Horowitz plays with so much composure and grace. And his emotions are not very explicit, but full of subtlety and elegance. I aim to play like that one day.
In some of his interviews he expressed that he didn't like when pianists performed with a lot of facial expressions or physical emotionality and found it distasteful.
That’s very much what I prefer too; to each their own.. the greatest technical pianist alive, MA Hamelin, also plays with this same kind of composure and brilliance; completely easy at the keyboard even in the most difficult repertoire such as Alkan’s Concerto for Solo Piano, all of the Godovski etudes, some of his Szimanovski recitals, etc.. Some other super virtuosi who maintain this kind of composure and who are alive nowadays include, but are very much not limited to: Pollini, Argerich, Barenboim, Pace, Rzevski, Powell, Henck, Libetta, etc..
As far as the musical expression is concerned, his emotions are VERY explicit! And this is the point. I just saw videos with Neuhaus, Goldenweiser and Oborin - all sitting very quiet and with almost no "facial expression". This is the tradition, where belcanto on the piano comes from. These huge movements of the face or the body often destroy the sound, but in times of television people mix them up with "expression". Too many people listen with their eyes instead of the ears. 😉
As a huge fan of Arthur Rubinstein, who is a completely different pianist from Horowitz, I was never inteterested to get to know his performances. But once I did it, I found a new world. Horowitz makes music shine with his fingers and he gives a different touch and taste to music. Its astonishing
Robert Perry : all the elegies for violin-piano or violoncelle-are divin also j think about elegie op-24 by Gabriel Faure or elegies of E Grieg Lizst in not alone composer with a divin masterpiece
J’ai 51 ans, et je suis une personne non-voyante. Quand j’étais adolescent, je l’ai entendu jouer désert de Chopin. Je me disais que c’était un pianiste magnifique à encourager l’amitié entre les peuples.
The grace and composure that this is played with is just mind-blowing. Subtle intricacies just add such depth and beauty. I'm in love with Horowitz's playing, I have been since the first time I heard him. It's like listening to singers, lots of people can but not all have that 'magic' something... He has the magic in abundance!
As long as i absolutely ADORE Rubinstein and LOVE Martha Argerich, Horowitz is the Greatest piano player of all time imho. And the piano, such a magic instrument, i see, i touch the souls of these 3 giants. Rubinstein, such a good, simple and nice man; Martha, such a complex woman, with her emotions free, eventually, only when she sits and starts to play; Horowitz, you can feel All the things This Man’s soul had to struggle With during his lifetime, you get the precise, exactly feeling of a Man Who sees himself on his own when life puts you on your limit, and let you know Who you really are.
Beautifully said! Everything Horowitz ever lived through resonates in every note he plays. It accounts, perhaps, for the incredible feeling of aliveness that permeated his concerts (I heard him live five times) and comes through particularly in his late recordings.
At first listen, Horowitz seems to play in a matter-of-fact manner. But notice all the color and variation within that style. Like an actor not wasting any words, but mesmerizing nonetheless.
His mastery of this piece is so clear to the trained ear. Those ascending arpeggios are so mysterious and delicate in how they add to the sound. Many play it purely to tempo but Horowitz knows deep down what makes this piece really stand out and nails it to perfection.
He is/was who I held in much admiration- a paragon that even Rachmaninoff liked how Horowitz performed his compositions. Talk about an honor! Yet this is Lizst - a Romantic favorite. 😎👍🏻🎼
Merci pour cette mise en ligne:) La première fois que je l'ai visionnée, j'ai cru qu'il enlevait une poussière sur une touche...(0:30). Jamais entendu une telle cristallinité du son, à pleurer de bonheur.
Es algo de otro mundo. Me deja tan emocionada por ése sentimiento tan profundo que trasmite... que me llega al alma y al corazón. Gracias Maestro Liszt. Gracias Maestro Horowitz. Me han hecho llorar de emoción. A mí queridísimo padre, N.F.R. que está con Dios. ❤🌹🙏🏻
I agree, the world needs listen to some REAL music. If you ask any classical musician then they will tell you how pop music and rock music is so easy and in Chinese we like to call them “low” music.
It also angers me how top opera singers are shocked and impressed when they heard Chinese opera for the first time but when I go on RUclips. The comment sections stated that they sound like “cat dying sounds”? The world needs to improve their ears.
He changes the register of some bass notes, and adds other bass notes. He treats the last note of measure 13 like a sixteenth note. He alters the right hand rhythm in measure 33. Are these mistakes, or part of Horowitz’s personal arrangement of the piece? Whatever they are, they seem like improvements to me over the original score.
