@PJinBston u do realise that horrowitz wouldnt have been able to play in chopins style if he wanted too... chopin died like wat.. 200 years ago? so he wouldnt have the exact ability to interpret wat chopin would have wanted because chopin isnt here to play to us... so.. your wrong... plus chopin notates on the piece that the time signature should be played in an improvised way lol so mate before talking you should probably go away and study :p
Again...would anyone who is a world-class--or even concert class--pianist come to YouTube to criticize pianists that are world-renowned? No way. Therefore...those such as PJinSston are, in all likelihood, either hacks, or untalented and tone deaf.
Wonderful interpretation of this piece--by far my favorite. His finger pedaling is always so impressive (and characteristic, of course, but nonetheless worth mentioning.) Thank you for posting. =)
This is a fun piece to play. I never new it as "Raindrop". The approching storm was always the magic of the piece for myself. Horowitz had so much power in those fingers with so little movement. I must confess that I did contrast events a bit more. The Chanson Triste is good work of Tschaikowsky but I haven't seen much done with it(UsagiHimeKat).
I first heard this composition on a commercial for some video game a while back and since then i have been on the search for this beautiful masterpiece and now i have found it!!! Very dark and sexy!
@mrmonkeybuns I like what you said, but your sentences should start with capital letters and it is "it's" (short form of it is) and not its. P.S and not ps :). Have a good day.
I can play this piece, but this is the best I've ever heard. Horowitz was a genius (and I have the record (not CD) of his performance). The subtlety, range, and expressiveness is simply incredible.
@devdipg The "raindrop" note, actually goes through the whole piece and is a metaphor for time never stopping. and whether its the A section ( not movement) representing life or the B section representing death, time is constantly going. And when the A section melody comes back it is rebirth. Raindrop prelude is a name given to this piece long after Chopins time. Thats what I take away from this piece when listening to it.
Horowitz made me understand the title to this piece, now! He plays the way the title explains it. So simple, but extraordinary! I can actually hear the rain falling in the piece now!
OK, I don't know much about music, so excuse what's going to sound fairly ignorant to some, but would one of you serious music people please explain to me why I happen to like so many things in "D Flat Major"? Couldn't this be performed in another key and still work, or is there something really "different" about the various keys? And what's so alluring about this D Flat Major? It can't be just a coincidence that I like a lot of things in one particular key.
@nauort23 D flat Major is a badass of a key signature. haha. It has five flats, and its those five black keys out of the 8 tones in the d flat major scale that give it the distinct d flat major tonality that your ear and mind are so drawn to. But yes, this piece could be transcribed to another key signature and still "work." It just wouldn't sound as badass as D flat Major. : ) Depending on the key signature chosen it might sound happier or sadder.
@VRV716 HAHAHA!!! Thanks so much for responding--and I love your description of my favorite key as "badass". I've always had a subversive bent. So, it's all those "black keys"... Is there really a difference? This is the part I don't get. If you transcribe the piece to another key, aren't the new notes all still equally "distant" (for lack of a better term...), from the original notes, so that the black key/white key ratio wouldn't matter? I'm so confused, even if I am a badass! Thanks
@nauort23 Historically keyboard instruments such as harpsichords and early pianos used to be tuned differently from today. There was no official tuning standard back then and the notes were tuned in relation to each other. This meant that some keys were much flatter or sharper than others and composers chose the keys depending on the mood they wished to create. As technology allowed for louder and brighter pianos, the dissonance between certain keys became more noticeable and unbearable.
@nauort23 Historically keyboard instruments such as harpsichords and early pianos used to be tuned differently from today. There was no official tuning standard back then and the notes were tuned in relation to each other. This meant that some keys were much flatter or sharper than others and composers chose the keys depending on the mood they wished to create. As technology allowed for louder and brighter pianos, the dissonance between certain keys became more noticeable and unbearable.
@nauort23 Since 1917 a system known as Equal Temperate was put in place to standardise tuning. Now instead of keys being tuned in relation to the last one the scientific approach of tuning the notes to their correct frequencies is used. This means there are no harsh dissonances but it also means there is little to no difference between the key signatures. The reason you love D flat so much is perhaps your favourite pieces just happen to be in that key.
@nauort23 my original comment was to try to shed some light on "key language", i accept i have failed. the only thing i have acconmplished is the fact that i have to read our rediculous comments everytime i want to listen to one of my fav songs ever--good day sir.
He's not changing Chopin's notation, he changing Mikuli's notation...a person who wrote down and interpreted he favorite version of what Chopin tended to change at will every time he played it.
Its not an argument. Anyone with a music history backround...or even someone who plays Chopin at an advanced level knows you can't find any copies transcribed by Chopin...the closest you get is people who heard him first hand, and wrote it down. And since each performance was never like another...you are reinterpreting an interpretation of someone else. It doesn't matter if you call it bogus, its a fact...no one here learned this piece by reading the sheet music penned by Chopin
There ARE actual manuscripts (see the "teardrop") The debate is over the question of an authoritative score. What Horowitz does to a piece by Chopin is what he does to a sonata by Mozart or a piece by nearly any other composer - it's the same performance always, the same wanton changes in dynamics, the same "horowitz" pauses and leaden left hand and wanton changes in tempo - to call these things interpretation is a lie. It's Horowitzification. He just smear horowitz all over it.
Seeing as Chopin never wrote his music down (he abhored the practice) and improvised his performances at will...never playing a composition the same way twice, I would say that puts Horowitz and Rubinstein in pretty much the same position as lets say Carl Mikuli (Chopin's teaching assistant who is responsible for many of the versions you hold dear)...a person interpreting a master in his or her own way.
@1Thompsonmusic Horowitz is awful? He is one of the greatest piano virtuosos of the 20th century! He bangs on the piano for artistic purposes. He is a very powerful pianist. Are you on his level? If you are, show us your video.
All of his skill means nothing at all if he has no sensitivity to music. His distortions are a substitute for expressiveness - and perhaps to cover up his clumsiness? A true musician accepts what the composer has written, does not try to "improve" it, nor to "spice it up." A true composer finds beauty in the music. A true musician celebrates the composer's creativity as opposed to jealously putting his own gross tattoo on it.
@PJinBston If an artists, such as himself wants to convey a different idea to another person's creation, then that is okay. It does not mean he was doing Chopin a disservice. That is artistic authority and he has the right to convey any imaginative idea as he pleases. He does have music sensibility! He is definitely not an awful pianist and that makes you very pretentious for saying that. Are you in any position to say he's awful? Where's your credentials?
@ThePianoguy89 I don't see that YOU have any credentials aside from that you're a 21 year old "piano guy." But that's really a lazy and cowardly argument to fall back on. Calling him an artist is disingenuous: ie. a way to rhetorically grant him liberties that he does not have. He is not the composer. He is a musician. His job is to bring Chopin's music to us, not his own. Enough of this "rights" bullshit. Whenever anyone wants to justify selfishness they claim to "have a right." (cont. . . )
@PJinBston First of all, you have no videos and you don't know a thing about me and my musical tastes. You better get out of here with that stupid elitist attitude. How someone like you can tell how he should play. When being asked out why he plays his octaves very loud, he said, "Because I can." That's his style, he has this kind of diabolical or demonic why of playing the piano. He always was intense and that's what many people like about him. If you don't enjoy his interpret, DON'T listen!
