Horowitz - Mozart Sonata in C Major K. 330; 2nd Movement

[aeopmusic]

3:15 - CARROT TOP age 70

[debsaid]

The pianist seems bored :P

[sugarpampam]

*staring

[sugarpampam]

LOL the audience is so enchanted by the playing that they're staing off into space and falling asleep xDDDDDD

[sugarpampam]

@sugarpampam *staring

[BifSlamkovich]

I like Mitsuko Uchida's rendition better.

[BifSlamkovich]

I like Mitsuko Uchida's rendition better.

[C0L050]

2:18 4:10 Beethoven get Inspiration and made Sonata no 1 In Fm

[cinelli73]

Pure Music, pure Magic pure Mozart...



[TheJessicacookie]

look at the people watching in amazement

[TheJessicacookie]

@TheJessicacookie 

[newFranzFerencLiszt]

all the audience is captured, Maestro

[brianbela]

So much talent here---mozarts music combined with horowitzs playing=Sublime.And look at the people in the audience---They know they are experiencing something magical here.

[PJinBston]

@brianbela I can agree w/ some of your recent comments (that monster Glenn Gould) but you’re mistaken about this appallingly lazy & tasteless performance. Strange pauses, 1/4 notes that become 1/2 notes, inexplicable changes in dynamics, chords that drown out the melody. Why so slow?! He sounds like that kid in the Shakespeare class trying to act out a speech without understanding it? “What . . . . Canyousay-TO! Draaaaaaaaw? A! third!more! opULent than your . . . Sis? Ters?”

(continuing . . .)

[jhardknox]

@PJinBston ANDANTE CANTABILE!!!

[PJinBston]

(continuing)

This is his schtick. He has no sensitivity for music. He doesn’t care about music. He only cares about his performance. To his fans it’s all a matter of faith. It’s of no importance if he misses a note because it’s all about the “interpretation,” which is to say that he gets to do what he wants with a composer’s music.

continuing . . .

[PJinBston]

continued . . .

As much as I dislike Glenn Gould, I respect him more than I do VH. Self-centered and conceited though he was. Unlike Horowitz, he took his performances seriously. And he actually put thought into his “performances.” VH made no effort to understand the music he played. He was concerned only with his performance.

[C0L050]

@PJinBston My friend Vladimir Horowitz, Arthur Rubinstein and Cziffra were the best piano players of the 20th century. The tech of Horowitz its Legendary, excellent, with a precision, strong, articulation etc.

Do you considerate the age of this pianist in this video? 83, 89 years? with the time, the abilities down! the resistance, etc. Glenn Gould have an indescriptible performance and feelings when he plays. YOU DONT KNOW ANYTHING

[PJinBston]

He still gives a clumsy and lifeless performance. And he still pretends that his weird interpretive gestures are his art.

@C0L050, I know a clown when i see one.

[kinpopdj]

@PJinBston clumsy? I find it hard to use that word to describe the sublime control of dynamics and color in his playing.

[LegendaryMusicFreak]

0:36 the guy on the left just woke up!

[billlieb]

nothing better in the world. Horowitz is amazing. period.

[TheMuston]

Who are those fucking noobs pretending here to tell us Mozart should be played this way and not another ????????? Inspirationally this music ist vast enough to acommodate for more styles than all the neurons contained in their moron's brains (admittedly not a great deal).

Horowitz decided to play pure poetry, and yes sorry it DOES immensely fit. Magnificent.

[brianbela]

@TheMuston Mozart woulkd've loved this interpretation believe me.He hated mechanical playing----and this is definitely NOT mechanical here. Lots of feeling. Bravo Horowitz.

[rationalistx]

Nice one @1.42 as well. Well spotted cameraman- what's her name?

Beautiful girls are much better than beautiful music....

[rationalistx]

Nice girl @4.16 on the right to brighten things up...

[ArtD42]

@rationalistx Nice pianist on the left at 1:05.

[geisterbahn1]

how wonderful!

[defda94]

fuck i love this audience...really emotive.!! pura emocion..!

[lellaamadori]

this performance is a betrayal of Mozart's legacy.

Salieri used to say Mozart's music is divine because of fast pace, brio & vitality.

