vladimir horowitz plays prokofiev sonata n.7 (3)

[n19ns]

У меня уже такое впечатление, что я люблю не какого-то композитора, а его исполнение Владимиром Горовицем.

[precipitato]

It's completely fucked. So many read errors....wrong notes..... terrific.....

[hanbitability]

It is wonderful.. The first part creates the tension by clear sounds, the middle part builds up the tension by mysterious mood, and the last part destroys them with unclear and terrible sounds

Plus, I also like the tempo :))

[bh1520]

a virtuoso

[StefanoAlde94]

Pollini is the best in the world, none play it like him

[leongatha96]

@StefanoAlde94 I agree, Horowitz gives the piece the heart and soul. I also heard that story that he learned the piece for Prokofiev in one day!

[martivarlint]

All of us, don't forget Horowitz gives the 1st American preformance of this Sonata and lurn it in on night ! Musicaly it's fantastic playing and artistic conception : Prokofiev should do a portrait of Staline in this obsessive music. This performance, like all the greatest (Richter, Gavrilov or Sokolov) is amazing. Prokofiev is very enjoy about it and send congratulations to the pianist. Anyway Pollini performances has no heart like everything he does.

[levanter1977]

what about tempo ? did you like his rubato ? It's matter of taste of course...He started slow, finished much faster...

[A528107]

To JoFrSC...Pollini plays it faster, but I like the Horowitz version better. I like the way Horowitz brings out the ostinato in the bass.

[sbdude101]

Horowitz rules. I got to play on his piano after he passed away. They toured the piano around the US. It's like no other piano I've ever played.

[pianofan24]

@sbdude101 Me too :) I played it in Boston. I was so afraid to touch it... for me, it felt like I was committing some kind of sacrilege though. I was amazed by the action - I like pianos which take effort to play and his is like if you breathe loudly, the notes will depress!

[daniel15671]

His clarity, rhythmic control, control of dynamics, are remarkable. Most pianists succumb to banging, but Horowitz shapes this brilliantly.

[DERFNAM72]

La versione più musicale e anche la più brillante... e dal vivo!!!!!!! Mi piace anche più di Richter, Sokolov e Sultanov!

[leonengard]

BRAVO!!!!

I'm trying to breath again!!!!

[th3wing3dpaint3r]

Baaaaad coda! :s

He went faster than what he could handle & made some very unnecessary additions that amplified the mess even more.

The rest is good though.

[eyesk8er]

If you don't like the music on the video STAY AWAY. Don't resort to name calling or post rude comments. In fact don't post any comments because frankly no one is interested . You have your opinion & preferences, others have theirs. So Please do everyone a favor & just STAY AWAY. We're fed up with your negative comments. STOP ANNOYING THE PEOPLE WHO LIKE THE MUSIC ON THE VIDEO.

[TICETOCAR]

@eyesk8er your comments are funny " If you're wasting countless hours seeking out things you hate rather than things you like, and lashing out to people who disagree with you, you may need professional help"... seems like you've wasted quite some text lashing out to some who don't share your opinion & preferences..

[eyesk8er]

Let's see: You go to a site featuring Horowitz & Prokofiev, However you don't like Horowitz's interpretation or Prokofiev composition so you decide to extol the genius of another pianist's version & complain about the people on the site who are devoted Horowitz fans.

If you're wasting countless hours seeking out things you hate rather than things you like, and lashing out to people who disagree with you, you may need professional help.

[KITMaverick]

Retarded Prokofiev fans make the most retarded comments

[macerini]

As usual...a great performance!!

Horowitz is always a refrence in everything he plays. Clear and brilliant!

Although my favourite performance of this piece is the one by Sokolov.

I've never heard anybody else playing this piece with such physical and emotional transportation.

Great Sokolov!

[gipehache]

Tout à fait d'accord avec vous : j'apprécie beaucoup l'interprétation de Sokolov. Mais il est difficile de comparer avec Richter ou Horowitz : les tempi sont différents, l'esprit est différent.

J.-P. H.

[mrmolinodelahoz]

Horowitz¨s carrer was long, varied, and brilliant and sometimes average. But to criticize anything now seems like a bit too late. In his day, he was one of the best.

He was a colorful genius, international, and advanced the piano in world more than anyone since Rachmaninoff.

[pal0palo]

@mrmolinodelahoz in his day? in anyones day!!!! horowitz is and will always be one of the best!!!!!!

[M1RoN41K]

Не знаю как вы, а мне всё же нравится исполнение Рихтера: хоть темп отстаёт от Аргерих, но есть органичность, вместо которой у других исполнителей звучит суетливость; знаю, что Прокофьев вообще беспокойный, бурный, но даже его музыка не терпит суеты.

[JoFrSc]

Listen to Pollini do this. You won't be sorry, I'm sure.

