Vladimir Horowitz - The Last Romantic 1/12 Bach-Busoni chorale in G minor

[mandies6]

we will never forget you Horowitz

[theflyingdutchmanxD]

The best I ever heard him play

[Flextones]

Sir George Solti had that kind of energy in old age. I wonder what kind of medications these guys were on. So far as the rest of them they are the flavor of the week that is all. They will soon blow away like the chaff from the wheat. Horowitz and Glenn Gould will last like the great works they performed.

[gkollias14]

Every time I watch this film it is a lesson. The living dead, is what i name this. It is a lesson because although I might have more knowledge over them , knowing their untimely deaths etc, it is a lesson and a link to music of the past generation, the most perfect kind of music in a certaim modernised environment.

[rgrannell1]

Great piece :D

[FlyingBlackAndWhite]

what is the very very first piece he plays? it sounds so epic!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[NocturnalTune]

@FlyingBlackAndWhite hello my friend.. i think you'll find the answer in this piece :)

goto part 6/12 of this TV series...

[FlyingBlackAndWhite]

@NocturnalTune thank you sir!

[mitaibiru]

pure genius

[NgaiOlaudah]

THANKS IT IS SO GOOD TO SEE AND HEAR PAPA! VLADIMIR! AGAIN!

[mehulpanditful]

He is so cute...

[bartok75]

one of the few great piano players who does not need to make stupid faces, to make us believe they're in trance or something. i guess that says it all. love his humour, love his unpretentious and sensitive playing. just a great guy.

[DevonDandy]

Its incredibly sad that, whilst the rest of us are listening to music of genius played by a genius two people can do no better than fling juvenile insults at each other

[mcrettable]

chopin scherzo no. 1 to something entirely different in the same chord!!! only horowitz o.o

[ibk1980]

this Bach interpretation should be one of the top 10 recordings in the piano history... it´s so precious and intime... sometimes you need to be a life time old to approach the essence of profund things...

[TheSwordsweeper]

I liked the part with Horowitz

[Montyleeny14]

"Yes, yes, believe me!"

[Tetsunu]

Heroic Polonaise.<3

[jen1989z]

his chopin is brilliant

BRILLIANT I TELL YOU

[Balgig]

whats he playing from 1:00 - 1:08 , i want to learn it :)

[JohnEBPiano]

@Balgig no offense to Balgig, but am I the pianist that gets very annoyed when someone asks what a piece is and simultaneously states 'I'm going to/I want to learn it'?

It's the same feeling I get when I listen to a masterful performance by a legendary pianist, then look at the comments and see 'I am only 13 and I play this piece!'.

[JohnEBPiano]

@JohnEBPiano only pianist**

[Balgig]

@JohnEBPiano Indeed. But there is more to the piano than simply "playing" it. As maestro Horowitz said "The goal is to make the piano sing, sing, sing". (look at '6 years old chopin etude ocean' ) Yes there are numerous wrong notes but i think that execution of the piece is well done, especially when you consider his age: but did it sing? no. Furthermore...

[Balgig]

@JohnEBPiano ...Does your playing sing, have balance, tonal depth and so forth. To a surtain extent partly yes, with much room for improvment, which comes with time, i assume. As Rachmaninoff said "Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music". Does my playing sing etc., i don't think you can say about your own.

Inanycase my question still stands.

[JohnEBPiano]

@Balgig Which comment are you replying to? I don't think I insulted Horowitz's playing in any of my comments and I'm surprised that you would go so far as to insult mine! Why don't you upload a video of yourself playing and I can tell if you possess the qualities you claim I lack?

[Balgig]

@JohnEBPiano I don't think you've taken the time to Properly read what i have previously written. I did not by any means insult your playing. Moreover before you, yourself insult another human being in something you seem to not, fully, comprehend; Don't have the arrogance to simply "forget" what you have said/written and stricken them. I am completely one for criticism, but when your being impertinent about it; I am not going to stand by and be treated in such a manner. ...

[Balgig]

@JohnEBPiano So i apologies for doing what any fair human being would do. 

[Martel211996]

@JohnEBPiano Oh shut up already

[JohnEBPiano]

@Martel211996 Get a life faggot :)

[IamAlessandro1]

long time im luking 4 this dvd, never found :,(

Many many thanks for uploading it... have it now on my pc :)

[IamAlessandro1]

phantastic mr Horowitz, I like him soo much :p , a charming personality, what a genius. and with a BIG good sense of humor. What a great pianist he was. Always glad to see him.

[SteyrM1912]

"I am too old now"

[Dath45556]

Please Please Please can someone tell me the piece that Mr. Horowitz plays before he mentions that he remembers everything? Thank you in advance?

[Rhogitrad]

@Dath45556 A set of variations on a theme from Carmen by Georges Bizet. "Carmen Variations" was composed by Horowitz himself.

