Horowitz - Scarlatti Sonata L33

[leongatha6]

as always, Horwitz' musical and artistic taste are impecable. No one ever played Scarlatti with this depth.

[JuniorBerger]

Somebody plays wayyyyy too much piano...

[jonjon1957jonjon]

Is it K87? It sounds like it could almost be someone like Poulenc.

[TheRedArmy10]

@jonjon1957jonjon it surely is. :)

[jonjon1957jonjon]

Can this really be Scarlatti ?

[lunaboomboom]

Scarlatti always gets the shaft. However, Horowitz compels you to recognize the composer. Horowitz is just on another level. I don't know how else to say it

[Reubenzklemm]

Doesn't it look like every finger has a mind of it's own?

[KhagarBalugrak]

Incredible.

[JBarscarwitz]

He always takes me to a place of longing, wanting, wishing, & hoping. I dare say, nobody will ever allow Scarlatti to speak to us as Horowitz played.

[C0nstellati0ns]

Fantastic

[barb1407]

Horowitz is the one who makes me always cry... It`s just an other world.... Makes me touching eternity...

[MaiconDouglas83]

Such a performance of such a piece doesn't deserve such vulgar comments.

It seems to me like all the poetry is flying away from this vulgar world, leaving us just petrol, cash and cement.

[laiholapso]

deze video's moeten verboden worden voor boerenlullen uit nederland die kunnen toch alleen maar klagen. horowitz is the best and I

couldn't give a shit if those communist clap their plastic hands or shove them up their cunts this is great!!!

[skateboarddirk]

@laiholapso lol boerenlullen uit nederland? spreek voor jezelf :) ik ben namelijk zeer blij met deze video's.

[TheFerny52]

meraviglioso...



[bkatt1187]

he sings through that instrument!

[herbert1be]

men moet wel de russische ziel kennen anders begrijp je het niet

[herbert1be]

beste aller tijden

[hermanmolema]

'Neukend publiek', met daarachter 2 overbodige uitroeptekens, is de best beoordeelde reactie.

[greyoctopus]

i love how holds his hands before he plays like "Bitch please, i got this shit down cold"

[hermanmolema]

Even the breast-pocket handkerchief is crying.

[tacle51]

Horowitz, une des plus belles et plu profonde sensibilité que j'ai pu entendre , qu'il prête à une composition absolument magnifique qui transcrit la douce poésie d'une époque d'il y a plus de 500ans .

[zivzan]

is he jewish?

[spartandna]

@zivzan ya, at least of Jewish heritage

[antoniodcz]

His hands, covered in liver spots, producing this music of such exquisite beauty....completely demands my attention, and all the happier am I that spent a few minutes in the company of Vladimir Horowitz

[oxur91]

pubblico incapace....

[Ivanhoe2]

@WiseMonkey888 The person was obviously moved by the performance,,,,So who are you to ridicule him?? you insolent bastard

[ilovescarlatti]

Mio Dio, che musica, che pianista..

[DafniElissa]

there's so many people!

[ghadastique]

my heart hurts when I listen to this.... it literary hurts

[Laudan08]

Scarlatti sonatas sound a bit child-ish to me. But Horowitz makes them sound SERIOUS!

[reunread]

so incredibly hauntingly beautiful

[gonzalojosevb]

He was a GOD of piano, a GENIOUS!!

[13371138]

"I didn't compose it!"

-best thing ever to say after wowing everyone with a performance.

[hibayassin]

briefly wounderful

[TheJmd441]

A bit of right pedal; and even an un-scarlattian slur towards the end. But:

who cares? I don't. I think Horowitz was the best translator, on piano, of this

music. And here he was in Russia; again after so many years of exile.

Wonderful!

[gunce57]

Horowitz in prayer

[kontrapunkti]

He was

The Most Overrated

The Most Underestimated

Pianist.

both from wrong reasons

[iansquared3]

thought it was a still picture at first



[maennlichen]

Ich bin ganz hingerissen von dieser Musik. Sie ist so schön wie die Welt, so perfekt wie die Natur, so tiefgründig und geheimnisvoll wie das Leben selbst. Ich begreife die Griechen und Römer, dass sie Götter der Künste hatten und glaubten, diese würden den Menschen die Kunstwerke einflössen ... Ich war noch nie so froh, dass ich ein bisschen Klavier spielen kann

[rojocomolagrana]

Se puede decir, que antes de oír a este ángel, sólo había escuchado a Scarlatti en sueños. Gracias DIOS, por enviárnoslo

[paulostroff99]

TY Sissco for posting Horowitz was a legend in his own time.

