notes divided by all the notes. You would not do well listening to Cortot. I have heard many recordings, including Richter, Arrau, Brendel, Bolet, Cziffra, Cortot and Horowitz when he was younger. Laplante recording is a performance I like too. Bolet I like too. Cziffra pace is a bit slow Then rushed and slow and rushed, I cannot make sense of it. But he had very few wrong notes. But this performance by VH is hypnotic... to me, and far more listenable, to me.
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@@Hjominbonrun The great Franz Liszt is known to once have said to a slobby student who kept hitting wrong notes on a Chopin étude: "Do your own laundry. Get your ass back into a conservatory." The ultimate Master never took anybody seriously unless their "laundry" - impeccable technique - was on point. That lesson burned deep in my hardwire. When some punk presents himself with their laundry undone I can't ever take him seriously.
@ Artur Schnabel was know to throw fists of wrong notes. He is revered amongst concert pianists as a monumental interpreter of Beethoven. Same for Cortot, Alfred Brendel looks to Cortot for interpretations of Chopin. I hope you have not cut yourself off from some great music and beauty by focusing on architecture.
He went into depression three times for several years during his life and saw his family being wiped out either by wars or by suicide and he could never deal with the fact that he never really came out of the closet. Nevertheless he reached happiness toward the end of his life I'd say..
I was just thinking that same thought, the smile at the end. There's definitely some kind of peacefulness and joy there, but I know he must've had a tremendously tortured life. Depression is a killer, and who knows what sorts of family trauma he might've gone through that nobody even knows about.
This is my favourite section from the whole of Années de pèlerinage and even though you played it beautifully and with character, that smile at the end just made my week :)
I heard him play this in 1976, and the audience let out a collective sigh when it was over. I am always amazed that he used in hands in a way that looks like a beginner doing everything a good teacher would immediately land on him/her for. Yet he had one of the most fabulous commands of an instrument in the history of Western classical music.
No está tan claro que utilizara técnica de principiante. La retroacción de los dedos es un principio complicado, y de técnica refinada, y que domina a la perfección, pese a que la altura de los dedos y la posición estirada pueda discutirse, no en este vídeo, que toca muy de cerquita, sino en otros, como el silente film de 1920 tocando el Estudio op 10 n 8. Pero la retroacción y el no clavarse en el excesivo peso al final compensa todo, y da lugar, unido a su fabuloso talento, claro, a estos resultados. Saludos.
Played differently? Of course. Played better? There is no pinnacle of greatness in art, there's a plateau. Reach that plateau, you might be the only one on it or it might be shared, but it's reached and that means that your art is elegant.
I understand that h did not live a happy life but I can't help but laugh when I read the liner notes to my mother's double LP set of Horowitz. they spoke of how Horowitz aspired to be a composer but when the Russian Revolution liquidated his family fortunes, he was forced to the paino. Written like that,you get the impression,he had to play sailor tunes in a tavern rahter than be "forced"onto one of the greatest concert carreers in the 20th centruy.
Not quite, your impression is a bit off. He determined, quickly, that he could concertize and get paid for his recitals, he knew that he was good enough to attract audiences. His decision to concertize - he was very, very young - was pecuniary, given the exigencies of the times in Russia. He loved music, so performing and playing was not as if he sold his soul. He did have to walk away from being a composer. This wasn't America or Western Europe, people were starving.
I really love his technique especially for the fact that he uses all the height of the key ,I'm tryna learn how to do that to because I usually play only with just the half of the key ,does anyone has any advice or any recommend of a way to practice it?
Good funerial music because like life, the piece is challenging and brief, and concludes with an uncertain resolution.But the genius of the composer combined with the artistry of the performer transcends all that.
@TheRedArmy10 True, this great man should be an inspiration to us! ~ He lost so much.... all it seems to take for people to go into depression these days.. is a rise in food bills etc,
A fine performance indeed, but the face in the end (3:50) is the most memorable part of this video.
Alexander Arsov
Damn right!
Sadly, the world does not have people like him anymore.
And the last arpeggio is pure magic, how he touches the last note... Well, the whole second part, specially the coda. First time I heard it, I cried like a baby.
I always said the same thing. It brought tears to my eyes.
Really love his smiling face at the end! knowing that he is happy playing this Liszt beautiful piece.
And just like that, in such a casual yet solemn moment, the best rendition of this piece was recorded 😁
@ I agree with Daniel.
Quality of performance should not be rated on the percentage of right notes divided by all the notes.
You would not do well listening to Cortot.
I have heard many recordings, including Richter, Arrau, Brendel, Bolet, Cziffra, Cortot and Horowitz when he was younger.
Laplante recording is a performance I like too.
Bolet I like too.
Cziffra pace is a bit slow Then rushed and slow and rushed, I cannot make sense of it. But he had very few wrong notes.
But this performance by VH is hypnotic... to me, and far more listenable, to me.
@@Hjominbonrun The great Franz Liszt is known to once have said to a slobby student who kept hitting wrong notes on a Chopin étude: "Do your own laundry. Get your ass back into a conservatory." The ultimate Master never took anybody seriously unless their "laundry" - impeccable technique - was on point. That lesson burned deep in my hardwire. When some punk presents himself with their laundry undone I can't ever take him seriously.
@ Artur Schnabel was know to throw fists of wrong notes.
He is revered amongst concert pianists as a monumental interpreter of Beethoven.
Same for Cortot, Alfred Brendel looks to Cortot for interpretations of Chopin.
I hope you have not cut yourself off from some great music and beauty by focusing on architecture.
Eeeeh... Laplante would like to have a chat
Actually Maestro Brendel destroys everyone here
A smile that says it all - Happy 116th Birthday for tomorrow dear Maestro Horowitz
This is a piece that Horowitz played wonderful his whole career.
