horowitz plays brief improvisation - italy, 1987

audio only - vladimir horowitz warming up for video recording of mozart concerto - italy - 1987

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• vladimir
• horowitz
• piano
• improvisation
• warm
• up

[StrmUndDrng]

i agree, could u tell me what is he playing at 0:28?

[kasyapa]

as i say below: i find it lovely too - i suspect that is an improvisation. the video-recording's propaganda spoke of his warming up with a "rachmaninovian [sic] improvisation" (or words to that effect).

[BrianAlanVH]

wow the part that starts at 0:28 is beautiful! is there a recording of its entirety

[kasyapa]

i find it lovely too - i suspect that is an improvisation. the video-recording's propaganda spoke of his warming up with a "rachmaninovian [sic] improvisation" (or words to that effect).

[SCHneiDen777]

87. hearing anything from this guy is an inspiration. thanks!

[kasyapa]

it is my pleasure.

[davidgray2]

Actually I know for a fact he didn't. Three hours a day at the most, but very often he went to a concert and played the pieces for the first time in years at the dress rehearsal. He was just very natural. I know this because I spoke at length with his piano technician, Franz Mohr.

[davidgray2]

I would actually say that horowitz was more technically talented than Liszt as he never practised, compared to ol' Franz, who did hours daily on exercises! However, by all accounts Liszt was probably an even more amazing artist.

[marcxopoco]

Youtube halfwit @davidgray2 gives us the lowdown on Liszt's playing

LOL

[davidgray2]

@marcxopoco No, stupid...I read a lot about people I'm interested in, and I am only making an ASSUMPTION.

[marcxopoco]

Youtube halfwit @davidgray2 thinks he has heard Liszt play.

LOL

[VisioninScience]

1 guy couldn't play this no matter how hard he tried.

[marcxopoco]

This specific video certainly takes the cake for the most inane, clueless and stupid comments.

Congratulations halfwit posters.

LOL

[bucovinaclub]

@StrmUndDrng I think he's playing the piano

[nextren]

@72godaddy I don't know. As a young student Rachmaninoff learned Brahms' Handel Variations from scratch in a few days, playing it "with perfect finish." For Grieg, Liszt sight-read Grieg's Piano Concerto in manuscript and played at a FASTER tempo than Grieg wanted, by Grieg's account, and evidently perfectly otherwise.

Horowitz of course had been playing his late-life repertory for 60 years or so; it wasn't necessary for him to do more than freshen it up now and then and get a few knots out.

[nextren]

@davidgray2 No, neither Horowitz nor Liszt practiced much in their later years. Horowitz said that 70 years of practicing was "enough"! LOL.

As to Liszt, Anton Rubinstein (not Arthur) had the pleasure of Liszt's playing to him in Liszt's old age. Rubinstein reported that Liszt had not practiced regularly in 20 years at that point...and that even though Liszt's tone was a little hard, "he made the rest of us sound like children."

[bookguy12000]

@davidgray2 Liszt was EXTREMELY depressed at certain periods in his life. I think Horowitz had a pretty happy life in America :P

[libetta]

not to mention sight readed the chopin etude 1 op.10 with the right tempo. but there were great pianists too that were poor sight readers. take for example Hofmann. poor sight reader but he could play pieces just by hearing them. different pianists had different unique abilities