[leyshaable]

Cute"""

[guweck]

Fucking audience!!!

[istarninwa]

@guweck It's just a very bad recording. See Horowitz's performance at Carnegie Hall -- the audience there makes just as many noises, and yet they're not heard because the whole recording is muffled.

[Montyleeny14]

What a very loud audience!

[BuckshotLaFunke1]

@Montyleeny14 Good heavens, for many Russians this was a once in their lifetime experience: to hear Horowitz in person. We can only guess how much it meant to them.

[Acidbiloba]

@Montyleeny14 Imagina que son espíritus.

[shapirapiano]

BEAUTIFUL, DELICATE, TOUCHING--MAGIC

[KPJP1978]

I love this song played by maestro Horowitz. So beautiful and delicate. Thanks for the posting!

[oboema2007]

I found this piece 4 weeks ago and have been playing it every day since. This piece equals life. It affects me physically as well as mentally. Such grandeur, so dynamic. Horowitz looks like he is summarizing and feeling his own life history here. His face is equally important as his music in this piece. How he moves his mouth during the last seconds, as if he is not only ending this piece but also his own life. Absolutely superb.

[MrLisztomania]

Bellissimo, commuovente!!!

[jotanshi]

This is my favourite classic sound, though I heard this just once in my youth.

I'v been looking for THIS sound for over 20 years.

Searching keyword has been just "Scarlatti Sonata".

Now I finally got this at last.

My sincere thanks for uploading this one.

[DoktorHouseMD]

this video is the proof,that he used to be able to play with his eyes closed

[sylvio1980]

@maxhansendk

Clara Haskil is very good also, almost as good, almost ....................

[thinkpad20]

Scarlatti was amazingly forward-thinking for his time. The lyricism displayed in this piece (and many others) is almost Chopin-esque at times. Brilliant stuff; needless to say, also a brilliant performance from Horowitz.

[Bret6464]

@thinkpad20 The lyricism is brought out by Horowitz :-)

Both VH and Gilels are extraordinary in doing just that, going straight to the heart of Scarlatti :-)

[8BlueSkies]

He makes it look so easy...

[Xsilord]

Can't describe how this is making me feel... other than it just takes me away to another world completely.

[SPEEDYCARMINE60]

Horowitz: extraordinary touch!

[XLmartinhk]

Perfect version !

[madaboutvoice]

Thank you Sissco! IMHO this is the perfect tempo for this sonata...I love pogorelich's rendition as well as pletnev's and others', but Horowitz's interpretation has a certain tension that holds it together better. How lucky we are to be able to see and hear the great man perform even after he is no more. Five stars from me.

[bobekelund]

We won't see Horowitz's like again!

[aeriality]

seems like he is just dreaming of that piece to become true...and actually it does!

[panagulisalekos]

Magnifico. 

[NuunSound]

such a beatiful interpretation too bad for the audience noises

[illegalsmirf]

Each key corresponds to the voice of an angel in heaven. xP

[laqin007]

Audienceee, stop making noises!!!!!!

[PrincessUnicorn69]

0:00 to 4:17 is the best part.

[classicvinylbiz]

Maria Tipo, 1956: Scarlatti Sonata in G major, L 286 -

watch?v=z506oHagQek

thanks and regards

[smgoraieb]

Bravissimo!

[japanesesweet]

Scarlatti is a genius-all these sonatas have so much variety and harmonic spice-they never fail to surprise.

Horowitz is outstanding, as is Pogorelich and Weissenberg.This is a very difficult piece to play.

[imJoshe]

i can never understand how he keeps his fingers so straight and relaxed

[rabbittown1900]

何だか物悲しい寂しい様な曲ですね！。

[Alex4LP]

Celestial notes at the end 3:58 - 4:17

[psalmtone2008]

Somehow this didn't make the CD I have! Thanks for posting!

[luo23579]

simply pure

[MrTIRILLY]

On comprends que Rachmaninov aimait Horowitz. Cette interprétation est pleine de romantisme et de poésie.

[gunce57]

Horowitz in prayer

[1980NewWave]

I keep coming back to this video every few weeks. This piece is not as easy as it sounds. The legato it requires is quite difficult, but of course Horowitz makes it look effortless.

[dhoulkarnain]

Absolutely beautiful, Horowitz plays Scarlatti with such serenity and grace.

[FishGush]

high class piano playing here.. the dynamics are superb, also the legato. I play this piece many many years but not one sec. sounds like this one. No more words, incredible.

[dieinga19]

fantastic music!!! it is so great ilove it... you mean that vou are in an other world...

[Hohomochka]

Потрясающе!!!

