horowitz in hamburg - last recital - moszkowski etincelles

[cosmolider]

mabovary,, thank you very much for great music and chanel,, enjoy this video and thanks to kasyapa more

[kasyapa]

cosmolider - it is one of my deepest pleasures.

[hilocomtoot]

Kasyapa, you knocked the ball plum out of the park and into the river bringing this to YT. Many, many thanks for all of us listeners!!!!!! What a way to leave the stage!!!!!

[kasyapa]

it always struck me, too, that this piece was in b-flat major - same as the ending of the "don juan" that brought him such acclaim in st petersburg - and that his career really started to take off in hamburg. i think he did a lot of private things very deliberately. as another for instance, i believe that the schubert-liszt soir. de vie. #6 was the last piece that liszt ever played - interesting how v.h. started playing that piece in his last phase.

[marcxopoco]

Hofmann studied with Moszkowski for years. His piano roll of this piece is much better, Tempo is faster, detached touch in the 8th notes is sharp and clear, putting Horowitz to shame.

Horowitz turns the piece into garbage at the end, destroying the time and missing the entire point of the piece. Hofmann's playing shows that the point of the very ending as written by Mozskpwski is that the final 8th notes show the frame that the faster 16th notes in the piece had been draped over.

[kasyapa]

lol

[stxer]

Hmmmm. Sounds like you think you know about music. Maybe you should be inspired by the artist playing at his age. Pick pick pick.

[MrStupidHead]

Ha ha! This is rich. This might be the greatest youtube critisism of ALL TIME. Slagging Vladimir Horowitz at age 84, playing his last public performance.

"missing the entire point of the piece". Poor Mr. Horowitz. Just a sham player.

Marco Pocco, now HE is the real deal!

YouTube, turning the effervescent, into the banal.

[DonFrankos]

thumbs up for mrstupidhead

[PointAndPurpose]

has anyone noticed that he isnt repeating the first part like hes supposed to? i think this is a different version from what i am practicing.

[123mortimer456]

Don't forget that Horowitz was "a composer at heart," as he put it in an interview that Kasyapa has posted on youtube. So he felt free to make alterations to the musical text as they occurred to him. Famous examples are Pictures of an Exhibition and Rachmaninoff's Second Sonata. In other words, "like he's supposed to" doesn't really apply to Horowitz. Also, he always changed the ending of Etincelles to make it more effective. I doubt he ever wrote that down. Does anyone know?

[demosj]

Nope. In another interview that Kasyapa posted, Horowitz mentioned he never notated any of his versions down. He actually forgot how his Mussorgsky PIctures went eventually.

[ofakar]

@PointAndPurpose Yes it's his own version. He used to do that. Check out his version of hungarian rhapsody 2. Lang Lang plays his version too. Argerich I believe also used to play horowitz' versions

[PointAndPurpose]

@ofakar wow i didn't notice. that's cool, thanks! :)

[John19182004]

I wonder if he knew this was his last performance: I mean, he lived 2 1/2 years after this, making recordings, and had been almost constantly on the road the previous 2+ years. I just wonder if he knew or if he had plans to tour again in the future but it just dind't happen??

[Noshirm]

He was planning to play the Beethoven 3rd Concerto with the conductor Carlos Kleiber around the time that he made his last recording. But I do not know if he intended to tour again. He COULD have, but I don't know if he really WANTED to, which was not great for his fans around the world. Isn't the 84 year old's playing here fantastic?!

[John19182004]

That's interesting about the Beethoven - yes his playing is fantastic: I was lucky enough to see him in concert in 1986 and it's a day I treasure to this day. I'm so glad he re-discovered his youth in his final years and was so active with recording and concerts as well!

[Noshirm]

I had this lifelong desire that I would get to hear Horowitz, Arrau, and Serkin in concert. Unfortunately, I never did get to hear Horowitz and Serkin, but I did get to hear Arrau in 1988 at the San Diego Civic Theater. He played a recital of works by Beethoven and Liszt, including the 'Dante Sonata'. I was holding these World War I era field glasses to my eyes the whole time so that I could focus on his face, hands, and feet. What a THRILL. I am devoted to the artistry of these three giants.

[noahroyscully]

I love Arrau's playing. My most treasured recordings are a cassette of Arrau playing Liszt's Transcendental Etudes, Gershwin playing his Rhapsody in Blue and a CD of Horowitz playing Rach 3

[Noshirm]

Nice to hear that! There are some great posts of Arrau's playing here on YT - his Transcendental Etudes reputedly rank among his great recordings. I own the Reiner and the Coates recordings of the Rachmaninoff D minor, but not the Ormandy or the Mehta ones. Have you heard any of Serkin's playing? Do check out his 'Diabelli Variations'. Also his Brahms Concertos. It is wonderful to learn of younger people also making time for this music, and I mean that sincerely, Agent Scully! (:-D) Listen on!!

[dearlykat]

A LEGEND :)

[Drunk3nFist]

God bless you, Vladimir Horowitz.

[filippeo85]

thanks for the recording! I love how hi plays etudes like this one and Chopin no.8 op.10

[kasyapa]

have you heard his last recordings?

[volodya2]

Sure :D

Magic...

[PointAndPurpose]

truly a genius.

[francescaemc2]

my heart broke.

[BicycleRepairman5]

where was this photo taken, does anyone know?

[aewanko300]

I think it's from this very recital.

[volodya2]

nice, DG will publicate the recording in june, i'll buy the disc.

[aewanko300]

really? great