Back in 8th grade, I remember my choir teacher telling the class to tune in that night to watch Horowitz at Carnegie Hall, and that's exactly what my parents and I did. Would've missed it if my teacher hadn't given a heads up. As an aspiring pianist then, I had the good luck many, many years later (1990) to be able to play a few numbers on his beloved Steinway, a wonderful memory I've cherished since then.
I could feel my whole bing, just by listening a old recording here, resonant with each chord he strok, that shook the whole universe. Earth-shattering indeed. The tsunami of emotions.
@@erezsolomon3838 Yes. I was referring to how @memeful4 actually spelled it correctly, yet couldn’t spell simple words like being (bing) and struck (strok).
It is unbelieveable...every note crystal clear , every subtle theme brought out again with such clarity and precision and with great musical artistry, interpretation and virtuosity in both hands to the point where at times it seems as if there are TWO pianists plaing. There is no other pianist in modern history who combined all of these elements.
@@herrwarum5969If you mean "see" literally, then of course it's difficult to observe. But phenomenal clarity certainly was produced by Horowitz - that is obvious to anyone with an excellent ear and hearing. Not just in this performance, but over the decades that he gave his concerts. He was pointedly praised notably for that - repeatedly.
I remember watching this on tv and was enthralled by his magic fingers. I also remember that he looked like an older man (I was 24) and now for some reason he looks much younger. This is a treasure for the ages.
LIPATTI. SOFRONITSKY. CORTOT MICHELANGELI. ( A parte DINU, gli altri possono essere sostituiti da altri straordinari pianisti. Le classifiche sono stupide...a parte DINU ..)
Vladimir Horowitz one can hear the throwing of his heartbeats through the soul of his fingers. With the deepest appreciation and admiration for this performance of such a genius.. Thank you!!!❤️
The greatest musician to play the piano - every moment is captivating and no weird speeds, crazy rubatos. It all sounds natural. Plus he look a lot like my grandpa
Not True! More colorful beautiful piano sound than Horowitz=Wilhelm Kempff Emil Gilels Radu Lupu Artur Rubinstein Vladimir Ashkenazy Grigory Sokolov! More genius than Horowitz=Sviatoslav Richter Solomon Cutner Grigory Sokolov Maurizio Pollini Stanislav Bunin! More powerful louder than Horowitz=Mikhail Pletnev(Prokofiev piano concerto no 1 by Pletnev!) The Second Loudest was Lazar Berman! The 3rd Loudest was Erwin Nyiregyhazi! Only thing Horowitz had was his technique!!
Saw VH several times in the 70s, Chicago. Once had stage seat; back then in Orchestra Hall, a folding chair. Arrived 3 hrs early for general admission stage seat. Got perfect front seat just off VH left hand, with view of whole keyboard. Maybe 8 or 10 feet away. Mesmerized and astounded as he ripped through his version of the Rachmaninov PS2 Inimitable VH
Спасибо за возможность еще и еще услышать гениального музыканта, который не играет, а беседует с нами. Да так задушевно, как будто только что сочинил каждое произведение и делится с окружающими. Светлая память!
00:53 Chopin: Ballade in G minor Op.23 10:22 Chopin: Nocturne in F minor Op.55 16:03 Chopin: Polonaise in F sharp minor Op.44 26:43 Scarlatti: Sonata in E Major, K.380 30:01 Scarlatti: Sonata in G Major, K.55 32:35 Schumann: Arabesque Op.18 40:24 Scriabin: Etude Op.8 No.12 43:13 Schumann: Op.15 No.7 "Traumerei" 46:24 Horowitz: Variations on a Gypsy Song from Bizet's "Carmen"
Oh the Horowitz magic. I couldn't stop crying-- so tranquil, so much pain, so much endurance and perseverance at the face of it. He's in a place that literally no one, dares to venture through. I'm deeply humbled and privileged to have witnessed that too. What a historical recording. Words fall short.
Surely one the greatest recitals ever recorded. His Chopin Polonaise is amazing for its emotional breadth power and mastery, also he delivers a wonderfully poetical account of the Schumann Arabesque. Harold C. Schonberg in his book The Great Pianists described Horowitz as a ''fearsome paradoxical pianist'' who brought unparalleled excitement to the concert platform. In my opinion this is an apt description. I cite above just two performances which demonstrates the extraordinary range of this legendary much missed virtuoso.
Всё, что дОлжно быть в арсенале мастерства пианиста-небожителя, прозвучало со сцены! Совершенство во всём! И позволю себе здесь отдельно сказать о тончайшем мастерстве использования педали - такого ресурса в создании звукового эффекта я ни у одного пианиста не встречала! ГЕНИЙ! ГЕНИЙ! ГЕНИЙ!
@@MrRjcosta, благодарю. Та элегантная застенчивость маэстро Горовица, которой он так подкупает слушателя, сродни взгляду "из под ресниц юной леди". А с возрастом эта глубина и утонченность исполнительского стиля пианиста стала ещё одухотвореннее и притягательнее. Он сам - как совершенный музыкальный инструмент!
Gosh I really hope someone digitally enhances the sound and video of this performance... this needs to be preserved in the record books for all history. What a true genius virtuoso and beyond brilliant artistic talent for the ages. I think Chopin would be proud, and no one else is worthy of judgment
A taste really of an earlier era of performance . A kind of purity which overrides the sheer technical prowess of Mr Horowitz. I wonder what it would have been like to witness Chopin or Liszt. Vladimir gives us a scent of that expectation and how wonderful to be able to witness it.
Knowing how much anxiety and stress he went through to do this as a "comeback" is really inspiring. Anyone watching this, you should know that he had to be pushed onto the stage, he had dealt with so much anxiety playing in public. Considering other pianists at the time, I think this was a show of force, saying I can play any realm of music. I can't imagine what the other prominent pianists at the time would've been thinking hearing this.
Vladimir owed his return to the stage to the unfailing love and support of his wife Wanda (Toscanini). Horowitz put tremendous pressure on himself to play with spontaneity and deeply imaginative tonal coloration. Nothing was routine in his playing. He played at home for her for years and she patiently listened, gave him informed feedback without pressuring him. She'd say, you will know when you are ready. Bernstein was a family friend and told these stories after she died, waiting to tell these stories until her passing. Horowitz and Rubenstein are my lifelong favorites. There are many greats, of course. As different as they are, they are first in my heart and imagination ❤❤❤
@@JoePalau Ya, besides the fact they separated in the late 40's due to a supposed affair and that it was well known Horowitz had male companions. I think you're giving way too much credit to his wife. You claim to quote Rubenstein even though he mentioned several times that he knew Horowitz wasn't happy with Wanda and that she may have hindered him. Not sure what you're getting at bro.
@@JMcKey21 she helped horowitz overcome his anxiety. If not for her he probably wouldn't have lived to see the stage again because the only way they could keep living with an income was by wanda selling her paintings. She also, although very serious and short-tempered, was the only person close to Horowitz who truly prompted him and encouraged him to go back on stage. Whenever he told her he'd never do it again she'd always respond you will. You can read about their personal life together on the new york times. Another thing she did was since she had not musical career of her own, she took it upon herself to do what her mother did to her father and take care of all of Horowitz's needs - for example: suitcase packing, event managing, interview scheduling, etc.
