@janvandoedelpuk no sir, I'm not talking about an audio where you can't even see Horowitz actually playing. What you directed me to is just an audio thing. I'm talking about a live concert of Horowitz where you actually SEE him playing Scarlatti's more generally quicker pieces. You don't really find that. There's nothing really on YouTube of that, per se. Unless I missed it. Again what you mentioned "K 125" is NOT really a "video" of him, but just an audio of him playing. I want a video too.
@GeneralKuno You're responding to my comment from like a year ago? Ok, well...I had to remember & see it now. I asked "why did Horowtiz seem to only play Scarlatti's slower pieces?" Your response: "Search harder". To that response, I say uh, WE SHOULD NOT HAVE TO "search harder". That's the point. Many of Scarlatti's popular pieces were fairly fast-paced. Yet it seems "harder" to find Horowitz playing them, though I'm sure he probably did. So why not answer that, instead of dodging the point?
@MuscleSculptor What? I said that because there were albums of Horowitz playing these fast Scarlatti pieces (there is even a whole album of Horowitz devoted to Scarlatti sonatas). Anyway, I won't bother anymore. It seems that I'm insulting your intelligence. Now I'll go while you sip on your Kool-Aid, you sheep.
@GeneralKuno lol....what are you talking about? That remark at the end was not necessary. I was making the point (that you apparently didn't understand from way back) is why are there no ACTUAL VIDEOS OF HIM PLAYING faster Scarlatti pieces. Just like the other dude who directed me to a video, which was just AN AUDIO. What you're talking about also are just AUDIO things. I'm not referring to that. I know that Horowitz did that. But is there any VIDEO of like LIVE CONCERT playing fast Scarlatti?
@MuscleSculptor Goddamnit.... Refer to the 1983 London recital. Horowitz plays a substantial amount of Scarlatti. I don't know if there are videos of it left in YT.
To the uploader: Could you please label this sonata with the Kirkpatrick number (K. 380) in the description? That will allow it to come up in searches for that sonata number.
So sublime, and yet some mistakes. He is human as we all. This is encouraging to me as a musician! If one as great as Horowitz is pardoned of mistakes, I should not be so discouraged, tis the sacrifice of live music, and a worthy one!! What a great performance.
Bellissima interpretazione, degna del miglior Horowitz. Ascoltai in diretta questo concerto su Radio3, fu uno evento, il ritorno di Horowitz in patria, dopo anni ed anni di esilio volontario; tutto grazie alla perestroika di Gorbaciov. Tengo ancora la registrazione su musicassetta.
He is genius!!! He truly makes a voice out of every finger. You can tell he focuses on the inner melodies in this one. His right hand has mastered separating voice when the alto and soprano trade staccato and legato phrasing...outstanding nuances make this come alive!!!
@floris09172385 He was 83 years old at the time of this concert. It was his first concert in his native russian in more then 60 years. He had nothing to prove anymore. he was making music for its own sake!
Un genio romantico dal tocco strepitoso e dalla tecnica inarrivabile... sicuramente il pezzo in assoluto il più geniale (per me) della storia della musica classica... suonato da un maestro che all'età di 86 anni, non avendo più niente da chiedere alla carriera e che si avvicinava inesorabilmente alla parabola conclusiva, ancora regalava alla platea performances di questo livello.....
@Shadowhog yeah, i think the piano brings out the tenderness of this piece much better than a harpsichord and i have never heard this piece played with a harpsichord.
Watch how he pedals . Sometimes slightest touch . An amazing ear goes with judicious pedal. Oh Oh Oh what he Che r k as s y , B o l e t and so many know about d e e little silver slices near our f e e t s i e s !
This is a prime example of _why_ Horowitz is so revered. Truly excellent piano is as rare as any other instrument- and this is one of those rare finds.
Yeah, listening to the slower version he did in 1966 (I believe?) then this- I actually prefer this version- much more lively, even though there seem to be a couple mistakes- pwrfl performance
Don't forget that Scarlatti wrote a great piece! It is always well-liked. It just has that magic. Horowitz plays it fast, here. I've heard him play it slowly too. You can learn it. I play it myself. It's never anything but GREAT. Composers are such stars!!! Scarlatti was no exception. I suspect Horowitz played it more often than other great performers. He certainly does it well.
@EVERYONE: Okay, I didn't mean this in a bad way. It can be misunderstood, but my comment wasn't insulting. Horowitz is WAY better than I ever am, and ever will be, and I respect his choices, I was just rather shocked at him playing like that... I'm sorry if I caused anyone anger. :<
In fact I don't think your comment was "wrong". One teacher of Horowitz, Tarnovsky, considered that Blumenfeld (who also gave lessons to Horowitz) didn't care about their pupils and that's why Horowitz learned that posture, which is completely different. Tarnovsky added that it just worked because of the talent of Volodya.
Most piano techniques are closer to guidelines than hard and steady rules. Which means that if you're a master like Horowitz you can play however you want. Technical rules are really for the learning stage, to let you know how far you deviate if you find some other method more comfortable or practical.
