How the hell did he manage to get that good at this?!?! Whenever i've been listening to another genre and i put on something Horowitz plays, it's just like everything else falls into a huge shadow...
@Brockett122 You're right !!! I live in in France but my origins are Russians, you really have to be a member of Poland, Ukraine, or Russia, all these countries which suffered for all the over countries to understand this music !!!
It's so crazy to watch this video and to be able to say "I've played on that exact piano!" I am so humbled and grateful to play an instrument with such a history.
this musician is my insperation. I've been playing piano since I was 5, and I'm going to stay with piano it. my mom encourages me to get a music degree, so I'm staying with the piano and I won't stop untill these hands that are typing these words right now can't even play mary had a little lamb!
Old Europe at its best, so we are good for something. It's more dependent on a lead phrase than many of Chopin's works, yet somehow it still might be his best. Horowitz what a player, good to see this heading for the 1 million views, spread the news folks.
I love his music. he is expressive and understands the song.the only weakness that he has is just that he does not have body movements and that his fingering is a bit inflexible. His eyebrows also move a lot.
@vernaongyiqi1998 Ups!! Sure he understands the song, once he said: "The music should come from the inside not from the outside, that's because i'm a boring player to look at, because i don't move neither make face gestures". In my opinion he has the most flexible and fluid technique possible, that's why he has the most colorful sounds in piano. Rachmaninov said: "i never understood the posibilities of the piano until i heard Horowitz playing". To me, he is the real masters of masters.
I love his music. he is expressive and understands the song.the only weakness that he has is just that he does not have body movements and that his fingering is a bit inflexible.
It's beyond me how anyone can compare Yundi Li "...absolutely phenomenal" with the artistry and command of music Horowitz had. It's like comparing ramen noodles out of a packet with hand pulled noodles made right in front of you. There is none, and this posting has made me smile with wonder since I first saw it.
Wouldn't surprise me at all if half (or more) of those 35 dislikes also thought the Black Eyed Peas' show at yesterday's Super Bowl halftime had more artistic depth than this performance. If so, that says more about them then it does about VH.
@ccen1 35 dislikes on almost 800K views. It's really pretty good. I would say that beats 0 dislikes and 100 views or something. Probably the 35 dislikers just hate that newfangled equal temperment system or something, or prefered it when people played on harpsicords, because dynamic capablities make music too hard to follow I don't know. but really the ratio is pretty good. Fantastic piece and performance.
@stiltonchees Horowitz adds his own expressions, some people may not like it, others may think that its too fast.. what I do know, his style of playing and adding his own little mark on the piece gives it a bit of his character. ~ I strive to do the same in my playing which is terrible compared to him.
After hearing this piece one time I wanted to learn it and I am! There are certain things about the way he plays that really touch me, I just cant get the piece to sing like hes doing it, :/
If artistry lies in making the difficult appear easy, then Horowitz was a first magnitude master. As an eternal piano student, seeing this makes me wonder forever, what must one do to come even remotely close to this expertise?
Berlioz wrote "Chopin has found how to render [mazurkas] doubly interesting by playing them with the utmost degree of softness, piano in the extreme, the hammers merely brushing the strings so one is tempted to go close to the instrument and put one's ear to it." Quotes from Eigeldinger's Chopin, Pianist and Teacher.
This is the first piece I studied after returning to formal piano study when I was 14. Brilliant interpretation by one of the greatest ever. We miss you, Horowitz.
@headshop Most people stop using sheet music during performances by the age of ten or sooner if they begin study at a young age. That's a given! But he is a monster. No matter what.
Everytime I watch a performance by any great master on an instrument recorded at an advanced age,I can't help but wish they could've retained the vivacity and technique of their youth to go along the brilliant phrasing and timbre endowed to them by a lifetime spent on the instrument.This is especially the case with legends like Heifetz and Horowitz.Not to say this is a technically lacking performance,it's absolutely sublime!
