Horowitz - Liszt Deuxieme Annee V; Sonetto 104 del Petrarca

Moscow 1986

[@lindaliu8910]

this piece is wildly underrated.

[@mariapap8962]

Very true! It's a gem!

[@kevinmartinez6821]

¡Totalmente de acuerdo! En mi parecer, debería estar hasta por encima de Liebestraum No. 3 sin desmeritar la obra claro. Bendito viaje inspirador a Italia que vivió Liszt para dejarnos esto.

[@charlesfoster141]

The most magnificent piano performance I have ever heard. Horowitz was the greatest pianist of the last century. His talent died with him but lives on in these amazing recordings.

[@kaleidoscopio5]

One can be closer or not of this interpretation, but the quality of the sound, the pianissimos and the degrades of the sound is mesmering. Horowitz is still missed in piano world.

[@mikepen3477]

Truly, there will never by another Horowitz

[@theo5069]

@@mikepen3477 anything’s possible

[@stefanufer608]

Almost any other pianist makes the piano sound a dull instrument by comparison - Horowitz made it sing, dance, speak, everything.

[@fernandobicudo9564]

The Brazilan pianist Nelson Freire is his pair! Go and listen!

[@rudi5764]

it's absolutely unbelievable how clear this version sounds. incredible. his skill was out of this world

[@mji71]

I concur with the person in the audience who proclaims “Bravo!” at the end of this masterful performance by Horowitz. Bravo!

[@MusikschuleClavina]

Perhaps it was Wanda Tiscanini ;-)

[@eddiebeato5546]

Well my fellow pianists and friends, it is time to say that Vladimir Horowitz, the olden man, is simply the most musical pianist! Just listen to his thunderbolts octaves! He had super Herculean FFF, and the most amazing ppp! One may fancy to hear ghost-notes behind this frightening pianist! So many pianists vying for the crown and scepter of the king. Can you take those thunderbolts? As he got older, Mr. Horowitz achieved a legendary mastery of the piano. Every note is drilled of its tonal expressiveness and beauty! .

[@edenkandinsky1635]

A piece has never touched me like this one did. Horowitz was a genius that knew how to play liszt exactly. I listen to this piece on rare occasions and every time there are still tears in my eyes. When people are asking me what is my favourite piece-if they are not close to me I am telling them Rachmaninoff 3 and not this one, this piece reveals my heart and every thing in it.

[@sergiobarraza1806]

I disagree in this opinion with all due respect. Arrau is and will always be the best interpreter of Liszt as he is in direct lineage. He understood every note and intensity Liszt put in the sheet. Please make sure to listen any Liszt piece played by Maestro Arrau and you will see the difference. Remember: Beethoven - Liszt - Krause - Arrau.

[@edenkandinsky1635]

@@sergiobarraza1806 With all due respect, When it comes to taste and especially in classical music-no one can decide who plays better. In my opinion the smarter person would listen to what he likes. After listening to Arrau, he played the pieces great, yet as a person who grew up on Horowitz's recordings, I am not very fond of other versions. To remind you, I didn't say that Horowitz is the best interpreter of Liszt- I said he plays this piece as it should be played, perfectly. Moreover, my comment's sole point is to express feelings, rather than musical comparison.

[@DAVEDIKIAN]

@@sergiobarraza1806 Why should we compare artists like Arrau and Horowitz ? They belong to different universes ...Arrau is one the giants of piano playing of the XXth century, no doubt. But Horowitz is unique in the colours of sound of his playing. No comparison .

[@stellaweng2428]

@@edenkandinsky1635 Every performance of every performer is different and unique. A listener might prefer one on a particular day, and another when in a different mood or mindset. I fully understand your reaction to this wonderful piece. It paints an inner landscape of beauty and sensitivity. I would like to dwell in that landscape always.

[@TheModicaLiszt]

Horowitz is sloppy here and doesn’t play properly what is on the score. Not to great effect either, like Cziffra does. So I’m not his greatest fan.

[@ilovetiananmen]

He stood up and was like, yea, whatever.😂

[@franzliszt1871]

This interpretation is really deep an emotionant

[@nicolag1544]

Pace non trovo, et non ò da far guerra, e temo, et spero; et ardo, et son un ghiaccio; et volo sopra ‘l cielo, et giaccio in terra; et nulla stringo, et tutto ‘l mondo abbraccio. Tal m’à in pregion, che non m’apre né serra, né per suo mi riten né scioglie il laccio; et non m’ancide Amore, et non mi sferra; né mi vuol vivo, né mi trae d’impaccio. Veggio senza occhi, et non ò lingua et grido; et bramo di perir, et cheggio aita; et ò in odio me stesso, et amo altrui. Pascomi di dolor, piangendo rido; egualmente mi spiace morte et vita: in questo stato son, donna, per voi.

