When Horowitz said "he was a friend, my best friend" I teared up a little
@lepredator1897 жыл бұрын
I did tear up too. harsh lohani, what the fuck was your unnecessary comment for? Way to denigrate a moment of such high praise from one giant to another.
@rachmaninoffsergeivasilyev47384 жыл бұрын
I miss the old good times.
@rpfigueiredo13 жыл бұрын
One can only begin to imagine Rachmaninoff and Horowitz playing together...it might have been as brilliant as Chopin and Liszt!
@giulianaguerresi4648 Жыл бұрын
HA mani straordinarie che dominano la tastiera senza parere e l'interpretazione è straordinaria sempre
@HeadlessJedi14 жыл бұрын
I dont know why, but when I hear him talking about Rachmaninoff, I get all teary. And then he plays that prelude absolutely incredibly.... The two greats....
@leonmaliniak7 жыл бұрын
I have run out of SUPERLATIVES to describe this man. In a class by himslef. His performances are transcendental and his repertoire by memory is incredible. It is so sad that many people who do not know the piano or do not know the complexity of classical compositions cannot really understand how hard it is to do what he is doing. There are many great pianists and many of them can probably play many if not all of the same pieces that HOROWITZ plays, which is a tribute to the quality of education of all the great music schools, but there is not one other one even today who has the whole package like HOROWITZ has. What's more amazing is how he could continue to play at such a high level even in his eighties...a PHYSICAL feat in itself. He looks so frail, can barely walk at this stage, and his speech and movements are so slow and feeble...UNTIL HE SITS DOWN AT THE PIANO
@hoangbv6 жыл бұрын
I cannot agree more to this!
@satyu13108912 жыл бұрын
1:00 was when I was simply blown away when he played the best melody ever, from the Rachmaninoff Concerto 2.. A pity he never recorded it..
@hafman7153 жыл бұрын
Mr. Horowitz was, to me, such a prime example of how ones technical abilities, like one’s dexterity, deteriorates over time, yet one’s musical sensibilities may evolve and grow till the end. He was, indeed, a marvel of emotional expression.
@hellomate63911 жыл бұрын
I love how Horowitz just sorta goes and plays something casual as an example and the little bit is ridiculously gorgeous.
@liedersanger16 жыл бұрын
Opus 32 Exactly!
@kirkwahmmet84065 жыл бұрын
Rach 2
@sofrech199113 жыл бұрын
That tiny bit of the Second sent a chill down my spine. Rachmaninoff just comes naturally to him.
@JamisonEmmett15 жыл бұрын
His playing in without question incredible, but the way he speaks briefly of his relationship with Rachmaninoff is what I find most appealing. It is to unfortunate that none of the times they played his pieces for two pianos were recorded. These two amazing talents playing together would be unrivaled in my mind.
@drssdinblck14 жыл бұрын
At the end he says HE couldn't do better, but I'm convinced no one could do better. I have heard different interpretation of this prelude from Horowitz, but this is his best.
@iburakulker3 жыл бұрын
Oh my.. How fluent, natural and emotional. He says ; I cannot do better!! Can anyone do better? Wish you long live..be still alive
@uhartchristian15 жыл бұрын
horowitz does force us to listen. nobody else reached this power on us like him. the secret of his succes and the exaltation of the public comes from that ability to capture the attention fo those who listen.
@beatrusa13 жыл бұрын
Such wonderful music played so exquisite and full of emotion, Rachmaninoff would enjoy his playing so much! Amazing!
@liyumeiable13 жыл бұрын
wow! This was my encore piece in my graduation solo recital! Full of memories. Love Horowitz's interpretation.
@bizbizo29885 жыл бұрын
I cannot do it better nobody can do better I wish I could do it better what a love my good thanks to all you angels of music
@PorscheGT-yj2me4 жыл бұрын
Theirs something about this prelude that makes it so mysterious, for example the low octave at 2:03 and the blending of all the notes.
@sebasjung72015 жыл бұрын
what a love take a photo of young rachmaninov and young horowitz together this energy you hear here and now the two finally together for good and for god in paradise making music for all the beautiful angels there and for me here and there since i am teenager what a love
@jasonchiang25114 жыл бұрын
at the end he says he cannot do better... he is already doing what nobody else has done in the entire world and it is playing it as everybody intended
@DrOli14 жыл бұрын
@asphalteaters 0:40- 0:47 Start of the 1st movement of Rachmaninoff's Third concerto. Horowitz plays the strings part 1:02-1:12 The third movement of the second concerto by Rachmaninoff, thought I don't think Horowitz ever played the second concerto in public.
