horowitz plays very difficult part of rachmaninov 3º concerto

[drydyboy]

At one point in the song he was looking at the notes and thinking : ''Fuck you, you, you, you Fuck you, YOU, YOU ,YOU!''

[mosen17]

52 people are done playing the piano...

[Flextones]

We have got some competitive listeners here. Some of this is subjective of course. You might like a particular personality or big name you have heard about for a variety of reasons. Vlad "the Impaler" has been mastering the piano for 50 years or more. He has got to be 70 or more. You know he was a child prodigy. All he has ever listened to is classical music. He is from Europe and classical is played on the radio a lot. Of course he makes it look easy and it is easy for him.He has put time in.

[Vesivian]

Badass.

[darastarscream]

AND HE'S NOT SWEATING.

Alien.  Gotta be.

[HJDtv]

@darastarscream maybe a lizard.. like dick cheney...

[joninho1975]

Thats bloody good

[klusicek]

Nice, but Most I like Bermans Cadenza, then Ashkenazys and then Horrowitz' ;)

[TheDavidefrani]

HE IS THE MASTER...

[RandomJtv]

This performance should have ended with a banner which fell from the ceiling reading "Haters. Kill yo'selves".

[springkler]

He was like:Oh yea time to do this.And then he was like:oh yea play more faster and FASTER for me Rachmaninov.I'm a genious player in the world!Then he turn crazy the way he PLAYS!

[BassicStorm]

jadan klavir :(

[mtwdune]

Ways behind Bronfman´s 2004 performance in Japan.

[randomprimate]

@mtwdune decades older than bronfman during his 2004 performance in japan

[CoolCat123450]

I am sorry, but Horowitz would be offended by this title. He doesn't think pieces like this are difficult, he views them like stepping stones on the road to musical nirvana. lol

[forgottenbooks]

I'm currently trying to learn this cadenza. I know the first page and the notes in this chords section after that. If you don't get Rachmaninoff's musical genius by listening to his compositions, trying to play them will make it clear: there's no escaping it.

[JoeTownley]

Boy, if I had a buck for every wrong note I could retire to the Caribbean and give up this dead-end music gig.

[datsik]

46 people were asian toddlers who never grew up to be anything even close to this.

[NerdsWithGames]

Difficulty: ASIAN

[RandomCoked]

@NerdsWithGames but.. but.... IMPOSSIBURU!

[nikumuMINA]

always a god damn cocksucker to say " omg asian olol " go back to your fucking video game and stfu , all the genius come from europe , europe is land of music .

[shadowjuan2]

@nikumuMINA

Then why i never hear Omg European?

[lukefenderrhodes]

@nikumuMINA no upper penninsula michigan

[nikumuMINA]

@lukefenderrhodes dont see whaty ou mean

[lukefenderrhodes]

@lukefenderrhodes most genius come from upper penninsula michigan i ate rabbit turds getting smarter already

[G1GAR0]

Eveny Kissen rules!

Hes the best playing this melody.

[phguitar2010]

@G1GAR0 yes but Horowitz was the master of all pianists.

[G1GAR0]

@phguitar2010

I think is Georges Cziffra.

[awcomeon]

Do you people have ANY idea what these tumultuous measures that he's playing look like on paper? DO YOU???!?!??!?! >_<

*dies*

[Hailstormful]

@awcomeon probably a giant black blur with black lines coming across it

[manuel32720011]

WHOA!

[Ultrazone91]

Well this is the old Horowitz with all his problems (read his biography)...yes his playing is not as clear as it was before but his musicality is still the same and maybe it reaches a new level of elegance (in my opinion). However he has been one of the greatest in every point of view. Ask your piano teacher why we could not play in that weird position he used to play for example :)

[SHICOFF1]

Wonderful and an older man here. Nice to compare him with his younger days but he remained a King of Pianists.

[Terrantuladic]

I would have been very dissapointed if i was at that recital. That's my favorite part.

Sill love horowitz though

[Bob8199]

I can play that upside down and with my eyes closed.

[AntaresCortinas]

@Bob8199

and how is your music at that part??

[forgottenbooks]

At 0:09 isn't there supposed to be an RH lower voice?