@dmcII yeh tho steven wilson was forced to play guitar as a child and hated it and now he is a succefull musician that plays guitar and other instruments in multiple bands/solo projects
Steinway sends that piano of his, delivered to him a few days before Pearl Harbor on Dec 4th, 1941, around to its dealer network as a promotion for their brand. Mere mortals can sign up to play it at the dealerships. I had the honor of moving that Steinway 3 times while it was at Keys To Music, the now retired Steinway dealer in Charleston, SC. It's priceless and I was terrified we would be in a traffic accident with my delivery van. The transport case is huge!
A 9' Steinway D, new, would go for around $US80,000, delivered to your music room. The depression may have backed off from that price a bit as supply now exceeds demand. Nothing the company makes now is like the Steinways Horowitz is playing because several big corporations nearly ruined the company. Last I remember, a group of investors who love pianos bought the company away from them and let the employees build fine pianos, again...
What is happening with the music? Chopin used to play it SLOW. REAL SLOW! But now these modern pianists have to show the off. never stopping for a breather and/or a cup of tea.
Chopin would be so MAD!
He was shy. He was slow. He was my best friend, so I should know.
PLEASE stop rushing your 20th century through his music.
@andreaprodan how do u know how slow he played?... he was shy, but that doesn't mean Chopin hadn't had a great technique... You forget that everyone wanted Chopin as a teacher, and he wrote loads of etudes; as well as many "prestos" , what isn't really slow. I agree that too much "prodigies" rush over the pieces, without any musical sence, but you musn't forget, you can build a great technique untill you're 25 and musical sence comes with the years.
This is incredible. Horowitz in his final years played with such sensitivity, beauty and grace. Once he got off of those horrible anti-depressants that temporarily ruined his technique when he was in his early and mid-seventies, he showed us that age could not hinder his music-making, but in fact enhanced it.
But best of all, Horowitz could make the simplest pieces of music, like Mozart, or Chopin Mazurkas, come alive like nobody else.
@sireofzelda hahaha!!! The chartreuse bow tie might help... the qway BBC announcers used to wear bow ties to sound ... BBC-like ... but it's a piece not a song...
@pieguyfry22 he sits low on the chair doesnt cup his hands up and crosses them over, just what the teacher tells you not to do but hes still one of the best pianists of all time and my favourite
@danpayne118 It's funny how EVERY great musician had some kind of a "lame" technique. You can see all sorts of great guitars players not sitting right with a guitar or holding the neck "wrong" and they still own their instruments. I was watching Rostropovich and the has the cello asi if he wanted to lay it on him, and my teacher always scolded me. "You hold with your legs and your chest! And keep it almost vertical near your body"
@thehornypuppy I used to get criticized by my clarinet teacher because I wouldn't tuck the horn into my chest. When I argued that Benny Goodman played with his elbows out, he told me that was because Goodman was a genius and could, but I wasn't Goodman.
@jimraw1 I don't believe in geniuses...only people who put more effort or are more interested in what they do. On that account...i'm a freakin slacker xD I play a lot but since i only do it by myself i find it really hard to study theory or practice writing and reading music. Here in mexico you get taught music at school. There are conservatories but only in Mexico City and the limit age is 15 years old. I found out a week ago and im 21 xD
@thehornypuppy Genius is tremendous talent plus tremendous effort and hard work. If you don't have the ability to perform at the highest level, you will never achieve it regardless of how hard you work. Take Pavarotti - Einstein - Robert DeNiro - Horowitz - Jim Brown; There are many excellent opera singers - scientists - actors - musicians - athletes - without the talent to achieve greatness; thats the difference between being very good and a genius.
@jimraw1 As i said...on my own critic. I'm a slacker...i'm a natural for pretty much anything i do. But i get lazy sometimes...and others i want to do things a certain and i can't...i just don't. For example...guitar. I used to play 12 or more hours a day. I was advancing really fast but then i started really listening to my guitar and i hated it's sound. I got a better modeller, it sounded better but still bad. Then i got another guitar, better but not quite there....and on and on.