This piece is not exception, if played right.

Horowitz makes it sound like a sad, funereal piece.

A performer is entitled to interpretations, but not to the extent where the spirit and essence is lost.

The worst ever performance of a Mozart's piece. Russian piano player Sviatoslav Richter does it right.

Thank you for reading.

[jewmeltintheovens]

@lellaamadori sounds like your writing cheques your ass just can't cash (moron). Mozart's beauty comes in the from of joy and seraphic elegance, like "everything's OK". this does that well and horowitz brings it out brilliantly.

[kranxta]

@lellaamadori i definatley agree with you this peice is played way to slow and and sad for me, i went and listened to the Sviatoslav version and it is much better in my oppinion

[PJinBston]

@lellaamadori

A terribly lazy performance. Worst ever? Well, Glenn Gould's were abominable.

[writerscafe101]

WITH ALL RESPECT DUE TO HOROWITZ< THIS RENDITION OF THE SONATA IN C 2nd MOVEMENT SUCKS

MOZART' MUSIC IS FULL OF LIFE< AND THIS PIECE IN PARTICULAR EXUDES ENERGY AND JOY < HOROWITZ MAKES INTO A FUNERAL PIECE,

MAYBE HE WAS TOO OLD WHEN HE RECORDED THIS, EVERYBODY GO AND LISTEN TO THE ESCHENBACH RENDITION TO APPRECIATE WHAT MOZART WAS ALL ABOUT. HE WASNT THIS SAD, ever... NOT EVEN IN THE REQUIEM MISSA , please remove this horror, from here, it is an insult to MOZART

[ArtD42]

@writerscafe101 COULD YOU STOP SHOUTING, WE'RE TRYING TO ENJOY THE BEAUTIFUL MUSIC HERE, THANKS.

[PJinBston]

@writerscafe101

No respect due to Horowitz: he sucks.

Mozart wrote different sorts of music. This melancholy (minor key) middle section lacks energy & joy. Horowitz plays badly. All he can manage for expressiveness is to play more slowly and to toss in strange pauses.

It's fair to say that he was way past his prime and ought to have retired (or forced to retire) years earlier. But he always had a terribly capricious style - which one suspects to have been a convenient way to cover up flaws.

[massdot]

309hjk I am with you. This should be preserved for all time.

[leopp78]

mozart blues in urrs

[SongsofInnocence]

This music speaks across the ages and generations and unites us all. Dead and alive and also future generations. That's nice.

[neopetsfaners1]

master, great,excellent for a 85 year old.

[309hjk]

USA 2010

[thinkgreenlovepurple]

This is my favourite movement :)

[309hjk]

Preserve this performance for all time.

[letusbelennon]

Dude, hes beast! my teacher is teaching me a more flat fingered technique where you are close to the keys and so I had to watch this and now hes my favorite old man ever.

[309hjk]

Master? Ha! Genius!

[napsuta]

I should be working but how can you work and listen to this at the same time? Twice as I wrote this I stopped to listen 100%.

[Matteino85]

great...

[supermatthew]

that crowd looks very unimpressed

[ConfuciousCarter]

@supermatthew eh, it was soviet russia at the time... lol

[309hjk]

I watched it/heard it again..WOW!! On to the 3rd movement!

[309hjk]

I am listening to it again!

[309hjk]

Holy Crap Beatle..I have lost my mind..WOW!! Mozart and Horowitz can capture your soul..

[beatlesmack9]

@309hjk Sole, huh?

[nina2kY]

this has helped so much with learning the piece for my grade :) so nice to be able to hear it played how it should be

[65Inna]

Wonderful. Thank you

[creaturefear]

horowitz makes mozart sound good

[tontokurt]

WOW

[309hjk]

WOW!!!

[309hjk]

WOW! Their faces tell the tale. In comparison my hands are useless..

[SneverusSnapers]

4: 15 ... lol, look at the lady with the binoculars ..... mwahaha

[mswishingstar925]

can i dun "like" it, but love it??

[SneverusSnapers]

I'm playing this for my grade 6 but I doubt I could get anywhere near as good as he is...lol...i won't get my hopes up.