I still dont hear what people hear with horowitz. Im trying. Its too fast for me and the dynamics and phrasing in general just have no emotion for me. Aged 40 (last tried age 30)
nezkeys79 Keep trying. And I don’t mean that flippantly. Horowitz is not everyone’s cup of tea, but nevertheless there is something tremendous and subtle to the ears of many. Listen to different composers he recorded. Scarlatti, Scriabin.
@@DAS1962 This is my least favorite type of response I think; I see it on lots of responses to classical performance critiques here. Horowitz wasn't a child whose self-esteem we have to boost, and him playing this piece is not some achievement over adversity that Zoltano is denigrating. Basically, your response is the sort of response that would make sense if Zoltano's comment was directed at, say, a 'normal' 87 year old that learned the piece and is playing it somewhere, and we can say, "Wow, what dedication and achievement at that age." On that sort of video, a comment nitpicking the interpretation would indeed be in poor taste. But Horowitz was a great master, and his playing is art, and all art is open to criticism -- note I don't mean criticism with strong negative connotations, it's just that it's all subjective. To some people's ears, the playing is too rushed. Okay, fair enough. By responding the way you did, you are (unintentionally) actually being disrespectful to Horowitz; you are removing it from the realm of great art that is open to critique and placing it in the realm of something like a senior center talent show, where we should all just be amazed he was able to play it at all. Furthermore, it's silly to claim that the only people who can have opinions on whether they like a master's interpretation of a piece are those who can play it better than the master can. Imagine if every time someone said something like "I find Beethoven's 5th to be not to my liking," someone replied "Oh yeah?? Well show us YOUR symphony then, smartass!"
Horowitz plays with so much composure and grace. And his emotions are not very explicit, but full of subtlety and elegance. I aim to play like that one day.
In some of his interviews he expressed that he didn't like when pianists performed with a lot of facial expressions or physical emotionality and found it distasteful.
That’s very much what I prefer too; to each their own.. the greatest technical pianist alive, MA Hamelin, also plays with this same kind of composure and brilliance; completely easy at the keyboard even in the most difficult repertoire such as Alkan’s Concerto for Solo Piano, all of the Godovski etudes, some of his Szimanovski recitals, etc..
Some other super virtuosi who maintain this kind of composure and who are alive nowadays include, but are very much not limited to: Pollini, Argerich, Barenboim, Pace, Rzevski, Powell, Henck, Libetta, etc..
Subtlety but also.. extremity.. subtle changes in every notes but also drastic changes listen to the petrarch sonnet
As far as the musical expression is concerned, his emotions are VERY explicit! And this is the point. I just saw videos with Neuhaus, Goldenweiser and Oborin - all sitting very quiet and with almost no "facial expression". This is the tradition, where belcanto on the piano comes from.
These huge movements of the face or the body often destroy the sound, but in times of television people mix them up with "expression". Too many people listen with their eyes instead of the ears. 😉
The way his hands seem to glide over the keys!
As a huge fan of Arthur Rubinstein, who is a completely different pianist from Horowitz, I was never inteterested to get to know his performances. But once I did it, I found a new world. Horowitz makes music shine with his fingers and he gives a different touch and taste to music. Its astonishing
The smile at the end...
He himself enjoyed this piece so much
I love how he doesn't use too much movement it's like his fingers speaks his soul ❤️
That was my thought exactly as I listened and saw his hands play fluidly but very subtle movements!👏👍🤭🙏
@@judiesuh6858 whats wrong with movements?
The most beautiful, moving music ever written . It truly is a consolation with its essence of sadness. The violin and piano version is also divine
Robert Perry : all the elegies for violin-piano or violoncelle-are divin also j think about elegie op-24 by Gabriel Faure or elegies of E Grieg Lizst in not alone composer with a divin masterpiece
J’ai 51 ans, et je suis une personne non-voyante. Quand j’étais adolescent, je l’ai entendu jouer désert de Chopin. Je me disais que c’était un pianiste magnifique à encourager l’amitié entre les peuples.
The grace and composure that this is played with is just mind-blowing. Subtle intricacies just add such depth and beauty. I'm in love with Horowitz's playing, I have been since the first time I heard him. It's like listening to singers, lots of people can but not all have that 'magic' something... He has the magic in abundance!
A sublime performance of a sublime piece of musical perfection.
Avec V. Horowitz, Liszt est parmi nous ... Merci Maître.
As long as i absolutely ADORE Rubinstein and LOVE Martha Argerich, Horowitz is the Greatest piano player of all time imho. And the piano, such a magic instrument, i see, i touch the souls of these 3 giants. Rubinstein, such a good, simple and nice man; Martha, such a complex woman, with her emotions free, eventually, only when she sits and starts to play; Horowitz, you can feel All the things This Man’s soul had to struggle With during his lifetime, you get the precise, exactly feeling of a Man Who sees himself on his own when life puts you on your limit, and let you know Who you really are.