@danpayne118 I think the reason his hands are flat is because they're so big, and crossing them over is not necessarily anything bad it's sometimes written in.
Both young and old this man was a genius. No pianist could create the singing voices in his music. The mastery and conception was one thing, but the sounds were otherworldly. As many concerts as I went to hear him I was always entranced and transported by the beautiful singing sounds and depth of emotion.
He had the ability to create sheer power of sound, but also delicacy when the music demanded it. An awesome artist and technician.
He is remarkably insouciant about hitting the wrong notes and producing really nasty sonorities all over the place. Chopin would have condemned this playing to the point of using obcenities. But I liked the hand positions and the general attitude of doing it his way, anyway.
chopin was the best z!
paweloproxa 1 week ago
he played this 3 years before he died,still as good as the first time .
zwangie1 1 month ago
Horowitz is great and all but Chopin... pure genius
Hopefullyserious 1 month ago
I have the most enjoyment from watching his hand move.
leaftofall 1 month ago
who the hell coughed, seriously!!
MrHellowassup 1 month ago
from 2:16 on is purely amazing... cannot help shedding tears
goujiashen 1 month ago 2
This cannot get anymore east European , not that that's a bad thing :) just awesome , Chopin had the best days of his life in Poland
rafaelb1026 1 month ago
this is piano porn
wazfrmoz 1 month ago
How the hell did he manage to get that good at this?!?! Whenever i've been listening to another genre and i put on something Horowitz plays, it's just like everything else falls into a huge shadow...
Firestoner46 2 months ago 2
4:20;
"I have no clue why this piece is so long, but I definitely needed to get rid of that buger."
thejesusfreak919 2 months ago
He exactly knows the way to play Mazurka !
JacquesLuu 2 months ago
You have to be Russian to play like this
Brockett122 2 months ago 2
@Brockett122 You're right !!! I live in in France but my origins are Russians, you really have to be a member of Poland, Ukraine, or Russia, all these countries which suffered for all the over countries to understand this music !!!
imperator2403 2 months ago
@imperator2403 dam right buddy
paweloproxa 1 week ago
@Brockett122
And have to be Polish to make such a music :p
Wino870 1 month ago in playlist Fryderyk (Frédéric) Chopin (1810-1849) 2
Beautiful - wonderful!
surirach 2 months ago
It's so crazy to watch this video and to be able to say "I've played on that exact piano!" I am so humbled and grateful to play an instrument with such a history.
guitarlizard19 3 months ago
@guitarlizard19 OMG me too!
audreyhsux5727 2 months ago
this musician is my insperation. I've been playing piano since I was 5, and I'm going to stay with piano it. my mom encourages me to get a music degree, so I'm staying with the piano and I won't stop untill these hands that are typing these words right now can't even play mary had a little lamb!
AFbrat1538 3 months ago
39 people can't pronounce the word "Chopin."
Bob8199 3 months ago 6
Old Europe at its best, so we are good for something. It's more dependent on a lead phrase than many of Chopin's works, yet somehow it still might be his best. Horowitz what a player, good to see this heading for the 1 million views, spread the news folks.
TheSanealaddin 3 months ago
כבוד! RESPECT
OrenMorHay 4 months ago
@batulefou what happened?
spartan1081990 4 months ago
the greatest of all...incredible man
janiakowska 4 months ago
reminds me of my polish ex girlfriend who lived by a lake, and made me sing to her.
batulefou 4 months ago 4
@batulefou wow
novan08 3 months ago
his thumb is longer than my penis.
RediForKing 4 months ago 3
@RediForKing there is smth wrong with your penis :/
alejandrothefader 4 months ago 4
This guy is the Chuck Norris of piano...
MrITzR4mbox 4 months ago 32
@MrITzR4mbox Oh wow i actualy think he's realy good. Why compare him to the worse actor in history.
aardappelpitsap 2 months ago
is it weird that i favorited the video and gave it a thumbs up before he even started playing?
SwagMaster9000 5 months ago
@SwagMaster9000 did you really expect a thumbs up?