@ronl71313 жыл бұрын
....heart and soul.....wow....
@belialah14 жыл бұрын
loock his age, then loock his memory. perfecto descanza en paz mi querido Horowitz
@thejesusfreak91912 жыл бұрын
You should understand, though, it's like picking through your two bestfriends and saying which you like more. :)
@ValseMelancolique7 жыл бұрын
He was playing straight from his ❤️
@bassann2214 жыл бұрын
i always prefered richters version of this piece over any others.... Now (despite few false tones) i find this one the nicest for me.... simply wonderfull somehow sad and melancholic.... how did he do it i do not know but after he finished i even had tiers in my eyes... wonderfull....
@francodegrandis7531 Жыл бұрын
Lei preferisce Richter,quando Rachmaninov preferisce Horowitz avendo anche studiato con lui i suoi pezzi?
@gphilipsparks14 жыл бұрын
@mikeasteele That was the Concerto No. 2. That particular motif, the huge chords presenting the melody in the right hand and the large rolling arpeggios in the left, is very prominent in the second concerto.
@camilocastiblanco65444 жыл бұрын
Horowitz was unique!
@pierpaderni297012 жыл бұрын
this aesthetic communication enters my soul deeply and echoes times and people that aren't anymore...lost into a spell that brings beauty to highest levels and a deep melancholy...magic...
@СергейБезрукавный-с4н2 жыл бұрын
Что не говори, а ведь они Русские пианисты! Русская фортепианная школа!
@ultracoolhomies14 жыл бұрын
I wish he recorded concerto no. 2. I only think he did no3
@rpfigueiredo13 жыл бұрын
@44STYLE187 It is the first movement from his second piano concerto.
@NewParodiano11 жыл бұрын
"""i can do it better!!!""" ahahah horowitz is an amazing pianist and so nice!!!
@bassann2214 жыл бұрын
i always liked this piece from richter.... now thought (despite few false tones) i find this version the nicest.... it is wonderfull... no other words for it... i do not know somehow sad and melancholic.... i had one tier out of my eye when he finished...
@counterpoints_14 жыл бұрын
@tony92montana it's the very beginning of the first movement of Rach 3. But it is in the second piano/orchestra part
@DAKLAN237712 жыл бұрын
what a wonderful human being
@137uc1411 жыл бұрын
I didn´t know he played Rachmaninov second piano concerto. I wonder if he played Beethoven 32 sonatas too or just some of them.
@dzanc13 жыл бұрын
@RemovdSande11 Position at the piano is a major factor in tecnique. There are some (like Berezovsky and, as I recall, Richter) who sit very high (despite being very tall already), and there are some (Horowitz, or Gould) who sit lower. The way you sit must fit your body and your tecnique. Personally I used to set the stool as low as I could because it was good when playing Bach, Scarlatti, Chopin. In the last two years I've been playing a lot of Liszt, Rachmaninov, Chopin etc. so my tecnique...
@dmcII14 жыл бұрын
@tony92montana That part that he played is pretty much the best known melody from the Rach 2nd PC.
@uhartchristian13 жыл бұрын
@Bret6464 I do recommend you to listen also to the recordings of Annie Fischer here on youtube. She is far away from Horrowitz s excentric play but forces also every heart to listen . With Horowitz you listen with your ears, with Annie Fischer you listen with your heart.... She was a giant but relatively little known, as behind the iron curtain in a country used as colony for russia... Richter admired her
@RemovdSande1113 жыл бұрын
@TheSwordsweeper thanks for the reply. Myself im 1.94 long, but I recall that the length of your upper arm is the most important factor. Atm im having problems with my seithheight and my handpositioning (I had a teacher but not atm, so its difficult to know if im in correct position seat and armwise.
@小林弘明-n2y8 жыл бұрын
KOBE JAPAN,なんと素晴らしい。7.2016.
@fredhoupt40789 жыл бұрын
Though he looses control in a few places, it is still a very haunting performance.
@John191820048 жыл бұрын
Looses? Who the fuck taught you how to spell? Perhaps you mean "loses" ?? And no, he doesn't. It's called being an artist, not a robot.