He went into depression three times for several years during his life and saw his family being wiped out either by wars or by suicide and he could never deal with the fact that he never really came out of the closet. Nevertheless he reached happiness toward the end of his life I'd say..
Both his father and Richter's disappeared into the maw of the Gulag, I believe I've heard and read.
I was just thinking that same thought, the smile at the end. There's definitely some kind of peacefulness and joy there, but I know he must've had a tremendously tortured life. Depression is a killer, and who knows what sorts of family trauma he might've gone through that nobody even knows about.
This is my favourite section from the whole of Années de pèlerinage and even though you played it beautifully and with character, that smile at the end just made my week :)
I heard him play this in 1976, and the audience let out a collective sigh when it was over. I am always amazed that he used in hands in a way that looks like a beginner doing everything a good teacher would immediately land on him/her for. Yet he had one of the most fabulous commands of an instrument in the history of Western classical music.
No está tan claro que utilizara técnica de principiante. La retroacción de los dedos es un principio complicado, y de técnica refinada, y que domina a la perfección, pese a que la altura de los dedos y la posición estirada pueda discutirse, no en este vídeo, que toca muy de cerquita, sino en otros, como el silente film de 1920 tocando el Estudio op 10 n 8.
Pero la retroacción y el no clavarse en el excesivo peso al final compensa todo, y da lugar, unido a su fabuloso talento, claro, a estos resultados.
Saludos.
je ne sais pas pourquoi je laisse ce message, les mots n'ont plus de sens en écoutant cette perfection
C'est la meme que jettant un fleur qui garde son douce odeur. ❤
I can hardly imagine how this piece could be played any better.
Played differently? Of course. Played better? There is no pinnacle of greatness in art, there's a plateau. Reach that plateau, you might be the only one on it or it might be shared, but it's reached and that means that your art is elegant.
I'm sure Horowitz played it better, with no wrong notes and better control. But no one else, -but Liszt himself?
/watch?v=GX7bgT78x8U
This way makes much more sense.
Martino - agreed! :-)
@@qzrnuiqntpHorowitz was never a machine. Even in his 1947 studio recording. there are some wrong notes here and there.
Happy Birthday to Franz Liszt REST IN POWER Blessings and Hugs 💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜
true pleasure of senses .. music springs everywhere
I can’t explain why but that face at 3:48 is the best part and made me tear up a little
Magical...
What a beautiful soul ❤
He said something like Liszt is the best...he definitely had a reverence for Liszt, maybe that look at the end ...lovely playing❤
He made me break out into a smile at the end there too.
I can never play this video without watching it too.
Lo adoro, emozionante....
Goosebumps
Beautiful peace
Enorme complejidad, belleza máxima.
1:34😮❤ magnificent pedal control
The chord in 2:30 is like a magic
It's beautiiful
True, true... glad that others noticed the same details... another proof that the word "absolute" in phylosopy has many real examples in Music
Ja, der Horowitz... Gut, dass man ihn in diesem Video auch spielen sieht.
3:49 - 3:54 He did live a happy life.
He was the best pianist and a wonderful man, couldn't be a better combination.
I understand that h did not live a happy life but I can't help but laugh when I read the liner notes to my mother's double LP set of Horowitz. they spoke of how Horowitz aspired to be a composer but when the Russian Revolution liquidated his family fortunes, he was forced to the paino. Written like that,you get the impression,he had to play sailor tunes in a tavern rahter than be "forced"onto one of the greatest concert carreers in the 20th centruy.
Not quite, your impression is a bit off. He determined, quickly, that he could concertize and get paid for his recitals, he knew that he was good enough to attract audiences. His decision to concertize - he was very, very young - was pecuniary, given the exigencies of the times in Russia. He loved music, so performing and playing was not as if he sold his soul. He did have to walk away from being a composer. This wasn't America or Western Europe, people were starving.
Such man, he was.
Que bonito o cruzar das mãos !!
He make s it look so easy...my god....
Some people believe that famous pianists become worse with age. Elly Ney (watch?v=5z-NlloM7TE) and Horowitz are counterexamples.
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1:31
Very good!!!!!!!!!!:)
Effortless.. just heavenly spooky
It's staggering...
What about those ten or so years where he withdrew from the public from depression? That's about. 10% of his life sad...
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It seems easy playing the piano looking to Horowitz...
Falar o que????????????????????????
lazar berman plays this much better than horowitz.
Uhhhhhh………no.
sadly, right... Yet he was happy at that moment. can't deny that ...
The look of bliss on his face at the end is priceless! What an amazing range of color, phrasing, and emotional depth.
I really love his technique especially for the fact that he uses all the height of the key ,I'm tryna learn how to do that to because I usually play only with just the half of the key ,does anyone has any advice or any recommend of a way to practice it?
What do u mean height of the key?
His piano key depth is 7 mm
Long fingers help, and the unorthodox straightened fingers technique unique to Horowitz
A class of his own, the Horowitz class.
listen at 0.5 playback speed
Bittersweet, like his smile.
Absolute beauty
Beautiful playing!
Good funerial music because like life, the piece is challenging and brief, and concludes with an uncertain resolution.But the genius of the composer combined with the artistry of the performer transcends all that.
i love you
greatness
I couldn't critique anyone who played the piano like that. It was very moving.
Fabulous data entry! 🥰
He defines Genius. My hero.
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His face at 3:50 made me cry and want to die.
Oh, my god.
@TheRedArmy10 True, this great man should be an inspiration to us! ~ He lost so much.... all it seems to take for people to go into depression these days.. is a rise in food bills etc,