VLADIMIR HOROWITZ - MASTER OF RACH 3 OPUS 30 [1909] - HD

[liszt141]

Ah, I love 42:16...Still mesmerizing...

[Jagg2305]

A true master. So much emotion with what appears to be so little effort. Thank you youtube for allowing us to watch a master at work.

[pizzeffichi]

Non avrei mai pensato di trovare il concerto tutto intero! Grazie a chi l'ha caricato.

[barneysghost]

@:paulprocopolis: The Times is full of baloney on the self-indulgence remark. Ol' Diz Dean had a saying that answers that remark effectively. He used to say, "If you can do it, you ain't braggin'!" And V. Horowitz could do it throughout his illustrious career!!!

[barneysghost]

@Rachmaninoffkid: Me too!

BTW, the four Rach concerti are amazing compositions. IMHO, tho, the Third is the most difficult, because of the demands of the dynamics, etc.

This video is most welcome, because we are able to see those amazing hands of the great

Horowitz.

One has to wonder how many days, hours, minutes, etc. the Great One had to put in practicing this concerto to be able to play it so perfectly

[barneysghost]

I LOVE it when he throws his closed fist in triumph near ~40:38~, having stormed the bastions and vanquished the rebellious concerto!

[Rachmaninoffkid]

@barneysghost I totally agree. :D that literally gives me chills.

[driesttube]

how can he memorize everything?? and play everything so brilliant???

[wlprwell]

This is it!!! The best one!!

[TheSaragozza]

che bellezza! grazie you tube

[GeoJDr]

Wonderful!

[michael101202]

Thank You ...I feel like I just struck Gold. Eureka!

[headbangerchick666]

wow, 7 people must be deaf.

[motherwellful]

Simply the best, tempo flawless..crescendos and diminuendos interpreted with genius.sheer poetry when score indicates yet piano gymnastics note perfect.degrees of tenderness delicacy....artistry by musical genius......just like Rachmaninov........hrrsfrdd

[PeterFerdinand96]

Thats amazing how he plays this piece 60 years after hes debut of Rach 3, think it was in 1919 only 16 years old.

[darrenabcd1]

Only the last note seemed hard for him. =)

[muteland]

Absolutely WONDERFUL, a master piece.

[gkollias14]

What we are watching, is perhaps the greatest interpreter of Rachmaninoff and of the concerto in re minor and one of the best interpretations, if not the best, and all of that in the highest quality possible for this monumental video.

[franzliszt8]

What year was this?

[paulmcc11]

All from memory



[roedelj]

by hearing this, or better, playing it, is the way you can get closer to heaven and god.

[steinwaygrande1]

Always the consumate pianist . Very few can mathc his abilty and techinique. Marta Agerich is on a par with Horowitz

[jfgotti]

When and where was that recorded please ?

[phguitar2010]

Beautiful! He puts more feeling in the music than Rachmaninov himself!

[hashalibi]

Beautiful. Bravo.

[franzliszt8]

I love the performance, but why do people call Rachmaninoff's Third Piano Concerto call it 'Rach 3'? I started learning, but I don't like to call it that. I don't think it makes sense.

[Valk72]

@franzliszt8

Perhaps because this way it sounds a litte like "Mach 3", and you certainly have to be quick with your hand to play this one...

[franzliszt8]

@Valk72 OK. Makes a little bit more sense to me. My favorite recording of this piece is Andre Watts playing. I like his playing of the Second Piano Concerto the most also. I haven't been able to find any youtube videos of Andre Watts playing this piece, but I do have a nice CD of it. I also like Martha Argerich's playing of this piece.

[lewars1912]

@franzliszt8 I agree.

[Caffeinefish]

11:41 Watch him POUND that low A.

[phguitar2010]

WTF  was that ??????? 22:09

[eilee11]

It is the best interpretation of Rach 3 that I have heard. It is a rich, dynamic interpretation that he makes truly his own.

[luasi8]

It would be an honour to work with Horowitz... heavenly

[forgottenbooks]

Horowitz's playing is pure, overflowing passion. Why do people think he's not emotional?

Horowitz was the best.

[renehiepen]

I can feel every single Note - pure Emotion ! BRAVA

[jamiesh]

3 people have never seen a piano in person before

[franzliszt8]

@jamiesh Make that 4.

[Dardagan11]

this articulation and those dynamics..... Horowitz =perfection!

[07241978]

perfection

[Chopibeetho]

It's Horowitz!

[quebecois22]

LOL at the man in the front row at 0:07 . Although I'd be exactly like him had I been there. :P

[ancientsolar]

@quebecois22 Well we sure notice the small things in life XD

[aileenalischa]

vielen,vielen dank!

[leonoranicolodi]

Simply mind-blowing!

[punkspop]

maxoholic....eargasmic, exactly.

[iguarni]

One of the best five pianists in music history!

[Lauritz1]

Muchas gracias para este!

[moxaholic93]

eargasmic

[NorikoSakabe]

Splendid!!

[IamNate11]

Thumbs up if you held your coughing in for 17 mins.

[cgaxoet]

No tengo idea de quien haya sido aquel que dió un voto negativo!!

Espero que tenga un gran motivo y no sea solo porque no es de su agrado esta música

[bozzyraven]

What a hard bastard

[carnalitago]

Extraordinario!