@nicoerr8 жыл бұрын
+John19182004 Relax man
@NguyenNguyen-sz4yj8 жыл бұрын
No he didn't lose anything man. Be polite to talk about him next time.
@fredhoupt40788 жыл бұрын
with all due respect, I have listened to many Horowitz recordings covering his very long career. When he was a young man he had phenomenal technique coupled with equally strong control. As he aged his grip weakened even though he trotted out the high horsepower technique even after his body could no longer control all those horses. So, he lapsed into more and more technique rather than polished finesse. I know what he can crank out and at his best in certain genre's he is at the top of a big list of great talents. If you compare his younger days with the same piece when he was an old man you can easily pick out where the train lifts off the tracks a bit. It also helps if you are very familiar with the music. So, when you want to compare performances, make sure you have the sheet music handy. For a guy like Gould he rarely released if ever a performance that did not sound letter perfect. The same is true, so far, with someone like Marc Andre Hamelin, whose technique is super human.
@digitalpatrick7 жыл бұрын
I think moreso than anything else it was a funny comment, like, "dont take the lords name in vein" - Horowitz was just such an incredible man. I love him, that rare love you have for your favourite teacher kind of love.
@PhiliisCool11 жыл бұрын
A pity he never recorded a large amount of his rep. Brahms-paganini, Mazeppa, Feux follets, Gaspard, Prok 6, Don jaun, and the list goes on.
@pptcly7 жыл бұрын
go on plz
@R0elR0elz11 жыл бұрын
@HotSo0P, I have to disagree. Although Horowitz certainly is one of the best if not THE best pianist of the last century there are a few people I can truly appreciate in these times as well: Martha Argerich, Evgeny Kissin, Daniel Barenboim and Boris Berezovsky are some of my favourites. I'm certainly forgetting a few as I'm not familiar with all pianists.
@moritzb.72736 жыл бұрын
What is the piece played at 0:44? Is it from the concerto no 3?
@ieuandavies93806 жыл бұрын
Moritz B. I think it's the start of the orchestral part of Rach3, mvmnt. 1.
@leonschneider86675 жыл бұрын
its similar to 3 but actually its 2
@peterrowan99554 жыл бұрын
Piraschki10kg Fan it’s 3
@peterrowan99553 жыл бұрын
@@flyingpenandpaper6119 time stamp 0:44 is him playing the first movement of the third concerto. He then plays the excerpt you are referring to a good while after this.
@flyingpenandpaper61193 жыл бұрын
@@peterrowan9955 Oh boy, that's a silly mistake. I didn't even register that he played an actual piece there so I assumed the question was about 1:00. Sorry.
@tteu12311 жыл бұрын
The opening bars of Rachmaninov's Prelude Op. 32, No. 12, are so similar - if not identical - to the opening of Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody No. 11. Check it out, and please tell me if you agree or disagree.
@TomBarrister6 жыл бұрын
Both open with the same flutter. After that, they're different.
@jayshko13 жыл бұрын
Is it weird that I like this interpretation much better than that of Rachmaninoff himself?
@HAL_NlNETH0USAND13 жыл бұрын
Which are the other portraits besides Rachmaninoff's? The one on the left is either Medtner or Padarewski the one on top is Rubinstein I suppose.
@dzanc13 жыл бұрын
@RemovdSande11 ...has changed, and I changed my way of sitting, setting the stool 4 cms higher. It makes a HUGE difference. (I'm 1.80 m tall).
@belialah14 жыл бұрын
@belialah Mejor aun veo que eres de España entonces si entiendes. Estaba añadiendo un comentario al maestro, me imagino que tu sabes mucho mas que yo de musica, voy a darme una vuelta por tu canal a ver.
@pwoswim1114 жыл бұрын
@tony92montana it's the start of rachmaninoff's 3rd piano concerto.
@ciaconne15 жыл бұрын
too bad the audio video is out of sync. what's really scary is how music just flows out of those fingers
@SuperLeonardo402 жыл бұрын
Que lugar ocuparia Horowitz entre el ranking de pianistas del mundo_?.Ell mejor>>? diria yo?
@baerhegen13 жыл бұрын
does anybody know where his version of this in moscou or vienna has gone? or where i can find it else?