Because you come seeking knowledge your otherwise offensive comment will be treated with the benefit of the doubt.
Horowitz had a very impressive, if sometimes unconventional technique. He did so to fit his own anatomy. Nothing in technique is "wrong" just because someone says so. If something works then it is right.
Well, it is often used by harpisichordists. I think it is in order to help the articulation of the fingers... But Horowitz played everything that way.
@TheCityDreamer Hehe... nobody can play with piano technique of Horowitz :) , except Horowitz himself, only he could play like this, look at his drawn fingers as well :)
What a surprise! I knew that Horowitz was a great Beethoven interpreter and a dazzling virtuoso but would never have guessed how beautifully he played Scarlatti. Thank you Sissco for posting this.
i am playing this piece right now. the notes and trills are easy but you have to work kinnda hard in order to get the character of the piece. to have shaping, dynamic differences etc.. and you have to make this piece sounds like scarlatti, not bach or beethoven.
Personnellement, je trouve que cette interprétation est sans doute l'une (sinon la) des meilleurs de cette pièce de Scarlatti au piano, c'est parfaitement bien joué, une technique irréprochable, des nuances subtilement restituée et un excellent dosage de la pédale.
Adesso so perchè tanti anni fa rimasi colpito da un bellissimo albun de Le Orme, un gruppo italiano degli anni '70. L'album era intitolato Collage e il primo brano, quello che ne aveva decretato il successo, aveva saccheggiato a piene mani da questa graziosa sonata del grande Domenico Scarlatti.
I learned this one as a guitar transcription when I was about 20. Back then I played it like a rock song. 30 yrs later and my understanding of the piece is still evolving, thanks more to this gentleman
than almost anyone else. Every instrumentalist of any kind can learn volumes just by listening to such masters. Are young people playing even close to this, or is it lost in another era?
in scarlatti -- horowitz shows that when he chose to, there was really no pianist that had a more precise finger "small muscles" control. it's like his way of saying: pianists that make reputations on "classical finger strokes, on precision finger work, on minute refinements"...can eat dust if horowitz chose to play that game. but he did it with lightning quick imaginative richness..he was unbelievable.
Scarlatti's catalogue is a nightmare...there are 3 editions! Alessandro Longo (L) listed the sonatas after the order of discovering them, then Ralf Kirkpatrick (with letter K) reordered them by date of composition. Now it is said that Giorgio Petrelli (P) created a new version which is becoming more accepted than K!!
Honestly I can't think of an interpret that is better than Horowitz. He has all qualities a superb pianist should have. He has the technique, he has the feeling, the rhythm he is trully a perfect piano player. One from 10 000 000
Great artist like Horowitz had a gift to "microspeice" great composers, like Scarlatti, and make them their own. Imagine that there is no notes and nothing to be heard among the beautiful melodies, one can hear themselves. It's the "pause" in music. The silence.
And yet that pause would be nothing without the masterful playing... but if you do zen meditation, then the silence tells you the true nature of mindbody.
Thomas Frost,the producer for many of Horowitz's albums, described the clarity Horowitz's Scarlatti playing as such that it would shatter into powdered glass at a single false of overplayed note.
Sometimes I think Horowitz didn't play the piano, rather the piano played by itself. Is so crytal clear, a note dances, it doesn't sound, it is by itself. He was, indoubtebly one to outstanding musician of his time.
I prefere the 1976 (or '78) live recordings at the Carnegie in which left hand and pedal sound were fantastic... (if i understood; sorry but i'm not a misician..) of course here the level is so high.. as usual... Stay in peace Mr H, you will be ever in our heart....
Interpretazione totalmente diversa da quella live di New Youk del 1966 o 68 (non ricordo)che era sublime!. Qui mi pare un pò preso dalla fretta o dall'emozione , mentre là il brano era molto meditato, con respiro più profondo,e pure la mano sinistra era più espressiva (o altro che non so dire... )Così mi pare...Ma non essendo musicista nè avendo un orecchio raffinato non vorrei aver preso un abbaglio.. Qualcuno vuole rispondere? grazie
Si, certo. Non si dev'essere musicista e se stai ascoltando Scarlatti e Horowitz avrai due orrecchie raffinatissime. Credo che tu abbia ragione. Horowitz era sempre diverso. Come se si anoiasse della stessa interpretazione.
Sheer delight, this piece. Horowitz speaks with his piano, something you don't hear every day. And someone said "playful"? Absolutely. Joyous. Thanks so much for posting.
who cares about goofing here or there?.. how about the overall magnificence of this interpretation?... or you are one of those catching mistakes just for feeling good about themselves? By the way, all the world famous pianists make mistakes, which proves they are human... and the world keeps adoring them.
Greg - I know it sounds like coughs but they're not. The VH visit to Moscow in 1986 was such a huge event there that a number of music students who couldn't get tix tried to crash the concert. This piece was the 1st one he played. What you're hearing was really from a scuffle between security goons trying to remove the crashers who resisted. They were eventually allowed to stay to avoid further disruption. The liner notes on the CD of this concert explained this incident.