[Balgig]

@forgottenbooks no, i don't think so.  I'm in the process of learning this magnificent concerto and this was among first pages that i learnt. And by far the hardest iv encountered thus far. Also, i soon realized that Horowitz was not playing as it is written; he cut a few bars and tinkered with a few chords, and i love his interpretation so iv adopted it too. I'm still not quite there yet, maybe a few more months.

[Dan474834]

It's amazing how his body hardly moves. I, as a pianist, would be all over the fucking place.

[ImageRaiter]

If you want to hear Horowitz play this Cadenza nicely listen to some of his 1930s and 1940s recordings. Those are epic as hell.

[mlaux72]

Not only fake notes but I can hear (and see) also a re-arrangement of the cadenza. I am a great fan of Horowitz but I heard thousands of better performances from him that this one. Also speaking about Rachmaninoff ... I think that preludes (in G and G#) at the Moskow concert are so beautiful ... It's true that every note he plays it's (it was) a miracle but ... keep in mind he was human ... sometimes he played not at the top !!

[Sagebrusher07]

@mlaux72

Cadenzas were originally improvised by the performer

[Larousse27192]

My teacher told me: "Argerich plays this without any mistake... and Horowitz has maaany mistakes but... sometimes, Argerich is cold... and Horowitz is simply so warm and musical.... I prefer Horowitz"

[PetrichorAllegory]

I can't people you people still think there are "wrong" and "right" notes. EVERY note Horowitz plays is a miracle.

[DarwinIsInCharge]

Tons of wrong notes - the scherzo in Eb is the IIIrd movement is harder. Never was a fan of his rachmaninoff ----- but his Scarlatti - sigh --- unmatched.

[16yearoldwhiteboy]

This is actually really easy... If you hands are the size of a giant!

[AldenHardaway]

To have been in that hall, hearing him play like that... or even better, back in his glory days when he could play EVEN FASTER. What a god among pianists.

[0casteloencantado0]

he's like: "bitch, i do this in my sleep..."

[csabaimate]

@0casteloencantado0 I also like 9gag:)

[n19ns]

@0casteloencantado0 Bitch are you if you hear it like this

[CooCurrent]

@0casteloencantado0 He's probably thinking, "Who's that playing!?". I mean that in the sense that he can play it so comfortably that he can basically LISTEN to himself play it, if you know what I mean? That's a brilliant way to improve your playing - if you can listen to your OWN playing. Which is surprisingly hard to do!

[geraniums8]

I'm a firm believer that if you can't play it, don't.

[kewkabe]

Nobody can be 100% accurate with Rachmaninov, because he did not write for the human hand. It's literally impossible to play many of his chords.

[DarwinIsInCharge]

@kewkabe you can check the Volodos Chicago recording - cleanest one in existence.

[philsmithjr1]

Your ear must be better than mine!!! Did you like the piece? It happens to be one of my favorite pieces. I have thought of learning it but I am too old and too weak to even attempt t do such a thing. In undergraduate and graduate school, we were always reflecting whether tempo should outweigh musicianship. If you are not familiar with the Scriabin 5th sonata, listen to the Horowitz recording on youtube. Fantastic! Have you listened to Olga Kern, Rachmaninoff 3rd?

[JFKWT]

Horowitz - Ruling the Pianoforte with a hand-shape that warranted many a ruler-slap on many a beginner

[philsmithjr1]

Great pianist, great technique, but he sure did miss a lot of notes. If you have not heard Horowitz playing St. Francis Walking Over the Water, you must. He recorded it in 1947, and terriblly exciting but tempo does not allow all of the notes to be accurate.

[Balgig]

@philsmithjr1 Just to correct you, Horowitz missed not a single note in this 32 seconds of rach concerto; and I'm fairly confident in saying the other 76 pages of this concerto were executed correctly, to Horowitz's intent.

Like in this page, he did cut a few bars and alter a few chords, and I think its much better than what was originally written :)

[philsmithjr1]

@Balgig Thank you, I appreciate that you read my comment. Did you have a chance to listen to the Horowitz St. Francis recording of 1947? I did not mean to challenge or offend you in any way. I'm an old man (63) and correct notes or incorrect notes don't bother me. Horowitz indeed was a magnificent artist. The cadenza of the first movement is so difficult to manipulate all of the chords in different parts of the keyboard. Sorry, not that it matters, but I think he missed quite a few notes.