Rubinstein and simple?
Beautifully said! Everything Horowitz ever lived through resonates in every note he plays. It accounts, perhaps, for the incredible feeling of aliveness that permeated his concerts (I heard him live five times) and comes through particularly in his late recordings.
Your hands are dreaming...
So nice music...
Thank you, dear Maestro!🌹
Non esiste interpretazione migliore...Grazie GRANDE HOROWITZ 🌹🌹🌹
"effortless" playing as his fingers glide over the keys: what a piece of music !
At first listen, Horowitz seems to play in a matter-of-fact manner. But notice all the color and variation within that style. Like an actor not wasting any words, but mesmerizing nonetheless.
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His mastery of this piece is so clear to the trained ear. Those ascending arpeggios are so mysterious and delicate in how they add to the sound. Many play it purely to tempo but Horowitz knows deep down what makes this piece really stand out and nails it to perfection.
Thank you dear Mr. Horowitz, you are a generous present for mankind. I admire your genius and grace
I wanted to write down how deeply this peerless playing touched my inner world .. than I realized I'm unable to do it.
I have felt the same many times listening to piano music
Then the music and performance had its desired effect! How wonderful!
Well that's what music is for. Convey what words cannot.
Truly miss your touching elegantly performance in this speechless beautiful Liszt Consolation. Thank you.
He is/was who I held in much admiration- a paragon that even Rachmaninoff liked how Horowitz performed his compositions. Talk about an honor! Yet this is Lizst - a Romantic favorite. 😎👍🏻🎼
Fabulous and this was near the time he passed. Incredible playing!
The highest peak that can be reached in music. There is nothing beyond that
素晴らしい音色です。心安らぎます。ありがとうございます。
Belcanto on the piano - a lost tradition. 🥰
Listen to Nelson Freire. He plays this piece unbelievable beautiful. He is 75 today and still with us.
@@ulfwernernielsen6708 I have bad news :(
Pianissimo
The touch of a master's hand.
Merci pour cette mise en ligne:) La première fois que je l'ai visionnée, j'ai cru qu'il enlevait une poussière sur une touche...(0:30).
Jamais entendu une telle cristallinité du son, à pleurer de bonheur.
Yes, it is truly amazing. The mastership of the piano above anything humanly possible.
Audience, stop coughing!
Full of old people, nothing else to expect, sadly. Sometimes we can recognize live recordings from coughs.
@@eriksatieofficiel It's mostly their death rattles.
Woah there.
What do you expect when you have the human plague in there?
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I admire the interesting hand-holding...
Amazing experience, dear Maestro! 🌹
Lovely, lovely sweetness. Consolation is salve to the heart. Horowitz is a treasure. One of my favorites. ❤️❤️❤️. Thank You!
And he finish like a boss as if he played the most simple thing
これ程美しい音色は、他のピアニストには出せない。奇跡的だ！
Es algo de otro mundo. Me deja tan emocionada por ése sentimiento tan profundo que trasmite... que me llega al alma y al corazón. Gracias Maestro Liszt. Gracias Maestro Horowitz.
Me han hecho llorar de emoción.
A mí queridísimo padre, N.F.R. que está con Dios. ❤🌹🙏🏻
2:04's A ... I fell in love with that calm A. ^^
i still haven't found a pianist who plays with a better feel than horowitz
don't waste your time 🙂
Feels so magical, this small miracle across time.
With this piece, Liszt out-Chopin-ed Chopin himself. And only Horowitz could evoke the magic.
fantastic
Thank you! Beautifully played.
Maravilloso. Sensibilidad. Sin ademanes superfluos. Con las dos manos pegadas al teclado. Sublime. Sencillez donde no existe. Un maestro.
特に難しい曲ではないけれど、自然に、丁寧に弾く、そして音楽が瑞々しい。左手の4の指のコントロールはやはり天賦のものなのでしょう。
but, the best play I've ever heard
Gorgeous! The Horowitz 'touch'.
Az egyik legszebb Liszt darab és a Mester előadásában... fantasztikus
Beautiful, soft ,superb,
Wwe have the pleasure of such great music played straight from the heart and soulso
more demonstrative than a poet Horowitz
Just beautiful .
So beautiful..
Maestro never lost his touch
Ouch, my soul.
List was a mystic. No really! He was other worldly. That plays out here.
Truly... Horowitz the poet.
Imagine how many times he has played that in order to need no sheet music. Mind-boggling.
Muy sensible recita la música❤️ 🙏 😍.
amazing.......