It is interesting to compare this interpretation with Pletnev's one... Both are wonderful, one very lirical and playful (Horowitz), one refined it terms of controlled but powerful emotions (Pletnev). Pletnev is also one of the best interpreters of Scarlatti's sonatas, in my opinion. I have both CDs, it is just endless delight and enrichment...
Yeah garbage, right. And who are you to possibly even come close to slandering one of the greats? Have fun waiting tables the rest of your life you worthless piece of shit.
An intensely witty comeback from a "self-made multimillionaire" who amazingly has the time to immediately respond to comments on a YouTube video. Good job buddy, keep it up. You just might fool someone one of these days.
Horowitz plays Scarlatti, he loves it and we love him for sharing the personal experience with us. He seems to care about the sound. And he seems aware of his audience -that they need to be able to understand what is being "said." Everything matters. We can relax.
HOROWITZ! An Amizing Genuis, we all can benefit from this and each of his videos, a lot to learn about the elegant touch, effortless phrasing and ornamentations. In his hands Scarlatti 's music sound like the most profound poetry!
I should first clarify that Horowitz is a wonderful pianist - I absolutely adore his rendition of Beethoven's Waldstein and Apassionata piano sonatas. But with Scarlatti I am concerned I am hearing more Horowitz than Scarlatti. He tends to Romanticize the Baroque. I guess it's just my own personal taste (I prefer Porgorelich's Scarlatti), but I still remain grateful that Horowitz brought Scarlatti back to the conert stage.
Considering you just claimed that the world's greatest romantic performer of classical music was not being "romantic" in this piece, I would suggest you learn what the term "romantic" actually means in the context of classical music.
perhaps his interpretation is more gentle than subdued? I wouldn't say I'm an expert on classical music or anything, but from my (extremely inexperienced) ear, I like this one better than others- it's less frenetic, and more of a gentle, wallowing in the simple joy of it kind of interpretation? (hope I'm making sense)
Every time I listen to this performance I am struck by the delicacy of the master's touch. I was fortunate enough to hear Horowitz in concert only twice...twenty years apart. The second concert was near the end of his life. It was more brilliant than the first. He was just amazing.
same here, I did that in my grade 7 exam as well. hahaha His interpretation of the piece is unique, isn't him? I have never thought of playing the piece this way.
donde vives? has ido a escuelas de musica? me refiero a escuelas universitarias, no academias chafitas. si te queda cerca el df, en la nacional de musica es muy barato encontrar de todo en partituras y baratisimo.
6 persons dont have speakers;)
koebi1144 2 months ago
@janvandoedelpuk no sir, I'm not talking about an audio where you can't even see Horowitz actually playing. What you directed me to is just an audio thing. I'm talking about a live concert of Horowitz where you actually SEE him playing Scarlatti's more generally quicker pieces. You don't really find that. There's nothing really on YouTube of that, per se. Unless I missed it. Again what you mentioned "K 125" is NOT really a "video" of him, but just an audio of him playing. I want a video too.
MuscleSculptor 3 months ago
@MuscleSculptor There is the sonate in G K55 live in Carnegie Hall with video.
janvandoedelpuk 3 months ago
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MuscleSculptor 3 months ago
The way he varies tone is remarkable.
BizzMarki 7 months ago
Scarlatti is addictive!
Balgig 8 months ago 6
@MuscleSculptor Search harder.
GeneralKuno 8 months ago
@GeneralKuno You're responding to my comment from like a year ago? Ok, well...I had to remember & see it now. I asked "why did Horowtiz seem to only play Scarlatti's slower pieces?" Your response: "Search harder". To that response, I say uh, WE SHOULD NOT HAVE TO "search harder". That's the point. Many of Scarlatti's popular pieces were fairly fast-paced. Yet it seems "harder" to find Horowitz playing them, though I'm sure he probably did. So why not answer that, instead of dodging the point?
MuscleSculptor 3 months ago
@MuscleSculptor What? I said that because there were albums of Horowitz playing these fast Scarlatti pieces (there is even a whole album of Horowitz devoted to Scarlatti sonatas). Anyway, I won't bother anymore. It seems that I'm insulting your intelligence. Now I'll go while you sip on your Kool-Aid, you sheep.
GeneralKuno 3 months ago
@GeneralKuno lol....what are you talking about? That remark at the end was not necessary. I was making the point (that you apparently didn't understand from way back) is why are there no ACTUAL VIDEOS OF HIM PLAYING faster Scarlatti pieces. Just like the other dude who directed me to a video, which was just AN AUDIO. What you're talking about also are just AUDIO things. I'm not referring to that. I know that Horowitz did that. But is there any VIDEO of like LIVE CONCERT playing fast Scarlatti?
MuscleSculptor 3 months ago
@MuscleSculptor Goddamnit.... Refer to the 1983 London recital. Horowitz plays a substantial amount of Scarlatti. I don't know if there are videos of it left in YT.
