Hofmann plays Mendelssohn & Rachmaninoff at Golden Jubilee

[soami2u]

What a colossal genius of the piano...pianists today are pygmies next to Hofmann!

[Noshirm]

Hofmann was an inimitable genius. Could you please point me to where I could read reviews of this Golden Jubilee Concert? And yes, I hear the 'third hand', too. Rachmaninoff always thought Hofmann was the greatest of them all; I think it made Horowitz a bit jealous. Is this correct?

[paulostroff99]

Stupendous! Bravo! TY.

[rhadamanthes82]

this is incredible. How Hoffmann do to display such rithmics dymanics !!! he is totally stunning

[aewanko300]

Hey beckmesser, you are right about the middle section of the Rachmaninoff prelude. It did seem that he had an "extra" hand.

[horatiodreamt]

Thanks for posting this. I can see why Rach. thought Hofmann was a great pianist by Hofmann's interesting use of rhythms, as in the Prelude in this recital.

[snaaptaker]

I have owned these these for decades, first when Columbia released the LP of just the solo pieces, and then,again, when IPA released the LP boxed-set of the whole concert.

I have yet to hear these performances equalled. An absolute treasure!!

Thanks for posting them, Becks.