[oyecarnal]

hey you,the Lang Lang fun... try to find Lang Lang the next time that you go to one of his conserts and ask him........ what is he listening to in his lonely hours when nobody sees him and cries and turns green by jealousy,because he will never achive it. the answer will be, "the art of communicating feelings through music. like Horowitz did."

[brassmonkeyjew]

LANG LANG!

[tomaroony]

@brassmonkeyjew

Well yes, you may prefer Lang Lang who is indeed a terrific pianist.

Certainly, if you want fireworks and gurning then he is your man.

However, although Horowitz seems to have a reputation for inaccuracy, his playing has a soul, a depth of feeling unrivalled in the recorded era.

Many pianists can hit the right notes, but none can send the shivers up your spine that Horowitz could.

[Sad0felix]

@tomaroony Couldn't agree more, and no mistery why the "other one" is being called Bang Bang by people with some taste.

[chuecan2007]

@tomaroony his inaccuracy was due to his age thats all. We can say he is inaccurate because we have only seen him play from the age of 70up. Just imagine if could have seen him at his prime, thatd be crazy.

[CanIHazIceCream]

@tomaroony I was going to say something like this before seeing that you already said what's to be said.

[tjtheplay]

@tomaroony I get shivers from my chest actually lol

[brassmonkeyjew]

@tomaroony

LANG LANG!

[unicursalhex]

Cool old dude, fantastic player. Those guys couldn't have tongue'd his ass any more than they did.

[felixbrix]

DANKE fürs Hochladen!

[TommyDai1]

i can die happyly after hearing his interpretation of that chorale

[mahpyua]

wow playing scherzo in c minor rather than b minor

polonaise in e major!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[mahpyua]

wow playing scherzo in c minor rather than b minor

[slyther2222]

the guy clicked it by accident

[gelfddelfg]

1 idiot people dislike this..

[adamjenson4500]

lang lang is so much better than Horowitz

[afertyus1000]

@adamjenson4500 no richter and marc andre hamelin are but when he was younger they were equal

[adamjenson4500]

@afertyus1000 hmm, good point

[thunder123bah]

@adamjenson4500

nope not even close =D

[adamjenson4500]

@thunder123bah i believe it is opinion

[John19182004]

@adamjenson4500 and all others are better at life than you.

[amrabas2007]

Man : That was beautiful

Horowitz : i didn't compose it !

LOL

[loboris1995]

"No body has his wild touche,fore his extreme pianisimo and his extreme fortessimo"Is a bit exagerate^^

[Natasha77571]

Thank you for posting.

Amazing. What is the name of the piece at 7:30 ?

[paulostroff99]

I attended one of his concerts in Montreal about 40 years ago. It was one of the finest memories in all my existence. The piano sounded like an entire orchestra.

[paulostroff99]

Stunning!  TY.

[Sarita41248]

Creo que es uno de los mejores videos sobre pianistas que tenemos en you tube. Recomiendo las clases magistrales de Jorge Bolet

[openmindspace]

"They didnt forget me?"

[derek44344]

wats the piece he plays at 0:40??

[leaftofall]

OMG. at the beginning he sit there smiling like an old baby, but suddenly.....

I also want to do this when I'm sixty-four. pretend some old slow-moving guys and suddenly shock them with Liszt..... haha

[korlock3000]

Oh my god I forgot the name of the song he played the beginning!!! Help me out

[anpublica]

Ich danke sehr für das online-stellen dieser Videos!

I thank very much for putting this video online!

[TheTypicalGirl]

Almost as good as Liberace!

[Gargantupimp]

@TheTypicalGirl Liberache is how it's spelt.

[kasyapa]

is the pitch right? it seems a trifle sharp?

[Kakarot21591]

@kasyapa Yes, it is a little sharp. I have the CD which used recordings from this very documentary, and this piece was a little bit lower on it.

[aspergershawn]

this is great. is the speed of the film or sound off? this piece sounds a semi-tone too high (in a flat in stead of g). maybe it's my computer, but maybe it is the film - s

[stecha2]

I remember that one. Once watched it with my father when I was a kid.

My father told me that Horowitz used a wrong position for the hands when playing piano(in theory) ...he then said/asked "If you hear someone playing like that perhaps the others are wrong?"

[SalQrazy]

he plays so timelessly, I'm sure he forgets his age and once again IS a young man.

[brunthroath6912]

He always loved his Chopin.

[IsabelleDupontGaller]

Touchant ! Homme d'exception.

[uhartchristian]

when listening to bach busoni choral you are transported into another world as only maria callas did in casta diva.... this legato melody is so intense that you have to keep your breathing..... the big secret of horowitz and callas are in here how to create a perfect intense interpretation of a melody.

and to play pianissimo which is on the second level.