К студии музыкальных программ: почаще давайте в эфир музыку выдающихся исполнителей . Образовывайте свой народ. А народ чтобы помнил и в лицо узнавал гениальных людей, подаривших миру свое искусство.
Broadcasted Sept. 22, 1968 at 9pm - without commercial interruptions - at the same time as Zorba the Greek on NBC, or back when American TV was more opened to the world.
..I think about the immense pressure to get it right on stage and the concentration and practice required for this brief moment in ones career...On Horowitz New York debut I believe in 1928...all the great pianists were in the audience ..men like Joseph Hoffmann and Sergei Rachmaninoff were just two of them...and Horowitz performed all of Chopin's Ballads from 4 to 1 in reverse chronological order......that had to be very very difficult...taking everything into consideration...
Sir, can you explain why he stares at the keyboard so intensely, even until the last Play, and not even looking up once, yes once towards the heavens 🤔🤔🤔??????
His performance of Scriabin Etude is legendary. None ever played this etude with such thunderous sound like him. The one and only Vladimir Horowitz. BRAVO!
I totally agree. And I am a Scriabin devotee, I worship some of his pieces. No one imparted 'tortured' emotional intensity to this piece like Horowitz. Of course, only Horowitz had that unparalleled virtuosic strength to do so. This is where Horowitz triumphs over his critics who like to claim that he ONLY had a fabulous physical dexterity, and wasn't a very good musician. THIS piece demands Horowitz level strength to truly shine.
@@johnkaylor3929 yes, in fact he did some of most musical interpretation for works like Scriabin op 2 no 1 which played with such darkness and sadness. Anyway, this etude was played by an 63 old year man hahaha it's extraordinary!
@@ericofelix2005 I concur. But a minor technical correction - Horowitz was born 1903, this concert was in 1968, thus he was 65 in this video. But wow, for him to domineer in his specialty at THAT AGE (fabulous technique) is grounds for one widespread view - greatest pianist (as for technique). As to 'best piano musician', that is so subjective and vague. The tempo I like in a piece might be too fast, or too slow for you. The same with certain phrasings, etc. But I DON'T see grounds for criticizing him as a "technician" only, and a BAD musician.
La escuela Rusa del siglo XIX guardaba con selo el valor estético de su tradición, gracias a que el maestro Horowitz emigra hacia EU de América, cuando esto sucede, podría considerarse que todas las escuelas de piano, ya eran de consideración y esto crea y define el resultado final en la clase de interpretación que termina con el maestro Horowitz
Horowitz - His Life and Music (1992) by Harold Schonberg: At CBS the projected show was called Project X and had a top-secret tag attached to it because Horowitz would have been furious had there been a publicity leak. Rehearsals were held in Carnegie Hall. Special pains were taken to ensure that the highest technical standards obtained. The floor of the stage was sprinkled with talcum powder to avoid squeaking. The television crew wore velvet slippers. Programs were printed on silk so that there would be no rustling. In all, the project cost CBS about $275,000. Horowitz watched some of the playbacks. He was somewhat startled at what he saw. In his interview with Time he said that he had never before seen a close-up of his hands on the keyboard. “It’s fantastic, but sometimes the technique is awful. Things I tell my students not to do, I’m doing.” And of the close-ups of his face: “To me it’s almost an invasion of my privacy.” The videotape was made by CBS at Carnegie Hall on January 2 and February 1, 1968. For both tapings the hall was full, and reviewers were present. The program contained two Scarlatti sonatas; Chopin’s G minor Ballade (Horowitz’s old friend and adversary), F sharp minor Polonaise, and F minor Nocturne; the Schumann Arabesque; Scriabin’s Etude in D sharp minor; and, as always, Schumann’s Träumerei as an encore, followed by the Carmen Variations. The TV special was sponsored by General Telephone and Electronics. Called Vladimir Horowitz: A Television Concert at Carnegie Hall, it went out over the CBS network on September 22, 1968, and later in the year on Christmas Day. On this show many music lovers and piano students were seeing and hearing Horowitz for the first time; and even those who had watched his playing through the years could see things not visible in the concert hall - the close-ups of the Horowitz hands, for instance. There must have been reverberations between teachers and students all over the country as they watched the fabulous Horowitz doing all the “wrong” things. In his review, Robert Finn of the Cleveland Plain Dealer was amused at this aspect of the film. “I think,” he wrote the following day, “this concert should have borne ‘adult only’ label, for if many piano-looking youngsters get the idea that they should hold their hands like Horowitz, American piano playing will be set back 50 years.”
What a nice explanation of the event, to make things a little more interesting, he was playing the Steinway "CD 199" or "Old 199" considered to be the favorite of Horowitz, Rachmaninoff, Graffman, Bernstein etc. It became such a problem for Steinway that hey decided to remove the Piano from the Basement's inventory and in 1974 it was retired and brought to the Skitch Henderson Museum in New Milford CT...we just had a concert with Chris Brubeck on October 17th 2021 and he Played the Old 199 for the first time since it was played last by Skitch Henderson in 2005 before his death.
Flat fingers on the black keys are inevitable when the span of the hand is at its widest. If you bend the middle fingers in this situation, there is too much tension. When the hand-span is not so wide, the fingers naturally curl. Easy to see Horowitz's hands doing the same.
@@davidrichardstanhope Thanks for your remark. Flattened phalanx on the touch with and S curve (curve and counter curve) and flat-straight finger with maybe a slight C curve are different; I think it was mention of the first case and you are mentionning the second case, if I understood well. Anyway, I do not see any problem with any of those; what matters IMHO is the sound and how the performer feels. I even can think of cases where the S curve is fine. I saw that with few other pianists with a russian/soviet background, thinking in terms of "crafting a sound pasta" when it comes to piano/keyboard approach. Furthermore, few people (pianists) are seeing the curled pinky as a problem, claiming that it's coming from an unwanted tension; I do that and many other very famous pianists do that and I do not feel this as a problem at all. Few people are IMHO over thinking and over theorizing the piano physical approach, eventually falling into wrong statements. I'm not sure any of this is helping to make actual music.
0:54 Chopin Ballade in G minor Op.23 10:15 Chopin Nocturne in F minor Op.55 15:56 Chopin Polonaise in F sharp minor Op.44 26:47 Scarlatti Sonata K380 30:01 Scarlatti Sonata K13 32:47 Schumann Arabeske Op.18 40:27 Scriabin Etude Op.8 No.12 43:15 Schumann Op.15 No.7 Traumerei 46:22 Bizet - Horowitz Carmen Variations
I feel the tension and excitement of a Horowitz audience so much more that the audiences of today...this is probably because I just happen to prefer a Horowitz concert...but I think those days it was more of an event.
Sir, can you explain why he stares at the keyboard so intensely, even until the last Play, and not even looking up once, yes once towards the heavens 🤔🤔🤔??????
@tentrade2 I heard it was because once when he was playing one of the keys jumped up and bit him on the chin. He now watches like hawk so he knows when to duck. Hope this helps.
I remember seeing this concert on TV when I was in my teens. I went to the music store the next day to find and buy every piece he played. I’ve spent my years since trying to learn them! I’ve had a teacher from Vladivostok for 12 years who is (trying to) teach me the Russian method. Thank you for this post of the concert!
Sir, can you explain why he stares at the keyboard so intensely, even until the last Play, and not even looking up once, yes once towards the heavens 🤔🤔🤔??????
