Vladimir Horowitz - Chopin Polonaise in A-flat major, Op. 53
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- Опубликовано: 26 фев 2007
- This is Vladimir Horowitz playing Chopin's "Heroique" A-flat major Polonaise, Op. 53 as only Vladimir Horowitz could!
Correction! This is Horowitz in Musikverein, Vienna, Austria on May 31, 1987 which makes him 84 years old. Two years before his death on November 5th, 1989.
Sorry for the wrong info and thanks for the correction :)
God bless Horowitz.
"there are three types of pianists.
Jewish pianists.
Homosexual pianists.
and bad pianists." -Vladimir Horowitz
I know this is a repost, but I will not deny my video collection of the great Horowitz, I don't care if this is the only video on youtube 60 million times. make it 60 million and one! 
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To play a wrong note is insignificant; to play without passion is inexcusable.
-Ludwig van Beethoven
My piano teacher once "stood" in line overnight, in January, to get tickets to see Horowitz play at Carnegie Hall. I was privileged to go.... Chopin's Polonaise in A flat maj was experientially beyond indescription ! As someone who grew up in the 60s and 70s, and attended my share of rock concerts, Horowitz's it's still the most memorable concert I ever experienced........and, I loved his big grin each time he stood...
My parents took me to see Horowitz play an all Chopin program (including this Polonaise) at Carnegie Hall in the early 1960's when I was 7 years old. We sat way up in the balcony and I will never forget the large ebony concert grand piano in the center of the stage with (from the upper balcony) this small figure playing this transformative music that engulfed the entire hall and had everyone transfixed by his virtuosity. It had a profound effect on my life and I have never forgotten it to this day almost 60 years later!!!
@@georgegilbert7485 How lucky you were... I'm 16 years old and I envy a little, the people like you who had the priviledge to listen Horowitz play. This Polonaise played by Horowitz, is one the, if not the piano piece that I like the most listening to. How beautiful it is...
Horowitz once stated, "If you want me to play a piece with no dynamic variation I will play it perfectly all the time, but true music comes from emotion and with emotion comes a much greater risk for mistakes."
I also play this piece, It is terribly difficult to do what he does at the speed he does with as little mistakes as he does with all the emotion he puts into it.
The perfect example why Vladimir Horowitz and Fréderic Chopin were a match made in heaven.
Konni Chopin would have loved to hear Horowitz play his music.
Horowitz was such a great pianist people thought he was possed by the devil i know thats funny but its true
@@keithjones9546 I feel your right Nobody ever Mastered playing Chopin like Howowitz
You have to have a huge ego to claim that you can play something perfectly all the time, even without dynamics. But he can back it up so it’s fine
Let's keep something in mind...He was 84 years old when he performed this incredibly beautiful piece!!! At 4:20 or so I thought that Steinway would fall apart under those hands! I hope I can walk straight when I'm that age. RIP Vladimir
Same here
This was the 1st time I ever watched this video. I loved the man. I didn't know he died. I'm very sad. I seen a lot of power in him controlling that piano and bringing out a lot of Spirit.
If you can't walk straight at age 84, at least the time--4:20--would provide an excuse...
fuck, you are right
Yes, it touches you in the inner core.
I have never seen it performed like this. Deliberately understated, clipped and staccato only to come back played full FF with flourish. No doubt to enchance the contrast.
Tatiana Nikolaevna Have you heard of Krystian Zimmerman, great pianist, in musicality and technicality.
why are you telling a 84 year old man that he made mistakes like wtf😭😭 this performance was PERFECT and i'm so sad he died.
Well, he isn't dead!
JE4A sadly he is
@@diamoz7597 His music is still alive
As long as we, the audience,
exists He Will live for ever!
@@je4a301 ur dumb
Rachmaninoff had been told some young Russian played his music like nothing he'd ever heard. So they met; "And so I came to Rachmaninoff, and it took five minutes & we were friends. In ten minutes he was playing for me.. Rachmaninoff then asked me to go to the famous Steinway basement, where he accompanied me on his Third Piano Concerto." Rocky after hearing Horowitz's rendition said, "I will never play the 3rd again. It belongs only w/in the hands of Horowitz." Rocky knew the real Horowitz! :D
I have yet to hear any other pianist alive or dead who matched Vladimir Horowitz's playing. He is very old in this video but still plays brilliantly, with unique phrasings & individual tonality. I can always identify his playing just by his touch. He hit each key in a precise way. His crescendos are even, graduating to a thunderous roar. He uses the pedal sparingly & in good taste. He was one of a kind & never boring.