@PJinBston You are such a hater! I saw other comments on his Schumman performance! Whats the matter, are you mad because you don't have his piano playing ability? Are you jealous? When you show videos of yourself playing the piano fantastically like Horowitz, then talk! You are pathetic, you are commenting on every commenter who is a fan of Horowitz. You clearly have nothing better to do!
You saw my comments about HOROWITZ: clearly an incomplete and unrepresentative sampling. And my evaluation of Schumann's piece included reasons and was not vituperative. I don't "hate" Horowitz. I resent how he abuses the music of Chopin and others. Must we restrict ourselves to pleasantries? Horowitz's phony "greatness" can not be allowed to go uncorrected. And these are, after all, only comments. No actual bruises here, except maybe to people's egos.
@PJinBston Your phony "criticisms" cannot go uncorrected. He was the greatest pianist in the world and he still is even after his death. If you hear many other pianists talking about who was their inspiration, you would hear them say H"horowitz. "My "credentials" come from the strength of my argument" Your credentials comes from being an asshole who dares to disrespect a legend of the piano. I don't know who you think you are, but you are not qualified to judge a highly skilled pianist like him.
Hilarious! Your commentary seems to have increased about a thousand fold in sophistication merely by the act of copying MY comments and treating them as if they are your own. But here's the problem: you don't follow "cannot go uncorrected" with a correction. Again you fall back claims without substantiation and name-calling.
@PJinBston I was quoting you to mock you. I was repeating you because I found you to be sophisticated. I was quoting you to mock and I said that you are an asshole and a prick. You need to get a life and stop bashing Horowitz knowingly that he's better than you. My claims for you certainly does have substance. You started this whole thing, not me! YOU #FAIL
@PJinBston Now I am using this quote to mock the stupid piece of shit you are "In fact, Horowitz started this. I'm here to give him a kick in the ass." Who's ass are you kicking? That makes you sound like a childish idiot! What did Horowitz ever did to you and there's enogh people like you who doesn't appreciate great musicians. Like I said before, if you spend all day watching videos of pianists you don't like, then that means you don't have anything constructive to do.
It's not what he did to me. It's what he did to CHOPIN.
Why don't you read through the commentary and absorb it and understand before coming back with a response - but make the response something along the lines of why you think Horowitless was not a terrible musician. I've stated why he is so crummy and undeserving of anything but a kick in his fat behind.
@PJinBston You havemore brainless comments than my insults. You talk about me insulting when you are a calling him names and suggesting violence, "kick in his fat behind." Horowitz was deserving of all the success he has and that comment proves how envious you are that you will never reach his level of pianism. It's not subjective because it suits me, it subjective because you are making your opinions into facts. You cannot differentiate between facts and opinions. You #FAIL again! NEXT!
As much as i enjoy your inanities, it's 12:39 am. If your strategy is to keep me up late, then to borrow your cute little phrase . . . .You FAIL.
THINK! Try to have some imagination.
As for "failure," Horowitz failed. Yes, he had talent but he was just too concerned with his own "performance" to give a rats ass about a composer's music. And increasingly, he was lazy. He was like you, just pulling out the same tasteless crap, the same tired old BS for every performance.
@PJinBston Who are you to judge him based on the fact that he adds his own style to the composers music. What about Richard Claydermann and Liberace, turning classical piano pieces into contemporary/pop styled piano. That's Horowitz's style of playing, I really can't picture him playing what you consider Chopin's absolute way. If he did, that would take away his originality. Even if does do that, it does not mean that he's a horrible pianist, but an innovative and creative one.
@PJinBston I brought them up because they added there own flair when it came to classical music, but that was there signature style. Although Horowitz stuck with the traditional classical style of music, he had his own signature style. I definitely enjoy his banging of the octaves and that intense loudness that he would bring in many pieces by Chopin and Liszt. What he did was intentional and not because of faulty technique because he definitely has it. He's original, passionate, and creative.
but seriously what gives horowitz a right to distort (ie. add his own style to) another person's music? How damned arrogant can he be? Chopin (nor anyone else) did not compose so that vladimir tinklyfingers could have a springboard for his own feeble creativity. If he really wanted to be a composer then he ought to have given it a go, instead of trying to re-write what real composers have written.
@PJinBston Many pianists re-written what composers have written. What abot Volodos and Rachmaninoff himself (because he was a pianist too). That's what set pianists apart because even when they would play a piece by another composer, it's like you hearing them. Just like Lang Lang, many people maybe critical about his interpretations, but I love his expressiveness. They are trying to make the piece more interesting. Imagine this piece sounded the same by other pianists, it would be boring.
So, now your argument is that Chopin needs improvement? That his music would be boring if VH didn't alter it?
Clayderman(mr. Muzak), Liberace(king of gay schmalz), Rachmaninov (the imitator) & now LangLang (a showman who thinks that expressions coax feeling into music). It's appropriate that you choose all the pretenders (you haven't mentioned that other 3rd rate schmuck & purveyor of tastelessness-Gerschwin)
I think we can trust the composer to know what's best - don't you?
@PJinBston Did I say that Chopin was boring? No!! I was talking about how a pianist shines in regards to uniqueness and signature styles. Rachmaninoff is not an imitator, you must be very delusional. All of the musicians that mentioned are great, you ahve a problem with very gifted composers/musicians. Gershwin is a masterful composer! What the hell is your problem. You clearly have issues if you think they are "schmucks" because in history, it will never go down like that, and that's factual.
You are boring. All you do is trot out all the tired old arguments.
Clearly you have little knowledge. If you esteem phonies like Liberace & Clayderman, if you think that Mr Rhapsody-in-Blah is "masterful," - that's pretty much the definition of delusion. Gerschwin was a writer of bad songs who occasionally stumbled upon a nice melody but could never imagine what on earth to DO with it, other than just repeat it. Horowitz substituted a tasteless style for actual sensitivity.
@PJinBston You have little knowledge about music! About yoy don't know shit about music and guess what bitch, aren't you keep on repeating yourself. You are a stupi little troll. You clearly have a problem and I pray people like you. If you have problems with all the pianists/composers, then you are not passionate about music at all. You are a self-deluded pig. You are actually criticizing people for liking certain musicians, which is ridiculous. What kind of a person are you!
You are becoming hysterical again. Like a little girl. You're so funny! And now you're trotting out all of the school yard epithets. "you don't" .. . no, sorry . . . "yoy don't know shit," and let's see . . . ."stupi little troll." Yeah, stupi, that's an interesting word.