@@tentrade2 Потому что он над всем и вне всего.Он уходит в свой прекрасный мир и дает возможность нам туда заглянуть.Он сам говорил,что вычурная поза и подвижная мимика во время игры у других исполнителей его приводит в недоумение.
@@tentrade2 The answer can only be, that he was not in peace with THE ALMIGHTY GOD, as I have found out in many studies and searches. His life was without any central resting point or hold. Only few artist in this and other disciplines had or have peace with GOD and their end is mostly very dramatic and full of dispair, unfortunately! Only underneath the cross of CHRIST JESUS we sinners find all, that GOD has presented as a free and highest gift to mankind, but only the repenting sinners are able to grasp and enjoy it after some time. Their end is just the opposite of dispair and craze. Their future is full of blessings and joy in heaven at the feat of their SAVIOUR, who has to be worshipped without end on earth and in the heavens!
You have to believe that we're living in a world of diversity and multicultural. Don't expect everyone is sympathetic with classic music. You enjoy what others dislike.
@@frankorodz6703 in my opinion, if someone dislikes ALL classical music, it’s due to ignorance, which can be said of other styles of music and the arts.
What a magnificent memory...in this video he was playing the Steinway "CD 199" or "Old 199" considered to be the favorite of Horowitz, Rachmaninoff, Graffman, Bernstein etc. It became such a problem for Steinway that hey decided to remove the Piano from the Basement's inventory and in 1974 it was retired and brought to the Skitch Henderson Museum in New Milford CT...we just had a concert with Chris Brubeck on October 17th 2021 and he Played the Old 199 for the first time since it was played last by Skitch Henderson in 2005 before his death.
The audio on this presentation of this is so superior to some of the earlier ones on RUclips-the video even with a dvd is what it is-which is not bad, but not modern quality and we're lucky we have it-video of the younger Horowitz
The Carmen Variations are the highlight for me. A raucous pastiche with plenty of bombast. He looks like he enjoyed playing it too. I heard him play Traumerei once. No recording can bring out the tone colors and sonorities he could coax from the piano.
I was in the audience and was thrilled with the Scriabin, which I was getting ready to perform as an Encore at my graduation recital a few weeks later. My ❤ was in my mouth!!! It was such a privilege!!! He had a unique and striking style.
Interrupted by ads for prostate treatment, during a _monetized_ concert played by *VLADIMIR HOROWITZ,* _not_ @Vladiovostock 1969. Now _THAT_ is class…. *N O T.*
Find some comfort in the fact that in his old age, when he was being filmed on the way to one of (maybe his last?) his last concerts, he responded something like , "They still remember me?" when told that tons of people were lining up to attend his concert. His talent, determination, and fun personality were too strong to be "forever gone." He lives on in these recordings, and in our fond memories!
@@BrucknerMotet Wonderful response. Thank you. I am a pianist/composer but I have small hands and fingers so I am limited by my anatomy as to what I can play and compose. However, because of the physical limitations of my hands/fingers I play flat-handed just as Horowitz did. My first two piano teachers when I was a little boy used to bitch at me if I didn't maintain that stupid raised/cupped hand position while playing, but once I saw a film of Horowitz playing flat-handed I was liberated from that inanity that piano teachers impose on their students. I just completed my 9 vignettes "Rasputin Rhapsody" (a 45-minute collective) and I have dedicated it to the memory of Horowitz.
Be happy that he has existed, death is part of life, but Vladimir lives forever 🙂 He is a infinite source of inspiration as a human being and as an artist.
The very noticeable difference between Horowitz and every other pianist I've ever listened to is that Horowitz has no fear of attacking the piano--it is after all, a hammerklavier, not so named for nothing.
I bet the recording engineering was kicking themselves for recording so hot after they heard the distortion they created on such a masterful performance.
One of my two entrees into classical music, as a kid. This and the 2001 soundtrack. I have the CD and treasure it. A shame this wasn't properly filmed.
What a magical concert and broad cast a month later on network tv across the nation...I was born in October of that year..sometimes I feel I was born in the wrong generation because I cannot find the value in today's music like many others do in my own family..The Gminor ballad was awesome and expressive...op. 55 Nocturn was so wonderful it inspires me to try and learn it and the Scarlatti put me in King Arthur's court just majestic.
Aviso a RUclips, que no pienso consumir ningun producto que promocionen, el cual interrumpa un concierto de tal magnitud. Y ni siquiera esperan a que termine la obra. UNA TOTAL FALTA DE CRITERIO Y RESPETO.
An interesting fact about his technique - notice how little is arms, versus just his hands and fingers, move. On the very first note of the very first piece (the Chopin Ballade) he hits the note with the force of a hammer without even moving his arms to accomplish it. Truly phenomenal strength (and at 65 !).
@@juliusholstein2376 Ludicrous. It was documented at the time of his historic concerts that he went to the (public) Steinway galleries in New York - fully accompanied by attendees - to select a piano from their (normal, openly public) showroom for the concert. Never once was it claimed that Steinway and Sons built a special 'light weight' piano for Horowitz - or any other performer. Beyond that, Horowitz's phenomenal technique was directly witnessed - first hand - for decades by countless musicians and pianists, on innumerable publicly provided pianos, and there was never an accusation of 'technique fraud' by use of special 'easy touch' pianos. Finally, as an experienced pianist myself, who played on many grand pianos in my youth, any piano that happens to have a light touch would Not facilitate the orchestral sound Horowitz clearly produces in his performances.
@@johnkaylor8670 Franz Mohr customized his piano action. I didn´t claim that Steinway did. I also didn´t claim that the lighter action was the primary factor in Horowitz´s technique. I didn´t claim that his technique was fraudulent. I didn´t claim that the lighter action, with easier touch was easier or harder to play on, I pointed out that it was merely what Horowitz preferred. Horowitz´s action was customized to be lighter, by Franz Mohr of course.
"This is a clear example that the most viewed and sold is not always the best"... kind of. Horowitz is obviously fabulous. At the same time, there are better interpretations of these pieces out there. Don't misunderstand--I really enjoy the variety, and the older recordings coming to life are wonderful. But I can't help to think how society's tastes change with time and how it applies to music. I wonder what the originals sounded like and how much we've changed them over the years, all the while thinking that we are getting closer to the intent of the composer!
Similar to comments from Jeff Muenster,in the late 1900,s a radio station in northern Chicago subúrnbs invited public to play 3 pianos on exhibit at a Steinway dealership.They featured the famous Horowitz Steinway, a long time famous pianist , I forgot his name hé was before Horowitz,and Van Cliburnes piano--though I don't believe Cliburn was in the caagory of famous pianists. They should have had Arthur Rubenstein's piano on exhibit. I got to play The famous Horowitz piano for 45 minutes and had my Father In Law take pictures of me at the Horowitz Grande Steinway. Horowitz was,and still is Considered the World's Greatest Classical Concert Pianist. Michael. Gear Rockford, I'll.
