horowitz toscanini live brahms concerto #1 mvt1pt1 1935

[paulostroff99]

Superb.TY kasyapa for posting.

[bigmouthfrog2009]

Rachmaninoff did not approve of Horowitz playing this concertto!! Apparently, according to Rubinstein, Rachmaninoff considered the Grieg piano concerto the finest of all paino concerti!!

[Nachtmarchen]

@bigmouthfrog2009 Don't forget Schumann's - arguably the biggest step forward for the genre since Mozart's KV 271 and a formative influence on Brahms, Grieg and Rachmaninoff alike.

[musicminded64]

OM Kasyapa... To see that picture of those 3 men of the past, frozen in their animated talk, those stern flowers in their background in a seemingly colossal vase, the sound of piano concert as if a faraway recording of an obsolete device... All in all most interesting. Really. Thank you.

[kasyapa]

musicminded64 - a door opens, and we can almost see through to another time.

[MrAchxo]

holllowitz blllahms no no no not holllowitz san blllahmms nix well done!

[kasyapa]

very creatively expressed. :)

[voolare]

Hey, I said that this was a perfect example of Toscanini's anti-slow-German philosophy, but I never said that I agreed with it! I'm Italian, but for me Furtwangler is God!

[kasyapa]

passion is a requirement.

[voolare]

I found the rest of the concert... I was too impatient!

[voolare]

What a marvelous document! So rare and precious! I really enjoyed listening to it. Too bad it stopped right before the broken arpeggios in octaves! This is a perfect example of Toscaninin's anti-slow-german philosophy. Do you have the rest of the concerto? Thank you for sharing this!

[kasyapa]

i do have everything of the tosc. and walter recordings up that is known to have survived.

[kasyapa]

the climax of horowitz's interpretation (even more so in the walter recording i have up) carries me away every time.

[TheHanslick]

It may be true - I am not going to dispute your taste - , however as far as he Brahms interpretation is concerned, this is clearly not

Horowitz´s cup of tea. I have the whole thing - it was issued on "Bruno Walter Rarities 1",

AS 400.

[kasyapa]

music is big enough to contain our divergent opinions, i trust. :)

[cssa12]

WOW!! Even though the audio is scratchy I can still hear and still amazed by the dramatic opening....

[kasyapa]

i can only hope that more such discs are foun. people need to be told not to throw out grandpas "old junk"!

[paulostroff99]

Superb!