@PJinBston It's funny that you can't even copy and paste correctly. Nice try, but you just keep falining. You could not even tell me what you know about musicianship. You are the little girl in this conversation because you were actually whining like a little bitch because Horowitz does not play the way you want him too! Cheap insults and your use of sarcasm is atricious just like your supposed musical abilities. If you are going to act like a douche, I will treat like one! #DEAD
@PJinBston And you are ignorant! I have no time time for idiots trolling and people disrespecting a legend like you. I have far too much respects for the greats. You are an atrocious human being. You are a waste of my time and the only person you are beating is yourself! You have no life at all!
Ladies and gentlemen that was a performance by "Piano Guy" - a 21 year old who's learning to play a piano at some unidentified college somewhere, and who would like us to know that he knows a lot of things about music. He also has a remarkable grasp of ghetto-speak and a fondness for the latest in crap-pop.
@PJinBston Your comments didn't hurt me either, but I also wanted to mention that you began attacking me first based on my likings on Horowitz. People have the right him whenever they want, despite how you may feel. We all the right to agree and disagree on things. If people love the way he plays, you have to respect their opinion, then people would respect yours. It's pointless really arguing over something like this and it's disrespectful to Horowitz and the uploader of this video.
@PJinBston Well that explains how poor you are as a human being to disrespect a lengend who is no longer with us. Your motivatation for this is to prove nothing. You can't prove anything because you would always be proven wrong. I feel sorry for people like you who forms this kind of hate agenda against a certain person over the Internet. Maybe someone should kick your ass for being such a hateful person and trying to dimish someone's talent because of your own insecurities.
@PJinBston All your comments are nothing but farts. Better yet, they are a pile of shit of, so why want you wipe your ass where those filfthy disgusting comments came from. "No wonder the sound you make is fart-like" What sound? Is the sound coming from your empty brain? What a pile of shit of uploaded videos that you have, which are a disrespect to classical music. The classical music industry would die if you step foot into it. #STAYMAD
@PJinBston I don't know what's your problem, but you need some growing up to do. You expect them to create music according to your standards and it does not work like that. It seems to me you have a problem with pianists putting their own creativity into their interpretations of other composers. What the hell is wrong with you? What do you know about composing, musicianship, and pianism for that matter? Music is universal and each individual brought something to the table that many people loved.
@PJinBston I should be the one snoring at your little arrogant ranting! You are nothing but a self-possessed arrogant little bitch. If you don't appreciate those musician, then that's your fault. I appreciate musicians, as long as they are very talented and impacted my life in a positive way. You are not human at all! You are nothing but a pathetic little waste of breath. Those musicians are way more times better than you! Show us your videos.
@PJinBston Pathetic, there's enough scumbags and people in this world who are just like you! I am probably talking to a talentless, uneducated, and unemployed little prick. Saying that I have little knowledge! Bitch, I am a singer, pianist, and I study music in college. You know nothing about me at all! I am a Fine Arts Major and Music Minor. You are probabably a stupid little cunt that think he knows music and the piano, but doesn't. I asked you to tell me what you know about musicianship.
I see that as a complement to your boring repetition of the same dull points you've begun to include a couple of rhetorical devices - "next" and "You FAIL" with that cute little orange square.Try to work in a "boom goes the dynamite" and we'll all have a laugh. But you're getting carried away with name-calling - an asshole AND a prick?
Piano boy, if you can not deal with substance then you "FAIL" this test.
Now, the near-hysteria of your own comments seems to confirm that you are out of ideas. You don't address the substance of my comments - because there is actual substance. Your comments give us no value. You keep repeating the same BS about "credentials" being dependent on being a skilled musician. Do you not comment about politics? Do you not have an opinion about this or that play in last weeks game? Or a book?
My "credentials" come from the strength of my argument.
@PJinBston "You keep repeating the same BS about "credentials" being dependent on being a skilled musician" You keep talking about the same bullshit of Horowitz not being able to make another composer's creation his own. That is what makes him a great pianist and a unique pianist as well. If you can't handle, why the hell you are listening to him. You probably will never be able to reach the success as he did. You are jealous and all you do probably sit behind a keyboard writing non-sense.
I made the comment about credentials just once. You repeated it.
It's clear to anyone who reads all of these comments that you have absolutely nothing to say. The best you can manage is to try to co-opt my own language.
Do you really believe that a musician is great because a lot of people SAY he is? Is that really all it takes to prove it to you? Can you at least for a moment consider that someone you thought was a great musician was actually not great? Can you stop for a moment and question your assumptions?
@PJinBston I said if any other pianist was ever asked who was their inspiration, they would say Horowitz.. I never said a musician was great because other people said a musician was He influenced many other concert pianists and that shows how his pianism had much of an impact. The idea of "greatness" is only subjective and whatever you say about him is only your biased opinions. Like I said, you started the argument with me, I am going to finish it! NEXT!
apparently it's subjective when it suits you, because before you made it sound absolute - He is the greatest, blah blah blah.
Again - can you read my original critique and understand why he is not a good musician? Or at least understand the criticism - because i am not alone here, it is really you acolytes in you little church who are under the illusion. . . think! what if you're wrong?
@PJinBston Like I DARE to copy a loser like you! You call me a half-wit, you are the half-wit that probably sits behind the computer all day writing non-sensical and meaningless things about a pianist who's more established than you'll ever be. You criticizing Horowitz like that, only makes you an idiot! Please stop embarassing yourself! I guess you were the whole time! Ooops! Next!
if he wishes to change Chopin's notation then he ought to have the decency to call his performance a "free rendering" or some such wording. But it's not just that he doesn't respect the score. It's that his playing is defined by the same sort of stylistic BS in almost every performance. The left hand his heavy, the left and right hand chords do not match up, the incessant rubato like ketchup, the strange pauses, sudden changes in dynamics - how unimaginative and tasteless.
@PJinBston I am not ghetto, you are trashy. Who said I was fond of today's pop, when I don't even like it?! I love R&B-soul, classical, jazz, blues, rock, and classical music. I am class, you are trash! You are an unintelligent and unidentified Youtube user with no talent or future. At least I am educated, you are not. All you are doing is starting trouble with fans of Horowitz for attention. You want attention, it's pathetic! You are an idiot that wishes he knew how to play like the greats.
@PJinBston Listen, I don't have to feed into your negativity about everything. It's nice to know that you are stalkerish and you are somehow investigating my Youtube Channel. Theonly person that I know that sits on a pile of shit is you! My favorites doesn't evemn have nothing to do with Horoowitz, so back again to irrelevancy. Let's talk about your uploaded videos, a pile of animated junk with classical music complemented by it, which is the reason why you have low views for such trash.
Could you imagine someone like Muzio Clementi inspiring such debate? It's a product of people's feeling about Chopin, and ought to be welcome. One can't allow hacks like Horowitz to escape without punishment. Sooner or later he must "face the music."
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Yes, this rendition of the Raindrop prelude feels dismissive, cavalier. It is among music's most profound pieces. As eminent a pianist as Horowitz, I believe this is mediocre at best.
How wonderfull, how everyone plays this song very very different. I realy love Horowitz, but I do not prefer this version of the raindrops :-) It's so great how everyone think about a song, which is made 150+ years ago. I would play this song slower, but thats my oppinion.