호로비츠는 1968년 1월 2일과 2월 1일에 동일한 프로그램으로 연주함. 이 tv콘서트는 두 연주 프로그램을 mix한 영상임. (호로비츠의 오른쪽 모습 나오는게 1월2일연주고 왼쪽모습이 2월1일) 그리고 실제로는 발라드1번이 첫곡이 아님. Horowitz performed on the same program on 2 January and 1 February 1968. This tv concert is a mix of two performance programs. (The right figure of Horowitz is played on January 2nd, and the left figure is on February 1st) Actually, Ballade Op.23 is not the first piece. Actual program list Chopin: Polonaise in F-sharp minor, Op.44 Chopin: Nocturne in F minor, Op.55 No.1 Chopin: Ballade No.1 in G minor, Op.23 Scarlatti: Sonata in E major, K.380 Scarlatti: Sonata in G major, K.55 Schumann: Arabeske, Op.18 Scriabin: Etude in D-sharp minor, Op.8 No.12 Schumann: Träumerei, Op.15 No.7 Horowitz: Carmen Variations
When i was a young man, early 70s, Horowitz was my favorite pianist. I don't remember why, but i think it was the pathos and emotion with which he played. Those who didn't like him accused him of having "the big sloppy style." But his playing touched me.
Incredible to see such complete concentration at the service of the music. Strange to think he had the reputation of an empty virtuoso when this video displays 95% intensely musical playing and 5% display.
I am a 'dyed in the wool' piano afficionado from day one. Piano is part of my soul. And played the piano reverentially until I was nearly 20. And I will tell you that I think that his phenomenal - unequaled - physical technique simply put people who claimed to be music "critics" and also other professional pianists of his time, down, so to speak. To me that viewpoint was purely sour grapes. Horowitz was an excellent pianist - and his technique made him an phenomenally unequaled performer.
@@renep9968 I studied at the Royal Academy in London in the 80s and our teachers were all disparaging towards him. Thankfully this attitude no longer prevails, but it was widespread back then.
@@johnkaylor8670 Plus the fact that Sergei R. was singularly impressed by VH's handling of his pieces ... that's evidence enough for me to immediately push VH to the head of the line or at least very close to the head of the line in terms of pianistic talent/dexterity.
Back in 8th grade, I remember my choir teacher telling the class to tune in that night to watch Horowitz at Carnegie Hall, and that's exactly what my parents and I did. Would've missed it if my teacher hadn't given a heads up. As an aspiring pianist then, I had the good luck many, many years later (1990) to be able to play a few numbers on his beloved Steinway, a wonderful memory I've cherished since then.
I could feel my whole bing, just by listening a old recording here, resonant with each chord he strok, that shook the whole universe. Earth-shattering indeed. The tsunami of emotions.
@@memeful4Interesting that you can spell tsunami but not being or struck.
@@kevinm6790 tsunami is written exactly how it sounds like...
@@erezsolomon3838 Yes. I was referring to how @memeful4 actually spelled it correctly, yet couldn’t spell simple words like being (bing) and struck (strok).
There will never be another Horowitz. His dynamics and phrasing make me want to give up the piano. This concert is insane.
Never up. This was his journey. Yours is still ahead of you. 👍
素 晴らしい❤🎉
強さ.センサイさ兼、備えたピアニストですねえ😂
男だが彼に惚れてしまいました❤😍🥳✨
Che effetti e che sentimento,un pianista così ti fa tornare indietro nel tempo e ti fa dimenticare tutti i pianisti odierni............
It is unbelieveable...every note crystal clear , every subtle theme brought out again with such clarity and precision and with great musical artistry, interpretation and virtuosity in both hands to the point where at times it seems as if there are TWO pianists plaing. There is no other pianist in modern history who combined all of these elements.
where do you see clarity ?! 🤣
@@herrwarum5969If you mean "see" literally, then of course it's difficult to observe. But phenomenal clarity certainly was produced by Horowitz - that is obvious to anyone with an excellent ear and hearing. Not just in this performance, but over the decades that he gave his concerts. He was pointedly praised notably for that - repeatedly.
I remember watching this on tv and was enthralled by his magic fingers. I also remember that he looked like an older man (I was 24) and now for some reason he looks much younger. This is a treasure for the ages.
I, too, was enthralled; my only disappointment was that he didn't perform "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On" as an encore.
(I jest, of course).
@@raymondst.pierre4372 …Raymond, Sir…that was funny
@@Maxumized Thank you.
@@raymondst.pierre4372 please Raymond peux tu traduire au français? Je ne comprends que très peux l'anglais!!!
Es mayor...
Alcuni pianisti sono un profumo, ma Horowitz è l'essenza da cui traggono questo profumo... Giuseppe Perego Monza 16.2.1962
LIPATTI. SOFRONITSKY. CORTOT MICHELANGELI. ( A parte DINU, gli altri possono essere sostituiti da altri straordinari pianisti. Le classifiche sono stupide...a parte DINU ..)
Vladimir Horowitz one can hear the throwing of his heartbeats through the soul of his fingers.
With the deepest appreciation and admiration for this performance of such a genius.. Thank you!!!❤️
When the distance between aiming for the skies and perfection is zero, that's Vladimir Horowitz.
The greatest musician to play the piano - every moment is captivating and no weird speeds, crazy rubatos. It all sounds natural. Plus he look a lot like my grandpa
Not True! More colorful beautiful piano sound than Horowitz=Wilhelm Kempff Emil Gilels Radu Lupu Artur Rubinstein Vladimir Ashkenazy Grigory Sokolov! More genius than Horowitz=Sviatoslav Richter Solomon Cutner Grigory Sokolov Maurizio Pollini Stanislav Bunin! More powerful louder than Horowitz=Mikhail Pletnev(Prokofiev piano concerto no 1 by Pletnev!) The Second Loudest was Lazar Berman! The 3rd Loudest was Erwin Nyiregyhazi! Only thing Horowitz had was his technique!!
❤🎉❤🎉
@@RaineriHakkarainenthe fuck bruh
@@RaineriHakkarainen Only your effing opinion mate.
You are a deaf fool and should keep your foolish mouth shut!
Saw VH several times in the 70s, Chicago. Once had stage seat; back then in Orchestra Hall, a folding chair. Arrived 3 hrs early for general admission stage seat. Got perfect front seat just off VH left hand, with view of whole keyboard. Maybe 8 or 10 feet away. Mesmerized and astounded as he ripped through his version of the Rachmaninov PS2
Inimitable VH
Спасибо за возможность еще и еще услышать гениального музыканта, который не играет, а беседует с нами. Да так задушевно, как будто только что сочинил каждое произведение и делится с окружающими. Светлая память!
音源では聴いたことあったけど、実際の演奏シーンを見るのはコレが初めて😭
か、感激〜
だれだろう！アップロードしてくださった方に感謝感謝🙏😌
１９７０年代にSONYカセット録音を買いました。映像を見るのは私も今日初めてです。
How much time it takes to handwrite these signs?
00:53 Chopin: Ballade in G minor Op.23
10:22 Chopin: Nocturne in F minor Op.55
16:03 Chopin: Polonaise in F sharp minor Op.44
26:43 Scarlatti: Sonata in E Major, K.380
30:01 Scarlatti: Sonata in G Major, K.55
32:35 Schumann: Arabesque Op.18
40:24 Scriabin: Etude Op.8 No.12
43:13 Schumann: Op.15 No.7 "Traumerei"
46:24 Horowitz: Variations on a Gypsy Song from Bizet's "Carmen"
Me encanta .esta con Dios.
Thanks a lot!
Oh the Horowitz magic.
I couldn't stop crying-- so tranquil, so much pain, so much endurance and perseverance at the face of it. He's in a place that literally no one, dares to venture through. I'm deeply humbled and privileged to have witnessed that too. What a historical recording. Words fall short.