[kennethhiggins369]

Absolutely. this is like a thunderstorm, with a rather unclear few bars prior to the final cadence. Pollini's is like a trip over Niagara. You come to the surface. You go over the Victoria Falls. And then back again. Its an unusually complicated piece of music, I think.

[AulicExclusiva]

@JoFrSc Pollini, pfft.

His kind of microbiotic pianism has had its day.

[martivarlint]

@AulicExclusiva

Absolutly right ! All of us, don't forget Horowitz has given the first american performance of this Sonata and lurn it in on night ! Musicaly it's amazing : Prokofiev should do a portrait of Staline with this obsessive music. Pollini is just a robot without heart. But this performance like other greatest in this work (Richter, Sokolov or Gavrilov) is just out this world and Prokofiev should be very enjoy about it because he sends his congratulation to Horowitz.

[crapman999]

My favourite performance of this piece is Katsaris's. This is too slow.

[klvinbagoly]

Well, what should I say... It sounded good at the beginning, but when it speeded up, it became too agressive and his tempos are incoherent. I don't like Horowitz...

[kempff95]

superb!

[morfingaunt]

it just doesnt seem to have the same control and master as sokolov's version. it has power, yes, but something like this needs control. and the bass notes at the very start do not come out strongly enough and they are extremely important to the structure of the movement as a whole.

nonetheless, it is an excellent performance.

[Hervinbalfour]

Yes Sokolovs got the best interpretation of this sonata to date. Sokolov builds a better climaz than do most recordings that I hear.

[anothermusicfan]

Martha's fastest version is as fast as Katsaris', and she makes less mistakes than he.

[MichaelDLC]

Glenn Gould plays one of the fastests and clear versions of this piece

[mrmolinodelahoz]

FAster is YT Gen Hirano diabolical

[demosj]

What the hell was that? There is a delicate threshold between fast and rushed, and your friend is several miles deep in rushed territory. Just because it's Prokofiev doesn't mean it's empty of musical substance or that a performer has the okay to sprint through it. Christ.

[ajlee1216]

As could be naturally expected, Horowitz's clear playing style suits Prokofiev very well! The same logic applies to Gould's rendition of this piece.

[MemyH567]

this is my favourite performance of the 3rd moviment of sonata n 7!

[thecount88]

anyone else notice how he omitted an entire two measures at 1:19? and some parts where he played an octave higher than written, and some counting issues including an extra repeated measure at 3:00. i mean if you're going to remark on his inaccuracies you might as well choose the interesting ones.

anyway if you didn't hear those mistakes you're probably not qualified to say which pianist is "the best," not that i'm qualified to say so either. and there's a reason critics are rarely famous.

[HansVonBulow]

I have played this piece, and I think this is a marvelous recording, though I'm not sure who is the best. One of my favorite performers for this piece is a young, unknown pianist named Gilles Vonsattel who performed it at the Cleveland International Piano Competition seven years ago. One of the best interpretations ever.

[justinneversleep]

are you stupid?

obviously, he changed the piece into his own style, just like what he did in Liszt's waltz.

you hear these "mistakes" and for sure you are not qualified to say what so ever...

Horowitz doesn't need to be compared by you...

[hailkayy]

i must admit that you are probably right, horowitz turned it into his style sounds just true

[lordkrandel]

This is Slayer in 1953. Has to be brutal. Precipitato means rushed. And rushed will be.

[taviona]

Very true. :D

[pianovideo]

Check out Horowitz's studio recording from 1945. Prokofieff, upon receiving a copy of the recording from Horowitz, returned an autographed copy of the score to Horowitz inscribed "To the miraculous pianist".

[HansVonBulow]

This is not too fast. Argerich plays it at twice this speed. Now that is too fast!

[smoshmy]

I think that this is a very poor performance,It just sounds such an uphill struggle for poor Volodya and in terms of sheer inaccuracy it's a mess!

[SalQrazy]

Does the pitch sound off to anyone?

[iuncemacart]

1:55 is absolutely fabulous

[onokaKun]

vladimir horowitz is THE pianist of the 21th century

[sisjka]

sry m8 i think richter is

[chlrldud74]

it becomes an independent entity with a life of its own.

In my mind, I think Prokofiev would have loved this superb performance -- it has power, verve, wit, and a little bit of the madness that such pieces should have....

[chlrldud74]

As a composer and coming from that perspective, I think this is a perfect performance. Too many people think that composers are rigid people who after they've once decided on a tempo and an interpretation for a certain piece, don't want that to vary. But that's completely contrary to most of the composers that I know. Most composers are delighted when performers find new things in their music that even they themselves were not aware of.

Most composers are well-aware of the fact that after they

[enantiodrom]

Si può capire l'incredulità dei pubblici di tutto il mondo dinanzi alle strabilianti ottave di Horowitz all'epoca di questa registrazione.

[DERFNAM72]

Fantastic!

[serox901]

its in pieces like this were horowitz inhumanly unique sound truly shines.