[RemovdSande11]

horrowitz is one of the best pianist. to call him a genius is absurd in my opinion. If you call Scarlatti , wo wrote this piece, a genius... than yes I can agree ^^

[afertyus1000]

@RemovdSande11 yes i agree kid prodigys can play great, although h had better interpretations the composers were the geniuses

[gheubel]

I have listened to VH since I was a child. 50 years later I am still in awe of his unique and distinctive interpretations

His performances are transcendental

[spasman]

love this piece, competely botched it up when I tried to play it at a small concert though!

[usheryel]

Masterfully played . . . great sensitivity.

[usheryel]

A remarkable performance. Just fascinating.

[M0G0S]

when he plays he only looks at his fingers, so soft and gentle. the sound he makes, you can feel and see that he hears it in his mind better than he plays. dont we all?

[klausknulp]

horowitz is my hero. i am idicted to his sound. he plays like an angel, but if it needs he plays like a devil (for example mephisto valse). thank you for sharing this outstanding performance!

[FoolishZebby]

My teacher played me this video and told me to just pay attention to the little fingers of his left hand... Talk about RIDICULOUS strength...

[timetwisterr]

Beautiful and so emotional. This music penetrates everyone's heart!!

[saulboyjt]

No words to describe the greatness of his playing. there are just no words!

[1965rpbrpb1965]

...speechless

[hap2002hello]

I love the ending.

[galapz]

Thank you for posting. No other words necessary.

[BlackFoxG]

Breathtaking.

[artemka4774]

битком БЗК набит;)

[GCBBLB]

Bellisimo Mr Horowitz! c'est fantastic. He really had a way with Scarlatti.

[yobiendo]

Bellisimo querida muy hermoso, me encata Scarlatti

[CronosPrime1]

sweet, i didn't know scarlatti could be this good

[robertforberger]

@CronosPrime1 I suppose, that Horowitz liked works of this composer, Scarlatti played by Horowitz ...it fits perfectly together.

[junjieyuu]

@CronosPrime1 yep

[carmantione]

no comment... too beautifull, no words can explain..

[mikern2001]

The man was unique. His interpretations of the entire repetoire were his own. He played what interested him, except for a few crowd pleasers. Look at him concentrate on what he is playing. The tempos, dynamics, melding of notes, are pure genius. We are all lucky he was among us.

[FlashyCat2008]

Lipatti was better.

[Niadkaster]

le maître en action...

[borozanhasan]

horowitz horror in auschwitz ;) This song is dedicated to all jews

[gameloveblog]

wtf does that mean?

[cattleman6420012000]

Absolutely superb.

[TICETOCAR]

you're absolutely right.. thanks for that :-)

[14spag14]

amazing piece i performed this for my A levels

[xaviescacs]

Generally speaking I prefer pianists like Arrau, Barenboim or Kempff, but when I listen to such interpretation, I'm bound to consider Mr Horowitz a true artist, and, to say the least, to question myself about the validity of the arguments that made me incline towards the formers.

[heschernp]

Hopefully, youtube will eventually stop allowing comments to be placed below the video such as the one above. We often see pearls being tossed before swine on this site. We are not here to compare other artists with the great Horowitz. Listen and learn!

[xaviescacs]

So intolerant of yours. If you make an effort to read it again you'll realize that it wasn't offensive at all to your beloved Horowitz but exactly the contrary. Try to be a bit more constructive please. I'm sure you can if you put your mind to it.

[3NUNS]

@maxhansendk Yes, pure genius, even if you cannot spell tye word.

[OudProff]

very touching....

[focadelmar06]

i wish they would have continued the video and let the last note sustain until he actually ended the piece....oh well, it was still a brilliant performance!

[jacomijn2009]

it 's of course a very special way of playing the piano, very characteristic for his aera of musicians, but intelligent, sensitive... I 'm always impressed and touched by his playing.. love you vladimir !!!

[51Jerome]

Tendre, limpide, y a pas de mots pour cette Sonate écrite il y a de prêt 500ans.

L'une des plus belle, que me touche profondément interpréter avec une sensibilité extraordinaire par Mr Horowitz qui d'autre..

[lisatutunjian]

He was 83 years old. This his first & last concert in Moscow, Tchaikowsky Hall since his flee in 1918. He died in 1989. He's still my icon.

[jcollinsify]

This is not the way to play Scarlatti. Horowitz was a wonderful pianist but at age 80-whatever he has no sense of the dynamics of this piece. Anyone familiar with the Scarlatti sonatas would be dismayed at the lack of crispness and attack here. They were mostly written for keyboard instruments predating the piano - principally the harpischord. Can you imagine such somnolent playing on those instruments?