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SwagMaster9000 5 months ago
what butt has to do with chopin mazurka ? :)
k0it123 5 months ago 6
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39 dislikes? what the fuck? what kind of ignorant red neck scum can even think about disliking something as awesome as this?
chaggo21 5 months ago
absolutely great...
jsphhill4 5 months ago
I think that the applauses, in fact, never really ended after such an amazing display of art.
Not performance, but ART.
KRissRooTs 5 months ago
His technical is digital. Damned amazing. Sometimes flat, aduncated, inarticulate, articulate, Pischna-like, unorthodox but always controlled, deliberate and tension free. Inexplainable.
neve1064 6 months ago
Brilliant.. I attended but one of his concerts.At one point it appeared that an orchestra was also playing though he was alone Hypnotized was I.
paulostroff99 6 months ago
He rocks. I wore this vhs out. ha.
VisioninScience 6 months ago
the real truth hurts ;)
TheChink97 6 months ago
Brilliant
mrp765c 6 months ago
I like it, that he plays the song "polish". So its really Chopin
RichterThePianist 7 months ago 2
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@RichterThePianist
"I like it, that he plays the song "polish". So its really Chopin"
I do feel something personal, vernacular about this performance.... what am I hearing that makes it distinctly polish?
MenkeriosAndemicael 6 months ago
@MsChopinista : same here...
Robertben9 7 months ago
I wish I could go and listen to Mr Horowitz playing live. But sadly it's too late...
MsChopinista 7 months ago
To me, It's just perfect
I admire him so much
moi2802 7 months ago 3
@ThePianisssimo Deafness.
MephLeo 8 months ago
I love his music. he is expressive and understands the song.the only weakness that he has is just that he does not have body movements and that his fingering is a bit inflexible. His eyebrows also move a lot.
vernaongyiqi1998 8 months ago
@vernaongyiqi1998 Ups!! Sure he understands the song, once he said: "The music should come from the inside not from the outside, that's because i'm a boring player to look at, because i don't move neither make face gestures". In my opinion he has the most flexible and fluid technique possible, that's why he has the most colorful sounds in piano. Rachmaninov said: "i never understood the posibilities of the piano until i heard Horowitz playing". To me, he is the real masters of masters.
NiandCo 7 months ago 5
I love his music. he is expressive and understands the song.the only weakness that he has is just that he does not have body movements and that his fingering is a bit inflexible.
vernaongyiqi1998 8 months ago
I love his music. he is expressive and understands the song.
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Kaggypants 8 months ago 83
@Kaggypants Apparently Horowitz likes big butts and he can't hide it :P
hiey7 5 months ago
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DutchJ9 2 months ago
@Kaggypants well horowitz had a massive butt, so it makes sense.
ebirben1 2 months ago
yes! no words music speak!
piguitano88 9 months ago
fantastic piece of music fantastic bow tie, they both should be more famous
roxyquinn 9 months ago
He was
Most Overrated
Most Underestimated
both from wrong reasons
kontrapunkti 9 months ago 11
The biggest difference between Horowitz and other pianists: HOROWITZ ALWAYS SING!!!
frncgrc 10 months ago 5
It's beyond me how anyone can compare Yundi Li "...absolutely phenomenal" with the artistry and command of music Horowitz had. It's like comparing ramen noodles out of a packet with hand pulled noodles made right in front of you. There is none, and this posting has made me smile with wonder since I first saw it.
elansvc 10 months ago 3
if you like horowitz be sure to check out yundi li...absolutely phenomenal.
spawn112233 10 months ago
@spawn112233 Yundi li? he sucks
Haaggus 10 months ago
@Haaggus i agree with you he does suck
ryider 10 months ago
Emocionante.
armandodo prado
Armando1735 10 months ago
That man knew how to sing...
bicsc7 11 months ago
this concert at the vienne MUSIKVEREIN GOLDEN HALL; has been one the greatest expereances I had in my life!
