Chopin Nocturne Op 62 No 1 B Major Horowitz Rec 1989

[KevlaminTheMighty]

The end of this song kills me every time. The change in tone, those last chords... beautiful and heart breaking.

[orqsilva]

Definitely a transcendental performance. NO ONE, with the exception perhaps of Liszt of Chopin himself could play this piece like him. Compare this to Rubinstein, (even though he does a very nice job on most of the Nocturnes), who sounds much more mechanical. Horowitz brings out the duet in the RH in the first 18 measures and shapes the piece through with minute control of his rubatos. His LH sound like it belongs to another pianist! A true lyric genius of the instrument.

[AljoshaKaramazov]

@orqsilva have you ever listened to Chopin playing this?

[orqsilva]

@AljoshaKaramazov What does that have to do with H.'s performance? Anyway, few people ever heard Chopin play in public because he was afraid to play out or maybe because George Sand walked away with his balls.

[AljoshaKaramazov]

@orqsilva if you don't know it yourself... or maybe you don't know what you write.

and about Chopin's public performance it's a great bullshit: he gave a lot of concerts in his life. He was "afraid" when he was sick, at the end of his life

[orqsilva]

@orqsilva Did you hear him?

[wasser2525]

This performance has depth like matured whiskey. And it glitters like the last sunlight in the dusk.

[kasyapa]

@wasser2525 You are beautiful.

[pianofortegermany]

This performance was recorded four days before he died. He's playing like this full of the beauty of the soul really. It just feels like a very devil in his representation of the middle part. It' shaded part of the melody reproduction Triller. I'm never no more nice! i like playing like this to tears listening to music.

[kempff95]

like dream,haven.

fly to his last moments(trills).

amazing bases!

[jossdickie]

Absolutely beautiful playing.

[krispy432]

He played this when he was 86, in his last year on Earth. He was definitely better than ever by this point, at least on pieces like this. I love the wisdom and maturity that comes through.

[alexilmagnifico]

so nice... so delicated.. and charming...

just beautiful...

[mdoub]

@alexilmagnifico "delicated" as in, delicate yet also dedicated??

[alexilmagnifico]

@mdoub  AOUTS!

typing mistake...!

[soami2u]

Horowitz was positively miraculous in some of the shorter pieces of Chopin, such as some of the Nocturnes and Mazurkas....here he plays with a meltingly beautiful tone, wonderful rubato, and what a singing line! There is also a wonderful recording of the F-sharp Nocturne (from Op 15) by him, recorded in the '40s, I think, that is about the best performance I ever heard of that piece (my other favorite is Novaes)...I'll look for it here on YouTube. Thank you for posting!