Volodya...You're my consolation ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
You can tell he's been practicing.
O que vale é a sua interpretação, porque poucos ou nenhum consegue tal façanha
So lovely! S2
Bravo!!
Marvelous !!!
Nicht von dieser Welt. Das ist nicht mehr zu überbieten
Astonishingly
Perfection on Earth!
I was never happy with the ending and added an extra D in the end myself. Makes me giggle that he did so, too.
Good god this was good
gangnam style got 4.5Billion views. B...illion, not a mistake.
This video got 250 thousand.
This is proof that the world is a bad place.
I agree, the world needs listen to some REAL music. If you ask any classical musician then they will tell you how pop music and rock music is so easy and in Chinese we like to call them “low” music.
It also angers me how top opera singers are shocked and impressed when they heard Chinese opera for the first time but when I go on RUclips. The comment sections stated that they sound like “cat dying sounds”? The world needs to improve their ears.
Magic
Knowing this piece well, I think Listz would have been ok with some of the liberties he took.
This is just 🤌
Horowitz that name is such a brand of incredible
The master in action…
the best one!
Grazie hotovitz.
Grace incarnate
Who the phok coughs like that in the middle of a master performing?
Probably this person tried to avoid it. 😉
@@funklover24 felt dat XDD
It was the 80s. They probably had coke lung.
The master.
This is such a peace of cake for him lol.
0:30 when I see dirt on my friend's face
Гений!
super genio
so many mistakes here, but there is something different and beautiful..if you want to know what is different, you are able to play this piece
Sweety.it Iis the Horowitz interpretation to masterpiece composer by liszt.whatever thing i could be getting a wrong comments.
👏👍👌
Horowitz leaves me speechless
Ok…I’m hypnotized….when do I start acting like a chicken? What is it he does to do this to me? Damn
Ending applause cut is not good
He actually makes quite a lot of mistakes here. Still, it sounds extremely beautiful. What a lovely man.
A lot of mistakes? I can't even hear one mistake?
He changes the register of some bass notes, and adds other bass notes. He treats the last note of measure 13 like a sixteenth note. He alters the right hand rhythm in measure 33. Are these mistakes, or part of Horowitz’s personal arrangement of the piece? Whatever they are, they seem like improvements to me over the original score.
But still the best
definitely on purpose, things like adding bass Db in the final chord
Economy of movement in action.
0:25 Start
Adopt me, master.
what hard sonority when j listened France Clidat more lyrical more sweet sound , a dream not here
was the other video deleted???
Ues
00:26
I9
2:55
0:25
anfang 0:25
Is that a concert hall or a covid hospital? What's with all the annoying coughing?
I still dont hear what people hear with horowitz. Im trying. Its too fast for me and the dynamics and phrasing in general just have no emotion for me.
Aged 40 (last tried age 30)
nezkeys79
Keep trying. And I don’t mean that flippantly. Horowitz is not everyone’s cup of tea, but nevertheless there is
something tremendous and subtle to the ears of many. Listen to different composers he recorded. Scarlatti, Scriabin.
ruclips.net/video/tXPkSeY_zVg/видео.html
I find this as well
So fast!
No.
Feels rushed...
When you are 87 post your video playing the same .. not at home, but in a concert hall
@@DAS1962 This is my least favorite type of response I think; I see it on lots of responses to classical performance critiques here. Horowitz wasn't a child whose self-esteem we have to boost, and him playing this piece is not some achievement over adversity that Zoltano is denigrating. Basically, your response is the sort of response that would make sense if Zoltano's comment was directed at, say, a 'normal' 87 year old that learned the piece and is playing it somewhere, and we can say, "Wow, what dedication and achievement at that age." On that sort of video, a comment nitpicking the interpretation would indeed be in poor taste.
But Horowitz was a great master, and his playing is art, and all art is open to criticism -- note I don't mean criticism with strong negative connotations, it's just that it's all subjective. To some people's ears, the playing is too rushed. Okay, fair enough. By responding the way you did, you are (unintentionally) actually being disrespectful to Horowitz; you are removing it from the realm of great art that is open to critique and placing it in the realm of something like a senior center talent show, where we should all just be amazed he was able to play it at all.
Furthermore, it's silly to claim that the only people who can have opinions on whether they like a master's interpretation of a piece are those who can play it better than the master can. Imagine if every time someone said something like "I find Beethoven's 5th to be not to my liking," someone replied "Oh yeah?? Well show us YOUR symphony then, smartass!"
Too fast :/
Eeeeeh???
He looks bored
He looks old
Better listen with your ears instead of your eyes. This playing is absolutely masterful. 👌🥰
melancolic piece , you have not understood that ?
He performs with his hands, not his face.