Vladimir Horowitz plays Czerny: Rode Variations

[MrBooker39]

What a magician Horowitz was! His wizardry crosses even the barriers of cyberspace!

Thanks so much.

[voolare]

Great post! Only the magic of VH can make me actually appreciate Czerny (my bad!). What year was this recorded in?

[musicy88]

SCREAMMMMMMMMMMM WOW he plays this piece around. so amazing.

[dukedome]

PUTZ! Amazing!!!!!!!!!

[owatson322utube]

Great! Is this available on CD truecrypt?

[glasnevin2009]

Truely magical!!

Thanks for this posting.

[metteholm75]

I guess his pedagogical music reflects Beethovens ideas about modern pianio technique. Czerny deserves every kind of praise for his studies. They are "gold", and shows a genuine pedagogical talent.

[metteholm75]

Yes, Horowitz can present i as that pretty, rather sweet biedermayer hausmusik, it is. Cosy biedermayer :-)

[cattleman6420012000]

Horowitz always puts me on a different planet when I listen to him. He was so special and unique.

[meredith21846]

Horowitz turns it into a better piece than it actually is.

[paulprocopolis]

Yes, Horowitz turns trinketry into priceless jewelry!

[morvensky]

Czerny deserves more recognition, he is certainly not the greatest composer but pretty good.

[Chopinco]

i think part of the recognition he gets is that EVERY pianist should play and must play his etudes hehe

[Abendmahl23]

Damm, i am so proud of my heritage

[camaysar222]

Ok, after consulting the music again... the Variations on the Valse Autrichienne are not really good ;). They are "generic" variations meant to exhibit the basic keyboard skills one by one, according to a formula common at the time. (Liszt apparently performed it with orchestra.) Of course Czerny, and Liszt'a father Adam, would want to show the public that "Master Liszt" could do everything. Imagine a little 13 year old boy doing what Horowitz does here, but better!

[camaysar222]

Re: editing, YouTube probably filters all music. I don't know if Czerny's non-pedagogical music is generally available, but I own many first and early editions of his various variation sets (he churned them out, as Chopin delightfully observed during his visit). Some are good, including the one that Liszt performed many times as a child, Variations sur une Valse Autrichienne op. 14. Most are not interesting music. He wrote a fascinating "Eroica-like" Marche Funebre on the death of Beethoven.

[bineblies]

Now I believe that Andre is a grave digger where do you get these recordings from!!!:D

[truecrypt]

I just stumbled upon this one while digging! ;)

[Noshirm]

@truecrypt I read that von Bulow told a student at a lesson that a pianist should be the opposite of a gravedigger...as it was his/her job to bring to light that which was buried and hidden in the music - and this is what our truecrypt does so admirably - as exemplified by his recent, marvelous performances of Scriabin and Chopin! (:-o)

[stradavarius]

I am using Carl Czerny for my own study. I have his opus 261 and also 453 which are both excellent... Is there any others about the same sort of standard( I guess begginner to intermediate) ? Or what comes next? school of velocity or dexterity?

[truecrypt]

I recall the most "used" opuses were 299 and 740 - both are etudes. Probably 299 will work well for you.

[Overlapse1000]

I used the school of velocity first, with some breaks using pieces couperin, cpe bach,and piecesa from gradus. it only took two days for both books, I think I used some Mendelsohn swow, "spinning song and such before the school of dexterity.

[psecondo]

thanks so much !! Should publish some other czerny's pieces like the Grande Sonate!!! or the Toccata

[BachScholar]

This is excellent. Czerny has some great sonatas too. Do you know of any historical recordings of Czerny's op. 740 etudes (other than the famous octave study played by Levhinne)? They are my favorite etudes.

[yamahabro]

As typical of Horowitz, he turns out thoughtful, sensitive performance of a neglected work of art.

[goldberg72]

pensavo di aver ascoltato tutto di horowitz...questo e' formidabile

[ayso78]

As good as it is, weird that Horowitz singled out this performance as his most successful.

[mihajmi]

Years of sound editing tells me that this file was edited in a kind of noise reduction system or plugin...

Sorry if you understand that I think that YOU did that. My english is not good enough to explaine in adequate terms. Trust me- i know it was edited. Play it in some frequency analyzer and you'll see that there are no higher frequencies... and lower are (sorry, my english) something like cuted- not origin.

I had that recording and it was full of clics and cracks but all freq. were there.

[truecrypt]

Oh.. I see.

Though I can't judge much in this respect, it's well known many Horowitz's recordings were *heavily* edited and/or assembled. I personally developed some kind of mental sound filter which allows me to listen beyond recording's imperfections.

[mihajmi]

WHY EDITING THIS RECORDING?

You killed a lot of herzs and it sounds like a some toy. Please, upload the same recording but with less editing... much less!! Forget about cracks and hums. We know it is old. Don't make it new please.

[truecrypt]

Why do you think it was edited? This is *exactly* the track. The only change is an automatic compression applied by YT.

[semicroma]

did horowitz have a great technique or what?

[fronternijenzonka]

I am so glad there's more appreciation for Czerny's 'real' music... He has such a vast body of work, and unfortunately his studies overshadowed his other pieces, which are absolutely brilliant; see IMSLP for some scores of his piano sonatas...

[aewanko300]

I do not think this is opus 23. IMSLP says op. 23 is the Brillant Rondo No.2 in G Major for Piano 4-Hands.

[truecrypt]

Thanks and sorry for typo - it's Op. 33

[aewanko300]

A rare Czerny piece played delicately. Hey look, it's mombeek again.

[RabidCh]

Again, and closed again. :\

[mmombeek]

and I tought you did not like horowitz...

[antoinezygfryd]

Des sons vides de sens.

[sagalat]

Sensational! I, too, recall Czerny only for the exercises. This is a pianistic gem

[donthuis]

I've never heard Czerny like this, thanks for the posting. Of course I knew that he made more than this trying exercises for piano students, but this is much more lyrical than his sonatines I had to grapple with.... :-(

[chad410]

so often seen as eccentric showman. I have to say for me as I age i see him as one of the finest musicians of the keyboard there ever was. thanx to him Clementi sonata would not be appreciated for there beuty. personally I hated doing Czerny as a boy but well I am speachless. Though Beethoven was obviously influenced i now see.

[pianopera]

Horowitz anno 1944 -- "good fingers!"

[go9zu]

Carl Czerny was a very sensitive composer and his composition in the hands of Horowith...just wonderful,thanks for uploading this great video.

[kasyapa]

if i remember rightly, toward of the end of his life horowitz expressed satisfaction with this recording. rare for the rarely-self-commenting pianist.

[paulostroff99]

Lovely! Bravo! TY.

[tHEnOOSEsWING]

This is an irresistible passionate piece played by a master. Thank you TC.

[axekat]

Thank you once again for the lovely post. You add so much to the youtube experience. This was just beautiful.