Chopin Mazurka Op.63 No.3 Pachmann Horowitz Rubinstein

Chopin Mazurka Op.63 No.3 played by three great pianists :
Vladimir de Pachmann
Vladimir Horowitz
Arthur Rubinstein

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Music

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• Chopin
• Mazurka
• Pachmann
• Horowitz
• Rubinstein

[weltmeister12]

Horowitz the best

[mivalguriashi]

rubinstein! RUBINSHTEIN!!!

[leongatha6]

Go listen to Rachmaninoff's rendition of this then vote. Brilliant as always.

[pixelatorNYC]

wonderful, wonderful, and wonderful! everybody played better than I could. so i wouldnt even dare criticize. thanks for sharing.

[almeronfilms]

Pachmann was my favorite, but just listened to Rachmaninoff play it. Even better than these three.

[almeronfilms]

vote for vladimir de pachmann.

[samposuki2222]

I cannot compare them, they are so different. Just, i felt, all of them are so honest and human. They play like speaking.They never beautify music. These are what I miss about modern pianists.

[gtimny]

Pachmann is more direct than I expected but the constant right hand behind the beat I find distracting, though that was the style then. Horowitz exhibits his nearly unique talent for making a melody live and breathe so that you can't help but listen to it even if you disagree with the way he does it - that is, when he's behaving himself... but then I think he goes badly wrong towards the end by blowing the countermelody up all out of proportion. He just couldn't resist tinkering!

[gtimny]

In defense of Rubinstein who is criticized here for being boring, you have to take into account that he recorded ALL of the Mazurkas twice 30 years apart. This is from the later recording. In performance he only played a handful of the more than 50 Mazurkas he recorded and I suspect this is one he didn't perform often. I heard him 7 or 8 times in the 60s and 70s and he never played this, though he did play others then. He WAS electric in person, but perhaps a bit cautious in the studio.

[mxtiplitz]

fredeiricfranc: What happens with your comment about Horowitz interpretation? overinterpretation?? You would say that he puts any note in the wrong place? Too much rubato? I think not in absolute! You have listened to one of the best way to play the hands over the piano. I´m sorry for my english. Best rewards.

[mxtiplitz]

fredeiricfranc: What happens with your comment about Horowitz interpretation? overinterpretation?? You would say that he puts any note in the wrong place? You have listened to one of the best way to play the hands over the piano. I´m sorry for my english. Best rewards.

[fredericfranc]

I give Pachmann the first, for the directness, Rubinstein the second, for the effective laid back effect, Horowitz the third for overinterpretation. But the two more recent masters are not exactly shabby.