HOROWITZ AT THE WHITE HOUSE 7-Carmen Variations

[koenigsegg5554]

who was president ?



[koenigsegg5554]

@koenigsegg5554 ooops jimmy carter

[HighROCOCOlings]

Did you like his plan to invite ,we judged to plan this gifts you after meeting you.

USA is great serious trusty country to keep promissing in real against your great efforts as superior artist.

Thank you USA,too.

Many nations had good comfortable by this beautiful playing with glad to listen, I hope so with his escourts to there for all .

His idea was great ,too.

Thank you very much for happy and beautiful world criats.

[aberneiser]

awesome coda....

[solanjoe]

Horowitz plays with such a speed as if he had three normal hands in each one of his. This composition should be renamed : Carmen Variations on six hands by one pianist.

At one moment I expected the piano to blow up into little pieces and the PC monitor to burn. The cadenza made me dizzy... The President probably dizzy too was lucky not to fall down after getting up to greet Horowitz.

[pr4n42061]

frankly speaking i still prefer the 68 version to this one.... but the coda of this 78 version is amazing! probably the best coda of his carmen arrangement... he changed the coda in the beginning of 1977, as he said at the ann arbor seminar.....

[Laudan08]

Holy fuck! And the Coda blows me up! 3:46 WTF!

[LoudCitizen]

The initial ascending and descending cadenza is just glorious...!

[Bobert16000]

Not bad for an 80 ry old man!



[TripleRhu]

@Bobert16000 not bad for a human!

[1234567bryce]

Incredible Cadenza... I wonder if he improvised that :o

[Ryuuuuuk]

Its so amazing !!!!!

I cant believe what ive Seen this is so amazing

He was One of the Greatest Pianist who Ever lived.

I love how He plays, what He plays and His Big Crazy smile on His face. :D

[Ryuuuuuk]

i love this

[prettyboy1990able]

Another legendary recording from the amazing Vladimir Horowitz and whats so amazing about it is the fact that he was an old man for starters, crippled with arthiritis and god knows what else but managed to perform fabulously and play with such clarity, humour and control!

[danielsolfas]

Horowitz is really a complex pianist, unlike the others.

that's what makes him stand out.

Very complex and playful on the piano and i love it

[sorim1967]

I think there are two die-hard anti-Carter fanatics here - only way it can be explained

[MrChopiliszt]

i think it is very dangerous playing, that's why it atracts people

[benjosephcuyacot]

you can't play this if you are not a wizard.

[piter797]

Verry beautifull

[Vautrec]

Wow ça m'a donné des frissons!

I got chills!

[PS3Playa426]

2 people are just jealous...

[surgere94]

holy shit

[garfreed]

Thoroughly delightful! (And amazing!!)

[poupee58]

Fucking unbelievable

[teegeekaa]

6:00 sweet ;)

[rosaponselle2009]

A GENIUS!

[MrGluki]

unbelievable!

what a master!

[oct212006]

I love you, Mr. Horowitz.

[sinancans]

someone please explain me which year this concert was given?

[JohnnyStricklett]

@sinancans The year of this concert...not exactly sure....But I am sure it was in the last few years of his life.

[sinancans]

@JohnnyStricklett

ty.so you agree that other 500 000 viewed bizet video was taken before. how many years are there u predict. he seems pretty thin and strange ,especially realized when he is applaused.

[1stDewboy]

@JohnnyStricklett if you had watched all the way to the end, you will see the copyright date as 1978.

Horowitz died 12 years later in 1989 at 86.

[piter797]

@1stDewboy

[1stDewboy]

@piter797 ?????

[Menbrand]

@sinancans This was a Horowitz performance when Jimmy Carter was president. I believe the performance was 1978 when Horowitz was 75 years old(!) Amazing!

[PianoMeister3]

There's a reason he was considered one of the best, if not THE best, pianist of the 20th Century!! :D

[dalecampbl6]

i have yet to discover horowitz playing ravel, prokofiev, bartok...does he not like modern repertoire?

[PianoMeister3]

@dalecampbl6 I found a recording of him playing Prokofiev's Toccata. Just look those two words up and his should be the 3rd or 4th one on the list. :)

[dalecampbl6]

@PianoMeister3 found it, nice, but it was from 1930, when he's a young pup....in his later prime, I haven' discovered any recordings by modern composers, besides Scriabin and Rachmaninoff, and he only plays their most romantic sounding works...i think horowitz was not a modern guy

[sinancans]

horowitz look very different lol=)

[jul54jazz]

jamkablam : 1978

[jamkablam]

what year was this again?

[Mpdjd]

3:54...how does he do it??? wow

[nicklewisatx]

the motife you see for two seconds starting at 3:28 has more puzzled.

[FLaST4ever]

It's actually not as hard as it seems to be. The real difficulty is getting the right sound of parts like at 2:03 and so on. At least it's more difficult for me! To play Carmen like Horowitz is almost impossible, but it's fun to practice, though! (If your aim is not getting the piece as clear and wonderful as Horowitz did)

love it!!!

[pemchem]

How can this be possible?!

[tpbricknw]

5:46 HAHA Mrs.Horowitz does the tourettes guy look.

[Mrphilharmonic]

I still can't figure out how he can turn his little 5th finger up like that and still be able to stretch it just in time to play the required notes!

[david213redmond]

He's so happy! ^^

[kxghh]

1:31 what happened?

[killingppl]

Im shocked, amazed, and I dont know what to say it is just too beautiful

[JCruz0587]

this is why i like the piano... no matter how old u are the piano has no age limit!

and of course i love horowitz

[TheOneWingAngeI]

haha try and get another 80 year old to play what horowitz played in his final years.....

[maxhansendk]

The master!!

Vladimir Horowitz!

[PhoenixAureus]

omdfg

[halavey]

Amazing hands and the brain that directed them!

[Eztoez]

The sheet music for this is insane ! I'm a good pianist but my I can't get to grips with his Carmen variations ! Great stuff from The Master

[musicy88]

aww! he kisses his wife!

[NightClash909]

Horowitz is awesome!

[demosj]

It is amazing that Horowitz kept his virtuosity intact for his entire life.

[prodesica]

Magia strumentale!!!!

[Jamesdowning101]

His Carnegie Hall version was better. Still incredible transcription

[nburton85]

Yeah I totally agree. Although the passage from 3:22 to 3:36 is much clearer on this recording.. So difficult! What a genius..

[Bobby3960]

I prefer this finale ! :-)

[libetta]

how is this transcription different?

[kasyapa]

different from - ?

[libetta]

jamesdowning101's comment that the carnegie transcription (1968 performance i think) was different

[kasyapa]

it has all kinds of differences - notably a late episode before the big scale that introduces the quieter contrapuntal combo. of themes, and the coda is entirely different.

[libetta]

ok! so which version did volodos record on his debut cd?

[kasyapa]

the 1968 tv version, along with a very few tiny alterations of his own.

[bicsc7]

@Jamesdowning101

I'll have to listen to the carnegie again, but this was pretty amazing.

[illegalsmirf]

Hell yeah 8-)

[jhoward1957]

@illegalsmirf Well said my friend