6913edgar 11 months ago
35 people have their thumbs stuck up their ass
MsTinyTeaPot 11 months ago
I love H.
aardvaark069 11 months ago
This vienna concert has quite the musical repertoire , does anyone know where i can find a recording of the whole thing?
CordeliusKM 11 months ago
he is so dedicated to this instrument, its actually a part of his body !
truitertje10 11 months ago 2
Wouldn't surprise me at all if half (or more) of those 35 dislikes also thought the Black Eyed Peas' show at yesterday's Super Bowl halftime had more artistic depth than this performance. If so, that says more about them then it does about VH.
dmcII 11 months ago
why are there so many dislikes on horowitz's videos? he is 85 here give him a break!
most people that age are in bed tied to machines...
i thought he was great! :)
ccen1 11 months ago 3
@ccen1 35 dislikes on almost 800K views. It's really pretty good. I would say that beats 0 dislikes and 100 views or something. Probably the 35 dislikers just hate that newfangled equal temperment system or something, or prefered it when people played on harpsicords, because dynamic capablities make music too hard to follow I don't know. but really the ratio is pretty good. Fantastic piece and performance.
stiltonchees 11 months ago
@stiltonchees Horowitz adds his own expressions, some people may not like it, others may think that its too fast.. what I do know, his style of playing and adding his own little mark on the piece gives it a bit of his character. ~ I strive to do the same in my playing which is terrible compared to him.
After hearing this piece one time I wanted to learn it and I am! There are certain things about the way he plays that really touch me, I just cant get the piece to sing like hes doing it, :/
ancientsolar 11 months ago
His fingers have minds of their own D:
speedstakerguy 11 months ago 3
My fav
Cambambebe 1 year ago
Love the ending!
vendurain 1 year ago
84 years
Daviddd1986 1 year ago 3
Eine wunderbare Interpretation.
Bioschlawiner 1 year ago
really dont like this. at all. :-(
janab71 1 year ago
@janab71 Why? o.O Just interested.
MyExGirlf 1 year ago
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mxtiplitz 1 year ago
I've never seen Horrowitz that old honestly
bradleypianoman 1 year ago
o psilos epaize mono mazurka sto alexandreio
orezas 1 year ago
Flagged inappropriate for being too epic.
Dropittothefloor 1 year ago 157
@Dropittothefloor lol
newFranzFerencLiszt 5 months ago
Do you realize how fucking loud that audience was? I know it's petty but it's 4:30 in the morning and I was not prepared for that. -,-
zonza73 1 year ago
Horowitz died 2 years after this, They are dead man. DEAD. dont give me this heart and soul bull shit. fucking religion has nothing to do with it.
fr3d420 1 year ago
wow..!
doraHR 1 year ago
If artistry lies in making the difficult appear easy, then Horowitz was a first magnitude master. As an eternal piano student, seeing this makes me wonder forever, what must one do to come even remotely close to this expertise?
6061peb 1 year ago
@6061peb Living with a piano in your dreams, eating piano for breakfast/lunch/dinner, and last but not least loving the piano.
killingppl 1 year ago 6
Berlioz wrote "Chopin has found how to render [mazurkas] doubly interesting by playing them with the utmost degree of softness, piano in the extreme, the hammers merely brushing the strings so one is tempted to go close to the instrument and put one's ear to it." Quotes from Eigeldinger's Chopin, Pianist and Teacher.
saunsnaen 1 year ago
his control over dynamics is impressive ! and inspiring to say the least...
RemovdSande11 1 year ago 2
This is the first piece I studied after returning to formal piano study when I was 14. Brilliant interpretation by one of the greatest ever. We miss you, Horowitz.
pianofaerie 1 year ago
Where is the sheet music? Oh that's right....he doesn't use it. (what a monster)
headshop 1 year ago
@headshop Most people stop using sheet music during performances by the age of ten or sooner if they begin study at a young age. That's a given! But he is a monster. No matter what.
mimib1230 1 year ago
Magical. Sublime. The way he plays the B Major section brings me to the verge of tears.
cerzule 1 year ago
My second favourite Mazurka
at least for now
Now it´s the best I´ve ever heard!!