GeneralKuno 3 months ago
To the uploader: Could you please label this sonata with the Kirkpatrick number (K. 380) in the description? That will allow it to come up in searches for that sonata number.
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i wanna b a great pianist like him i'm working on it though :]
cuteangel145 9 months ago
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i wanna b a great pianist like him im working on it though :]
cuteangel145 9 months ago
i wanna b a great pianist like him im working on it though :]
cuteangel145 9 months ago
it's so scary how he dosen't move
it's as if the piano is him
SolidArch 9 months ago
So sublime, and yet some mistakes. He is human as we all. This is encouraging to me as a musician! If one as great as Horowitz is pardoned of mistakes, I should not be so discouraged, tis the sacrifice of live music, and a worthy one!! What a great performance.
SealedSage 10 months ago
makes me wanna cut off my useless hand and lousy ear,and blow me not so clever head off
mohamedapp 10 months ago
His touch is just incredible. The control he has over the dynamics of the piece is really marvelous. He really makes it live.
ironpirites 11 months ago
Truly marvelous performance! It feels so light, effortless... and yet so subtle and detailed.
Lllosiu99 11 months ago
My god...just seee how his feet moves in the first part of the video....
THAT MUCH CONTROL
utki17 11 months ago
É belo, mas, com todo respeito, erros de nota (0:09 e 1:41) destoam de outras interpretações impecáveis desse genial pianista.
dguanais 11 months ago
Is the first note the end of the "L33 Sonata"?
Alex4LP 11 months ago
Bellissima interpretazione, degna del miglior Horowitz. Ascoltai in diretta questo concerto su Radio3, fu uno evento, il ritorno di Horowitz in patria, dopo anni ed anni di esilio volontario; tutto grazie alla perestroika di Gorbaciov. Tengo ancora la registrazione su musicassetta.
mizar2209 11 months ago
He plays scarlatti as if he wrote it! Its amazing!
live4music38 1 year ago
I genius. A poet who speaks in music. I wish I had seen him play.
unzipped1945 1 year ago
He is genius!!! He truly makes a voice out of every finger. You can tell he focuses on the inner melodies in this one. His right hand has mastered separating voice when the alto and soprano trade staccato and legato phrasing...outstanding nuances make this come alive!!!
bluegrandpiano 1 year ago
he's cool!
kooljosh100 1 year ago
hes cool!
kooljosh100 1 year ago
how old is this guy??? he's amazing!
floris09172385 1 year ago
@floris09172385 He was 83 years old at the time of this concert. It was his first concert in his native russian in more then 60 years. He had nothing to prove anymore. he was making music for its own sake!
BorisCr 1 year ago 3
incredibile , un grandissimo
gigisicily43 1 year ago
Maria Tipo, 1955 Recording - Sonata in E major, L 23 -
watch?v=W36TLZtEizI
thanks and regards to all
classicvinylbiz 1 year ago
@classicvinylbiz thanks a lot
I listened to it and now its my fav. actually
so thanks again :)
bachkwt 1 year ago
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classicvinylbiz 1 year ago
Un genio romantico dal tocco strepitoso e dalla tecnica inarrivabile... sicuramente il pezzo in assoluto il più geniale (per me) della storia della musica classica... suonato da un maestro che all'età di 86 anni, non avendo più niente da chiedere alla carriera e che si avvicinava inesorabilmente alla parabola conclusiva, ancora regalava alla platea performances di questo livello.....
INARRIVABILE
ale9164 1 year ago 6
Certainly one of my favorite live performances... thanks so much for posting!
dondecnj 1 year ago
Certainly one of my favorite live performances... thanks so much for posting!
dondecnj 1 year ago
His trills are beautiful
crazyskier78 1 year ago 2
@crazyskier78 I know! I thought the same! :]
GothicalSOberhauser 1 year ago
here, we see an 83 years old musician, who had nothing to prove to anyone and who was doing music for the sole pleasure of it. Truly remarkable!
BorisCr 1 year ago
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He's doing it wrong. Need a damn harpsichord not some PIANO
Shadowhog 1 year ago
@Shadowhog yeah, i think the piano brings out the tenderness of this piece much better than a harpsichord and i have never heard this piece played with a harpsichord.
crob647gtx 1 year ago
Watch how he pedals . Sometimes slightest touch . An amazing ear goes with judicious pedal. Oh Oh Oh what he Che r k as s y , B o l e t and so many know about d e e little silver slices near our f e e t s i e s !
lovesGenet 1 year ago
This is a prime example of _why_ Horowitz is so revered. Truly excellent piano is as rare as any other instrument- and this is one of those rare finds.
xyaqua 1 year ago
awesome
idDeleter 1 year ago 2
Yeah, listening to the slower version he did in 1966 (I believe?) then this- I actually prefer this version- much more lively, even though there seem to be a couple mistakes- pwrfl performance
composerdoh 1 year ago
It's fantastic! I played this in 7th grade.. this piece is great and Horowitz performance is too.