It's such a beautiful song. Strange, I am a fan of classical music and yet I quote found this song through Halo in which I am making the marine armor for myself. As I am still building it, it would be wonderful to have this playing as I go about finishing it.
Halo 3?
TheNudeAssassin 20 hours ago
Thisreminds me of Andante Spianato.
RagtimeIrvin 1 day ago
Magnificence
Subdeesenuts 1 week ago
great
lflorit 2 weeks ago
To all of those criticizing, I will just quote Chopin "J'indique, c'est à l'auditeur de parachever le tableau".
Maitre0Renard 3 weeks ago
Am I the only one that doesn't like the staccato G# in the middle section? Definitely prefer it softer and smoother.
ceoparis 3 weeks ago
@PJinBston u do realise that horrowitz wouldnt have been able to play in chopins style if he wanted too... chopin died like wat.. 200 years ago? so he wouldnt have the exact ability to interpret wat chopin would have wanted because chopin isnt here to play to us... so.. your wrong... plus chopin notates on the piece that the time signature should be played in an improvised way lol so mate before talking you should probably go away and study :p
mrpierru96 1 month ago
Again...would anyone who is a world-class--or even concert class--pianist come to YouTube to criticize pianists that are world-renowned? No way. Therefore...those such as PJinSston are, in all likelihood, either hacks, or untalented and tone deaf.
sulatlalaki 1 month ago
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He was a Jew just like me Jews are the best in all!
יהודי כמוני!
היהודים הכי טובים בכל
TalBarakPiano 1 month ago
Wonderful interpretation of this piece--by far my favorite. His finger pedaling is always so impressive (and characteristic, of course, but nonetheless worth mentioning.) Thank you for posting. =)
smithanator3801 1 month ago
Very stunning interpretation. This interpretation and Idil's are by far the best out there
Ithinkyoureramazing 1 month ago
This is a fun piece to play. I never new it as "Raindrop". The approching storm was always the magic of the piece for myself. Horowitz had so much power in those fingers with so little movement. I must confess that I did contrast events a bit more. The Chanson Triste is good work of Tschaikowsky but I haven't seen much done with it(UsagiHimeKat).
Dale789A 1 month ago
Everyone should enjoy Chopin, Vladimir Horowitz plays this piece beautifully, flawlessly. One one my favorite pieces including the Canon in D.
UsagiHimeKat 2 months ago
One of* edit for all those grammar freaks out there. :D Enjoy the music stop being a hater.
UsagiHimeKat 2 months ago
The first interpretation where I can actually feel the raindrops!
matavidya 2 months ago
I first heard this composition on a commercial for some video game a while back and since then i have been on the search for this beautiful masterpiece and now i have found it!!! Very dark and sexy!
CMFkemp 2 months ago
@CMFkemp The video game was Halo 3, good times good times. That was a really great comercial too. That game actually had amazing marketing.
ltkdog 2 months ago
@CMFkemp I've never seen someone describe Chopin's work as 'sexy' before, I applaud you for doing it haha!
LisaMackXx 1 month ago
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this is a disgrace
MrLeightonMok 2 months ago
@MrLeightonMok Hahahahaha. Yes, oh great one, who can so obviously claim superiority to Horowitz.... Hahahaha.
smithanator3801 1 month ago
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MrLeightonMok 2 months ago
11 people are alergic to beauty
316Reborn 2 months ago in playlist classical 2
a very sexual piece. Vladimir is the perfect candidate for this one.
QueenOfZebra 2 months ago
@SouthernBelleUSA
just heads up, before the grammar police get you. Its not a song ( no lyrics ) its a piece..
ps I am not in any way, shape or form affiliated with the grammar police, (just a victim of their brutality)
mrmonkeybuns 3 months ago 7
@mrmonkeybuns I like what you said, but your sentences should start with capital letters and it is "it's" (short form of it is) and not its. P.S and not ps :). Have a good day.
NijinoHaru 2 months ago
@NijinoHaru Did you actually listen to the piece? Chill out! Stress less!
UsagiHimeKat 2 months ago
Such beauty and power inspires profound emotion that can bring the coldest men to his knees. Absolutely precious.
MrSpqr84 3 months ago
I've heard perhaps dozens of interpretations of this beautiful piece.
michaelpathiggins 3 months ago
I can play this piece, but this is the best I've ever heard. Horowitz was a genius (and I have the record (not CD) of his performance). The subtlety, range, and expressiveness is simply incredible.
swarmotics 3 months ago
OMG how very beautiful
USoeyadi 3 months ago
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This is the most beautiful... I don't even have words to describe it.
Jiiidaaa 4 months ago
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Jiiidaaa 4 months ago
Fantastic. Played as though by angels
michaelhiggins300 4 months ago
My favorite rendition by far..
ThisisTedWells 4 months ago in playlist Classical
This interpretation is an eye-opener. He gives a whole new meaning to the right hand 'raindrop' note in the 2nd movement. What a genius....
devdipg 5 months ago 3
@devdipg The "raindrop" note, actually goes through the whole piece and is a metaphor for time never stopping. and whether its the A section ( not movement) representing life or the B section representing death, time is constantly going. And when the A section melody comes back it is rebirth. Raindrop prelude is a name given to this piece long after Chopins time. Thats what I take away from this piece when listening to it.
zoopsmason2456 4 months ago
@zoopsmason2456: Appreciate your input. Thank you.
devdipg 3 months ago
i cant explain how amazing this is. lost for words!!!!
chantimerlin 5 months ago in playlist CHOPIN PRELUDE No 15 Raindrop Classical Piano Music PLAYLIST 2
Horowitz made me understand the title to this piece, now! He plays the way the title explains it. So simple, but extraordinary! I can actually hear the rain falling in the piece now!
paulsickavish 5 months ago
Halo 3 brought me here. You mad piano players?
ilikepiekthanksbie 5 months ago
@ilikepiekthanksbie No! not Halo 3 brought you here... CHOPIN did!
8microspace 5 months ago
@8microspace No sir, you be incorrect! Halo 3 did....
ilikepiekthanksbie 5 months ago
OK, I don't know much about music, so excuse what's going to sound fairly ignorant to some, but would one of you serious music people please explain to me why I happen to like so many things in "D Flat Major"? Couldn't this be performed in another key and still work, or is there something really "different" about the various keys? And what's so alluring about this D Flat Major? It can't be just a coincidence that I like a lot of things in one particular key.
nauort23 6 months ago
@nauort23 D flat Major is a badass of a key signature. haha. It has five flats, and its those five black keys out of the 8 tones in the d flat major scale that give it the distinct d flat major tonality that your ear and mind are so drawn to. But yes, this piece could be transcribed to another key signature and still "work." It just wouldn't sound as badass as D flat Major. : ) Depending on the key signature chosen it might sound happier or sadder.
VRV716 5 months ago
But the rhythm and distance of notes would remain the same, thus, it would still sound recognizably like raindrops.