The way he plays the first theme so quiet is so amazing and I have no idea how he did that with this piece
My father is 99 y/o. He is an autodidact on the piano though not classical.I play this for him on earphones.He wells up. Thank you Mr Horowitz.
People who know piano better than me may talk about 'mistakes' - perhaps I'm a Philistine not to care. Mistakes or no, this is simply one of the most moving, passionate and beautiful performances I have seen. Had I ever been fortunate enough to see this great man play live I'm sure it would have been one of the most special moments in my life. Wonderful stuff.
We are lucky to be able to see and hear him with the new technology. Think how many masters we would never have seen without the internet.
I did, and it was.
@@copeseethedilate I don't know why i'm writing this but i couldn't agree more
I experienced him at Orchestra Hall in Chicago . Ill never get over the experience. May his memory forever be a blessing
I was lucky to get to hear him once in Chicago, thanks to my father who somehow managed to get tickets for the family and my University of Iowa piano teacher (Greg Pepetone--a wonderful pianist himself who, alas, still refuses to upload his recordings to RUclips--and who played the best Bach-Busoni Chaconne I've ever heard at the Dame Myra Hess concert series in Chicago). Horowitz was, I read later, "under medication" and was it was a difficult time of life for him. The early 1980s. He had some memory lapses and bunches of missed notes. But my lord. It was the most incredible piano sound (sounds!) I've ever heard in my life. Nothing I've heard in live recitals could ever compare to the sound(s) that Horowitz got even on a bad day for him! Absolute wizardry. John Browning once said in some book of pianist interviews I read a long time ago that he felt that Horowitz had actually gone beyond the piano. I think in a sense he was right. There was a special kind of orchestral sound--and color and dynamic range--that Horowitz "conjured" that I've never heard from any other pianist in my recital-going experience. A kind of fireworks for the ears. And all of it coming from a "visually untheatrical" pianist! Just this still concentrating figure. Then again, his lack of "theater" made what he did all the more mesmerizing. I particularly remember his symphonic take on Beethoven's Op. 101 sonata. And the colors he got in Schumann's "Carnival." Horowitz's technical peak was already many years behind him, but this recital was still the most staggering I've ever heard.
I can’t say how beautiful this is, very dynamic and so many details put into this interpretation. Such a divine and unique performance. No one, NO ONE, will ever replace Horowitz!
IMO he owns Ballad in G minor as well. I love watching and hearing the video of his performance.
Mistakes? Lol. Nowdays "perfect" pianists can only dream to be recognizable the way he was. Few notes and you know he was playing. That's the only thing that matters beyond taste.
Very true. You can really recognize him after 1 bar.
Mistakes in this kind of pianists remind us that they are also human and encourage us to continue studying hard to grow a little more every day.
And please like he was 80 something here any other 80yo (except obviously Rubinstein and a few others) wouldn’t even be able to play a note
I can understand why young musicians might be distracted by Horowitz's technical flubs; that's how they're trained. As they get older, however, I hope they can hear the genius in a performance like this; it takes 80 years of brilliant playing to get there.
It's something that can't be taught or learned, people can play the notes as perfectly as they want, but 99% of the players won't be able to play it with the emotion like this, like chopin intended it, and that's what really makes the difference when playing the piano.
most never get there
I want to hop on this old comment say I imagined his age made him play more freely.
How he slams the left hand is incomparable!!! Best performance of this piece ever!!!
No one comes close. The left hand the passion completely transports me. Stirs my heart like no other pianist
Unsurpassed. Nobody in the history of recorded music has yet come close in interpretation, depth, and seeming effortlessness.
a composer write a story
a musician tells the story
Horowitz tells stories more than perfectly
This performance is by far the best of all, the spirit, emotions and the adventure that he takes with the music is just beatiful.
Imagine being a close friend to Rachmaninoff. Thats Horowitz.
Indeed!!! The played piano toguether many times👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🎹🎼🎶🎶🎶💛😊!
best friend actually
Imagine being a close friend to Horowitz. That's Rachmaninoff.
@@MathieuPrevot Imagine being. That is
@@felizianosole896 being is. That’s imagine
In my opinion, out of all the Horowitz Interpretations of this particular piece, I would have to say this was one of, if not the best one! Incredible dynamic control, crisp articulation makes it a joy to listen to!