Hicksbosone 1 year ago
dore omo goto mr rubato
bsd300d 1 year ago
it's the music
SuperAlexandra009 1 year ago
Everytime I watch a performance by any great master on an instrument recorded at an advanced age,I can't help but wish they could've retained the vivacity and technique of their youth to go along the brilliant phrasing and timbre endowed to them by a lifetime spent on the instrument.This is especially the case with legends like Heifetz and Horowitz.Not to say this is a technically lacking performance,it's absolutely sublime!
HeifetzRanew 1 year ago
simply a god
MagosSaul 1 year ago
I wish I had been forced to play piano as a kid, with the sentiments I have towards it now. I would be a genius by now....
julsgag 1 year ago
@julsgag yeh same but if we were forced we might hate it now :(. im all most 20 and i wish i had started playing a lot erlier than i did
IDontDoDrumCovers 1 year ago
@IDontDoDrumCovers True. If you'd been forced to play, you definitely would have hated it then and probably would now as well.
dmcII 1 year ago
@dmcII yeh tho steven wilson was forced to play guitar as a child and hated it and now he is a succefull musician that plays guitar and other instruments in multiple bands/solo projects
IDontDoDrumCovers 1 year ago
I wish I had been forced to play piano as a kid, with the sentiments I have towards in now. I would be a genius by now....
julsgag 1 year ago
happy birthday and rip!
sinancans 1 year ago
Happy Birthday Horowitz!
October 1, 1903 – November 5, 1989
Intersting true fact: he was Jewish
anyan112 1 year ago
@anyan112 of course he was jewish i can say that by looking at his face or name,
anyway this music is made by Chopin
stuka1991 1 year ago
Pshaw... I could do that, but I don't wanna....
renumeratedfrog 1 year ago
Happy birthday Oct. 1; happy US on YouTube who get to spend ALL day with the maestro!
WimGrundy 1 year ago
just the best playing chopin mazurkas!!!!
fitetu1980 1 year ago
I like you Horowitz
Alexenzo 1 year ago
Steinway sends that piano of his, delivered to him a few days before Pearl Harbor on Dec 4th, 1941, around to its dealer network as a promotion for their brand. Mere mortals can sign up to play it at the dealerships. I had the honor of moving that Steinway 3 times while it was at Keys To Music, the now retired Steinway dealer in Charleston, SC. It's priceless and I was terrified we would be in a traffic accident with my delivery van. The transport case is huge!
w4csc 1 year ago
@w4csc for curiosity...how much would it cost for a Steinway piano?
sshimgrey 1 year ago
@sshimgrey
A 9' Steinway D, new, would go for around $US80,000, delivered to your music room. The depression may have backed off from that price a bit as supply now exceeds demand. Nothing the company makes now is like the Steinways Horowitz is playing because several big corporations nearly ruined the company. Last I remember, a group of investors who love pianos bought the company away from them and let the employees build fine pianos, again...
but that was a while ago.
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RollingIppo 1 year ago
he was like 75-80 years old XD
poupoule22 1 year ago
Who are the ones that do not like this performance???
demianp2008 1 year ago
I wonder how much one of Horowitz's nose-kerchiefs would go for on eBay.
Wolvenblaze 1 year ago
@Wolvenblaze . Strange to read such a crude, humourless comment in a place like this, it's like blasphemy. Feel sorry for you
pascal1530 1 year ago
@pascal1530
It's funny that you don't see the layers of respect given to Master Horowitz in my joke.
Wolvenblaze 1 year ago
sony entertainment sucks
riotghandi 1 year ago
@andreaprodan... Your an idiot. And your wrong.
tigertolyy 1 year ago
I'm definitely going to learn to play this song so that I too can wear a chartreuse bow tie.