VRV716 5 months ago
@VRV716 HAHAHA!!! Thanks so much for responding--and I love your description of my favorite key as "badass". I've always had a subversive bent. So, it's all those "black keys"... Is there really a difference? This is the part I don't get. If you transcribe the piece to another key, aren't the new notes all still equally "distant" (for lack of a better term...), from the original notes, so that the black key/white key ratio wouldn't matter? I'm so confused, even if I am a badass! Thanks
nauort23 5 months ago
@nauort23 Historically keyboard instruments such as harpsichords and early pianos used to be tuned differently from today. There was no official tuning standard back then and the notes were tuned in relation to each other. This meant that some keys were much flatter or sharper than others and composers chose the keys depending on the mood they wished to create. As technology allowed for louder and brighter pianos, the dissonance between certain keys became more noticeable and unbearable.
gimpinyourwindow 5 months ago
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@nauort23 Historically keyboard instruments such as harpsichords and early pianos used to be tuned differently from today. There was no official tuning standard back then and the notes were tuned in relation to each other. This meant that some keys were much flatter or sharper than others and composers chose the keys depending on the mood they wished to create. As technology allowed for louder and brighter pianos, the dissonance between certain keys became more noticeable and unbearable.
gimpinyourwindow 5 months ago
@nauort23 Since 1917 a system known as Equal Temperate was put in place to standardise tuning. Now instead of keys being tuned in relation to the last one the scientific approach of tuning the notes to their correct frequencies is used. This means there are no harsh dissonances but it also means there is little to no difference between the key signatures. The reason you love D flat so much is perhaps your favourite pieces just happen to be in that key.
gimpinyourwindow 5 months ago
@gimpinyourwindow D flat... oxymoron lol, anyone with D's is far from flat ;) xD
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*distance of the notes in relation to one another
VRV716 5 months ago
@nauort23 keys have -colours, sort of, some keys are brighter than others--some dark...most people dont understand this...
porpoisefathom 5 months ago
@porpoisefathom So, what "color" or "brighgtness" is D flat Major generally perceived to be?
nauort23 5 months ago
@nauort23 you tell me!! since obviously by your question- you see no difference between the keys at all...
porpoisefathom 5 months ago
@porpoisefathom =
Can't you tell by my original question that I'm sensing some difference? I thought
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N y don't understand might explain the differences.
T hanks.
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@nauort23 my original comment was to try to shed some light on "key language", i accept i have failed. the only thing i have acconmplished is the fact that i have to read our rediculous comments everytime i want to listen to one of my fav songs ever--good day sir.
porpoisefathom 5 months ago
Vladimir Horowitz + Chopin = Dream
shadockman 6 months ago 23
such a powerful piece
xo1tom1ox 6 months ago
Romanticism at it's finest. ..If only the world had Chopin alive for longer.
sigma941 6 months ago
Valentina Igoshina plays this prelude better than Horowitz, I think. Have a look in Youtube. But it`s only my opinion, of course.
ruidemoraisbarbosa 6 months ago
Very few knew and understood Chopin as good as Horowitz!
gerillaserbaz 6 months ago
I agree, this is one of the best I've heard. The build up is incredible.
DaleLaMar1 6 months ago
Amen! Get a life PJ, 'cause apparently you don't have one.
chiliwillster 6 months ago
and @chiliwillster is the little guy who says "yeah, you tell 'im !"
PJinBston 6 months ago
can someone please explain to me what the fuck this argument is about!? if you don't like the song then don't watch the fuckin video!
aidanlovesit123 7 months ago
@aidanlovesit123
After you've left the room, aidan loves it. Because he's the guy who yells "and don't come back!" After you've left.
Aidan, if you don't like the comments then you don't have to read them.
PJinBston 6 months ago
@PJinBston Butt how would he know until he read them. OH DAMN THIS SHIT JUST GOT REAL
Padboy 6 months ago
@Padboy
Wow. And you totally imagine that you've made a clever remark. But here's the thing: it's all about irony.
It's hilarious how people just walk in and let us know how clueless they are.
PJinBston 6 months ago
I think this is the best interpretation of this piece... measured yet inspired.
prolifegal 7 months ago
LOL at PJinBitchston call himself trying to disrespect me and the music masters. Nothing but a stupid little dip shit.
ThePianoguy89 7 months ago
I've come to give your master a beating.
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More like this ""Mr. PJBston, why do you I the piano so terribly?" Because I am a fool who hates on pianist greater than I am and I can!
ThePianoguy89 7 months ago
@ThePianoguy89
"Piano Guy, instead of typing so much crap, why don't you put some THOUGHT in your comments and say something meaningful?"
PG: "because, really . . . I can't"
PJinBston 7 months ago
I will play this song through the streets when the world comes to an end.
MidnightGrunt 7 months ago
ie...
He's not changing Chopin's notation, he changing Mikuli's notation...a person who wrote down and interpreted he favorite version of what Chopin tended to change at will every time he played it.
choltorf 7 months ago
@choltorf
Chopin is certainly allowed to change his own music. Not you nor I nor Horowitz have earned such a privilege.
I have heard that argument before and, sorry, but it's totally bogus.
PJinBston 7 months ago
@PJinBston
Its not an argument. Anyone with a music history backround...or even someone who plays Chopin at an advanced level knows you can't find any copies transcribed by Chopin...the closest you get is people who heard him first hand, and wrote it down. And since each performance was never like another...you are reinterpreting an interpretation of someone else. It doesn't matter if you call it bogus, its a fact...no one here learned this piece by reading the sheet music penned by Chopin
choltorf 7 months ago
@choltorf
There ARE actual manuscripts (see the "teardrop") The debate is over the question of an authoritative score. What Horowitz does to a piece by Chopin is what he does to a sonata by Mozart or a piece by nearly any other composer - it's the same performance always, the same wanton changes in dynamics, the same "horowitz" pauses and leaden left hand and wanton changes in tempo - to call these things interpretation is a lie. It's Horowitzification. He just smear horowitz all over it.
PJinBston 7 months ago
Seeing as Chopin never wrote his music down (he abhored the practice) and improvised his performances at will...never playing a composition the same way twice, I would say that puts Horowitz and Rubinstein in pretty much the same position as lets say Carl Mikuli (Chopin's teaching assistant who is responsible for many of the versions you hold dear)...a person interpreting a master in his or her own way.
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1Thompsonmusic 7 months ago
@1Thompsonmusic Horowitz is awful? He is one of the greatest piano virtuosos of the 20th century! He bangs on the piano for artistic purposes. He is a very powerful pianist. Are you on his level? If you are, show us your video.
ThePianoguy89 7 months ago
@ThePianoguy89
Horowitz is awful.
All of his skill means nothing at all if he has no sensitivity to music. His distortions are a substitute for expressiveness - and perhaps to cover up his clumsiness? A true musician accepts what the composer has written, does not try to "improve" it, nor to "spice it up." A true composer finds beauty in the music. A true musician celebrates the composer's creativity as opposed to jealously putting his own gross tattoo on it.