Эталон игры. Что бы он не играл можно слушать до бесконечности.
Surely one the greatest recitals ever recorded. His Chopin Polonaise is amazing for its emotional breadth power and mastery, also he delivers a wonderfully poetical account of the Schumann Arabesque. Harold C. Schonberg in his book The Great Pianists described Horowitz as a ''fearsome paradoxical pianist'' who brought unparalleled excitement to the concert platform. In my opinion this is an apt description.
I cite above just two performances which demonstrates the extraordinary range of this legendary much missed virtuoso.
Yes, but what was the other side of that coin? Do tell.
@@needtoknowbasis3499 What is your point?.
Всё, что дОлжно быть в арсенале мастерства пианиста-небожителя, прозвучало со сцены!
Совершенство во всём!
И позволю себе здесь отдельно сказать о тончайшем мастерстве использования педали - такого ресурса в создании звукового эффекта я ни у одного пианиста не встречала!
ГЕНИЙ! ГЕНИЙ! ГЕНИЙ!
Безупречно 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻! Большое спасибо за ваши деликатные слова. Рикардо Жюстен, Рио-де-Жанейро, Бразилия🎹🎼🎶🎶🎶!
@@MrRjcosta, благодарю.
Та элегантная застенчивость маэстро Горовица, которой он так подкупает слушателя, сродни взгляду "из под ресниц юной леди". А с возрастом эта глубина и утонченность исполнительского стиля пианиста стала ещё одухотвореннее и притягательнее.
Он сам - как совершенный музыкальный инструмент!
Savrseno ! Fantasticno !
He Is a Genius, but without his personal Steinway he isn't Horowitz.
@Mario De Gaetano
This is not true. He was playing on his personal piano only for the latest years. Not this concert.
Gosh I really hope someone digitally enhances the sound and video of this performance... this needs to be preserved in the record books for all history. What a true genius virtuoso and beyond brilliant artistic talent for the ages. I think Chopin would be proud, and no one else is worthy of judgment
I did a little work on a portion of it if you are interested ruclips.net/video/J0M1wKqwXho/видео.html
A taste really of an earlier era of performance . A kind of purity which overrides the sheer technical prowess of Mr Horowitz. I wonder what it would have been like to witness Chopin or Liszt. Vladimir gives us a scent of that expectation and how wonderful to be able to witness it.
This 1968 what do you expect.
I try to make this .
ruclips.net/video/mxomufEPFds/видео.html
I absolutely agree...this concert I can see he was really focused and into his performance ..every nuance and note and color.
Knowing how much anxiety and stress he went through to do this as a "comeback" is really inspiring. Anyone watching this, you should know that he had to be pushed onto the stage, he had dealt with so much anxiety playing in public. Considering other pianists at the time, I think this was a show of force, saying I can play any realm of music. I can't imagine what the other prominent pianists at the time would've been thinking hearing this.
Stage fright?
Source?
Vladimir owed his return to the stage to the unfailing love and support of his wife Wanda (Toscanini). Horowitz put tremendous pressure on himself to play with spontaneity and deeply imaginative tonal coloration. Nothing was routine in his playing. He played at home for her for years and she patiently listened, gave him informed feedback without pressuring him. She'd say, you will know when you are ready. Bernstein was a family friend and told these stories after she died, waiting to tell these stories until her passing. Horowitz and Rubenstein are my lifelong favorites. There are many greats, of course. As different as they are, they are first in my heart and imagination ❤❤❤
@@JoePalau Ya, besides the fact they separated in the late 40's due to a supposed affair and that it was well known Horowitz had male companions. I think you're giving way too much credit to his wife. You claim to quote Rubenstein even though he mentioned several times that he knew Horowitz wasn't happy with Wanda and that she may have hindered him. Not sure what you're getting at bro.
@@JMcKey21 she helped horowitz overcome his anxiety. If not for her he probably wouldn't have lived to see the stage again because the only way they could keep living with an income was by wanda selling her paintings. She also, although very serious and short-tempered, was the only person close to Horowitz who truly prompted him and encouraged him to go back on stage. Whenever he told her he'd never do it again she'd always respond you will. You can read about their personal life together on the new york times. Another thing she did was since she had not musical career of her own, she took it upon herself to do what her mother did to her father and take care of all of Horowitz's needs - for example: suitcase packing, event managing, interview scheduling, etc.
Благодарю. Канал и RUclips за предоставленное удовольствие видеть и слышать игру выдающегося пианиста Владимира Горовица. Благодарю.
Руки! Руки! Руки!.......... завораживают. В них вся душа исполнителя.
Russia must be so proud of him. Bravo. And so are all of us. 🌷🌷🌷💖
@@emilyhutjes He was a son of Ukraine - born in Kyiv and he proudly referred to himself as Ukrainian.
Starting out with the greatest song of all time. Fabulous
К студии музыкальных программ: почаще давайте в эфир музыку выдающихся исполнителей . Образовывайте свой народ. А народ чтобы помнил и в лицо узнавал гениальных людей, подаривших миру свое искусство.
Как можно так играть, это не человек-это чудо!!!!
О, да!))
Инопланетянин!
Broadcasted Sept. 22, 1968 at 9pm - without commercial interruptions - at the same time as Zorba the Greek on NBC, or back when American TV was more opened to the world.
You mean the good old times when in Europe they used to make original movies worth watching instead of copying American style?
Большое спасибо тем, кто осуществил запись этого концерта.
Einfach großartig nach all den vielen Jahren dieses noch einmal zu sehen Erasmus aus Schweden 🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🎹🎹🎹🎹
Strabiliante! Per me è il più grande pianista di tutti i tempi.
NO
..I think about the immense pressure to get it right on stage and the concentration and practice required for this brief moment in ones career...On Horowitz New York debut I believe in 1928...all the great pianists were in the audience ..men like Joseph Hoffmann and Sergei Rachmaninoff were just two of them...and Horowitz performed all of Chopin's Ballads from 4 to 1 in reverse chronological order......that had to be very very difficult...taking everything into consideration...
Sir, can you explain why he stares at the keyboard so intensely, even until the last Play, and not even looking up once, yes once towards the heavens 🤔🤔🤔??????
@@tentrade2 he's using his vision to help himself play
@@DoomrodKilgard I like to see him play Not look into the keyboard 🎹 but look up to the heavens....that's the visionary view... YEAH
He is not a Piano technician,is he Not, I saw him playing Chopin #53 with great effort like finally it's over...hew....
@@tentrade2 Indeed, but looking up to the heavens has never helped anyone nail a difficult passage!
素晴らしいの一言に尽きる。これが典雅な音。
Какое колоссальное мастерство! Поистине великий музыкант!
Пианист, не музыкант🙂
I waited decades for this DVD of the greatest concert of all time.
His performance of Scriabin Etude is legendary. None ever played this etude with such thunderous sound like him. The one and only Vladimir Horowitz. BRAVO!
I totally agree. And I am a Scriabin devotee, I worship some of his pieces. No one imparted 'tortured' emotional intensity to this piece like Horowitz. Of course, only Horowitz had that unparalleled virtuosic strength to do so. This is where Horowitz triumphs over his critics who like to claim that he ONLY had a fabulous physical dexterity, and wasn't a very good musician. THIS piece demands Horowitz level strength to truly shine.
