Brahms Intermezzo op 117 No 2 B flat Horowitz Rec 1951

[watiify]

beautiful and haunting...such depth..♥♥♥ it..

[sscs99]

thanks for posting. I now really want to re learn this!!! have not played this piece in years and am very rusty.. such depth of feeling. love the way horowitz does this. wish he'd recorded more Brahms! I think I do have an old vinyl recording of him playing a few more Brahms.. I'll have to find that..

[jonjon1957jonjon]

Horowitz @ his glorious best and fine recording sound too. Thanks

[townsendjean]

there's something ethereally haunting about this interpretation that's absolutely magical that is simply unmatched by any other performer. horowitz leaves these little tantalizing gems making one wonder why he didn't perform others. horowitz's rendering of mendelsshon's "a shepherd's complaint" (song without words) is another example of this.

[Liuisaak]

When the next Horowitz will born?

[TheTornadoStorm]

Its pretty ♥

[zeduet]

one pianist he was..

[citlalliguevara]

This is absolutely BEAUTIFUL, wow....

[ampowsplecploc]

Me encanta como toca este hombre...

[Beckmesser2]

@ampowsplecploc Gracias por su comen

[MrFerminleon]

@ampowsplecploc Esta es la ventaja de nuestro idioma,podemos decir mucho con pocas palabras.Comparto tu opinion,la nueva generacion de pianistas es tambien fabulosa,pero no tienen el carisma de estos titanes del piano de ayer.F.Leon.M.D

[Ferien7]

Does anyone know where I can find a complete volume of all Brahms intermezzos? I cannot find this anywhere and I need it for school purposes.

[lcoz145]

I'm playing this piece now... it is so spectacular and lovely. I always get lost in it... Love it that much. :)

[dukedome]

i'd like to hear him with brahms' 118....but thanks so much for posting!

[woutissimo]

great interpretation indeed! Is this recording available on CD?

[bcarsoon]

Delighful to have a myth dispelled---thanks for this!

Yet another version I love is that by the then-young Hakon Austbo, which I have on LP. I don't know if it was ever remastered to CD.

[lcoz145]

So beautiful...

[rightman220]

sunburstflame below - excellent observation. Strange, considering Horowitz' feeling about Brahms in general terms, but this is absolutely the best rendition of this work to date and I have heard virtually all of them. Gould - also excellent, but just a bit mechanical (Gould-like, in other words).

[beethovenof08]

Isn't this in D-flat... not B-flat? Beautiful performance though! I love it!

[goldnuggetby]

@beethovenof08 it's in B-flat minor, which is the relative minor of D-flat major, they both have the same key signature

[beethovenof08]

@goldnuggetby I know, you're right... it didn't say B-flat "minor..." that's what threw me, haha! I was thinking B flat Major, sorry.

[mikejr41387]

@beethovenof08 B flat minor.

[rightman220]

And he said Brahms didn't understand the piano. Knowing Chopin can be played ONLY on the piano seemed to suggest to Horowitz that since Brahms was transcendent, it didn't work well on the keyboard. Interesting. There are times I am almost inclined to agree, but more often than not, I disagree, and the fact that his interpretation of this Intermezzo is so good (and it is), makes one wonder about the extent to which he really believed that to be the case...

[harpkeys]

Words cannot describe the depth of feeling here...

[blargers123]

Horowitz will forever to be the master of piano. He has such a subtle, yet in depth undestanding of these pieces that is just pheonomenal. You just can't find that kind of intimate understanding in today's pianists...

[88Woland]

Great!!!!!!!!!

[yossiban]

This is incredible... it is horowitz!!

The artistry. and in such good taste!

[piano6861]

Nice!

[leomulder]

With his basses, it would be always very interesting to listen to Horowitz interpretating more Brahms. I really liked this one.

[meesbroersen]

@leomulder "really like" is an understatement..

[sunburstflame]

I've been listening to this Intermezzo all day by different pianists and this is the BEST one I've heard so far. Emanuel Ax has a great interpretation of this also.

[cattleman6420012000]

I really like this.  Magnificent playing.

[gerryrains]

Hi Beckmesser2,

Thanks for the post. It's recordings like this that convinced me to subscribe to you. I'm so glad that I did so. :)

Gerry

[chad410]

this is sublime. he is so deep it really must have cut into him at times. :(

[bernie10025]

Beckmesser, there is also a Horowitz performance of a Brahms Rhapsody locked up in an archive at Yale.

[1fattyfatman]

He also recorded the first part of the Brahms Paganini Variations but the masters are lost and it wasn't released. : (

[aewanko300]

Nice performance.