Lepiotaphage 1 year ago 81
@Lepiotaphage je pense que le noeud papillon !!!!! n'est pas nécessaire.... (c'est un super interprète de Chopin) que j'adore
guglielmiable 10 months ago
@guglielmiable Yeah, but if someone doesn't have a super interprète de Chopin, wearing a chartreuse bow tie just makes them look like a crétin.
Lepiotaphage 10 months ago
@Lepiotaphage exactly, if that weren't so everyone would be wearing chartreuse bow tie, my self included but alas, i am no virtuoso
Tonio99 9 months ago
@Lepiotaphage ou en etes vous???? toujours au noeud papillon!
guglielmiable 10 months ago
@Lepiotaphage n'importe quoi ! apprendre dabord à écouter.
guglielmiable 10 months ago
I wonder if he ever dedicated any of these songs to his wife. Like hi my love this song im about to play i dedicateit to you idk i would of
wendellvasquez1988 1 year ago
@wendellvasquez1988
if he composed the song he would ^^
RemovdSande11 1 year ago
Please!
What is happening with the music? Chopin used to play it SLOW. REAL SLOW! But now these modern pianists have to show the off. never stopping for a breather and/or a cup of tea.
Chopin would be so MAD!
He was shy. He was slow. He was my best friend, so I should know.
PLEASE stop rushing your 20th century through his music.
Ely Eidel (Old school companion)
andreaprodan 1 year ago
@andreaprodan how do u know how slow he played?... he was shy, but that doesn't mean Chopin hadn't had a great technique... You forget that everyone wanted Chopin as a teacher, and he wrote loads of etudes; as well as many "prestos" , what isn't really slow. I agree that too much "prodigies" rush over the pieces, without any musical sence, but you musn't forget, you can build a great technique untill you're 25 and musical sence comes with the years.
meesbroersen 1 year ago
This is incredible. Horowitz in his final years played with such sensitivity, beauty and grace. Once he got off of those horrible anti-depressants that temporarily ruined his technique when he was in his early and mid-seventies, he showed us that age could not hinder his music-making, but in fact enhanced it.
But best of all, Horowitz could make the simplest pieces of music, like Mozart, or Chopin Mazurkas, come alive like nobody else.
KhagarBalugrak 1 year ago
1:51 - is he allowed to do that?? O_O
pieguyfry22 1 year ago
@pieguyfry22 Sure! It's Horowitz!!!
sireofzelda 1 year ago
@sireofzelda hahaha!!! The chartreuse bow tie might help... the qway BBC announcers used to wear bow ties to sound ... BBC-like ... but it's a piece not a song...
Malaka57 1 year ago
@pieguyfry22 Horowitz is allowed to do whatever he wants. :P
openmindspace 1 year ago
@pieguyfry22 he sits low on the chair doesnt cup his hands up and crosses them over, just what the teacher tells you not to do but hes still one of the best pianists of all time and my favourite
danpayne118 1 year ago
@danpayne118 It's funny how EVERY great musician had some kind of a "lame" technique. You can see all sorts of great guitars players not sitting right with a guitar or holding the neck "wrong" and they still own their instruments. I was watching Rostropovich and the has the cello asi if he wanted to lay it on him, and my teacher always scolded me. "You hold with your legs and your chest! And keep it almost vertical near your body"
thehornypuppy 1 year ago
@thehornypuppy I used to get criticized by my clarinet teacher because I wouldn't tuck the horn into my chest. When I argued that Benny Goodman played with his elbows out, he told me that was because Goodman was a genius and could, but I wasn't Goodman.
jimraw1 1 year ago
@jimraw1 I don't believe in geniuses...only people who put more effort or are more interested in what they do. On that account...i'm a freakin slacker xD I play a lot but since i only do it by myself i find it really hard to study theory or practice writing and reading music. Here in mexico you get taught music at school. There are conservatories but only in Mexico City and the limit age is 15 years old. I found out a week ago and im 21 xD
thehornypuppy 1 year ago
@thehornypuppy Genius is tremendous talent plus tremendous effort and hard work. If you don't have the ability to perform at the highest level, you will never achieve it regardless of how hard you work. Take Pavarotti - Einstein - Robert DeNiro - Horowitz - Jim Brown; There are many excellent opera singers - scientists - actors - musicians - athletes - without the talent to achieve greatness; thats the difference between being very good and a genius.