TheChriss95 2 years ago 2
Don't forget that Scarlatti wrote a great piece! It is always well-liked. It just has that magic. Horowitz plays it fast, here. I've heard him play it slowly too. You can learn it. I play it myself. It's never anything but GREAT. Composers are such stars!!! Scarlatti was no exception. I suspect Horowitz played it more often than other great performers. He certainly does it well.
JHJennings 2 years ago 4
@EVERYONE: Okay, I didn't mean this in a bad way. It can be misunderstood, but my comment wasn't insulting. Horowitz is WAY better than I ever am, and ever will be, and I respect his choices, I was just rather shocked at him playing like that... I'm sorry if I caused anyone anger. :<
TheCityDreamer 2 years ago 2
In fact I don't think your comment was "wrong". One teacher of Horowitz, Tarnovsky, considered that Blumenfeld (who also gave lessons to Horowitz) didn't care about their pupils and that's why Horowitz learned that posture, which is completely different. Tarnovsky added that it just worked because of the talent of Volodya.
anaklasis 2 years ago
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someone should try and turn this piano solo into a rock tune and make a million bucks lololol
tropics1020 2 years ago
Is it Scarlatti's method to put the elbows down?
I thought it was wrong to put your wrists down. o.O
Or is it different methods? ;-;
Confused here! Someone enlighten me? ^^;;
TheCityDreamer 2 years ago
Howoritz .
luis2514luis2514 2 years ago 2
Most piano techniques are closer to guidelines than hard and steady rules. Which means that if you're a master like Horowitz you can play however you want. Technical rules are really for the learning stage, to let you know how far you deviate if you find some other method more comfortable or practical.
kaqmere 2 years ago 5
He a master he can play in whatever way he wants to play and his music will still become inspiration.
killingppl 2 years ago 2
Because you come seeking knowledge your otherwise offensive comment will be treated with the benefit of the doubt.
Horowitz had a very impressive, if sometimes unconventional technique. He did so to fit his own anatomy. Nothing in technique is "wrong" just because someone says so. If something works then it is right.
pookiehohn 2 years ago 4
Well, it is often used by harpisichordists. I think it is in order to help the articulation of the fingers... But Horowitz played everything that way.
JJKjaer 2 years ago
@TheCityDreamer Hehe... nobody can play with piano technique of Horowitz :) , except Horowitz himself, only he could play like this, look at his drawn fingers as well :)
robertforberger 2 years ago
it only works for horowitz because he has an highly sensitive ear. Horowitz technique with any other pianist will not work, do not attempt it
ceilingkatt 1 year ago
These nails !! this playing !! WONDERFUL of course
jacomijn2009 2 years ago 3
um, more tonemelilingual pedafrenetic than pulchritudinous, 'short to the ground oriented playing'.
Overlapse1000 2 years ago
crisp, lucid delivery, with absolute tenderness and emotion. A pulchritudinous performance of a timeless Scarlatti classic!
crob647gtx 2 years ago 8
A bedtime story
Overlapse1000 2 years ago 2
I think that comment :)
ArvindanT 2 years ago
I dare anyone who thinks of Horowitz as a mindless virtuoso to watch this video
Liebromeistal 2 years ago 5
LOL Who would think that???
GrandPatzer 2 years ago 4
He plays Scarlatti with a lot of intelligence.
marcinmain 2 years ago 44
@marcinmain You said it all.
ACVB2006 7 months ago
@marcinmain what u mean?
kitsune090 6 months ago
What a surprise! I knew that Horowitz was a great Beethoven interpreter and a dazzling virtuoso but would never have guessed how beautifully he played Scarlatti. Thank you Sissco for posting this.
soaringvulture 2 years ago
And I thought Horowitz was THE reference in Scarlatti!
17182559 2 years ago 2
it's interesting to see how his interpretation of this piece changes over the years
moijyc 2 years ago
A jewel.
thankgoodimadreamer 2 years ago
delicate thunder
Overlapse1000 2 years ago
This is not music. It's beyond "music" it's heaven! What an interpertation of Scarlatti. Wonderful, just wonderful!
tontokurt 2 years ago 5
That's right: beyond music, heaven ... ecstasy to listen to
lfgommm 2 years ago
flawless
pawelXXIwieku 2 years ago 5
here, the interpretive genius transcends the virtuoso - this is a small miracle to me - i love it
MikeInBeantown 2 years ago
ogi venerdi vado nella sua tomba e ascolto sto pezzo mentre vado al cimitero!
goldberg72 2 years ago
A lovely, delicate, precise rendition!
poivriere 2 years ago 2
i am playing this piece right now. the notes and trills are easy but you have to work kinnda hard in order to get the character of the piece. to have shaping, dynamic differences etc.. and you have to make this piece sounds like scarlatti, not bach or beethoven.
anyan112 2 years ago 2
Spellbinding
member805639 2 years ago
Personally I can't imagine this piece being played with more colour and grace. Such clarity!
solveaproblem 2 years ago 50
@solveaproblem a nessuno frega un cazzo del tuo pensiero, amore mio. questo è horowitz, mica sei tu
IViolentiAmorosi 11 months ago
@IViolentiAmorosi
I don't know what "mica" is this, but looks like it's more likely to be you, seeing as I was praising Horowitz's playing. HA. SHAME.
solveaproblem 11 months ago
Extraordinaire !!!!
marcocoiatelli 2 years ago
Personnellement, je trouve que cette interprétation est sans doute l'une (sinon la) des meilleurs de cette pièce de Scarlatti au piano, c'est parfaitement bien joué, une technique irréprochable, des nuances subtilement restituée et un excellent dosage de la pédale.
