horowitz live 1968 pt 2 - plays schumann kreisleriana pt1

vladimir horowitz live in 1968 pt 2 - plays schumann kreisleriana pt1, recorded from the audience. no commercial recording of this performance was ever released.

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• vladimir
• horowitz
• schumann
• kreisleriana
• piano
• live
• new
• york
• 1968

[xxJube1xx]

absolutely a masterpiece ! this piece was dedicated by Schumann to Chopin. However Chopin did not look at the score of it for several years after it was sent to him, and when he finally did he dismissed it and claimed that this is not music. Well as it is known Chopin didn't like Schumann a lot ( as well as other German composers ) but it's really queer that he should say something like that about this piece. Just some history

[kasyapa]

xxJube1xx - it's curious how many of the romantics said that a colleague's piece was not music - liszst said the same thing of chopin's "polonaise-fantasie"! you might enjoy comparing the recording i have of v.h. when i heard horowitz - just search kreisleriana dec 1985 and that should do it. it's a more probing interpretation - vintage late horowitz.

[townsendjean]

@xxJube1xx

Yet Schumann had such admiration for Chopin declaring him publicly “hat’s off gentlemen, a genius” ... backed up in due course by a heart-felt musical tribute in Carnaval entitled “Chopin”

where his assertion that “where words end, music begins” is certainly borne out. Apparently Schumann sent a copy of Carnaval to Chopin, but it was never acknowledged by him.

[kasyapa]

townsendjean - schumann's tribute is beautiful. even chopin could be silly sometimes. perhaps schumann was too wild-yet-german for him.

[morinoroba]

Wow ! You have a great recording collection of Horowitz ! I'm glad that I found your channel,thank you for sharing us these his recordings.

[kasyapa]

i hope you enjoy looking through everything. some new ones to come soon.

[chad410]

there is much wonder in this performance. i don t care about wrong nore. ;) SChumann here is executed delightfully like poetry and understood mind too

[aardvaark069]

Say what you want but this beats the hell out of the Hofman performance.

[8JustGoodMusic8]

@millriv Greetings, dear friend. Indeed, very nice in many ways. Cortot's playing is rather misunderstood, he is mostly considered to be second-class. Although, the 1935 Cortot's recording of Kreisleriana has some mistakes at the text. But yeah, if it would be clearer, it would be much better than Horowitz's one, he [Cortot] had better sound at it (even though, can you compare these two with each other?...).

[xxJube1xx]

absolutely a masterpiece ! this piece was dedicated by Schumann to Chopin. However Chopin did not look at the score of it for several years after it was sent to him, and when he finally did he dismissed it and claimed that this is not music. Well as it is known Chopin didn't like Schumann a lot ( as well as other German composers ) but it's really queer that he should say something like that about this piece. Just some history

[abmsghost]

@aardvaark069 Pianists" beating the hell out of eachoters performances"..?you are on the wrong forum my friend..go to UFC better..ciao

[millriv]

nobody mentions the cortot version, still in many ways my favorite