PJinBston 7 months ago
@PJinBston If an artists, such as himself wants to convey a different idea to another person's creation, then that is okay. It does not mean he was doing Chopin a disservice. That is artistic authority and he has the right to convey any imaginative idea as he pleases. He does have music sensibility! He is definitely not an awful pianist and that makes you very pretentious for saying that. Are you in any position to say he's awful? Where's your credentials?
ThePianoguy89 7 months ago
@ThePianoguy89 I don't see that YOU have any credentials aside from that you're a 21 year old "piano guy." But that's really a lazy and cowardly argument to fall back on. Calling him an artist is disingenuous: ie. a way to rhetorically grant him liberties that he does not have. He is not the composer. He is a musician. His job is to bring Chopin's music to us, not his own. Enough of this "rights" bullshit. Whenever anyone wants to justify selfishness they claim to "have a right." (cont. . . )
PJinBston 7 months ago
@PJinBston First of all, you have no videos and you don't know a thing about me and my musical tastes. You better get out of here with that stupid elitist attitude. How someone like you can tell how he should play. When being asked out why he plays his octaves very loud, he said, "Because I can." That's his style, he has this kind of diabolical or demonic why of playing the piano. He always was intense and that's what many people like about him. If you don't enjoy his interpret, DON'T listen!
ThePianoguy89 7 months ago
"Mr. Horowitz, why do you play the piano so terribly?"
VH: "Because I can"
PJinBston 7 months ago
@PJinBston You are such a hater! I saw other comments on his Schumman performance! Whats the matter, are you mad because you don't have his piano playing ability? Are you jealous? When you show videos of yourself playing the piano fantastically like Horowitz, then talk! You are pathetic, you are commenting on every commenter who is a fan of Horowitz. You clearly have nothing better to do!
ThePianoguy89 7 months ago
@ThePianoguy89
You saw my comments about HOROWITZ: clearly an incomplete and unrepresentative sampling. And my evaluation of Schumann's piece included reasons and was not vituperative. I don't "hate" Horowitz. I resent how he abuses the music of Chopin and others. Must we restrict ourselves to pleasantries? Horowitz's phony "greatness" can not be allowed to go uncorrected. And these are, after all, only comments. No actual bruises here, except maybe to people's egos.
PJinBston 7 months ago
@PJinBston Your phony "criticisms" cannot go uncorrected. He was the greatest pianist in the world and he still is even after his death. If you hear many other pianists talking about who was their inspiration, you would hear them say H"horowitz. "My "credentials" come from the strength of my argument" Your credentials comes from being an asshole who dares to disrespect a legend of the piano. I don't know who you think you are, but you are not qualified to judge a highly skilled pianist like him.
ThePianoguy89 7 months ago
@ThePianoguy89
Hilarious! Your commentary seems to have increased about a thousand fold in sophistication merely by the act of copying MY comments and treating them as if they are your own. But here's the problem: you don't follow "cannot go uncorrected" with a correction. Again you fall back claims without substantiation and name-calling.
PJinBston 7 months ago
@PJinBston I was quoting you to mock you. I was repeating you because I found you to be sophisticated. I was quoting you to mock and I said that you are an asshole and a prick. You need to get a life and stop bashing Horowitz knowingly that he's better than you. My claims for you certainly does have substance. You started this whole thing, not me! YOU #FAIL
ThePianoguy89 7 months ago
@ThePianoguy89
To quote ME within YOUR commentary . . . is to mock yourself. Nice job.
In fact, Horowitz started this. I'm here to give him a kick in the ass.
PJinBston 7 months ago
@PJinBston Now I am using this quote to mock the stupid piece of shit you are "In fact, Horowitz started this. I'm here to give him a kick in the ass." Who's ass are you kicking? That makes you sound like a childish idiot! What did Horowitz ever did to you and there's enogh people like you who doesn't appreciate great musicians. Like I said before, if you spend all day watching videos of pianists you don't like, then that means you don't have anything constructive to do.
ThePianoguy89 7 months ago
@ThePianoguy89
more brainless insults.
It's not what he did to me. It's what he did to CHOPIN.
Why don't you read through the commentary and absorb it and understand before coming back with a response - but make the response something along the lines of why you think Horowitless was not a terrible musician. I've stated why he is so crummy and undeserving of anything but a kick in his fat behind.
PJinBston 7 months ago
@PJinBston You havemore brainless comments than my insults. You talk about me insulting when you are a calling him names and suggesting violence, "kick in his fat behind." Horowitz was deserving of all the success he has and that comment proves how envious you are that you will never reach his level of pianism. It's not subjective because it suits me, it subjective because you are making your opinions into facts. You cannot differentiate between facts and opinions. You #FAIL again! NEXT!
ThePianoguy89 7 months ago
@ThePianoguy89
you're sounding hysterical again.
PJinBston 7 months ago
@PJinBston The only person being hysterical and way too emotional over a pianist's style of playing is you.
ThePianoguy89 7 months ago
@ThePianoguy89
As much as i enjoy your inanities, it's 12:39 am. If your strategy is to keep me up late, then to borrow your cute little phrase . . . .You FAIL.
THINK! Try to have some imagination.
As for "failure," Horowitz failed. Yes, he had talent but he was just too concerned with his own "performance" to give a rats ass about a composer's music. And increasingly, he was lazy. He was like you, just pulling out the same tasteless crap, the same tired old BS for every performance.
PJinBston 7 months ago
@PJinBston Who are you to judge him based on the fact that he adds his own style to the composers music. What about Richard Claydermann and Liberace, turning classical piano pieces into contemporary/pop styled piano. That's Horowitz's style of playing, I really can't picture him playing what you consider Chopin's absolute way. If he did, that would take away his originality. Even if does do that, it does not mean that he's a horrible pianist, but an innovative and creative one.
ThePianoguy89 7 months ago
@ThePianoguy89
Richard Clayderman and Liberace? Or are you making fun of yourself now?
PJinBston 7 months ago
@PJinBston I brought them up because they added there own flair when it came to classical music, but that was there signature style. Although Horowitz stuck with the traditional classical style of music, he had his own signature style. I definitely enjoy his banging of the octaves and that intense loudness that he would bring in many pieces by Chopin and Liszt. What he did was intentional and not because of faulty technique because he definitely has it. He's original, passionate, and creative.
ThePianoguy89 7 months ago
@ThePianoguy89
but seriously what gives horowitz a right to distort (ie. add his own style to) another person's music? How damned arrogant can he be? Chopin (nor anyone else) did not compose so that vladimir tinklyfingers could have a springboard for his own feeble creativity. If he really wanted to be a composer then he ought to have given it a go, instead of trying to re-write what real composers have written.
PJinBston 7 months ago
@PJinBston Many pianists re-written what composers have written. What abot Volodos and Rachmaninoff himself (because he was a pianist too). That's what set pianists apart because even when they would play a piece by another composer, it's like you hearing them. Just like Lang Lang, many people maybe critical about his interpretations, but I love his expressiveness. They are trying to make the piece more interesting. Imagine this piece sounded the same by other pianists, it would be boring.
