Vladimir Horowitz plays Liszt Legende no. 2 (audio only)

[thegreatapologist]

Magical performance. Too bad about the audio though.

[volodya75]

Siempre que creo haber mejorado en el piano escucho a horowitz y asi me ubico en la realidad...

[newFranzFerencLiszt]

damn ... try to imagine to listen to this LIVE....

[neobiki]

Religiously wonderful.

[Vesivian]

It really sounds like Alkan during the part at 3:40 onwards (sounds even more like alkan during a clearer recording)

[PRUDENT92]

Beaucoup trop vite et brouillon. En plus, l'enregistrement n'est pas bon.

[barendschipper]

@PRUDENT92 Always good to have a French asshole around to fart at whatever giant played.

Haha, he prefers his own stench before the parfume of dramatist Horowitz. Haha! Trop brouillon...

tu as un automobile trop faible et lentement pur etre brouillee et capable d' apprecier un passant du char.

Hourray a Horowitz et a Liszt, a son anniversaire 200-ieme aujourdhui! A bas avec les 'prudettes'!

[PRUDENT92]

@barendschipper

Il est étonnant que le site n'ai pas censuré ce message que l'on pourrait qualifier d'injurieux et d'une extrême incohérence. S'y décèle un individu tout à fait infréquentable dont les messages ne devraient pas être publiés.

J'ai bloqué cet utilisateur comme étant indésirable.

Je demande aux responsables du site de veiller davantage à filtrer les messages injurieux et violents.

[thx113829000]

@PRUDENT92 trololololol

[GianniBarbarona]

Horowitz butchered thie piece!  esp. at 4:23-4:33

[uhartchristian]

the record quality isn t that good, what a pity as it is better then you think what Horowitz is doing here....

He should have recorded this another time with a better sound ingeneer

[neares]

a young brasilian pianist Cristiano Rizzotto Vidal Pessoa plays this Sao Francisco de Paula legend..with beauty and emotion.He is in you tube..

[stan724]

I thought I had Horowitz's complete recordings, or almost all. I wasn't familiar with this one. Didn't know about it. Another piece he played in the Forties in Carnegie was an excellent Chopin Fantasy.

[kasyapa]

this is not an official release. :)

[4785689]

@kasyapa how can pesquef have it? :OOO

[kasyapa]

4785689 - what do you mean??

[4785689]

@kasyapa this is a recording from he yale, in 2007 was not published, so how can he have it?

[kasyapa]

4785689 - it's been in circulation privately. i know people who have it. :)

[4785689]

@kasyapa so you know people who have the yale recitals?? :O

[kasyapa]

4785689 - no, this is the only thing from them that i've heard, other than the liszt h.r. #6 recently commercially released - which didn't blow me away as much as i thought it would!

[davids2000]

@4785689 Hi. Would you know if there are any videos of Horowitz when he was young? It's hard to imagine that there is nothing until his later years. No one in the 1930's, 40's, 50's thought about putting a video camera? If thats true, what a loss.

[liedersanger1]

@davids2000 There is a video somewhere here on YouTube of him playing--it's silent, but it shows his incredibly fluid hands. They look like underwater plants blowing the the current!

[jghancockjr]

Rare item; thanks for posting. Maybe one that Pinci should have left alone. My fave

is the Friedheim recording. Nyiregyhazi also

of great interest but I have found tape impossible to locate.

[kasyapa]

nyiregyhazi is here on ytube at watch?v=kX0_dBcOwis - as i've said before, my nominee for the most thrilling piano recording of all time.

[cserha1]

Well, Mr.Cziffra, that isn't Liszt, that is Horowitz! As Horowitz, tha performance is super! Thanks for the upload!! :-)

[dantemichelangelo]

grande grande grande!!!!!

[cziffra1980]

It's great to be able to hear this, but I'm rather disappointed, to be honest. Those constant accents on the first beats are extremely annoying. I would have expected a lot better from Horowitz. There is no sense of seriousness or grandeur at all.

[kasyapa]

i have to concur, and as anyone can see i am a huge horowitz lover. he seems kind of in his own world with this piece, and the lyric-heroic possibilities were lost this time. fascinating in its own right to listen to, but his intuition was sound in never recording it in the studio or releasing it in any way during his lifetime.

[SCHneiDen777]

even hearing a master like horowitz playing something the way you dont like, is a priveledge on its own. he was experimenting with accents. not a fault. just a simple experiment. turns out you didnt like it, and since he didnt record it, im guessing he wasnt satisfied either.

But to have ability to own a piece to do that, is impressive. Go Gorowitz!

[DeSuperjang]

I agree with you, cziffra1980.

Those accents are really annoying.

But the "Lento" passage towars the end is very beautiful. Well that's my opinion. ;)

And he's improvising very much towards the end, isn't he? :p

But that's Horowitz...

I like the freedom he takes himself, taking the music Liszt wrote and adjusting it to his own taste.

If somebody would do that these days, one would be murdered!

[cziffra1980]

Absolutely. There's still plenty worth hearing in this. It's just disappointing by Horowitz's standards. I never would have expected him to be so metrically rigid with such a grand melody. The passage around the middle comes out with an interestingly Prokofiev-like sound, but I just don't find the driving march feel suitable for the main melody.

[DeSuperjang]

Nothing more to add. :)