Anyway at the moment I'veonly got to 1:11

He's just spectacularly good...

[LilJew96]

that guy looks like hes about to die

lmao

[komentattor]

His relations with Soviet Union was dramatical; he was threaten by the government many times after he emigrated. In 30's his brother and father died in soviet internment camps. But in 1986, after 60 years gap, Horowitz visited Soviet Union playing triumphal recitals w Moscow and Leningrad. That's one of them :)

I hope I'll be as musical in his age.

[vonspre]

@komentattor

Besides he's openly gay wich in The Soviet Union is almost like being a mass killer.

[komentattor]

He was threaten because he emigrated rather than because he was gay :)

[vonspre]

@komentattor

???

So? Who's denying that? Not me, certainly...

[jasonextreme]

Hmm... This one doesn't have very many views. I guess human nature suggests people like faster movements!

[nakaza3421]

Not quite, this is rather soothing and calm, much as Horowitz is. I like slow movements.

[amitmn79]

My God Horowitz! What a master of the piano you are!

I am so sorry I wasn't alive yet to hear you play in a live concert...

[babygrandpiano]

Horowitz has everybody under his spell... Absolutely fabulous in every way! We miss you, Horowitz!

[adrct]

They do not seem bored. They seem contemplative and melancholic, which is perfectly in accordance with the music.

[Lawrencelovespiano]

very good!

[physikphilosoph]

master

[PJinBston]

. . . of distortion.

[mozartman2000]

Strange as it may seem, the romantic rubati, exaggerated dynamics and mannerism....all make sense at the end....as long as you realize it's Horowitz himself, not Mozart, speaking through the music. I find his playing highly probing, spiritual, poignant and ultimately comforting. They sure don't play it like they used to! Bravo maestro Horowitz!

[tomkobe58]

his hand is shaking at the start :D

[CoffeeHats]

This is the best recording of the piece I've ever heard

[highlandsh]

When young, we just want to "get through" the slow movements to the exciting finales. Later, we hear the subtle harmonic shifts, even if we cannot name them, and find more to think about, like reflecting on life after having a certain amount of experience. Perhaps that is why great performers frequently come back to Mozart.

[GeorgeMaxwellDuPre]

Hahahaha!!!

[aidirolf]

A master of the keyboard in every sense!!

[markswansoncmt]

Really nothing spectacular in this performance. Mozart is a genius. Horowitz is a genius. But this piece is just boring to me. I could not listen to this performance more than this one time.

[demosj]

I think it's perhaps this specific movement - it's just easy to sound monotonous.

[clobbort]

Markswansoncmt: It wasn't the performance you disliked, so much as the piece itself. This is performed really quite masterfully.

[Pianoismylife2]

i agree

[StupidFoolLady]

It seems they used to seet their for many hours.. 5 or 6 maybe

[fightpollution]

4:06 highlarious

[Fuliginosus]

The audience appears inexplicably bored and restless.

[CoffeeHats]

uh huh... make a recording and show horowitz how it's done then

[figurefigure]

really nice, but he does it a little freestyle, much different than the actually rhythm. personally, i think his way is better

[youvebeensmoked]

i think a certain a certain amount of rubato is perfectly acceptable in mozart slow movements.

[RSFREAK969]

I listened to this. He does alot of stacatto at the beginning which I liked. His feeling was just marvelous. Another good recording of this song I liked was by Mitsuko Uchida. And by the way, how does the camera get its view? I mean. do they put cameras all around the room to record him?

[TheDeathofGrace]

@RSFREAK969 no you just need 2 cameras and while one is recording you move the other. and so on.

[GrubbyTubby]

ooooo im playing this song now, and he plays it so well. so skilled.

lol, the audience... xD

[napsuta]

On the contrary Emily the intense concentration on the faces of audience listening to the pianist sensitive playing make this a great video.

Congratulations Sissco.

[nicknamepineroleso93]

fantastic!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[simmo303]

In a thousand years you'd not hear better playing. What superb artist.

[Fishies125]

I know, this guy has amazing feel.

