horowitz plays rachmaninoff etude-tableau - live, 1967

vladimir horowitz plays rachmaninoff etude-tableau op39 #9, new york, c. 1967, live recording from audience.

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Music

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• vladimir
• horowitz
• rachmaninoff
• piano
• etude
• tableau
• live

[lecheparavaka]

you have so many recordings of mr. Horowitz!!! thank you for uploading it !!! , but, how is it you have that many? did you know Horowitz???????

[kasyapa]

lecheparavaka - i did not know him, alas, but i did get to hear him live and have a bit of personal interaction with him in 1985. :)

[cattleman6420012000]

Horowitz was so unique. No other pianist ever like him. I am such a large fan of Horowitz.

[kasyapa]

with all of our talking on y/t, i should ask you how you came to him and how your love for him grew. :)

[cattleman6420012000]

@kasyapa I have always heard about him throughout my life. I never heard him live which is sad. I have noticed that he was incredibly great. His live Liszt Hungarian Rhapsody 2 in 1953 naturally has appalling harsh recording quality; but the way the man played with effortless technical ability and interpreted with amazing flexibility and delicasy when needed. When he came back in the 1960 he could make you cry he was so musical.

[kasyapa]

i very much wish you could have seen him live. a lot of the people i talk to here and i have spoken of the wished-for time machine. :)

[nearenough3]

I remember encountering VH in the audience at one of Rubinstein's marathons in 1961. We had stage seats and at intermission spied V about 6-8 rows back in the audience section. I hastily got a 3x5 card, with my friend, went up and asked him for his autograph and whether he would "come back" to performing. "Perhaps" said he (heavy accent), and he signed the card right at the very edge of the paper instead of the center. Unusual and very vivid.

[nearenough3]

I had heard this piece before, but when H played it as an encore with me sitting on the floor at the base of the piano in the Rutger's 1966 concert I was smashed. No one gets the "Russian Soul" accents like H, and the subtle rubatos. I won't hear another rendering.

[kasyapa]

i'll have some new ones up tonight. :)

[cattleman6420012000]

Vladimir Horowitz played with so much musical magic. He never stopped interpreting. He had so much all round ability, he could play more musically than anyone or display truly incredible technique. I could write a book !!! In liszt Hungarian Rhapsody No2 1953, he had a wonderful inner sense of rythm. He played the romantic melodies in Rachmaninov better and more magically than anyone. Look at the Rach.3 concerto recordings etc etc. I will always be a very great fan !!!!

[cattleman6420012000]

Thank you so much for these incredibly great rare live recordings. I so much appreciate it. This is fabulous.