@@johnkaylor3929 yes, in fact he did some of most musical interpretation for works like Scriabin op 2 no 1 which played with such darkness and sadness. Anyway, this etude was played by an 63 old year man hahaha it's extraordinary!
@@ericofelix2005 I concur. But a minor technical correction - Horowitz was born 1903, this concert was in 1968, thus he was 65 in this video. But wow, for him to domineer in his specialty at THAT AGE (fabulous technique) is grounds for one widespread view - greatest pianist (as for technique). As to 'best piano musician', that is so subjective and vague. The tempo I like in a piece might be too fast, or too slow for you. The same with certain phrasings, etc. But I DON'T see grounds for criticizing him as a "technician" only, and a BAD musician.
Scriabin is still the best Scriabin player imo. Listen to him playing op. 8 no. 12 if you haven't!
@@johnkaylor3929 and. W O W : = z) !
Thank you. A truly legendary performance.
So much beauty and intensity of passion🎆❗🎆
Потрясающее, редчайшее, изумительнейшее, захватывающее исполнение неповторимого Владимира Города! Большое спасибо!
Горовца!!!
ГоровЦа...
Fascinating !!!
Спасибо тем операторам, кто создал запись. В ТЕ годы это было сродни подвигу: при той технике были сложнейшие кинокамеры или примитивные видеокамеры.
No REACH AROUNDS!
Вот , не могу наслушаться ,особенный шарм. Прошу прощения, но я просто балдею от него...
La escuela Rusa del siglo XIX guardaba con selo el valor estético de su tradición, gracias a que el maestro Horowitz emigra hacia EU de América, cuando esto sucede, podría considerarse que todas las escuelas de piano, ya eran de consideración y esto crea y define el resultado final en la clase de interpretación que termina con el maestro Horowitz
,
Horowitz - His Life and Music (1992) by Harold Schonberg:
At CBS the projected show was called Project X and had a top-secret tag attached to it because Horowitz would have been furious had there been a publicity leak. Rehearsals were held in Carnegie Hall. Special pains were taken to ensure that the highest technical standards obtained. The floor of the stage was sprinkled with talcum powder to avoid squeaking. The television crew wore velvet slippers. Programs were printed on silk so that there would be no rustling. In all, the project cost CBS about $275,000.
Horowitz watched some of the playbacks. He was somewhat startled at what he saw. In his interview with Time he said that he had never before seen a close-up of his hands on the keyboard. “It’s fantastic, but sometimes the technique is awful. Things I tell my students not to do, I’m doing.” And of the close-ups of his face: “To me it’s almost an invasion of my privacy.”
The videotape was made by CBS at Carnegie Hall on January 2 and February 1, 1968. For both tapings the hall was full, and reviewers were present. The program contained two Scarlatti sonatas; Chopin’s G minor Ballade (Horowitz’s old friend and adversary), F sharp minor Polonaise, and F minor Nocturne; the Schumann Arabesque; Scriabin’s Etude in D sharp minor; and, as always, Schumann’s Träumerei as an encore, followed by the Carmen Variations. The TV special was sponsored by General Telephone and Electronics. Called Vladimir Horowitz: A Television Concert at Carnegie Hall, it went out over the CBS network on September 22, 1968, and later in the year on Christmas Day.
On this show many music lovers and piano students were seeing and hearing Horowitz for the first time; and even those who had watched his playing through the years could see things not visible in the concert hall - the close-ups of the Horowitz hands, for instance. There must have been reverberations between teachers and students all over the country as they watched the fabulous Horowitz doing all the “wrong” things. In his review, Robert Finn of the Cleveland Plain Dealer was amused at this aspect of the film. “I think,” he wrote the following day, “this concert should have borne ‘adult only’ label, for if many piano-looking youngsters get the idea that they should hold their hands like Horowitz, American piano playing will be set back 50 years.”
What a nice explanation of the event, to make things a little more interesting, he was playing the Steinway "CD 199" or "Old 199" considered to be the favorite of Horowitz, Rachmaninoff, Graffman, Bernstein etc. It became such a problem for Steinway that hey decided to remove the Piano from the Basement's inventory and in 1974 it was retired and brought to the Skitch Henderson Museum in New Milford CT...we just had a concert with Chris Brubeck on October 17th 2021 and he Played the Old 199 for the first time since it was played last by Skitch Henderson in 2005 before his death.
Very, very interesting. Thanks Mathieu. Fantastic quotation from Schoenberg book.
This was in the day when classical music was fully appreciated and great pianists were revered.
Flat fingers on the black keys are inevitable when the span of the hand is at its widest. If you bend the middle fingers in this situation, there is too much tension. When the hand-span is not so wide, the fingers naturally curl. Easy to see Horowitz's hands doing the same.
@@davidrichardstanhope Thanks for your remark. Flattened phalanx on the touch with and S curve (curve and counter curve) and flat-straight finger with maybe a slight C curve are different; I think it was mention of the first case and you are mentionning the second case, if I understood well. Anyway, I do not see any problem with any of those; what matters IMHO is the sound and how the performer feels. I even can think of cases where the S curve is fine. I saw that with few other pianists with a russian/soviet background, thinking in terms of "crafting a sound pasta" when it comes to piano/keyboard approach. Furthermore, few people (pianists) are seeing the curled pinky as a problem, claiming that it's coming from an unwanted tension; I do that and many other very famous pianists do that and I do not feel this as a problem at all. Few people are IMHO over thinking and over theorizing the piano physical approach, eventually falling into wrong statements. I'm not sure any of this is helping to make actual music.
My! What can be said. Masterfully done
I watched this live on CBS my senior year in high school. He was an inspiration! At the height of his powers!
Божественно!ВЕЛИКИЙ,ВЕЛИКИЙ!
Best !!! That’s all i can say about his performance!!!!!
0:54 Chopin Ballade in G minor Op.23
10:15 Chopin Nocturne in F minor Op.55
15:56 Chopin Polonaise in F sharp minor Op.44
26:47 Scarlatti Sonata K380
30:01 Scarlatti Sonata K13
32:47 Schumann Arabeske Op.18
40:27 Scriabin Etude Op.8 No.12
43:15 Schumann Op.15 No.7 Traumerei
46:22 Bizet - Horowitz Carmen Variations
Thank you.
Непревзойденный Гений.Величайший из музыкантов.
I feel the tension and excitement of a Horowitz audience so much more that the audiences of today...this is probably because I just happen to prefer a Horowitz concert...but I think those days it was more of an event.
Sir, can you explain why he stares at the keyboard so intensely, even until the last Play, and not even looking up once, yes once towards the heavens 🤔🤔🤔??????
Audiences change, too. My hunch there were far more musically trained and educated folks in Carnegie on that day.
@tentrade2 I heard it was because once when he was playing one of the keys jumped up and bit him on the chin. He now watches like hawk so he knows when to duck.
Hope this helps.
Wundervoller, unglaublicher Horowitz!
The polonaise is unbelievably beautiful. I have never before heard it played so convincingly.
I remember seeing this concert on TV when I was in my teens. I went to the music store the next day to find and buy every piece he played. I’ve spent my years since trying to learn them! I’ve had a teacher from Vladivostok for 12 years who is (trying to) teach me the Russian method. Thank you for this post of the concert!