ThePianoguy89 7 months ago
@ThePianoguy89
So, now your argument is that Chopin needs improvement? That his music would be boring if VH didn't alter it?
Clayderman(mr. Muzak), Liberace(king of gay schmalz), Rachmaninov (the imitator) & now LangLang (a showman who thinks that expressions coax feeling into music). It's appropriate that you choose all the pretenders (you haven't mentioned that other 3rd rate schmuck & purveyor of tastelessness-Gerschwin)
I think we can trust the composer to know what's best - don't you?
PJinBston 7 months ago
@PJinBston Did I say that Chopin was boring? No!! I was talking about how a pianist shines in regards to uniqueness and signature styles. Rachmaninoff is not an imitator, you must be very delusional. All of the musicians that mentioned are great, you ahve a problem with very gifted composers/musicians. Gershwin is a masterful composer! What the hell is your problem. You clearly have issues if you think they are "schmucks" because in history, it will never go down like that, and that's factual.
ThePianoguy89 7 months ago
@ThePianoguy89
You are boring. All you do is trot out all the tired old arguments.
Clearly you have little knowledge. If you esteem phonies like Liberace & Clayderman, if you think that Mr Rhapsody-in-Blah is "masterful," - that's pretty much the definition of delusion. Gerschwin was a writer of bad songs who occasionally stumbled upon a nice melody but could never imagine what on earth to DO with it, other than just repeat it. Horowitz substituted a tasteless style for actual sensitivity.
PJinBston 7 months ago
@PJinBston You have little knowledge about music! About yoy don't know shit about music and guess what bitch, aren't you keep on repeating yourself. You are a stupi little troll. You clearly have a problem and I pray people like you. If you have problems with all the pianists/composers, then you are not passionate about music at all. You are a self-deluded pig. You are actually criticizing people for liking certain musicians, which is ridiculous. What kind of a person are you!
ThePianoguy89 7 months ago
@ThePianogirl
You are becoming hysterical again. Like a little girl. You're so funny! And now you're trotting out all of the school yard epithets. "you don't" .. . no, sorry . . . "yoy don't know shit," and let's see . . . ."stupi little troll." Yeah, stupi, that's an interesting word.
What kind?
An avenger. An avenger of Chopin.
PJinBston 7 months ago
@PJinBston It's funny that you can't even copy and paste correctly. Nice try, but you just keep falining. You could not even tell me what you know about musicianship. You are the little girl in this conversation because you were actually whining like a little bitch because Horowitz does not play the way you want him too! Cheap insults and your use of sarcasm is atricious just like your supposed musical abilities. If you are going to act like a douche, I will treat like one! #DEAD
ThePianoguy89 7 months ago
@ThePianoguy89
and . . . ?
PJinBston 7 months ago
@PJinBston And you are ignorant! I have no time time for idiots trolling and people disrespecting a legend like you. I have far too much respects for the greats. You are an atrocious human being. You are a waste of my time and the only person you are beating is yourself! You have no life at all!
ThePianoguy89 7 months ago
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@ThePianoguy89
You're not going to run away now are you?
PJinBston 7 months ago
Ladies and gentlemen that was a performance by "Piano Guy" - a 21 year old who's learning to play a piano at some unidentified college somewhere, and who would like us to know that he knows a lot of things about music. He also has a remarkable grasp of ghetto-speak and a fondness for the latest in crap-pop.
PJinBston 7 months ago
@ThePianoguy89 . . . he has left us now, because he's totally run out of bad words to say and he wants to cry.
PJinBston 7 months ago
@PJinBston Your comments didn't hurt me either, but I also wanted to mention that you began attacking me first based on my likings on Horowitz. People have the right him whenever they want, despite how you may feel. We all the right to agree and disagree on things. If people love the way he plays, you have to respect their opinion, then people would respect yours. It's pointless really arguing over something like this and it's disrespectful to Horowitz and the uploader of this video.
ThePianoguy89 7 months ago
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@ThePianoguy89
Poor, benighted acolyte, I have not come to respect Horowitz. I've come to drag him down from his altar, and kick him in the butt.
PJinBston 7 months ago
@PJinBston Well that explains how poor you are as a human being to disrespect a lengend who is no longer with us. Your motivatation for this is to prove nothing. You can't prove anything because you would always be proven wrong. I feel sorry for people like you who forms this kind of hate agenda against a certain person over the Internet. Maybe someone should kick your ass for being such a hateful person and trying to dimish someone's talent because of your own insecurities.
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@ThePianoguy89
Poor benighted acolyte. Your face is pressed to the floor and your ass is up in the air. No wonder the sound you make is fart-like.
PJinBston 7 months ago
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@PJinBston All your comments are nothing but farts. Better yet, they are a pile of shit of, so why want you wipe your ass where those filfthy disgusting comments came from. "No wonder the sound you make is fart-like" What sound? Is the sound coming from your empty brain? What a pile of shit of uploaded videos that you have, which are a disrespect to classical music. The classical music industry would die if you step foot into it. #STAYMAD
ThePianoguy89 7 months ago
@PJinBston can you go be a troll on some other song? Get a life.
Vixiiano 6 months ago
@VicSillyano there's no song in this video.
PJinBston 6 months ago
@ThePianoguy89
and . . . what else? Don't stop now!
PJinBston 7 months ago
@PJinBston I don't know what's your problem, but you need some growing up to do. You expect them to create music according to your standards and it does not work like that. It seems to me you have a problem with pianists putting their own creativity into their interpretations of other composers. What the hell is wrong with you? What do you know about composing, musicianship, and pianism for that matter? Music is universal and each individual brought something to the table that many people loved.
ThePianoguy89 7 months ago
@ThePianoguy89
do you hear me snoring?
PJinBston 7 months ago
@PJinBston I should be the one snoring at your little arrogant ranting! You are nothing but a self-possessed arrogant little bitch. If you don't appreciate those musician, then that's your fault. I appreciate musicians, as long as they are very talented and impacted my life in a positive way. You are not human at all! You are nothing but a pathetic little waste of breath. Those musicians are way more times better than you! Show us your videos.
ThePianoguy89 7 months ago
@TheHystericalPianoboy
"bitch," "asshole," "bitch" and more "bitch." You've totally run out of ideas! You're not going to cry now, are you?
PJinBston 7 months ago
@PJinBston Pathetic, there's enough scumbags and people in this world who are just like you! I am probably talking to a talentless, uneducated, and unemployed little prick. Saying that I have little knowledge! Bitch, I am a singer, pianist, and I study music in college. You know nothing about me at all! I am a Fine Arts Major and Music Minor. You are probabably a stupid little cunt that think he knows music and the piano, but doesn't. I asked you to tell me what you know about musicianship.
ThePianoguy89 7 months ago
@ThePianoguy89
I'm being attacked by a hysterical piano boy! How fun this is!
