Horowitz plays Schubert-Liszt Ständchen (Serenade)

[mozartpiano23]

1:40 time to play with my elbows

[mozartpiano23]

time to make popcorn

[ppppppppppppppppp999]

it's nice to hear horrowitz interpetation although I would consider it not more than ok. he is too accurate and less emotional.

[taylormade060600]

how do u dislike this?

[philanoymousshou]

Awesome, sounds like a pop song :)

[newFranzFerencLiszt]

@philanoymousshou don't compare this to shit

[Toxxic88]

@newFranzFerencLiszt

hhahaha :)

[maxreger100]

Schubert's version of "Les Adieux".

The most bittersweet farewell.......

[jamesings]

Give thanks to Maestro Franz Schubert. A true genius like Chopin and Mozart. Without him there would be no Serenade as beautiful as this.

[Celia555mariposa]

I love Horowitz, I love Liszt, I love these pictures!

Thank you  :)

[NuttyParanoid]

simply don't understand why someone actually don't like Horowitz's interpretation.

These days I've gone mad dealing with my papers, but this soothes me all the time, I've replayed this video for the whole afternoon. A sad but very comforting piece.

[stevebbuk]

@NuttyParanoid Well I don't understand the opening scherzando and the crescendo-diminuendo dichotomy in places. I prefer Burkard Schliessman or my favourite is the video uploaded by AnAmericanComposer with the dark beach scene..not sure who's playing but I feel they are more in keeping with what Liszt may have had in mind for the Schubert piece.

[jpbdexv]

@stevebbuk

Well, again (this time from me), please, don't compare this with shit.

The so called 'scherzando' is attempt at something completely different.

If you can't get it otherwise, maybe 'pizzicato' can be something close enough

for you to understand (since you can't feel it - obviously).

[stevebbuk]

@jpbdexv I don't like the scherzando,and you evidently have no conception of Liszt..

[adib37]

So romantic,thanks a lot for posting.

[chromatic8]

When giving thanks to Horowitz don't forget the composer SCHUBERT for this most beutiful melody.

[throwscats]

@chromatic8 Or Liszt, the transcriber. :P

[sylsof]

very nice

[MsChopinista]

Pure bliss,,,

[Bret6464]

This is from Horowitz's last recording session just before he passed away. And Rachmaninoff's performance (on YT) is also the last piece he recorded - both are surreal musically and in interpretation, just pure and immensely beautiful music :-))

[noteworthy99]

Just perfection....................­........A long life and a great musical legacy for us to enjoy. A lovely piece. Thank you Horrowitz.

Thanks for posting, I agree great audio quality and good presentation.

[ozakin1]

His play is so nice! Where can I get  the same music sheet?

[leongatha96]

@ozakin1

mslp.org/index.php?title=Categ­ory:Composers&from=Sch

[123rashomon]

such sublimity...ahhh



[waynejyang1]

There's a great sense of originality and expressiveness that makes this Horowitz's performance the best available. The beginning of this performance before the theme is wonderful, seems to tell us to prepare for a short, fantastic story ahead. Starting from the final section, it actually feels like there's another person accompanying. Haha, just my reactions

[680stp]

The master being Himself. Exquisite interpretation in every way.

[halcot19]

Beautiful but I prefer Valentina Lisitsa playing this. Halcot 19

[Kreutzersonata37]

@halcot19 that's because you're an idiot.

Nothing played by that "pianist" is better than the same piece played by Horowitz. She only have a barely decent technique, nothing else. Horowitz has soul, and a incredibly perfect tecnique. Don't tell something like that again, please

[belegSJ]

@Kreutzersonata37 You cannot decide another person's opinions. If one likes Valentina more, then one has the right to do it.

And obviously you haven't listened enough of her playing. Who are you to tell that there's no soul soul in her playing? That's a horrible insult and Valentina doesn't deserve that.

[Bret6464]

@Kreutzersonata37 I totally agree with you, only a handful of pianists have been at Horowitz's level and are surreal artists who play from the soul - Rachmaninoff, Horowitz, Gilels, Moiseiwitsch, Weissenberg :-)) These days it's Martha Argerich and Jung Lin who are the extraordinary musicians, IMO. Still, Valentina L. is a fine pianist, it's her choice of interpretative "style" that I do not admire at all - but some prefer that.

[Kreutzersonata37]

@Bret6464 I don't think she's a fine pianist. She has a technique that able her to play difficult pieces, but she has no taste. She doesn't know what interpretation means, she only does the right notes and the right dynamics. That's not music, even a computer can do that.

Only martha argerich (Onestly I don't know jung lin)? There's a lot of extraordinary pianists and musicians

[Bret6464]

@Kreutzersonata37 :-)) Don't know many extraordinary musicians performing "now". Everything from Martha particularly her recent work is surreal. Some Jung Lin performances are on YT (HR2, Rach, Chopin, her transcription of the Sibelius Nocturne, others) and her Rach 3rd is extraordinary. Am not saying they are the only two great musicians today, I also like Ohlsson, Volodos and Bronfman. I also like some young pianists but they are not at that "extraordinary" level, imo.