[Balgig]

@philsmithjr1 It took me a few days but I'm starting to hear the wrongs notes, in Horowitz's work. Horowitz is very good at making it sound part of the piece, i do apologies for my ignorance.

[jon44718]

in the real life words of prince philip..."ghastly"

[freekfeast]

Just listen to the corresponding part in an Ashkenazy performance and you'll see how ridden with mistakes the poor old Horowitz's rendition is.

[1ApertureRealist]

Looking at his face the whole time :P

[TheSapphirestation]

Where is the whole cadenza to this? I've been looking all over for even this much! Anyone know where the whole thing is?

[tomclemans]

@TheSapphirestation

"biokemiker" has played the whole thing. He is an amateur pianist from Denmark - VERY good pianist, and very gracious to everyone who contacts him.

[MrJooniejoon]

@TheSapphirestation his rach 3 dvd is sold everywhere. (amazon has vhs one for 99$ !!!! )

lol I'm so glad I bought this years ago when it was mere 10$

[jjonilson]

So what? Martha Argerich plays very dificult all work of the composer. But I know that horowitz is great, but your little video not make perfect mention about the artist and a little fragment of the opus don't talk much about the of artist virtuosing. And a work slowly can be very dificult of playing for cuse of the línguage and emotions that musics need be transmiting for can listening.

[citrismandude]

"There are three types of pianists: Jewish pianists, homosexual pianists, and bad pianists"

-- Vladimir Horowitz

[1ZepTepi]

Missing notes........

He was virtuoso.

He was HOROWITZ, and he gave more flavour to what he played .

Really, who can dislike this?

[frintonearnshaw]

@1ZepTepi I can. A lot.

[Eztoez]

This is very difficult, and Horowitz is one of the best pianists of the 20th century. So what if he hits a few wrong notes. All the ppl moaning about wrong notes, please post your perfect versions. I would give anything to be able to play the Rach 3

[xxcocoloco]

no one can compare to the chaotic beauty that is horowitz

[spartan1081990]

Mother fucker

[ukdavepianoman]

Criticizing a pianist for hitting a wrong note or two is as ridiculous as criticizing a truly great footballer for mis-controlling the ball once during a match or criticizing a student for getting 99% by saying why didn't you get 100%.

Concentrate on the overall performance, experience, emotion etc and forget about the odd technical blips. An exciting performance means extra risk.

[ruskybalboa]

I think that people should'nt give a shit about wrong notes, it's so ironic because nearly EVERY pianist looks to horowitz for the rachmaninoff and tchaikovsky concertos. He's arguably the most influential concert pianist of all time!!

Plus he just made an 18 year old kid filled with testosterone shed a tear from 0:05 to 0:25

[aizendarwin]

Very Nice but I prefer Argerich's version of this cadenza.

[slapmyfunkybass]

but can he play funk?

[ThePVGS1]

What up forty dudes? Ya disliked the video? Monitors upside-down, am I correct? Do you know it's already genius for Horowitz to play this entire concerto with orchestra at such an old age?

[RandomCoked]

i know everyone already knows this, but his the sounds he produces with his fingers just make me fucking high.

[Eztoez]

You have to understand: Horowitz is no ordinary run of the mill amateur pianist. He's one of the greatest pianists of all time. This segment of the concerto is hard. Rachmaninoff is very hard to play. Anyone who says otherwise is talking out of their behinds.

[MrJooniejoon]

@Eztoez seriously.

[asre2001]

@Eztoez Rachmaninoff is easy as fuck to play, my 4 year old nephew can play it....

with windows media player



[TheBlizzardcat]

Omg!!!!

Close to nirvana.........

Aaaah!

[cbar0x]

THIS IS NOT HUMAN

[oaoJ69Joao]

Horowitz doing Octava moveents are pretty sick!

[mik3sss]

AMAZING!!!

[IrJo4Life]

I can't find the repeat button.

[Santosificationable]

Man, this just HAS to be one of the hardest piano solos EVER PLAYED.

[LucioEiji]

Why is this part so difficult? Are the large chords on both hands, the big jumps or what? Are the chords in a especially irregular fashion so that it makes it difficult to maintain the tempo? I know that that alone is pretty difficult, but I would like to know why this specific part of the entire concerto was chosen.