@valeephi4 жыл бұрын
please which is the date of registration?
@CRH1A-11455 жыл бұрын
Oh strange... Why does the prelude sound as if the key is in A minor? Was the piano overtuned? Deliberately?
@TomBakkermuziek13 жыл бұрын
@nevienslats beginning of rachmaninov concerto No. 3 ( not 2 )
@Ally12323414 жыл бұрын
@ultracoolhomies He recorded 2 as well. You wont find a video though.
@steinway190112 жыл бұрын
Is it possible to reload in the correct key?
@BananaPeelzOfficial7 жыл бұрын
Georgie says vid not synced dude
@whitecocoa0813 жыл бұрын
I don't like the curtains, but the music is wonderful (!).
@uhartchristian13 жыл бұрын
@Bret6464 there are also more than 200 vidoes to listen of Sergio Fiorentino who had a bigger repertory than Svatoslav Richter !!!! his career was stopped brutally because of a flight accident but his last recordings in germany shows the importance of this man till the end.... he had a tremendous technique and knowledge. His interprations are very natural. Pollini was an amateur compared to him....
@HAL_NlNETH0USAND12 жыл бұрын
@ClassicalMusicPL Thank you for the elucidation, I was in the wrong. You have to admit though that the profile of Toscanini looks devilishly like Padarewski.
@gzoluble15 жыл бұрын
its Rachmaninov ,Concerto for piano 3
@yuraseg8814 жыл бұрын
That was Rachmaninov's 2nd, 3rd movement.
@hellomate63913 жыл бұрын
Mistake at 2:33 that is very unusual for Horowitz. Maybe he hadn't practiced it in a while.
@belialah14 жыл бұрын
@lovethepiano sorry, my english isnt good. Podemos hablar en español si prefieres que es mi lengua, y es en la que escribo correctamente, lamento tener una falta de ortografia tan grave para tu criterio, mil disculpas ok? respondeme en español por favor
@rpfigueiredo13 жыл бұрын
@swingballbros oops, true!
@xyzpno684710 жыл бұрын
What is the composition at 0:43?
@satiethetutor333710 жыл бұрын
The opening bars of the great 3rd Piano Concerto of Rachmaninov
@xyzpno684710 жыл бұрын
Thank you!
@satiethetutor333710 жыл бұрын
It's very much the first movt of Rach 3. Are you saying he's playing it in Eb of D minor? Because the original piece is in D minor
@satiethetutor333710 жыл бұрын
The first bar is just strings . Piano enters in the second bar with the melody. He's playing the strings part.
@satiethetutor333710 жыл бұрын
Totally worth listening to. Horowitz is probably the best player of the piece.
@PhillyB70213 жыл бұрын
Did he ever record the second?
@TheSarahChandler13 жыл бұрын
@nevienslats Rachmanioff's Concerto No. 2
@harrynking77712 жыл бұрын
Yes. Why is that?
@satyu13108912 жыл бұрын
Rachmaninoff and Toscanini, his father-in-law
@RemovdSande1114 жыл бұрын
can somebody explain why he sits so to low ?
@TheSarahChandler13 жыл бұрын
@nevienslats Rachmaninov Concerto No.2
@dzanc13 жыл бұрын
1.94? You can sit on the ground dude. Just don't sit too high or your articulation power might suffer.
@USER-jo7yz5 жыл бұрын
His hands "speak" much better....
@GH-oi2jf2 жыл бұрын
Horowitz was not a Romantic. The Romantic pianists preceded Horowitz and Rubinstein.
@turnerwarehouse12 жыл бұрын
video response: watch?v=EcEEfZBFrNw
@asoidfvgi14 жыл бұрын
sounds like A minor?
@2003BenDu4 жыл бұрын
this sounds better in A minor 🥺
@HotSo0P13 жыл бұрын
Hearing Horowitz speak about and play Rachmaninoff is like a glimpse into another world. There was once a time and a place when men such as this achieved incredible heights of artistic triumph. Today, that world is lost.
@HeadlessJedi14 жыл бұрын
I dont know why, but when I hear him talking about Rachmaninoff, I get all teary. And then he plays that prelude absolutely incredibly.... The two greats....
@leanderkolen5 жыл бұрын
What is the piece at 0:44 ?
@HQsTR3 жыл бұрын
Sergei Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No 3 - 1 mvt intro