Honestly, I think this is the best interpretation.
Fryderyk Franciszek Szopen. He left us so young yet Vladi amazes us with his music at 84. Cheers!
Theres something strangely unique on how horowitz plays the piano
His fingers are always so straight
@@leowu988 IKR?? WTF?? Wrists Are low, fingers straight, except for his pinky. I cant - just can't - tried it - doesn't work. Such control.
@@adrianbartholomew3785 try relaxing your body so much that gravity starts to put your hands down. Play as if your hands are skydiving. Don't force them to stay up. Play with your body weight and you will kind of achieve it
i think the piano tell horowitz how to play it
Part comes of his very long.and.spatulate fingers? I've never seen hands play like his.
Господи, какое счастье, слушать такую музыку, в таком исполнении! Браво, Великий Горовиц! 💖💐💐💐💐💐🥰
Simply extraordinary! The concentration! The fingers flying over the keys! The power and beauty flowing from the piano! And from an 84 year old! His expression at the end shows how much effort went into it, and how much enjoyment! No wonder the audience went wild!
I think that everyone can hear clarinets, horns and drums in this performance. Last but not least: Horowitz’s octaves have always been grenades and, in this piece, grenades are absolutely needed. He was unbelievable.
英雄の持つ強さ、抱える孤独、勇気、葛藤、そして儚さが上手く表現された良い演奏。
英雄って誰のことなんでしょうか
俳優の中野英雄さんです。
One of the few pianists, who's emotions and passion are not showing in his face, but in his music! The way it should be! Superb!
Why? Why is that better? Why should they look they're working on their taxes when they're playing music? I can understand objecting to theatrics and grimaces, but at a live performance I love seeing someone who looks like they're actually feeling the music and not just executing the notes.
Heifetz never showed emotion, and frankly that's how a lot of his music sounds: like perfectly executed exercises.
I agree - the way it should be, and is, - for Horowitz - an incredible genius. But I also enjoy other musicians who do show emotion in their faces while playing. For me, at least, this adds to the feeling, stimulates my own emotion even further, and relates their playing to their humanity which, after all, is what music is all about. Either way, great music, like this, is great music . . . .
@@romarub I totally agree! I used to love watching the expressions on my mom’s face when she played this very song---❤️
So amazing and still playing flawlessly at 84 years old this was!!! Love it :)
He has been playing piano all his life. That is how he could play like this at age of 84. Unbelievable.
I've never heard him make a mistake that detracted from the musical experience. I swear, some of these modern virtuosos who are note perfect don't do it for me. (opinion)
Yeah, little slips and emotions really make a pianist human honestly.
Two absolute top-flight masters of the piano - Horowitz (performance) and Chopin (composition).
It just doesn't get any better.
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I simply love this piece of music and no one plays it with such passion, clarity or conviction. It's a joy to watch Maestro Horowitz play. Tears in my eyes every time.
Years ago I saw/heard him on a TV special, in which he described this Polonaise as "the piece nearest and dearest to my heart."
Wow.
That was Rubinstein lol
@@JSerrato289 I stand corrected.
I'm no music expert, but every time I come to a video like this (and by this I mostly mean Chopin because his works require so much interpretation) all I see is:
"I like THIS other video more" or "He's not as good as Yundi-Lang Lang-Rubinstein's version"
Can't it be that people just add a little bit of themselves to the music when they play it? I think Rubinstein himself put it best-- when asked what he thought about be called the best pianist of his time, he said that he's an artist, and there is no 'best' artist. Just different art.
Beauty, to a degree, is in the eyes of the beholder.
Hanina Singer If you say you don't like Vladimir Horowitz you must be the world's most brainless ass. Noone can dislike Vladimir Horowitz!
Hanina Singer didn't say anything about not liking Horowitz.
She didn't say anything about not liking Horowitz how did you think she said that?
With all due respect, please remove yundi from same sentence and or conversation as Horowitz
yes but i get the impression when Rubenstein says that that he's sort of sayng that pianists are somehow in the same category as the composers themselves. I speaks of each composer as being a 'different world'. Sure, but let's not confuse composers with pianists - a composer's worldis massive - a mere pianist's 'so=called world' is tiny.
I always loved his way to move hands on keyboard... His fingers are already composed, he made so measured and essential movements, he opens his hands or move arms when needed...superb mix of techniques, touch and sound. Music played with heart, head and fingers (Mozart said...).