Au clavecin Scott ROSS est tout aussi génial.
givemetime123 2 years ago 4
ho mon Dieu que c'est beau, quelle maîtrise de virtuosité.
Scarlattti magnfié.
fanchbrezoneg 2 years ago 4
such a phenomenal interpretation. what a shame he had to die. would loved to have seen him live
williamsmarek 2 years ago
Adesso so perchè tanti anni fa rimasi colpito da un bellissimo albun de Le Orme, un gruppo italiano degli anni '70. L'album era intitolato Collage e il primo brano, quello che ne aveva decretato il successo, aveva saccheggiato a piene mani da questa graziosa sonata del grande Domenico Scarlatti.
Gian282ck 2 years ago
I liked yundi li's version of this piece, but now we have winner. Definitely best version of this piece.
Aul1kki 2 years ago 2
I learned this one as a guitar transcription when I was about 20. Back then I played it like a rock song. 30 yrs later and my understanding of the piece is still evolving, thanks more to this gentleman
than almost anyone else. Every instrumentalist of any kind can learn volumes just by listening to such masters. Are young people playing even close to this, or is it lost in another era?
nonthere 2 years ago 4
Horowitz is unique for any era. Especially when he plays Scarlatti
Kurtlane 2 years ago
Nobody plays Scarlatti like Horowitz, his technique is remarkable...
and I kno it was written for hapsichord/no pedal but i dont give a shit for all you ppl that point that out every time
BizzMarki 2 years ago
I preffer the Lipatti version...
viosnake 2 years ago
Pedals did exist at the time. BTW this piece sounds wonderful on accordion!
reinpost 2 years ago
in scarlatti -- horowitz shows that when he chose to, there was really no pianist that had a more precise finger "small muscles" control. it's like his way of saying: pianists that make reputations on "classical finger strokes, on precision finger work, on minute refinements"...can eat dust if horowitz chose to play that game. but he did it with lightning quick imaginative richness..he was unbelievable.
tedly10027 2 years ago 3
Forget the last comment - just realised it is in E - L23, K380 - my version has been transposed.
really annoying!
lsbrother 2 years ago
Scarlatti's catalogue is a nightmare...there are 3 editions! Alessandro Longo (L) listed the sonatas after the order of discovering them, then Ralf Kirkpatrick (with letter K) reordered them by date of composition. Now it is said that Giorgio Petrelli (P) created a new version which is becoming more accepted than K!!
anaklasis 2 years ago
Son in E, L23 - is that right? I play this and it's called Son in F, an allegretto and indeed it is in F but I don't have the no.
L23 is an andante in E so I don't think this is it - does anyone know what the true K or L no. is?
lsbrother 2 years ago
Honestly I can't think of an interpret that is better than Horowitz. He has all qualities a superb pianist should have. He has the technique, he has the feeling, the rhythm he is trully a perfect piano player. One from 10 000 000
gorgalsi 2 years ago
Outstanding! It's not the note he is playing, but the notes he is not playing!! Just so beautiful
tontokurt 2 years ago
What does that even mean? I've heard that saying before "listen to the notes hes not playing" but I never understood what people mean by that.
BizzMarki 2 years ago
Great artist like Horowitz had a gift to "microspeice" great composers, like Scarlatti, and make them their own. Imagine that there is no notes and nothing to be heard among the beautiful melodies, one can hear themselves. It's the "pause" in music. The silence.
tontokurt 2 years ago
And yet that pause would be nothing without the masterful playing... but if you do zen meditation, then the silence tells you the true nature of mindbody.
MaBu888 2 years ago
Nice playing.
offwo200 3 years ago
Thomas Frost,the producer for many of Horowitz's albums, described the clarity Horowitz's Scarlatti playing as such that it would shatter into powdered glass at a single false of overplayed note.
