Rach 3 played by great Horowitz

[SHICOFF1]

@melsandom I agree with you. He was the King and you could watch him without all the showy stuff the modern pianists often seem to use. Lifting hands high off the keyboard does not make a pianist play any better. Today they also play to the camera more. Horowitz didn't need any gestures, his playing made him king. RIP HOROWITZ

[bsdml]

I think this performance is better an more balanced than the one he did with Ormandy conducting around the same time.

[ModernBabylon]

so so effortless...

[danielexr]

such an ugly lovely man, he's so amazing that even if you caught him stalking your petite daughter with his eleventh finger, you would ask him "please, play something for me, then maybe i'll beat you"

[Valerio2991]

easy!

[pgradone]

Wow. I had no idea that a video existed of Horowitz performing this. Is this performance on any recordings as well?

[cbar0x]

07:49 : Heaven.

[bfeyalcin]

Who the hell would dislike this !?

[TheEnglishViking1]

Excellent. Unbelievable.

But not flawless.

[Xabharas]

qualche nota il pinguino l'ha toppata.

[BuFuMAV4ICK]

Rubbish!!! I prefer P Diddy....

[MsCasusBelli]

Where is the world going when a masterpeace performed by a genius has ONLY 35004 views?! I

[SwordOvSatan]

Damn that this is impossible!! He's not human! :O

[dinkarrao1]

hanamoon1

[cancakmur]

i want to know who is the only person who disliked this concerto.

[TheGonzo63]

@cancakmur He likes somebody named " pee...did he?" That should explain it all!!

[cancakmur]

horowitz should have lived forever. he is wonderful.

[davecotuit]

@cancakmur i saw mr horowitz play this concerto with the same conductor zubin mehta only it was in los angeles, not new york which is where this was filmed. lucky me!!

[blithe16]

how did one person dislike this? and why do they hate Horowitz

[TheGonzo63]

@blithe16 Because he doesn't know what music is ...he likes p.diddy. Google that and you'll understand !

[Proj4T2Band]

If I had the opportunity to share a video with extraterrestrial intelligent life, this would it. This is music, performing arts at it's best.

[1hanamoon]

love to be with marybeth

[MrWebber2012]

The greatest interpreter of this piano concerto !!! No one in the history can compete with him...Thanks Horowitz !!!

[checallo]

Horowitz is the best interpreter of this pure, spiritual music

[rolldito]

@checallo No, the best is Argerich :D

[1hanamoon]

@rolldito

 they both are good ( best)

[upsdelivery]

2 mins in, it looks like even the conductor is starring at him and shaking his head in disbelieve at the level of mastery to which Horowitz is playing this piece. The level of genius he possess isn't even measureable. His hands should be a national treasure.

[meredith218461]

What can one add further in appreciation of the Horowitz legend!. Let's just be thankful that television at the time captured his genius in full flight.

[Matteino85]

Horowitz is very great also when plays Mozart :)

I love rach 3

[jagang31]

Watching Horowitz's mastery, is always breath taking, just realizing the amount of practice it takes to play this piece with out music is awesome!!! When you think of the library he has in his head, you wonder if there is room for anything else!!!

[pizzeffichi]

This music talks directly to the heart....

[lilbluesrocker]

once youve played rach 3 noone can take it away from you

exellent peice

great video

amaizing pianist

[Vendetta5246]

I want to say something better than just Amazing but keeps ending up with fantastic perfect beautiful flawless...

[klaasklont]

when i hear this, i think its not human to even play it!! what if you can write this!!!! are there still people who can compose like this!??

[wertyuioqp1]

no.if you listen closely, rachmaninoff's melodies were far more complex than those of others of around his time, say, dvorak (romantic) and gershwin (contemporary).

[maxkauf]

"And for my next magic trick I shall play this song perfectly"

[The55555SSSSS]

@maxkauf

IT'S NOT A SONG!

ITS A PIANO CONCERTO.

[mckillustrator]

also compare this to the dramatized version in Shine of someone playing the Rach 3. It's like he's barely trying just owning the sh** out of the piece

[mckillustrator]

how have i never heard horowitz's interpretation of the rach 3 before?....this is superb. my love of the piece is renewed

[Aikonelf]

I am by no means a music connoisseur, but there was a tiny part in the piece that sounded slightly off to me. It's at 7:15 and I wanted to know whether or not it was intentional since I couldn't find this 'hitch' in other recordings. Wonderful performance though!

[collumww]

I've never listened to the piece before, but I have some music experience on other instruments and so my ears are reasonably trained. I think I heard what you're asking about and it sounded to me like some unusual harmonies, but to my ears, they seemed in keeping with the piece and not like mistakes. Maybe someone that knows the piece well will reply.

[Aikonelf]

I tried listening for it a couple of more times and I'm also fairly sure it's not a mistake or anything, but funnily enough I do keep hearing it. Doesn't make me love it any less. Thank you very much for your reply.

[KearneyPiano]

it is off :O

[Buffoon1980]

@Aikonelf I think I know what you mean, but possibly not... how about at 7:31? I hear something similar there, and I'm certain it's not an error. But I know less than nothing about proper piano playing. I'm trying to learn to play the piano myself... today Mary Had a Little Lamb, tomorrow the Rach 3! Okay, maybe not tomorrow... maybe not if I lived to be a billion years old... okay, certainly...

[FChopin0310]

I heard that Rachmaninoff himself didn't touch this piece after Horowitz played it because he played it better.

[ixd735]

@FChopin0310: Yes. This legend says that Horowitz played this piece for the composer in Steinway Hall as Rachmaninoff himself accompanied him on the second piano part. Rachmaninoff always said Horowitz played his works better than he was able to.

[ixd735]

I love the title. Rach 3 played by the *great* Horowitz. He was great indeed.

[Melimonella920]

I agree, he plays with such ease!!!!! And he keeps tempo too

[melsandmom]

There is no modern pianst who can compare with Horowitz! And he's such a joy to watch playing - with his flat fingers, wrists down, sitting way too low. Everything I was taught by my University piano professor about hand and body position is wrong with this man, yet he just plays this piece so effortlessley. He treats this piece as just a little romp in the park, rather than the angst-ridden exercise most modern pianists make of it.

[dinkarrao1]

@melsandmom well put

[Asheah1]

The composer was Rachmaninoff;

Yes. I've part 2, also

[fuckslipknot21]

has horowitz composed any pieces??

plz let me know!

[monkeybizniss6]

i know of variations he has written.......such as his carmen variations, the liszt/horowitz hungarian rhapsody No.2, the horowitz stars and stripes forever. i dont know of any pieces he actually wrote himself though

[semicroma]

He has composed some pieces, however he aint that famous for them, however he is quite famous for transcriptions he made for example the carmen variations

[nearenough3]

He wrote a dance piece called variously Danse Eccentrique (or exotique) probably in the 20's. Itt is reminiscent of Debussy's :Golliwog's Cakewalk. I think he also composed a waltz. The former can be found on various CD reissues.

[hinno95]

from 8:00 to 9:00 he is shaking but that its the best part!

sure 1 of the greatest pianists

[graskovits]

well he is old ;)

[guioume]

The best pianist ever...

[Safo8888]

rachmaninoff?

[consumingimpulse1]

davvero oltre al tempo e le cose

[wrdpianist]

do you have a part 2?

[wrdpianist]

best of the best