PJinBston 7 months ago
@ThePianoguy69
I see that as a complement to your boring repetition of the same dull points you've begun to include a couple of rhetorical devices - "next" and "You FAIL" with that cute little orange square.Try to work in a "boom goes the dynamite" and we'll all have a laugh. But you're getting carried away with name-calling - an asshole AND a prick?
Piano boy, if you can not deal with substance then you "FAIL" this test.
PJinBston 7 months ago
[continuing . . . ]
Now, the near-hysteria of your own comments seems to confirm that you are out of ideas. You don't address the substance of my comments - because there is actual substance. Your comments give us no value. You keep repeating the same BS about "credentials" being dependent on being a skilled musician. Do you not comment about politics? Do you not have an opinion about this or that play in last weeks game? Or a book?
My "credentials" come from the strength of my argument.
PJinBston 7 months ago
@PJinBston "You keep repeating the same BS about "credentials" being dependent on being a skilled musician" You keep talking about the same bullshit of Horowitz not being able to make another composer's creation his own. That is what makes him a great pianist and a unique pianist as well. If you can't handle, why the hell you are listening to him. You probably will never be able to reach the success as he did. You are jealous and all you do probably sit behind a keyboard writing non-sense.
ThePianoguy89 7 months ago
@ThePianoguy89
I made the comment about credentials just once. You repeated it.
It's clear to anyone who reads all of these comments that you have absolutely nothing to say. The best you can manage is to try to co-opt my own language.
I'm arguing with a half-wit.
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ThePianoguy89 7 months ago
@ThePianoguy89
you're becoming hysterical again.
Do you really believe that a musician is great because a lot of people SAY he is? Is that really all it takes to prove it to you? Can you at least for a moment consider that someone you thought was a great musician was actually not great? Can you stop for a moment and question your assumptions?
PJinBston 7 months ago
@PJinBston I said if any other pianist was ever asked who was their inspiration, they would say Horowitz.. I never said a musician was great because other people said a musician was He influenced many other concert pianists and that shows how his pianism had much of an impact. The idea of "greatness" is only subjective and whatever you say about him is only your biased opinions. Like I said, you started the argument with me, I am going to finish it! NEXT!
ThePianoguy89 7 months ago
@ThePianoguy89
apparently it's subjective when it suits you, because before you made it sound absolute - He is the greatest, blah blah blah.
Again - can you read my original critique and understand why he is not a good musician? Or at least understand the criticism - because i am not alone here, it is really you acolytes in you little church who are under the illusion. . . think! what if you're wrong?
PJinBston 7 months ago
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@PJinBston Like I DARE to copy a loser like you! You call me a half-wit, you are the half-wit that probably sits behind the computer all day writing non-sensical and meaningless things about a pianist who's more established than you'll ever be. You criticizing Horowitz like that, only makes you an idiot! Please stop embarassing yourself! I guess you were the whole time! Ooops! Next!
ThePianoguy89 7 months ago
continuing . . .
if he wishes to change Chopin's notation then he ought to have the decency to call his performance a "free rendering" or some such wording. But it's not just that he doesn't respect the score. It's that his playing is defined by the same sort of stylistic BS in almost every performance. The left hand his heavy, the left and right hand chords do not match up, the incessant rubato like ketchup, the strange pauses, sudden changes in dynamics - how unimaginative and tasteless.
PJinBston 7 months ago
@PJinBston I am not ghetto, you are trashy. Who said I was fond of today's pop, when I don't even like it?! I love R&B-soul, classical, jazz, blues, rock, and classical music. I am class, you are trash! You are an unintelligent and unidentified Youtube user with no talent or future. At least I am educated, you are not. All you are doing is starting trouble with fans of Horowitz for attention. You want attention, it's pathetic! You are an idiot that wishes he knew how to play like the greats.
ThePianoguy89 7 months ago
@ThePianoBoy69
what, back for an encore?
That Mendelsohn sits at the top of your favorites doesn't change the fact that he sits on a tall pile of shit.
When you finally get that degree that you've worked so hard to buy. Perhaps you can play a piano for Kenny G.
PJinBston 7 months ago
@PJinBston Listen, I don't have to feed into your negativity about everything. It's nice to know that you are stalkerish and you are somehow investigating my Youtube Channel. Theonly person that I know that sits on a pile of shit is you! My favorites doesn't evemn have nothing to do with Horoowitz, so back again to irrelevancy. Let's talk about your uploaded videos, a pile of animated junk with classical music complemented by it, which is the reason why you have low views for such trash.
ThePianoguy89 7 months ago
@ThePianoBoy
I don't know. That sounded like an attack but I don't feel hurt.
PJinBston 7 months ago
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ThePianoguy89 7 months ago
This is one of my most loved pieces
rasmusa2821 7 months ago
@rasmusa2821 Yeah, me too.
tj4steelers 7 months ago
To everyone fighting in the comments on this video, you're disrespecting Chopin. Please stop. Just listen... That is all he wanted.
Nurgleization 8 months ago
@Nurgleization
Could you imagine someone like Muzio Clementi inspiring such debate? It's a product of people's feeling about Chopin, and ought to be welcome. One can't allow hacks like Horowitz to escape without punishment. Sooner or later he must "face the music."
PJinBston 7 months ago
OK! This has to be one of the most poplular classical music video on my channel for view and of course your comments!! Thanks You. :) I'm learning this piece! check ot my other channel (ClassicalMusicPiano). :D
MusicClassical1 8 months ago 6
OK! Thish as to be one of the most poplular classical music video on my channel for view and of course your comments!! Thanks You. :) I'm learning this piece! check ot my other channel (ClassicalMusicPiano). :D
MusicClassical1 8 months ago 5
Yes, this rendition of the Raindrop prelude feels dismissive, cavalier. It is among music's most profound pieces. As eminent a pianist as Horowitz, I believe this is mediocre at best.
mnemko 8 months ago
@mnemko
Correct. And it's sad that someone with so much talent became so lazy in his performances.
PJinBston 7 months ago
How wonderfull, how everyone plays this song very very different. I realy love Horowitz, but I do not prefer this version of the raindrops :-) It's so great how everyone think about a song, which is made 150+ years ago. I would play this song slower, but thats my oppinion.
robinpiano1 8 months ago
Thumbs up if you became aware of this through Big O! Bestest anime ever! =)
Jihiro 8 months ago
It's such a beautiful song. Strange, I am a fan of classical music and yet I quote found this song through Halo in which I am making the marine armor for myself. As I am still building it, it would be wonderful to have this playing as I go about finishing it.
royalpain88 8 months ago
First like :D
reigymas 8 months ago
Chopin is a genius !
arkofatlantis 8 months ago
John 117 monument
jetpackfett 8 months ago
I love this song....just love it
ioanify 8 months ago
Horowitz is simply amazing!
Doctor387 9 months ago
I got here from Halo 3 Believe ad :)
outerpol 9 months ago 7
Believe...
squidwardo1 9 months ago
who the hell could thumbs down this????????
camarodue 9 months ago
@SymphonyofSorrow
I failed :L
MrJoshmeister 9 months ago