Nice and your as devoted as I am.
Впитывайте русскую культуру(это советовал Скрябин молодому Горовицу).Изучайте русскую живопись, поэзию,архитектуру,историю.Одного " метода" мало.
Sir, can you explain why he stares at the keyboard so intensely, even until the last Play, and not even looking up once, yes once towards the heavens 🤔🤔🤔??????
@@tentrade2 Потому что он над всем и вне всего.Он уходит в свой прекрасный мир и дает возможность нам туда заглянуть.Он сам говорил,что вычурная поза и подвижная мимика во время игры у других исполнителей его приводит в недоумение.
@@tentrade2 The answer can only be, that he was not in peace with THE ALMIGHTY GOD, as I have found out in many studies and searches. His life was without any central resting point or hold. Only few artist in this and other disciplines had or have peace with GOD and their end is mostly very dramatic and full of dispair, unfortunately!
Only underneath the cross of CHRIST JESUS we sinners find all, that GOD has presented as a free and highest gift to mankind, but only the repenting sinners are able to grasp and enjoy it after some time. Their end is just the opposite of dispair and craze. Their future is full of blessings and joy in heaven at the feat of their SAVIOUR, who has to be worshipped without end on earth and in the heavens!
Этот музыкант в паузе сконцентрировал эмоцию не доступную другим исполнителям, душа затрепетали.
Натюрлихь- текстом- таки усе овладевають.....не в натури ...
I cannot believe there are so few views of what I consider the best TV concert ever recorded....his 65' concert was special but this is heavenly .
I absolutely agree with you and it is nice to know there are others with my same sentiment.
Wait I just replied to an earlier comment by myself...ok I'm weird
That's OK -- Volodya has that effect
on people!... 🧐😁👍🎼🎶🎹💯
You have to believe that we're living in a world of diversity and multicultural. Don't expect everyone is sympathetic with classic music. You enjoy what others dislike.
@@frankorodz6703 in my opinion, if someone dislikes ALL classical music, it’s due to ignorance, which can be said of other styles of music and the arts.
Fabulosa y estelar la interpretación de este gran pianista Wladimir Horowitz!
영원히 빛나는 피아노사(史)의 별
for me the greatest pianist of all times....a true genius
❤
Ésto ya hoy no hay. Es otra forma de tocar
Otra Vida. Me callo. Es Tremendo, impresionante, ora épica. Gracias!!!
What a magnificent memory...in this video he was playing the Steinway "CD 199" or "Old 199" considered to be the favorite of Horowitz, Rachmaninoff, Graffman, Bernstein etc. It became such a problem for Steinway that hey decided to remove the Piano from the Basement's inventory and in 1974 it was retired and brought to the Skitch Henderson Museum in New Milford CT...we just had a concert with Chris Brubeck on October 17th 2021 and he Played the Old 199 for the first time since it was played last by Skitch Henderson in 2005 before his death.
This was on prime time network TV.
Dziękuję za audycję Świetna gra U nas takim wirtuozem był Artur Rubinstein Pozdrawiam z Polski !!! :-) Pozdr
The audio on this presentation of this is so superior to some of the earlier ones on RUclips-the video even with a dvd is what it is-which is not bad, but not modern quality and we're lucky we have it-video of the younger Horowitz
Fico pensando o quanto este homem se dedicou em sua carreira para ganhar tantos aplausos. Esforço, recompensa.
Beautiful playing.
Bizet would have love the end of this enormous exhibition ! What a genius !
The Carmen Variations are the highlight for me. A raucous pastiche with plenty of bombast. He looks like he enjoyed playing it too.
I heard him play Traumerei once. No recording can bring out the tone colors and sonorities he could coax from the piano.
Grazie per questa performance. Suono nitido e...passione.
Часто слушаю Горовица.Это величина ❤
I was in the audience and was thrilled with the Scriabin, which I was getting ready to perform as an Encore at my graduation recital a few weeks later. My ❤ was in my mouth!!! It was such a privilege!!! He had a unique and striking style.
What are u doing now ?
Teacher or pianist ?
This reeks of lie. Especially at your would-be age of 80+ casually throwing in a heart emoji.
@@needtoknowbasis3499 yes bro he is a lier.
He has no equal in pianism in our planet, this is a special perception of piano music, he is a special phenomenon in nature!
Interrupted by ads for prostate treatment, during a _monetized_ concert played by *VLADIMIR HOROWITZ,* _not_ @Vladiovostock 1969. Now _THAT_ is class…. *N O T.*
It still saddens me after 34 years since his death that the fingers of the greatest pianist to ever live are forever gone.
He is the greatest. The god of piano. And those fingers - are they a foot long? OMG No one compares to this artist.
@@Iamwisewoman 👍👍👍👍👍
Find some comfort in the fact that in his old age, when he was being filmed on the way to one of (maybe his last?) his last concerts, he responded something like , "They still remember me?" when told that tons of people were lining up to attend his concert. His talent, determination, and fun personality were too strong to be "forever gone." He lives on in these recordings, and in our fond memories!
@@BrucknerMotet Wonderful response. Thank you. I am a pianist/composer but I have small hands and fingers so I am limited by my anatomy as to what I can play and compose. However, because of the physical limitations of my hands/fingers I play flat-handed just as Horowitz did. My first two piano teachers when I was a little boy used to bitch at me if I didn't maintain that stupid raised/cupped hand position while playing, but once I saw a film of Horowitz playing flat-handed I was liberated from that inanity that piano teachers impose on their students. I just completed my 9 vignettes "Rasputin Rhapsody" (a 45-minute collective) and I have dedicated it to the memory of Horowitz.
Be happy that he has existed, death is part of life, but Vladimir lives forever 🙂
He is a infinite source of inspiration as a human being and as an artist.
All done with 8 fingers and 2 thumbs, to make the world give a tear forever in the day.
Absolutely the greatest piano virtuosity of all time.
One of them….!
One of the few all times greatest...Very rare breed.. Rubinstein and Alfred Cortot..
Lang lang is much better. My opinion
@@aleramuller695😂😂😂😂😂😂
@@valentina6429You need a course in logic. There cannot be 2 of "The greatest" virtuosos. There is only one - and it was Horowitz.
The very noticeable difference between Horowitz and every other pianist I've ever listened to is that Horowitz has no fear of attacking the piano--it is after all, a hammerklavier, not so named for nothing.
I’m scared my upright might die if I play too hard
У него была -уникальная механика инструмента,,-идеально адаптированная под его пальцы...
I bet the recording engineering was kicking themselves for recording so hot after they heard the distortion they created on such a masterful performance.
Смотрю на руки, пальцы, просто восторг!
Cudowna muzyka genialnego Chopina, boskie wykonanie. ❤️
FABULOUS, so refreshing! Marvelous share on YOU TUBE! Thank you!
Even now he is by far the best and most expressive. :)
Гениальный художник!!!
Сердце оставливается!
One of my two entrees into classical music, as a kid. This and the 2001 soundtrack. I have the CD and treasure it. A shame this wasn't properly filmed.
What a magical concert and broad cast a month later on network tv across the nation...I was born in October of that year..sometimes I feel I was born in the wrong generation because I cannot find the value in today's music like many others do in my own family..The Gminor ballad was awesome and expressive...op. 55 Nocturn was so wonderful it inspires me to try and learn it and the Scarlatti put me in King Arthur's court just majestic.
let’s start and warm up with something easy, the chopin ballade. 😏incredible.