But Horowitz never strikes that note.
demosj 3 years ago 8
superb
Concinnitech 3 years ago 2
eine wahrhaft elegante symphonie horowitz spielt einfach wunderbar
Blader988 3 years ago 2
Bello
ieielor 3 years ago
absolutely beautiful playing. it's so light and carefree. A+ i have this on the horowitz returns to moscow DVD. love it.
avalanche183 3 years ago
he makes it seem so effortless
thesacrament77 3 years ago
Mi inchino che musicalità, che perfezione, tecnica cristallina, nessuno poteva intrepretarla meglio.
alessiodorsi 3 years ago
Genius
nsrMcAllister 3 years ago 2
Sometimes I think Horowitz didn't play the piano, rather the piano played by itself. Is so crytal clear, a note dances, it doesn't sound, it is by itself. He was, indoubtebly one to outstanding musician of his time.
gap8350aol 3 years ago 8
I can't help play and replay again and again
aarkerio 3 years ago
A glass of 1959 Dom Perignon tastes like Kool Aid compared to this.
francescaemc2 3 years ago
wow...your so cultured
bobbycamp101 3 years ago
If it's sarcasm you are throwing at me, it may be well deserved. If not... I have no other way of expressing myself. Really.
francescaemc2 3 years ago
It sounds beautiful on a guitar also.
BlackMasterJoe89 3 years ago
I prefere the 1976 (or '78) live recordings at the Carnegie in which left hand and pedal sound were fantastic... (if i understood; sorry but i'm not a misician..) of course here the level is so high.. as usual... Stay in peace Mr H, you will be ever in our heart....
ilovescarlatti 3 years ago
Interpretazione totalmente diversa da quella live di New Youk del 1966 o 68 (non ricordo)che era sublime!. Qui mi pare un pò preso dalla fretta o dall'emozione , mentre là il brano era molto meditato, con respiro più profondo,e pure la mano sinistra era più espressiva (o altro che non so dire... )Così mi pare...Ma non essendo musicista nè avendo un orecchio raffinato non vorrei aver preso un abbaglio.. Qualcuno vuole rispondere? grazie
ilovescarlatti 3 years ago
Si, certo. Non si dev'essere musicista e se stai ascoltando Scarlatti e Horowitz avrai due orrecchie raffinatissime. Credo che tu abbia ragione. Horowitz era sempre diverso. Come se si anoiasse della stessa interpretazione.
Hai ragione nel riguardo della mano sinistra.
francescaemc2 3 years ago
Great post, thanks so much!
YoJolina 3 years ago
Sheer delight, this piece. Horowitz speaks with his piano, something you don't hear every day. And someone said "playful"? Absolutely. Joyous. Thanks so much for posting.
collumww 3 years ago
they sure don't make them like this anymore. WOW!! Amazing.
LoganGabriel 3 years ago
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Fookin' hell... ridiculous rididididdududududlcous!
Zoriath 3 years ago
simply: THANK YOU!
schaama1 3 years ago
I can't play that "trillo" on A sharp !!! my third finger doesn't obey!
marirossi 3 years ago
Did anyone notice how precise his trills and aciacaturas are? You can hear each note!
pianomaniac14 3 years ago 4
beautiful, magical music!
Thanks for posting this gem.
fudwadia 3 years ago
how i miss this man :[
carolololol 3 years ago 5
Why the long finger nails on this great man!?
tun875 3 years ago
Brilliant in it's carefree simplicity, and crispness of delivery. What a display of erudite execution.
crob647gtx 3 years ago
Offers a brief and elegant respite from the more intense pieces that we are used to hearing this legend play.
mathpianist93 3 years ago
This is one of my favorite
piano pieces, and he renders
it divinely!
roseville88 3 years ago 4
Does he goof at 3:05?
unemployedfreak 4 years ago
who cares about goofing here or there?.. how about the overall magnificence of this interpretation?... or you are one of those catching mistakes just for feeling good about themselves? By the way, all the world famous pianists make mistakes, which proves they are human... and the world keeps adoring them.
asorescu 4 years ago 6
Those fucking coughs are ridiculous! Stupid and rude and unnecessary
GreggaryPeccary 4 years ago
Greg - I know it sounds like coughs but they're not. The VH visit to Moscow in 1986 was such a huge event there that a number of music students who couldn't get tix tried to crash the concert. This piece was the 1st one he played. What you're hearing was really from a scuffle between security goons trying to remove the crashers who resisted. They were eventually allowed to stay to avoid further disruption. The liner notes on the CD of this concert explained this incident.
dmcII 4 years ago
I believe you, but perhaps they coughed whilst scuffling. Those noises at 0:01 and 0:03 are most definitely human cough noises
GreggaryPeccary 4 years ago
I think this is a kind of protest.
canman5060 3 years ago
They always do it. Ridiculous, at every concert I've been to they all start to bark when it gets quiet
GreggaryPeccary 3 years ago
It is interesting to compare this interpretation with Pletnev's one... Both are wonderful, one very lirical and playful (Horowitz), one refined it terms of controlled but powerful emotions (Pletnev). Pletnev is also one of the best interpreters of Scarlatti's sonatas, in my opinion. I have both CDs, it is just endless delight and enrichment...
asorescu 4 years ago
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...Pletnev is one of the best interpreters of
Scarlatti's sonatas....
Garbage!
jghancockjr 3 years ago
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Yeah garbage, right. And who are you to possibly even come close to slandering one of the greats? Have fun waiting tables the rest of your life you worthless piece of shit.