[mikejunior80]

This is a concert from his own home.I'm practically that excited just to hear him play and speak.

[urahara53]

@mikejunior80 yup

[alshraphaelia]

Does anyone know the title of piece that he played at 1:32 on? Thanks!

[Sklerrrrrr]

Chopin Polanise in A flat, "Heroric"

[MellowCypriot]

"Do you think, if I play Carnegie Hall, there will be people?"

I hope to have such a sense of humor when I'm an old man...

[Oblomov18]

@MellowCypriot Qite depressive i think...

[kiasmus]

1:32 on. What a glorious sound!!!!

[aardvaark069]

@kiasmus This playing of this polonaise in the Steinway basement is the BEST performance ever! Such grandeur and majesty, sweep and mastery. Everyone around him are such ass-kissers though..

[tnmtemerity]

@aardvaark069 I personally think he got a kick out of the ass kissing. He was probably saying to himself - look at these fools - they think I'm GOD!

[ngpiano72]

@tnmtemerity haha I noticed that too!

[Kakarot21591]

I second that motion 100%!

[APPLEexampleSample]

thank you very much for posting this documentary!

[brodux3]

Thank you so much for posting this!

[elguanteloko]

01AcidTrash10... I love you for uploading these videos!!!! you rule!

[sclyfes1212]

*cough*

[cattleman6420012000]

It's wonderful to see this video.

[Classicmozayful]

i LOVE wanda's temperament...

[obstfredi]

kind man

[0802406]

whats the piece he plays from 0:37 ?

Please!

[puppygray]

0802406, It's the coda from Chopin's 1st Scherzo

[0802406]

Thank you very much!!!!

[musicolorhythm]

What a monster.

[stagesix6]

what a pack of ass lickers

[Triviumisi]

OH MY GOD LET HIM PLAY! unpossible this fucking drivel!

[Cactus78]

Why aren't there more people like this in the world??? Why aren't I like this? It makes me sad, and makes me love this man even more.

[nojstradamus]

his smile is so sincere. i love it!

[LarkinFarkin]

I have read a very notable book about Horowitz, from a an italian author, wich contains the impression of Sviatoslav Richter about this documentary. They are a few lines about the way the pieces are played (he values each work with a single word) and his impression of the whole documentary, more properly, about Horowitz himself. If you think it could be interesting, I could transcribe it.

[Liebromeistal]

Did Richter have mostly negative or positive thoughts on his playing in this film?

[lacarra]

In a sense, he´s positive with the musician, but he´s quite despiteful with the human being: " Such a talent! And so trivial a spirit... A man so nice, so artist and so limited (hear his giggles and look at him)". Also, he refers to Wanda and the strange pair the both make and the strange sensation they in the video transmit.

[LarkinFarkin]

"Lacarra" was me. About the playing, the general value is fifty fifty: Bach-Busoni (Notable in his genre). Mozart (Good). Schubert (Coarse). Chopin: Mazurca (Very weak). Scherzo (Awful). Liszt (Yes...) Schumann (...) Rachmaninov (No, no) Scriabin (...) Chopin. Polonesa (Wher´s the nobility?) Moszkowski (Splendid).

[Liebromeistal]

what was the name of the book?

[Liebromeistal]

also, what does (...) mean?

[LarkinFarkin]

The name of the book, in my spanish edition is just Vladimir Horowitz. But in the original italian is Vladimir Horowitz. Il mattatore.

I asume Richter wrote "(...)" to express the lack of a clear judgment of the interpretation, but this could not be so. When you read the whole translation of the passage I send you, maybe you can figure out better.

[Seemar101]

This video is better than mine. I recorded it on VHS in May 1987 and had it digitized in Jan. 2009, but it did not turn out well.  It's amazing how VHS deteriorates so quickly.

[01AcidTrash10]

i have a much better version than this one uploaded! i had to rip it and fit it for youtube...

[oaoJ69Joao]

@01AcidTrash10 Give me link dor download pls :)

[EricTheRed03]

@Seemar101 : wow I wasn't born until 1 year later but yet I can still appreciate this documentary. It tells you a lot about Horowitz :)

[AmericanCars101]

@Seemar101 im just curious why he was testing pianos in the beginning? was he looking for a new one or was he testing one for a future concert performance?.

[lanarv]

THANK YOU SO MUCH ! for posting this documentary from 1/12 to 12/12  on VLADIMIR HOROWITZ :-)..This gives us a chance to know him as a person,in his own environment, these LITTLE things this GREAT PIANIST has been surrounded. I STILL CAN PLAY !!!,,he says..AMAZING :-)

[01AcidTrash10]

its weird seeing the HUMAN behind the piano genius..

[mauro355]

Just incredible. I really admire Horowitz an I'm curious about the person.