Horrowits makes it look easy at 84 yrs old , this man was truly a wonder on the keys
Imagine, this is a video of an 84 year old man performing this incredible piece. When I'm 84, I just hope I'm still able to tell C from D! Horowitz was amazing.
Best rendition of Chopins polonaise in A flat major I have heard. What a great man!
how many times can this performance make me feel chills up my neck! I've lost count!
Just thinking: one ship from Russia to the west contained Horowitz, Milstein, and Piatigorsky. What a trio...
What made America great was often the
immigrants.
Usually....
MELVYN HAUSER
Well, yeah, America is a country of immigrants...
There's none like Horowitz....
Kristian Oma Rønnes that man has passion
Arthur Rubinstein too
Ashkenazy
Lang lang
@@banumathi8684 😂
今日も安らかな眠りを、ありがとうございます。
Wonderful music! Horowitz the greatest of all pianists! I only wish Monsieur Horowitz were alive! This is one of the best pieces I have heard.
Only Horowitz could bring out the color and resonance that this piece truly deserves. He truly understood the art of pedaling!!
Interpretazione personalissima, con delle sfumature uniche e irripetibili, il suono è affascinante.
Грандиозно... Спасибо, что поделились!
due grandi: un compositore unico. affiancato da un interprete magico!
泣いた！！！！！すばらしすぎる！！！！！
衝撃です。こんな風に楽譜を読んで、こんな風に語れるようになりたいと思いました。その日までずっと弾き続けたいです。
Its so good, one of the first vids i watched on utube and here we are 9 years later.. damn
*** BRAVO *** Amazing how songs can bring back so many fond life / family memories ! Very emotionally inspiring and memory reflecting for me !!! Especially of my much loved late father: physicist, electronics engineer, USAF, US Army - who also met the awesome Professor Albert Einstein briefly. This is my all time favorite song by Chopin !!! :) Thanks Vladimir Horowitz !!!
Великий пианист браво !!!
Most beautiful and elegant "Heroique "ever!
Such beauty. The flourish and embellishments in this mans hands and heart clearly show his soul and the power of music from the greats of our past...
I've watched this performance for years, as I still have it on VHS. No one performed the classics like Mr. Horowitz.
GOD bless your soul sir and thank you for the amazing performances. Hope to meet you and the Masters on the other side :)
Bravo Paul,for the briliant video with Horovitz!
Great artist!!!!
I love his playing, wonderful performance, very powerful!
The greatest pianist of the 20th century!
No Art Tatum "if Art Tatum took up classical music seriously, I'd quit my job the next day!" Horowitz said that
Fat Boi we’re in the 21st century now
Some say Rachmaninoff.
@@wouterh5134 ever heard Hamelin?
without any doubt for me
6:58 his expression when he finally finished the piece is awesome!
Everybody and their mothers know that Horowitz is the technical master. Hearing Maestro Horowitz always brings a smile to my face. But my heart aches because as a Pianist I know that I will never reach that level of complete mastery and sheer domination on the piano.
I just found out today that I need to perform this piece to pass one of my teaching exams. It's really annoying because of the super short notice. I have less than 3 weeks to finish and memorize this Chopin masterpiece. Practicing those chromatically rising fourths are a super workout. And there is no way my style of play comes close to Horowitz in terms of fingering technique. I've been taught by Italian and German professors, and they always teach you to play with curved fingers. Horowitz plays very Russian like (I know he is polish jew). Russians are famous for playing with flat fingers. And I do not know how they do that.
So how was it, the exam I mean.
He is not from Poland but born in Kiew, which is now the kapital of Ukraine and when he was born part of the Russian Empire. So he is russian not polish.
It’s been 4 years how did the exam go?
Hey, how did it go?
I grew up listening to this piece
Every Sunday morning my mother would play this and Mahalia Jackson's " Lift Up Your Heads O Ye Gates". This takes me back to my childhood.
He doesnt add lots of movement and emotion he just lets the music speak for itself
Many thanks for this video, I will treasure it.
Man I wish I could've been in the room for this, or if there was a high quality recording.
I still get goosebumps every time I listen to this. Sheer brilliance!
Любая похвала, любые слова тут не уместны, а вот звуки музыки в таком исполнении будут звучать вечно!
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I have only listened to this piece a few times, but this is my favorite version and just an amazing piece to listen to, the emotion and skill with which it's played is simply astounding
I love the way he plays this. I've heard so many play it with a very mechanical, more staccato feel... and Horowitz gives it a more lilting feel.
