horowitz in hamburg - last recital - chopin polonaise op 53

vladimir horowitz in his final recital, pt9 - hamburg, germany - 21 june 1987 - chopin polonaise op 53. this recording was never commercially released.

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Music

Tags:

• vladimir
• horowitz
• chopin
• polonaise
• op
• 53
• flat
• major
• piano
• live
• hamburg
• 1987

[zicekanelo]

Epico

[kasyapa]

zicekanelo - what an ending to a life, eh?

[zicekanelo]

@kasyapa Una vez escuché una interpretacion donde Horowitz tenia muchos errores a causa de enfermedades y medicamentos.... pero esta interpretacion es la mejor que he escuchado de Horowitz de esta magnifica polonesa, gracias por la grabacion, por cierto yo tengo una grabacion increible de Szpilman interpretando esta pieza, por si la quieres, saludos

[kasyapa]

zicekanelo - ¡hola! pardon mi uso del babelfish. él tenía muchos apuros durante su curso de la vida - i' m feliz que él podía hacer tal belleza en el piano - yo consideró lo una vez, y lo era el momento más grande de mi vida.

[Labienus]

on the fringe discussion tried this before but I was a little perplexed that I never recall hearing it before. Interestingly I came across this on p342 of Plaskin, where H in discussion with Hupfer refers to it-"which he (Horowitz)

called the "fringe". His quotation marks. As if to say that was H's term for the felt strip-not a generally accepted one? Comments?

[kasyapa]

Labienus - ya, i believe that was his expression.

[rachmaninov1873]

he played much better than kissin, argerich, rubinstein

[aardvaark069]

So old but such grandeur still!! No one else gives this piece such 'sweep' space, and resonance.

[jonjon1957jonjon]

Oh so crisp, so upright.

[Rachmaninoffkid]

And this, being his last concert, at his most musically mature ever, memories of my life pass throuhg my head in the most pleasant montage. That’s what Horowitz was going for, the most moving sort of sounds.

[pr4n42061]

@h1hacter

I do absolutely agree with you! Horowitz' interpretation of this heroic Polonaise in 87 is way better than the previous ones, including at the Moscow recital in 86. I admire Horowitz so much because although he was already 83 years old, he was still capable on making huge improvements on his musical maturity.

[forgottenbooks]

I just came out after listening to Lang Lang play this. I feel normal now.

[sergiozanetti68]

cosa dire......sembrano tutti principianti, è come se ci fosse una chiara logica colta dal ritmo,dagli accenti,dalle sfumature. interpreta con intelligenza forse è questo che lo rende genio.

[sergiozanetti68]

cosa dire......sembrano tutti principianti, è come se ci fosse una chiara logica colta dal ritmo,dagli accenti,dalle sfumature. interpreta con intelligenza forse è questo che lo rende genio