[otonanoC]

I agree that Horowitz is making no attempt at all to make this piano sound like a harpsichord. However, it is as if this is how Scarlatti heard this music "in his mind" -- as if in dream where an organ is playing in a distant room.

[Vlaqq]

your are right - the problem is that we play our thought about notes and not notes, of course: the context is this m.gorovitz left the country 60years ago and russia was dumped in a total cultural disaster: this is nostalgia and despair and sadness. major is the best expressed through minor.

[nearenough3]

It's too bad you weren't around to teach him how to play this piece.

[caribolas]

@jcollinsify Of course it doesn't sound like a harpischord. What you think Horowitz would say about your lame criticism? "I apologize, sir. I didn't notice that"? I wonder if people come across Oistrakh or Perlman saying "Excuse me, but you're not making your strings sound as if it was made of bloody sheep guts".

[musicfanBRA]

Let's hope my head will be as good as his by age 86.

[Kemis89]

You mean 86 years...

[MikeInBeantown]

October 1, 1903 November 5, 1989, so he was 83 here

[fintel114]

lovely.

[MaestroTJS]

Never heard this piece before, but it is very beautiful. Surely Scarlatti is an underrated and somewhat neglected master.

His interpretation seems kind of Romantic to me (I could be wrong, as I don't know the piece), but it works...very well.

[phoenixeuphoria]

a marvel to behold, rest assured

[VariationsOn1String]

such a moving & softer piece to hear.

[knowMusicMan]

Who's the schmendrick making all the noise in the hall? If you can't sit still and be quiet when the maestro is playing, get out!

[KindFurryBoy]

That's an understandable thing to say but unlike in America, European and nearby nations generally have much more respect and reverance towards music. Did you ever consider that maybe that person could be sick or something? Considering the musician, everyone there likely paid top dollar and want to be quiet!

[knowMusicMan]

This piece has nothing to do with America! This performance is in Moscow!

[morvensky]

I love the articulation, tone etc... but I find this is too fast. I generally love his Scarlatti, I like his but I find it sub-par compared to his other Scarlatti recordngs IMHO. I do like this though.

[Overlapse1000]

motet, it is nearly a bouree

[sam0xin]

Life concert...hypnotized soviet art lovers...

and Steinway as a souvenir...for homeland...from Vladimir. Great  Concert.

Why Scarlatti called them exercises ???

[KindFurryBoy]

Many of Scarlattis pieces are called exercises because he wrote his music for royalty, not for their entertainment, but music education at the keyboard. As luck would have it his pupil was very tallented and so his music became very complex/difficult and beautiful.

[wariomane]

Horowitz .. tu es le meilleur !

[AmazingStrings]

You're right...thats heaven! Maybe the best interpretation of that sonata!

I made an adaption of that piece for guitar.

I recorded it yesterday...I'm loooking forward to comments!

[laurensbon]

this utter feeling of harmony

majestic

[KhagarBalugrak]

Indeed, Scarlatti would have loved this.

[MikeInBeantown]

had Scarlatti heard this interpretation, he might have regretted not having had a piano.

[1969Chronos]

He might have envisioned a piano while composing his sonatas. I seriously doubt that in his mind the somewhat dry sound of the harpsichord was inspiring him to write such sublime music.

[1969Chronos]

It's very hard to convey the concept of dynamics (piano/ forte and in between sound intensity) on a harpsichord or a clavichord.

[d0m1985]

actually this was a motet... If you study the piece closely the piece would be performed very well by a chorus.. I think scarlatti was thinking of voices.

[KindFurryBoy]

Possible but 4 voice parts find their way into keyboard instruments very often. He may have been thinking 'voices' in the sense of harmony rather than individual parts, if that makes sense.

[dmcII]

Agreed. But its on "The Last Romantic" CD which was about 2 (??) years later. Maybe they knew he had to record another CD and conciously decided to hold it back for that reason.

[dmcII]

D'oh ! My mistake.  Its actually on "The Studio Recordings". Not the "Last Romantic". Sorry...:)

[lacrymosa85]

agreed

[Artudytv]

Which of the Scarlatti's is this? I searched for the author and found out that there were actually two Scarlatti living almost at the same time.

[shaind]

Domenico Scarlatti. Only D. Scarlatti has his works listed in Longo numbers(L.).

[zombierobopirate]

haha i looked on wikipedia, and there are FOUR composers in that family, living around the same time!

[jeffamarie]

Yeah, but Domenico was the best. ; )

[Psychokeys]

This is a very good example to proove that horowitz was one of the best musicians that ever lived..Just a genious...