[Santosificationable]

@LucioEiji Which part of the concerto is harder than this?

[Clobalize]

It fell apart for me

[beethoven1357]

wow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[marcnotenboom]

WTF?! 75yo? must have injected himself with some kryptonite or something...

[itsjustnopinionok]

My piano would be so jealous of that piano for getting that much fingering.;-)

[MrBrick241]

so was this guy the best ever???

[jhoward1957]

@MrBrick241 Listen to his 1930 recording of Rachmaninoff 3rd. Imagine the musical tornado he created in the minds of an audience 80 years ago when he was young. He is the mountain.

[dommboi69]

@MrBrick241 yes.

[MisterXmeo]

o.O

[SgtPepper303]

Fuck! Thank you Rachmaninoff!

[sebastianrc]

That's what you do when you have 350 fingers

[captainchumfy]

People like him cause me to lose hope that I'll ever be good...

[mmoynan]

I really think all of the wrong notes take away from the integrity of the music, though. Majorly. It's really distracting. Horowitz was phenomenal, but we all know the 70s weren't his strong point.

[ArunGarg001]

@mmoynan hahah i don't think playing rach 3 in one's 70's will ever be a "strong point"

[MrChofee]

35 people are not 75 years old pianists. LOL

[TheSapphirestation]

@MrChofee 41 people have no idea about this concerto and how difficult it is! :=D

[xiahchar10]

he played it so effortlessly! n considering his age?! He's just GREAT!!!

[enriquem90]

I think 0:16 is the highest climax of the entire concerto

[thomas271104]

the timing between 0:11 and 0:23 is perfect. I've searched almost every cadenza here on youtube, but no one beats this

[rgrannell1]

WOW! watch his hands from 0;25 to 0;27. I've never seen anyone move so fast.

[1234567bryce]

@MrRaphaelBM You're an idiot... and this is coming from a guy who loves Bronfman.

[1234567bryce]

@MrRaphaelBM lol? Apparently someone has something against Horowitz in a big way... but why...?

[nmbanana]

@1234567bryce i remember this MrRaphaelBM, he really didn't like horowitz, i got into an argument w/ him on a bronfman performance, it's best to just ignore this guy.

[falves1900]

@MrFortepianist Piano isn`t only about mistakes...

[MrFortepianist]

@falves1900 Of course.

[wasanik123]

@MrFortepianist I would like to see you 1) live to be his age 2) get up onstage and play Rach 3 in the Moscow FREAKIN Conservatory

[Evaldas521]

@wasanik123

This is New York, dummy.

[wasanik123]

@Evaldas521 same caliber, though. and no need to call me a dummy.

[Gontrand00]

I just got chill to hear that

[kenedwards5]

There are quite a few dropped notes in this whole performance. Horowitz was obviously passed his best as this passage shows. However, hear the whole performance and there is still a lot of magic.

[marcus2x2]

Magnificent! Talk about ripping the trachea (as it were) out of the piano!

[sir1920]

@marcus2x2 you dont know how to play the piano....

[marcus2x2]

@sir1920 Argumentum ad ignorantium

[Stuart0193]

For those of you who criticise, remember he is 75 years old. I'd like to see most of us try to play it at 75 (hell even and 30) and see how we would go.

[newgeorge]

wow, what a lot of wrong notes!

[angela1894]

This is not as difficult as a certain part of Ravel's Alborada del Gracioso

[AlvinSong2025]

maestro also a human that also makes mistake.... please understand that.. sorry for my english

[adamjenson4500]

everyone seems to be making excuses for horowitz' mistakes, just accept that this performance isn't brilliant

[adamjenson4500]

there are a lot of mistakes

[Japansepuppy2481]

@adamjenson4500 like you could do better.

[FlavioBrinck]

this concerto is so amazing... hear a very little piece without de context sound kind meaningless to me.

[rgrannell1]

the last five seconds of that is unbelievable

[LordCalvinHastings]

He skipped a part at 0:20-something.

[enriquem90]

( 00:16) I think his 5th finger of the left hand is made of stone

[BassicStorm]

@enriquem90  hehe true

[ludolxx94]

hi is very old, hi's not perfect

[Kan1944]

The Hellllll!!!! This is a crying piano!!!!

