HOROWITZ AT CARNEGIE HALL 6-Scriabin Op8-12 & Traumerei

HOROWITZ AT CARNEGIE HALL 6-Scriabin Op8-12 & Traumerei

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• Scriabin

[dmitrop]

This is the perfect video of Horowitz, particularly if someone has not seen him before. No one has ever played that Scriabin Etude any better--it is astounding how he gets such sound without engaging the shoulder at all! The Schumann is exquisitely crafted and disproves, once and for all, the notion that this genius could only play loud and fast.

[Labienus]

I second the comment that if you have never "seen" him play, this represents what made him unique, and captures the sheer, frightening electricity that seemed to possess him. He would continue playing the etude almost to the end, but this captures him when he was still physically in his prime. This is not a normal nervous system.

I don't know that i agree that he doesn't engage shoulders, his method flowed energy through the body, and the perfect point of striking the key was there.

[bourbonchrist]

favorite piece, favorite performance of said piece.

[xcomposerpianistx]

Unmatched technique and superior musicality. Simply a genius.

[lovingee1]

Sure wish I were there! SUBLIME!

Barb Todres/NYC

[Labienus]

@Bret6464 Imay have replied tothe wrong person while Ishare many of your feelings abouthis artistryIjust don'tfeel that has later versions are on the same level (thought no oneplays Scriabin better) &despite the hostoric and emotional nature of theMoscow recital-does it represent his best playing? I think there are individual works(usually less taxing technically) that were marvelous in later yrs.particularly the last recordings-his technique was however formidable to the end

[Bret6464]

@Labienus I think Horowitz was exactly how you define him - a superhuman virtuoso, all of his life (there were times when he was ill).

Still, to me the greatest Horowitz concert is the 1986 Moscow, because he played with surreal artistry, he absolutely "created" not just "performed". Question of preference for style and pianism :-) Listen to Rachmaninoff's Chopin Sonata 2 (and everything else performed by Rach) and Gilels' Beethoven Moonlight sonata (and his Rach, Chopin)

[Labienus]

@Bret6464 Please - he had a lot to offer as he aged but to say that he played this in his 80's the way he does here is just not true-it was obvious in his choice of repertory-his new love of Mozart-aging is part of life-he retained amazing technique late in life-but the Horowitz here-or in that period in the 40's was the high water mark of a kind of super human virtuosity that he possessed

[Bret6464]

@ValdemarDragunov Horowitz's 1986 Moscow performance surpasses this :-)) And he also did Scriabin 2/1. That concert - every one of his concerts over 1985 and 1986 (when he was 82-83 yrs old) - is IMO the high-point of his legacy, when his sensitivity and artistry was surreal, and he had not lost any technique. Just an extraordinary pianist!

[uhartchristian]

only those who participated in liveconcerts of Horowitz can imagin the atmosphere Horowitz created. He was unique. Public hardly did breath so much there was concentration. You could hear a fly so quiet people where.

I remeber the big silence in London followed by an outbreak of cry when Horowitz entered the stage. all did stand up silent and that silence was the most overwhelmingly silence I ever heard.....

[MrMrMikayel]

Bravo!!!

[eolanden]

@dmitrop amzing idiot you are talking about the shoulders.

but Shumman you are right.