[metstudioversions]

love horowitz beeing always accompanied by his handkerchief ^^

and his magnificent playing, of course xD

[outoftunefiddler]

@metstudioversions ....but does anyone know who was Concertmaster of the orchestra when this recording was made?

[khunopie]

BRAVO!

[phguitar2010]

NICE! I'll always love horowitz and I hope human kind will never forget him!

Just a detail: It wasn't in 1909, video cameras didn't exist that period hahah

[mooobtube]

@phguitar2010 No, that was when the piece was written.

[1Jiller]

definitely brilliant

[Rachmaninoff86]

@ 11:54 some idiot in the audience yells : "It's different!!"....... how rude is that.

[ekhangel]

@Rachmaninoff86 Where the hell'd you hear that? Can't hear anything despite listening to the 11:54 few times.

[Rachmaninoff86]

@ekhangel

if you listen very carefully you'll notice it! maybe turn up the volume to max! or try it with earphones! greetz

[712Stephen]

@Rachmaninoff86 I tried both and heard nothing.

[leaftofall]

@Rachmaninoff86 yes i heard that, a voice from far behind

[nassosmichas]

@Rachmaninoff86 haha, I personally couldn't hear that, but what an asshole... especially to Horowitz that was infamous for wanting the audience dead-silent :)

[schaefer1697]

@Rachmaninoff86 you pointed this out in the non-HD version on this concerto like 6 months ago. Get over it.

[twooffour]

@Rachmaninoff86

Wut? Didn't hear that...

[FunnyAngel]

Amazing...this was better than the live version I heard in Hong Kong last week...

[vergiliotorres]

...speechless...



[berlinzerberus]

Yes, indeed!!!

[33unoka]

gigantisch!

[goDefine]

42:14 is so hart das flashed dermaßen

12:38 is auch cool

[augustviolahow]

我太感谢你了！ich bedanke mich sehr! thanks a lot !!!!!!

[berlinzerberus]

You´re welcome, thank y o u for listening to such a great sensation!

[paulprocopolis]

But thankyou for giving me the opportunity to see and hear this unique event. It was a wonderful experience whatever the critic wrote!

[88Woland]

@paulprocopolis if critics could understand it, then they would be playing themselves and not scribbling reviews in papers for 5-35 $ apiece

[goDefine]

@88Woland genau so isses

[88Woland]

@goDefine Danke schoen!

[paulprocopolis]

I presume this is the performance given in the Avery Fisher Hall on 24/09/1978? Horowitz provides his usual magic in terms of articulation and range of tone colours and the interpretation is uniquely his, although I think the balance of the sound on the video has as much to do with the technicians as it does with Horowitz. 'The Times' review of this performance commended the excitement brought to the work by Mehta and Horowitz but censured the pianist's self-indulgence bordering on vulgarity!

[berlinzerberus]

Völlig zu Unrecht!

Rachmaninoff konnte sich nicht täuschen, da er meinte, er habe sich immer für sein Op. 30 einen Interpreten wie Horowitz gewünscht. Sicherlich provoziert die neurotische Psyche des Pianisten hypertrophe und idiosynkratische Interpretationen, jedoch wird postromantische Ausdrucksgewalt mit 'Zügellosigkeit' abgetan und das Wagnis an die Grenzen zu gehen mit Vulgarismus. Gewöhnlich war Horowitz n i e, dafür hatte er zu viel Geschmack, vielmehr, wie hier, a u ß e rgewöhnlich.Ya!

[tedly10027]

@paulprocopolis I learned and played this concerto in college and I know how monstrously challenging it can be, ESPECIALLY musically. NYtimes critics can say all they wanted about "vulgarity" of horowitz but let any of them or pianists NYtimes prefered for "purity" give a fraction of what horowitz gave in ELECTRICITY in rendition. i'll take him anytime. whatever critics thought of Horowitz and his "excesses" there's a saying that goes: "he has forgotten MORE than THEY could EVER know".

[tedly10027]

@paulprocopolis I am quite sure there is a horowitz version much much earlier - with "less vulgarity" just to show Horowitz could do "respectable" if he wanted. he earned the right to do what he pleased...that's all there is to it. I am quite sure there is a horowitz version much much earlier 1930 - with "less vulgarity" just to show Horowitz could do "respectable" if he wanted. he earned the right to do what he pleased...that's all there is to it.

[Bret6464]

@paulprocopolis I learned to never pay attention to any NY Times review :-)) They are invariably self-indulgent and self-important, written by self-designated experts with hugely inflated egos who do not merit even a glance. Horowitz did not need good reviews from anyone in any case :-))

[simcha181818]

@paulprocopolis Vulgarity and Horowitz, a noble character throughout his life, are mutually exclusive. Accusing him of vulgarity reflects very poorly on 'The Times'.

[paulprocopolis]

@simcha181818 Petty criticisms will of course do nothing whatever to tarnish Horowitz's unique pianism and artistry, but I suppose critics like to have their say (after all, it's what they are paid to do!).

[Bret6464]

@paulprocopolis There is a Horowitz Rach 3rd at Ann Arbor that was recorded from the audience - it is on YT. There is ZERO fall off in the "quality" and the immense musicality that Horowitz performed with - this is Volodya at his best at almost 80 :-) Nice that this was recorded very well by technicians, and best to dismiss anything from the Times, any critic who uses "vulgarity" in the same conversation with Horowitz is letting his envy show! Dam that critic! :-)