horowitz in ann arbor - no 3 - 9 oct 1977 - faure nocturne
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Une fausse note bien rattrapée à 3'28", elle passe presque inaperçue...
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who takes care about.... the critics are important yes for the career but they have to admit that new ways of interpretation can be opened as long they are logic and interesting. Rachmaninof did admit that Horowitz opened new ways of interpretating his works. Faure also would have admit and would have been pleased to hear this. Horowitz when in good health did real good work in interpretation. It is never out of taste or out of respect of the composers will.
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the one thing i will do when i have the time is run through all of these and check pitch - i've found a number of pieces on the net that are running too fast - more rarely too slowly - so i want to verify that the extra brilliance we hear is not due to speed-ups. i have a pretty good ear for pitch and most of them sound pretty good - but as one commenter said, v.h.'s 1940s "carmen" radio broadcast is almost a half-step too low/slow!
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i think his live was almost always better than his studio. it's just how he was wired, and we are the richer for it - he, like d.h. lawrence, was not seeking the fixed, newtonian finality.
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As with the Faure Impromptu, these live Ann Arbor performances completely eclipse the released studio versions (as good as they are!).
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And with so many others!!!
I just found a '76 studio version of this nocturne on my Prokofiev/Kabalevsky CD, so I had heard it before ages ago! Both beautiful, but this version seems to have a little something extra, that live electricity perhaps.
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I totally agree with you.
there exist few good recordings of the works of Faure. We are happy to have a new insight of possibilites how to interprate these works. Horowitz always did open new doors of understanding...
It is a treasure for us all to have this here on youtube. Thank you so much!!!!!!
uhartchristian 2 years ago
wouldn't the critics of a few decades ago gape to hear us talking like this?
kasyapa 2 years ago