jimraw1 1 year ago
@jimraw1 As i said...on my own critic. I'm a slacker...i'm a natural for pretty much anything i do. But i get lazy sometimes...and others i want to do things a certain and i can't...i just don't. For example...guitar. I used to play 12 or more hours a day. I was advancing really fast but then i started really listening to my guitar and i hated it's sound. I got a better modeller, it sounded better but still bad. Then i got another guitar, better but not quite there....and on and on.
thehornypuppy 1 year ago
@danpayne118 I think the reason his hands are flat is because they're so big, and crossing them over is not necessarily anything bad it's sometimes written in.
nino0057 1 year ago
I always almost cry when I listen to older pianists, because everything sounds so deep.. I don't know how to describe it.
TheLastCherry 1 year ago
so powerful
mitaibiru 1 year ago
chopin always makes me cry :)
indicaro 1 year ago
bravo fantastic marvelous
fxv26 1 year ago
I absolutely love that ending lol
BruceLeeKills1 1 year ago
This is by far the best execution of this piece i have heard. Horowitz really brings it to life.
bsd300d 1 year ago
Which is preferable? Older Horowitz with more emotion? Or younger horowitz with more dexterity?
jb3w4fc 1 year ago
@jb3w4fc
Both young and old this man was a genius. No pianist could create the singing voices in his music. The mastery and conception was one thing, but the sounds were otherworldly. As many concerts as I went to hear him I was always entranced and transported by the beautiful singing sounds and depth of emotion.
He had the ability to create sheer power of sound, but also delicacy when the music demanded it. An awesome artist and technician.
Missed notes? Who cared?
morris1030 1 year ago 4
@jb3w4fc
yourè posing here a philosophic dilemma
comaradella 1 year ago
his hand posture has both the strength of a bull yet the finesse of a beautiful woman. absolutely unmatched. a true legend.
loustylez 1 year ago
beautiful piece. My girlfriend plays this same song, I just really love how the way it sounds differs between persons. Great piece of art this is.
solow1991 1 year ago
A masterpiece....
loukdelouk 1 year ago
So delicate, so alive...
catchersmitt0 1 year ago
at 1987 Horowitz was 84, amazing!!
deserticus18 1 year ago
He is remarkably insouciant about hitting the wrong notes and producing really nasty sonorities all over the place. Chopin would have condemned this playing to the point of using obcenities. But I liked the hand positions and the general attitude of doing it his way, anyway.
fredericfranc 1 year ago
@fredericfranc
I heard him play in concert many times, and you do not know what you are talking about. Horowitz was a genius pure and simple.
morris1030 1 year ago
Aaahhh the flat fingers....they burnsssss ussssss....
Kperson123 1 year ago
@Kperson123 As odd as it is, it's what worked for him. :)
Selendomono 1 year ago
does anyone know where to find the sheet music for this?
LeatherySwine 1 year ago
You can see that he's obviously pleased with himself at the end, which is fine. He's the Man and the Master.
xander7ful 1 year ago
both are geniuses: Chopin and his evangelist Horowitz
gezmark 1 year ago
Wow wow wow. Possibly his best performance ever. Haha I love it. Perfectly consistent and beautiful. That is amazing.
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soami2u 1 year ago
Bravo!!!
Very nice!!!
MrMrMikayel 1 year ago
2:16 middle is the best part...
krokigrygg 1 year ago
I love this mazurka.
OriginalBasaliskos 1 year ago
very nice!
19932606D 1 year ago
Try as I might, I've yet to find another interpretation of this Mazurka that I enjoy more.
dmcII 1 year ago
No! I can't even bear to listen to Ignaz Friedman after hearing Horowitz's playing of this. :(
What he did with this mazurka was very special.
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