[chiefofhunger131]

This piece is written with so much dissonance it is hard to say what it is actually meant to sound like. In my opinion this is the best interpretation of this movement I've ever heard.

[Welipu]

Crazy, but wonderful!

[wagenna]

This place would be much better without all the flaming, but I must admit that all the interesting comments contain more than "I love this" or "That's shit, listen to XXX".

As far as I am concerned: Argerich creates the most intense emotion, but Solokov plays it very acurately and I like the very distinct high notes. Horowitz is great in his own way as always, but I prefer other pieces played by him like "Pictures at an exhibition".

[gc65531941]

sergeholst, I do not see how having an obsession with Argerich's music-making would anyone a 'laughing stock'. It is the failure to realise her greatness that makes one a laughing stock. N'est-ce pas? (Please understand that it is your argument that I'm questioning, not you- no offense intended)

[AulicExclusiva]

Rather than just banging-on-an-oil-drum the way Sokolov and other third-raters do, Horowitz gives this music the motoric nervousness and rhythmic intensity its proper expression implies: but this performance is full of nuance and fantasy, as well as staggering power and temperament.

One of Horowitz' most truly amazing moments.

[katkula]

there are better performances of this pieces, I have to really say that...

[jubulalau]

And I do agree.

But to say it in front of a bunch of blind Horowitz admirors is simply senseless.

They will rate your comment down and say their "Piano God" is unbeatable.

[jubulalau]

And I do agree.

But to say it in front of a bunch of blind Horowitz admirors is simply senseless.

They will rate your comment down and say their "Piano God" is unbeatable.

[nkwebmaster]

Prokofiev like it enough to send Horowitz a copy of the scored inscribed "To the miraculous pianist Vladimir Horowitz."

[katkula]

Yes but is it really confirmed that Prokofiev send the score to Horowitz after he heard his performance of this piece? Volodja is a miraculous pianist, no one denies that.

[thdkid]

Yes, it's confirmed. The copy of the score with Prokofiev's inscription is at Yale University

[ludwigvan17]

Horowitz is the best.

[jvmalfi]

i love argerich but i'm not a stalker excuse me but this idiot sergeholst is the stalker why does he follow all my comments. does he want attention? pity this poor child

[jvmalfi]

for all concerned this idiot sergeholst is a cyberstalker he reads all my comments but i dont know him and i dont write to him maybe he has nothing better to do than read all commentsin youtube

[jvmalfi]

idiot

[jvmalfi]

like you

[cheapmoms]

This piece is filled with so many unresovled 7th chords... riddled with suspense, and almost filled with a tinge of jazz. Awkward and exciting, but it seems as if it lacks any real progression. I feel like I was in the same place I started when it's over, but I guess thats the beauty of it.

[Malaka57]

It is remarkable for that, you are absolutely right. On the otgher hand, remember that Prok treated the piano as a percussion instrument... That gave him some leeway with harmonic progression.

[BSA2417666]

klass, interesno sravnit s sokolovam sovsem raznie ispolnenie.

[Raffzeee]

Jazzspodic!

[ipmoic]

Awesome! Like Heifetz, he had the devil at his shoulder--just diabolical......

[hayoung1105]

wooow.. this i really funny to watch the conversation between jvmalfi and sergeholst...

do you people know each other in real lie?

[jvmalfi]

no i dont know the idiot called sergeholst

[jvmalfi]

you dream on you obviously don't listen well enough

[jvmalfi]

so what if i promote ms argerich? who cares what you think?

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[BachFong11]

Love live Argerich

[jvmalfi]

ah yes she plays this better than horowitz

[BachFong11]

no, I'm just another Argerich fan...sorry.

[BachFong11]

Argerich is better....

[jvmalfi]

yes i definitely agree

[diditrich]

Overaffected.

[jvmalfi]

i agree

[ProkofievRules]

I fucking dig this. Especially the part between 1:30 and 1:40...genius.

[likemeg010]

The video that had Argerich playing Prokofiev's 7th sonata was probably just a bad recording. Anyways Martha Argerich was after Horowitz's time

[jvmalfi]

yes but argerich surpassed horowitz in her recording.

[coaster1000]

nope

[meneltar]

My god!

Perfect!

[MathijsGiltjes1993]

It sounds very weird to me with aal that keys after eachother, but when you are really listening iut, is beautifull

[skotoseme]

this is just as confusing and incongruous and abrupt as it really should be...i've never felt as though i've understood this movenent better!

[Astathis]

ma wow ^^

[filthysoap]

i especially liked the ending. he was just in front of the line of excessiveness of getting too rampage-ish lol.

[datruzepp]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH DA HO CG RHYTHM!!!!!

rezpecable 8)

[ssprokofiev]

This is a better version than his recording of the piece from the early-1940s. Does anyone know where the performance was given?

[volodya2]

it has performed in 25\02\1953 in carneige hall

[MathijsGiltjes1993]

In the 1940s they didn't have very good recording instruments.