[Lity10]

@simmo303 no, because nobody lives that long :P jk, excellent =)

[twolefthanz]

@simmo303 In a 1000 years you wouldn't hear a better composer. It's music you can hear again and again and never tire of. Horowitz definitely has it as near to what it was written. What a shame he is no longer there.

[aamid1]

@simmo303

Yes you can hear better . Lafred Brendel plays much better.

[PJinBston]

@aamid1

Everybody plays Mozart better than this schmuck.

I find Brendel's performance is decent but not great -at least this one . . . ( watch?v=csIGBiIx1yY )

There's also a pretty good performance by Jean Bernard Pommier.

[The55555SSSSS]

@PJinBston

you are a complete idiot... i just had to share that with you PJinBston and I am quite certain that you are more than willing to start an argument ,but I must say that I do not show any interest in arguing with disputatious people like you... You are criticizing both Gould and Horowitz? Who are you? really what do you have to say?

[PJinBston]

@The55555SSSSS

What a charming message. And you’ve put it into the standard two-part form: an insult followed by expression of outrage that your icon would be challenged. See? It IS merely a matter of faith. Now, most VH acolytes will stop there, but you’ve actually bothered your little head a bit to come up with three questions. Silly boy, just read my comments. I had a few things to say. But here's a question for you: Can't you respond to substance with substance?

[Ithinkyoureramazing]

@PJinBston Yes, I tend to see the amazement in any human being simply because of the wonderment of the human condition and the effect it has on me. I regret the malice of this silly 'argument' you are of course entitled to your own opinion, after all. I should have just left you alone, for this reason I apologize

[soundsoulmg]

Surely This Artist is unique! One of the greatest in the sound's Art. He has a soul so greath!

Horowitz has been one of the most important "interpretative sample " that I never had.

[Sedicee]

This video was filmed in Russia

[beethomozart]

long live mozart

[marlenemccarthy]

and Horowitz too! :)

[TheNewKidOnThaBlock]

I love it...he plays it so amazingly that for a minute I thought even I could play it. I really like his style.

[gentlemaninthewater]

I am in love with the girlin blue dress on 4:15 minutes, I think she was a conservatory student that time... Horowitz's style quite resembles Rachmaninov's provocative interpretations....But Benedetti Michelangeli is the best...

[solveaproblem]

She IS very beautiful, a face in a million!

[Soymilllk]

But hark! Is the person next to her illegaly recording this preforance?

lolol!

[NuclearTide]

LOL

[gilsonbsantos]

horowitz is awesome, nevertheless, not everyone has to enjoy his playing.

[teresahan1991]

Pause on 4:00, you can see an old dude sleeping in the down right corner... Or maybe he's just enjoying the music, but yeah, do that.

[kinpopdj]

ya he looks like he is sleeping.

[waichuen0]

why the recording always focus on the audience instead of Horowitz???

[blahblahpacifist]

maybe to grab a look on how the audience reacts to the song???

[301250]

Listen to M Uchida's cycle of the Mozart Piano Sonatas (on Philips label) and hear an interpretation that puts all the rest in the shade! Well, not quite. I love MJ Pires' too. Women pianists rule OK? sd goh (malaysia)

[chosk80]

I like Horowitz playing , but i do think he is kinda racist...thats the only shit thing about this guy.....remember his famous quote.." There are only three kinds of pianist in this world, Jewish Pianist, Gay Pianist and Bad Pianist".. WTF..

[vnsn72]

I prefered piano sonatas mozart by Alfred Brendel

[saulboyjt]

Stunning performance.

Greatest pianist ever.

[schrottiedasoriginal]

Nice to see all these emotional cold war russians.

[donchevmeister]

Strano che alcune persone vogliono per forza limitare la musica e se stessi...

[intermerdacce]

ma per favore!!!! ma qualcuno gli ha spiegato mentre era in vita che mozart è morto nel 1791 e non nel 1891? Grande pianista ma su mozart non ci siamo

[Alessandro1985]

Amazing pedalling.

[RenoRaider]

beautiful. thank you sissco.

[ismeto]

girl is nice too :) thanks sharing..

[phoenizboi]

lol sissco u got lots of cool videos with nice musics,thx

i love mozart and chopin =)

[fusion07mp3]

Thanks for posting these...such an incredible performance and video.