LOL 😁
And even though it was a warm up piece for him, wow - what a fabulous rendition he gave us.
Aviso a RUclips, que no pienso consumir ningun producto que promocionen, el cual interrumpa un concierto de tal magnitud. Y ni siquiera esperan a que termine la obra. UNA TOTAL FALTA DE CRITERIO Y RESPETO.
Chopin he plays is the stronghold of my soul
An interesting fact about his technique - notice how little is arms, versus just his hands and fingers, move. On the very first note of the very first piece (the Chopin Ballade) he hits the note with the force of a hammer without even moving his arms to accomplish it. Truly phenomenal strength (and at 65 !).
He had a lower downweight on his piano action - about 41 grams across in average. About 10 grams lower than average.
@@juliusholstein2376 Ludicrous. It was documented at the time of his historic concerts that he went to the (public) Steinway galleries in New York - fully accompanied by attendees - to select a piano from their (normal, openly public) showroom for the concert. Never once was it claimed that Steinway and Sons built a special 'light weight' piano for Horowitz - or any other performer.
Beyond that, Horowitz's phenomenal technique was directly witnessed - first hand - for decades by countless musicians and pianists, on innumerable publicly provided pianos, and there was never an accusation of 'technique fraud' by
use of special 'easy touch' pianos.
Finally, as an experienced pianist myself, who played on many grand pianos in my youth, any piano that happens to have a light touch would Not facilitate the orchestral sound Horowitz clearly produces in his performances.
@@johnkaylor8670 Franz Mohr customized his piano action. I didn´t claim that Steinway did. I also didn´t claim that the lighter action was the primary factor in Horowitz´s technique. I didn´t claim that his technique was fraudulent. I didn´t claim that the lighter action, with easier touch was easier or harder to play on, I pointed out that it was merely what Horowitz preferred. Horowitz´s action was customized to be lighter, by Franz Mohr of course.
@@juliusholstein2376 I guess Horowitz must have felt, the Mohr the better.
@@Radiatoron88 Love it.
Solo 793 vistas... Esto es un claro ejemplo de que lo más visto y vendido no siempre es lo mejor. Bravo maestro
"This is a clear example that the most viewed and sold is not always the best"... kind of. Horowitz is obviously fabulous. At the same time, there are better interpretations of these pieces out there. Don't misunderstand--I really enjoy the variety, and the older recordings coming to life are wonderful. But I can't help to think how society's tastes change with time and how it applies to music. I wonder what the originals sounded like and how much we've changed them over the years, all the while thinking that we are getting closer to the intent of the composer!
Greatest pianist of the 20th century and way, WAY better than any 21st century pianist. No comparison at all, period.
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Kiss ass. LMAO!!!
Amazing! His expression is beyond words.
Maravilloso, me encanta el tempo que respeta ,y su sonido en hermoso , desde Argentina.
Similar to comments from Jeff Muenster,in the late 1900,s a radio station in northern Chicago subúrnbs invited public to play 3 pianos on exhibit at a Steinway dealership.They featured the famous Horowitz Steinway, a long time famous pianist , I forgot his name hé was before Horowitz,and Van Cliburnes piano--though I don't believe Cliburn was in the caagory of famous pianists. They should have had Arthur Rubenstein's piano on exhibit. I got to play The famous Horowitz piano for 45 minutes and had my Father In Law take pictures of me at the Horowitz Grande Steinway. Horowitz was,and still is Considered the World's Greatest Classical Concert Pianist.
Michael. Gear
Rockford, I'll.
Потрясающе!!!
호로비츠는 1968년 1월 2일과 2월 1일에 동일한 프로그램으로 연주함. 이 tv콘서트는 두 연주 프로그램을 mix한 영상임. (호로비츠의 오른쪽 모습 나오는게 1월2일연주고 왼쪽모습이 2월1일)
그리고 실제로는 발라드1번이 첫곡이 아님.
Horowitz performed on the same program on 2 January and 1 February 1968. This tv concert is a mix of two performance programs. (The right figure of Horowitz is played on January 2nd, and the left figure is on February 1st)
Actually, Ballade Op.23 is not the first piece.
Actual program list
Chopin: Polonaise in F-sharp minor, Op.44
Chopin: Nocturne in F minor, Op.55 No.1
Chopin: Ballade No.1 in G minor, Op.23
Scarlatti: Sonata in E major, K.380 Scarlatti: Sonata in G major, K.55
Schumann: Arabeske, Op.18
Scriabin: Etude in D-sharp minor, Op.8 No.12
Schumann: Träumerei, Op.15 No.7
Horowitz: Carmen Variations
그런 걸 왜 알고 지내는가.
한국은 지금 곧 식당 소주가 6000원이 되는 심각한 지경의 국면이다
What is the equivalent in US$ for 6000 won?
When i was a young man, early 70s, Horowitz was my favorite pianist. I don't remember why, but i think it was the pathos and emotion with which he played. Those who didn't like him accused him of having "the big sloppy style." But his playing touched me.
This is legendary!👏👏👏
That's what SHE said !!
Це заворожує і безкінечно дивує своєю геніальністю. Браво Горовіц, браво Україно!
он еврей, родился в российском Киеве
Zivjela Sveta Pravoslavna Rusija !
Причём тут , "браво Украино"! Не сходите с ума на почве национализма!
И сюда Окраину приплел! Вот бы Горовиц удивился, если бы он узнал, что он окраинец
Он с Бердичева. А русня убила всю его семью.
NHKテレビで放送されたときに、観ています。解説は、中村絋子さんでした。
スクリャービンのエチュード、は、最高の名演、です。
このような演奏は、ほかのピアニストたちには、全く無理。
次に、
1秒間に300本から400本の走査線のテレビキャメラ、の、録画では、ホロヴィッツ氏、が、鍵盤の上の両手を、次の位置に移動させる速度には、追いつけない、のを、確認出来る、テレビ番組でした。
晩年の彼の演奏を酷評していた人も
コンサートを途中退場した人も いましたが…
やっぱりホロビッツは素晴らしいです🤗👍💕
The piano hammers of his piano were hardened with glue to produce that sound, together with his flawless petal technique.
The greatest that ever was. ❤❤❤
Incredible to see such complete concentration at the service of the music. Strange to think he had the reputation of an empty virtuoso when this video displays 95% intensely musical playing and 5% display.
I am a 'dyed in the wool' piano afficionado from day one. Piano is part of my soul. And played the piano reverentially until I was nearly 20. And I will tell you that I think that his phenomenal - unequaled - physical technique simply put people who claimed to be music "critics" and also other professional pianists of his time, down, so to speak. To me that viewpoint was purely sour grapes. Horowitz was an excellent pianist - and his technique made him an phenomenally unequaled performer.
He never ever had that reputation.
@@renep9968 I studied at the Royal Academy in London in the 80s and our teachers were all disparaging towards him. Thankfully this attitude no longer prevails, but it was widespread back then.
@@johnkaylor8670 Plus the fact that Sergei R. was singularly impressed by VH's handling of his pieces ... that's evidence enough for me to immediately push VH to the head of the line or at least very close to the head of the line in terms of pianistic talent/dexterity.
@@carsond67why disparaging towards him(Horowitz)? In the US, the Americans are crazy about him.