Greatest Horowitz performance of this piece from the eighties. He played at the same high level as he played the F-sharp Polonaise in 1968 .
Extraordinario, perfecto, respeta totalmente al autor. Fabuloso imterprete.
Fabulous performance. He is at one with the soul of the music: so expressive and beautiful!
Thank you for this wonderful video, Horowitz plays Chopin like nobody else!
なんて素晴らしいんだろう。私も弾きたい。難しいと思うけど、やらないで焦がれているよりはいい気がする。好きです
Aea
A 84 anni... fantastico. Qualche minima stecca che quasi non si sente, una interpretazione di grande sensibilità anche se non al massimo della sua energia, ed un senso "architettonico" dell'insieme che molti non hanno mai raggiunto nemmeno negli anni d'oro.
Chapeaux, adorabile vecchio.
Absolutely wonderful!
I've been wanting to know the name of this for so long. I'm happy I found it.
The one and only, there will never be another one to equal his God given talent..He was the greatest, no contest, case closed....
I like how his isnt too fast
I agree. He was just wonderful!
That's right. If the polonaise is too fast, then it won't be hero. If Beethoven's piano concerto no.5 is too fast, then it won't be emperor.
@@hongtianzhang2475 Oh of course, that's it
It’s now 2020, Horowitz is long gone but this interpretation is magnificent. It’s so crazy to hear the difference in interpretation from his time to now pianists like Seong-Jin Cho when he played it in 2015.
Absolutely beautiful. Enjoyed it a lot.
Chopin was such a wonderful writer, what a beautiful mind he had. Also, i love horowitz for his expressive nature.
If possible, WHEN I'm no longer bound in time & space, I would love to hear Chopin himself play this!
beautiful ~ ♫
Amazing composition...amazing performance!!!!!
some wrong notes and just fiew imperfection: that's what makes this beautifu! Stunning, the best
This performance and the one of Rubinstein are the absolute best. When you compare it to the performace of Kissin, Lang lang, etc. It's clear why these 2 are in a league of their own. Seong jin cho the winner of the 2015 chopin competition, despite the young age played it decently. He did well the beginning but then got too excited 🤣.
For me the inique piano player with that unique and real sound, and the very clear music!!
Such an expressive player. I've never heard this piece sound so divine.
How does he do it, HOW DOES HE DO IT!?!??!?! I NEEDDDD ITTTTTT
And yeah i liked my own comment what u gonna do about it ??!?! Fight me , also rip truly rip
With ALL due respect to this Maestro's talent, brilliance, emotive depth, physical power, musical intelligence, immersion in the beauty of the poetry of the romantic era:
I am also astounded by the mere basic fact that this man's little finger was the length of my INDEX finger! Yikes!
He wanted to be a composer - only!!! Thank goodness Life motivated him also to share his interpretive performance gifts with the musical world!🙏🌹🎆
His quiet introduction of the piece and the theme really amazes me
My gosh, these gives me goosebumps, breathtaking as it is ! What a a maestro !!! MY sister used to play this too, in same tempo, almost as good as he!!, she passed away recently due to botched surgery! I am missing her so much beyond compare!!!💔😥🙏🕊
I am a lifetime lover of classical music and as a pianist, Chopin has always been a favourite of mine...
Yet my first hearing of this piece was as the music for a Monty Python song about Oliver Cromwell.
I mouth the lyrics to this whenever I hear this great work.
Do you think I will go to hell for this?
4:32 I have never heard anyone play this part like him. What amazing power given to that one note.
brilliant video of a brilliant pianist playing a brilliant piece superbly!
thanks sincerely thepolonaise.
I can’t hold it together watching him play this. I just sob it is just so amazing!!!!
This will always be Horowitz’s piece.
9thvalkyrie Yes! The subtle rubato, his expressive and sometimes explosive dynamics. No one can play this piece better.
personal interpretation: the mind of a young man falling in love
@The Marrionet Its forerunner was "chodzony", a peasants' dance -- but Polonaise is the courtly version of it.
AEVIN That would be Franz Liszt’s Liebesträume :)
Hermosa interpretación, respiraba y vivia por la música, gran maestro!!¡¡
I remember seeing his special on one of the TV networks in the mid-sixties. Prime time. Stupendous! This kind of stuff was all over TV back then. Lenny's young people's concerts. This is where I got my love of 'classical' music!