Horowitz plays Schumman Toccata op.7

This is spine tingling!!!!

This is fast but full of joie de vivre, limitless joy. He has hit the nail on the head. You feel he is being musical first, not just trying to impress.

I have played this piece for years. Today's pianos are "too good." In Schumann's day, on an upright salon piano, with mediocre felts and inconsistent pedal depth, the piano would have sustained without the use of pedal at all! But today, the piece is blurry with pedal (Horowitz) and percussive without it (Pogorelich). Perhaps a more "worn-out" instrument would honor the intent of the composer better....

Maybe just a brush of pedal, say depressed about 1/16th of the way, would add the extra resonance without the pronounced blur.

this execution of Schumann's toccata is very good for the least that I can say.
The melody line of the second theme in G major is well emphazised. The sonority could be sometimes less "ringy".

Both Richter and Horowitz were giants. Richter was unsurpassed when speed and power were called for, but he could play the slower pieces superbly. He never got this one right though. Horowitz was for clarity, subtlty, musicianship and this piece he did perfectly. Pegorolich is his equal here.

Petie32, I would not detract one iota from the miracle that is Vladimir Horowitz. But I note with pleasure your kudo to Ivo Pogorelich's dazzling performance of this work, which can be found here on youtube.

Now I know why Horowize is great...:-)

Each melodies clearly and contrastly to running, mixing in such beautiful way.

I'm fully entertained...fully entertained...^^

[I have always thought this performance as being THE STANDARD to which I compare other performances to.]

It's an unusually lyrical, cantabile interpretation, no question about that. But I prefer Pollini.