Horowitz - Vers la Flamme ( Scriabin )

Vladimir Horowitz playing "Vers la Flamme" (Toward the Flame) by Alexander Scriabin.

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[MISHA1119]

This is prime Horowitz, his high-voltage neuromuscular system undiminished, before the ravages of old age slowed his steel trap reflexes and sapped his limitless power. I seriously doubt Liszt himself played better than this. This is not just "Toward the Flame", it's in it. Horowitz immolates the piano in luminous sheets of fire. Simply without equal.

[progressive59]

This piece is symbolic of the world we see around us today sadly. Amazing!

[Hugo Sloterdijk]

5:27

[Young Paderewski]

This isn’t Horowitz playing the music of the mystic Scriabin. This is the mystic Scriabin playing his music through Horowitz.

[HiddenMasterStorm]

Maybe it's just me but I can't listen to that piece...

[Thiago Gasparino]

Well, he does have a point, you know...

[daytripper8808]

"Go for a three mile hike in the woods, and your stomach will still be full. Go for a thirty mile hike, and you might need to stay overnight and prepare food. Go for a thousand mile hike, and for three months you'd have to find food."

Music has mysterious and uncharted powers that we can only sense instinctively. The artist is a rare creature that should be prized when it appears in this world. And you're suggesting this guy might be good at playing video games?!?!

[gergsar]

Horowitz is so great. He can play anything, and fully understands what the composer is trying to convey.

[Alfredguitare]

Horowitz litteralement piégé , traversé , porté , irradié par la musique !

[kx3kx3]

I think the youg Liszt would have been able to play it... with the mind of the old Liszt who composed Nuages Gris and Lugubre Gondela...