horowitz plays stars & stripes forever - live - 1945

[noteworthy99]

Pathos, romance, strength, pride, balls & grit its all there in this version. Good old Horowitz, he nailed it good and proper !

[mariofizz13]

poor piano. Now it's got bruises all over it :D

[Ryuuuuuk]

Why sound the piano so crazy :D

[robtrodes]

@huartchristian: Horowitz once said that if Art Tatum ever decided to go classical he would quit playing. :)

[uhartchristian]

well this was Horowitz participation on war effort.... the atmosphere at a moment where the end of war was already visible , the joy is already in this interpretation and the proudness being part of America. Horowitz did chose america to live with, so whats more normal than feeling like any american...

[musicioso]

This is something only Horowitz could do. Never heard a more beautiful version than this.

[TheSJeon]

Horowitz is a squid-he has ten hands :)

[inazuma3gou]

so it is true. Horowitz has 6 arms.

[Kakarot21591]

Horowitz first debuted this transcription in Central Park, New York in 1945, a short time after we won WWII. (Off-topic here) Listening to this after I aced my Chemistry exam when I thought I couldn't do it, I can't think of anything more triumphant (besides the Polonaise in A-flat, of course)!

[AIKevorkian]

How many hands did Vladimir have?!?!?!  Just so AMAZING!

[ixcuincle]

Astounding. 

[kasyapa]

ixcuincle - that is his nature. :)

[MrZnoo]

gotta love those cannon ball -like bass notes

[kasyapa]

MrZnoo - he was juggling the cannon-balls. all his life.

[uhartchristian]

thats better than the RCA distributed version. The first time I heard this I got so excited that I did play it again and again all the evening. From the very first listening to Horowitz on I knew there is no better or more exciting pianist available....

[kasyapa]

uhartchristian - i like this one for the slightly more risky edge, and the familiar one for the transparent sound and apparently greater perfection.

[vlotjah]

Haha, the audience-response is also great. And appropriate!

Probably the same specie... ;)

[kasyapa]

i like hearing the different reactions to horowitz over the years. :)

[tuxguys]

Just heard this again, after a period of months... not only makes you proud to be an American, but it kinda makes you proud to be a human, doesn't it? A particular specie produced both Souza and Horowitz, and it produced YOU TOO! Take a bow!

[kasyapa]

nice cosmic perspective - i think horowitz would have liked it too. :)

[Ixezed]

Haha ! Very interesting performance, less mature then the 2 officials recordings, but very thrilling. What rythms !

[65attila]

Horoowitz was in a clsaa of his own. Thank you.

[tuxguys]

Ah, Ah say, that's a JOKE, son...

[tuxguys]

Horowitz is always great... who's the other guy playing with him?

[scottyschumann18]

haha, i understand your joke ;) hes fantastic

[dpkaiser]

Do you mean the guy playing drums?

[BOSOX9004]

haha

[demosj]

There's a video of four Van Cliburn winners playing this in an eight-hands arrangement - and Horowitz surpasses their combined efforts.

[Ravenelvenlady]

@tuxguys LOL!!!!

[shusarik]

Thanks so much for posting this wonderful example of Horowitz's playing in his earlier years! I like the reckless sense of abandon in his playing--what a miracle. Wasn't he made for the piano? It isn't clear from the audience response that they knew what he had just accomplished. Once again, many thanks.

[volodya2]

Someone have the complete recital in the Hollywood Bowl?

Please contact me... :(

[kasyapa]

i believe i do. why the unhappy face?

[francescaemc2]

Taking a break from Jimmy Page, Back to my roots.

[francescaemc2]

That is a casual look. Burn your track suits (unless you run track) and, if you can, take up piano.

Vladimir is the bomb