Awididishioush 3 years ago
Pletnev understands Scarlatti about as well
as you do being polite in a public forum. BTW I am a self-made multimillionaire. Have a wonderful day and try to improve your taste
in Scarlatti performance... a "tall order."
jghancockjr 3 years ago
The "garbage" comment four days ago was in
response to an earlier comment that Pletnev's
Scarlatti was on a par with Horowitz. It was
obviously not directed to Mr. Horowitz'
interpretations.
jghancockjr 3 years ago 2
Haha easy big man. You might impress a few people by trying to prove yourself on YouTube. People like you never cease to amaze me.
Awididishioush 3 years ago 2
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Oh I get it now Aweeneepush, you are Pletnev
posting incognito. Shame.
jghancockjr 3 years ago
An intensely witty comeback from a "self-made multimillionaire" who amazingly has the time to immediately respond to comments on a YouTube video. Good job buddy, keep it up. You just might fool someone one of these days.
Awididishioush 3 years ago
What is the value of great wealth, Aweeneepush, if not to provide time freedom.
Freedom to study, to reflect, to develop...
good taste.
jghancockjr 3 years ago
Hahaha if you're trying to sound intelligent you're failing dismally.
Awididishioush 3 years ago
Best argument ever on a Horowitz video.
tmad40blue 3 years ago 3
Haha cheers.
Awididishioush 3 years ago
Horowitz plays Scarlatti, he loves it and we love him for sharing the personal experience with us. He seems to care about the sound. And he seems aware of his audience -that they need to be able to understand what is being "said." Everything matters. We can relax.
subwaysleuth 4 years ago 4
Scarlatti I love you
Horowitz I like you very very much
This is fundamental, like air and water
milanlondon 4 years ago
HOROWITZ! An Amizing Genuis, we all can benefit from this and each of his videos, a lot to learn about the elegant touch, effortless phrasing and ornamentations. In his hands Scarlatti 's music sound like the most profound poetry!
pianospectrum 4 years ago 2
Wow. That just takes me back to my childhood. I had that CD of Horowitz playing in Moscow, and I love it as much today as I did then.
Thanks for bringing some nostalgic tears to my eyes.
frogexaggerator 4 years ago 2
I should first clarify that Horowitz is a wonderful pianist - I absolutely adore his rendition of Beethoven's Waldstein and Apassionata piano sonatas. But with Scarlatti I am concerned I am hearing more Horowitz than Scarlatti. He tends to Romanticize the Baroque. I guess it's just my own personal taste (I prefer Porgorelich's Scarlatti), but I still remain grateful that Horowitz brought Scarlatti back to the conert stage.
Ghost2499 4 years ago
I feel Scarlatti is so "romantic", this rather subdued performance hardly does it justice. The man must have been a walking barrel of dynamite.
I do love Porgorelich's Scarlatti, but please, Scarlatti allows a few liberties of interpretation. If Scarlatti is anything, it's liberty!
reinpost 2 years ago
Considering you just claimed that the world's greatest romantic performer of classical music was not being "romantic" in this piece, I would suggest you learn what the term "romantic" actually means in the context of classical music.
hadesofcrete 2 years ago
I didn't say that, and I know very well what "romantic"means, thank you. You might to do well to learn not to take unexpected comments as criticism.
reinpost 2 years ago
"...this rather subdued performance hardly does it justice."
How is this not criticism?
hadesofcrete666 2 years ago 2
perhaps his interpretation is more gentle than subdued? I wouldn't say I'm an expert on classical music or anything, but from my (extremely inexperienced) ear, I like this one better than others- it's less frenetic, and more of a gentle, wallowing in the simple joy of it kind of interpretation? (hope I'm making sense)
l101177 2 years ago
Every time I listen to this performance I am struck by the delicacy of the master's touch. I was fortunate enough to hear Horowitz in concert only twice...twenty years apart. The second concert was near the end of his life. It was more brilliant than the first. He was just amazing.
Largo64 4 years ago 2
WOOOOW. You had the chance to hear Horowitz in concert?? Thats so wonderfull
EdiEllerymissing 4 years ago 3
brings back memories..was in my grade 7 exam..:)
polkadotrox 4 years ago 2
same here, I did that in my grade 7 exam as well. hahaha His interpretation of the piece is unique, isn't him? I have never thought of playing the piece this way.
Heils 4 years ago 3
Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music ?
mikejunior80 3 years ago
I think this piece is for Grade 5 exam.
canman5060 3 years ago
I glad he included the repeats this time. It loses a lot without them. (In fact it's not really even a "sonata" without them.)
md65000 4 years ago 2
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Lang Lang can go fuck himself!
Kavilashvili 4 years ago
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I don't think he can.
pjf2272 4 years ago
I need some help to find the sheets of this piece... It's impossible in México.
raffaninov 4 years ago
donde vives? has ido a escuelas de musica? me refiero a escuelas universitarias, no academias chafitas. si te queda cerca el df, en la nacional de musica es muy barato encontrar de todo en partituras y baratisimo.
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