[picopichu]

凄すぎる・・・・

[Romanacer]

fuck…wie er ausrastet

[vegaspimp222]

HADUKEN!!!!! and the worlds ear drums just exploded from awesomeness

[ilikehaku1100]

Those bass chords sound like howitzers, or in this case, Horowitzers

[sextasis]

seems you dont have listen Valentina Lisitza, playing the same concerto. with or without orchestra she plays without difficult, as if she wants teach you, the music from her hands flows easy like water. I respect Horowitz, but plz listen Valentina Lisitza playing concerto no 3. and you will surprise of her amazing hands. thank you.

[IVlr3vil]

@sextasis Valentina isn't 75 years old. Horowitz 1941 Rach 3, when he was younger and around the time when Rachmaninoff heard the most technically astounding Horowitz possible, to this day that sound couldn't be replicated. Horowitz is often a comparison to Josef Hoffman during his prime. The closest that is alive may be Yefim Bronfman.

[afertyus1000]

@sextasis i have she is good but hamelin is the master of technique

[PaulThePuppetier]

The best...he's the best...

[TheGuyWhoJustShotYou]

why are people talking about wrong notes!?!?!? ITS MEANT TO BE DISSONANT!

[pianodan10]

@TheGuyWhoJustShotYou

People are talking about wrong notes because he hits a lot of them. Yes the piece is sometimes dissonant, but that's not what is going on here. Simply put, he hit lots of wrong notes later in his life... no big deal, it's just a fact.

As was said before though, his wrong notes are usually so convincing they might as well be the right ones.

Just to clarify...

[TheGuyWhoJustShotYou]

@pianodan10 Ok, after listening to his other recording I did hear 2 or 3 mistakes....BUT COME ON! they were so small! I don't understand why that was brought up anyway...He did fantasticaly :)

[pianodan10]

@TheGuyWhoJustShotYou

I think people brought it up because there are a surprising number of them in this short clip... This is certainly the latest version I've heard of him playing the 3rd, and in that part of his life I know he didn't want to play such massive concerti anymore, due to the fact that he'd rather play more right notes than wrong ones.

Some people have good days and bad days... it's tough to have good ones when you're in your 70's. Horowitz was always a giant, regardless.

[Lassannn]

Liszt wouldn't have missed a one.

[mario54671]

@Lassannn I wouldn't be so sure. The piano technique of the virtuosos today is different than the virtuosos back in the day. Over time, piano technique has improved because we've had more exercises over time, whereas back then, they didn't have as many. So we have to assume the piano technique generally wasn't as good in Liszt's time. Therefore, I wouldn't be surprised if Liszt missed a bunch of notes, because back then I don't think they obsessed over wrong notes as much as people do now.

[Japansepuppy2481]

@Lassannn This is the most famous and one of the best (probably the best) piano player in history. I highly doubt Liszt could do better.

[Lassannn]

@Japansepuppy2481 I know you're a huge fan, and he is the 2nd greatest of the 20th Century (after Busoni), but neither he nor Busoni could compare with Liszt's little finger.

[Symmetryful]

I love how everybody assumes everyone is writing negatively when I can't find negative comments below anymore xD

[Gontrand00]

Horowitz is the best

[pianoman21893]

In response to the title- Is there a part of Rachmaninoff's 3rd Piano Concerto that ISN'T difficult? It is ranked among the most difficult pieces ever written, and rightfully so.

[TheGuyWhoJustShotYou]

@pianoman21893 the beginning.....a monkey could play that part. XD

[physphilmusic]

@pianoman21893 Yup - the first few opening 10-20 bars or so are about beginners' standard.

Of course if you're talking about interpretation and emotion and all that shit, then even playing Mozart K545 is damn difficult.

[jen1989z]

@physphilmusic yes , you re right.

even the easiest piece, is difficult when it comes to express its emotion

[HarpoMarx22]

That was awesome.Too bad it was a short clip. I am writing on my dad's account.

[ttm0753]

After he heard Horowitz play his 3rd Concerto, Rachmaninoff never played it again.

[JoyCeLy4ev]

@ttm0753

ITS that TRUE??