[Kreutzersonata37]

@Bret6464 What about Pogorelich, Sokolov, Weissenberg (he's alive), Pollini. I can't remember others right now, but there are... I think they're extraordinary. I saw martha argerich last winter with her "martha argerich and friends". There was she, Gabriele Baldocci, Daniel Rivera and the soprano Barbara Luccini. She never played as first piano, or piano solo. She's obviously great, and she want to help young (and not-so-young) pianists, but that wasn't a good concert at all

[Bret6464]

@Kreutzersonata37 Mea Culpa, should have said now performing - Alexis Weissenberg is one of my favorite pianists, he is one of the top-six ever, IMO, I have many of of his CDs and almost all of his YT clips are in my favorites. Martha did perform solo piano recently at Verbier, her Partita is surreal. I would lobe to see her perform. I like some of Ivo's work from when he was younger, in his later work, perhaps he has diverged a bit in interpretation, but still extraordinary

[waywardtycoon]

@Kreutzersonata37 Pogoman doesn't belong in this list. It's an insult to

list him amongst these greats! ... a vastly over-rated artist I'm sorry to say.

[Kreutzersonata37]

@waywardtycoon are you kidding me? Go to one of his concert (even now that he's literally crazy), listen to his CD with Beethoven's op. 111 sonata, Schumann's symphonic studies and toccata ecc. Then tell me if he's not one of the bests

[waywardtycoon]

@Kreutzersonata37 I'll pass. Pogoman bores me, sorry to say. Incidentally, his rendition of Schumann's symphonic etudes is an embarassment!

[vova47]

@waywardtycoon I second that opinion and I'm not sorry at all...

[marekchlebovec]

famózne . . . och

[Diplomjodler1]

mama mia, it is unbelievabel ... Horowitz is the maestro of all maestri .

[whatsmylogin]

Why does hardly anyone else play with so much variation in tone and dynamics? Is it because they choose not to or because they can't? If the former, then I wish I were good enough as a pianist to be able to make choices like that (even though I would make different choices). If it's the latter, then we can see why Horowitz gets all this hype. Sure he overdoes it sometimes, but if you want a boring performance, then listen to someone else.

[teadororudy]

@whatsmylogin So you are saying that Horowitz is hot-dogging? It's because he can, my friend.

[ninalisann]

This is so beautiful that it makes me cry.

[Cortot1877]

Ohh God!

[Desideria7]

And thank you very much for uploading this marvelous performance of this genial piece!

[Desideria7]

I would like to look in the eyes of those two idiots who "don't like" this genial performance. Probably music critics or just antisemits.

[cypiano]

Thanks for uploading this video. I am a horrowitz fan,too.

[VirtuousR]

great photos. thanks for posting.



[MAMYLINE14]

Un ravissement à écouter ! ♫♪♫♥♫♪♫♥♫♪♫♥♫♪♫

[fufkwi]

@dc88keys4christ1 i cant seem to find this on petrucci?

[lostpebble]

Exquisite touches, so beautiful, just about perfect. Agreed with some previous comments, hard to surpassed! However, I would like to add "technically". Emotion wise, it could be a tat more engaging, just my overall feeling.

[emarel]

Consummate interpretation! So many younger "artists" have impeccable technique, but little to say "musically." Horowitz stands as a supreme example of incredibly sensitive keyboard touch and control as well as musical individuality.

[MrCapacitors]

Fantastic.Can´t be better.

[claucapanema]

Magnifico! Bravo! Toca a alma! O toque macio é extraordinário

[childeric57]

If the first A major chord in this piece makes you feel something in your chest that can't be expressed in words, but that you want to give to someone or everyone, then I think you have the heart for Schubert, and probably for all music.

[rach0n]

@childeric57 do you mean at 1:09?

[stanyannie]

This still leaves me in awe, no one has ever played this better. I keep looking for this music where after 3 minutes he plays a high echo. It's not written anywhere that I can find it! Did he improvise this? O my heavens! To improvise on Liszt who improvised on Schubert? Amazing!

[acoleman1324]

@stanyannie no thats actually written by liszt :)

[mopomopo0125]

He is miracle.

I like his music.

However pisarenko is also wonderful as the same.

[newFranzFerencLiszt]

10.000 views!

[lovesGenet]

This is a miracle . his light touch and his way with a phrase. He is ravishing here. Fw other could do this with such subtlety & this many hued colorful touch. He takes the breath away . Lhevinne must have realized Horowitz had special sounds too. I wonder what he said to Mme Rosa about Horowitz's playing.

[gulgul2006]

By far the best posting of his rendition.

"It must be a duet, otherwise it's Horowitz"

[allisew]

THE master of the piano...brings tears to my eyes and fills my heart. If only more humans came close to the talent of Horowitz and the genius of Schubert...

[ann03071874]

Nice to see some photos of him when he was young.

[MrTIRILLY]

A comparer avec la légendaire version de RACHMANINOV, peut-être plus spontanée, mais c'est une affaire de goût.

[hyodamhan]

keep repeating this vid over and over again...

[Halloweenparty2003]

...è magia...

[seasunmax]

none like him, warm and nostalgic, as it should, and makes you understnd the lyrics: "My songs quietly implore you

through the night;

down to the silent wood

my love, come to me!"

Too bad I can't find a video showing how he plays it. Any help?

[kasyapa]

seasunmax - he never made a video of it.

[kasyapa]

@seasunmax - there is no video of him doing this.

[mikejunior80]

Beautiful.absolutely beautiful.

[TwelfthRoot2]

Great audio quality. Thanks for posting.

[rhadamanthes82]

no better version, this is the ultimateone ;)

[kasyapa]

is there anything better?