[@TheModicaLiszt]

Horowitz clearly didn’t understand the end of this poem with his super quiet and almost submissive ending.

[@lisztmasterperrymarrs7425]

Yes, he was a genius. I was blessed to hear him in recital when I was a young man.

[@Bampaloudu64]

Oh my god. You've seen one of my idols. I can't believe it. How was it ? How was he ?

[@2002FREDERICK]

Where???!!!!

[@yufeiliu7636]

Omg😭😭😭

[@moradnadimi7952]

I just love how nonchalant Horowitz is after each performance. Just another day, no biggie. Incredible

[@geofffikar3417]

Well, remember he had been playing since he was a child, he had an awful lot of practice.

[@mariapap8962]

​@@geofffikar3417whatever 😂

[@stefanbernhard2710]

Casually wipes his brain with his handkerchief

[@rogerpianoking1945]

To me, the best this piece has been played in the 20th century modern era.Unbelievable textures colours of sounds which nobody else can create. People who went to his concerts were very fortunate to witness a genius.

[@patriziapalmisani9501]

Un grande musicista ungherese, un grande pianista russo, un grande Petrarca ....perfetta fusione fra poesia e musica

[@ciararespect4296]

I'm sorry but most comments here are just fan boys. His playing is scruffy. It does have a certain amount of charm but overall amateurish

[@hermannsteinpilz4581]

This should really be called the Liszt-Horowitz transcription, because Horowitz made several changes in the text that are already present in his older recordings.

[@giorgioquercioli9246]

Can you please me tel why, im studying this peace!!

[@epicbottleflips5032]

Yes I noticed he added quite a bit

[@tnmtemerity]

I used to have a caricature of Horowitz in a frame. It came from a magazine, like Time, and I swear it was based on this performance. He was grinning, barely moving, yet smoke was coming from the keys.

[@mutzicat]

What a genius.. such a great sense of overall form in his interpretations.

[@marinawehrli3849]

Serah Strandberg yes, one Genie. PIANOMARINA.CH

[@Davideberti]

The best performance of this piece.. no other words

[@mikepen3477]

What do you mean by "best"?

[@Hrothbertha]

mike pen that it is the best way to perform this. No one can do better than this

[@Davideberti]

@@mikepen3477 I believe that this performance is not only the best for this piece but one of the best piano performances ever recorded ... time, touch, colors, sound, passion ..

[@zhuxia7922]

Liszt : Are u challenging me ?

[@alexandralaw1476]

Well, this piece is full of Horowitz’s own traits, however the ones played by Lazar Berman and Jorge Bolet should also be considered as ‘best’ if you liked Sonetto 104 itself, those are more of a ‘textbook’ playing, closer following the original transcription.

[@jamien.5528]

Came here from Tiffany Poons Q&A: Saddest piece you’ve learned this year

[@lauri6943]

what video is this?

[@ericafey8958]

I came from one of her latest uploads where she is playing this piece!

[@lauri6943]

Erica Fey me too

[@TheMightyFork_]

God blessed this performance through Horowitz’s hand and mind- infinite pianissimo colors and shades.

[@Caocao8888]

Alon and Guy Ostrun - He thought orchestrally. What an incredible variety of sounds! Other pianists spend 95% of their time and energy on just hitting the notes.

[@tnmtemerity]

Horowitz was an atheist.

[@CziffraTheThird]

@@tnmtemerity Source?

[@ingregulous3141]

I am not a classical music aficionado by any means. By virtue of Horowitz being so popular that he broke into my non-classical-music space, I found my way to the Moscow concert. I was first blow away by the Scarlatti Sonata in B Minor and then I made any way here. Each time I get taken by a Horowitz rendition, I wonder how others play it. Could Horowitz be that good? Do all others really pale in comparison? I search youtube and listen. It seems that I am cursed that I found Horowitz first in that others truly sound boring, staid, mechanical or, at worst, more interested in technical proficiency than emotion. I am not saying any of this as an argument that Horowitz is objectively better than others, but more as an exclamation of how much I like the way the guy plays.

[@patrickbcox]

How are there only 930 likes with 68K views? This piece and playing are both brilliant!

[@jesuslombardiatorres7290]

eu vín varias veces este vídeo e nunca lle dín a gústame aínda que quedaba abraiado, porqué? Non me lembrada de darlle ó gústame. Penso que así lle pasou a moitos !

[@kaitlinholst7928]

Wow. Just wow. I’ve never heard this piece, but I finally looked it up after receiving a Liszt piano book with this piece in it. This performance brought tears to my eyes. Wow.

[@lorraineprieur]

vieillir c'est se dépouiller, laisser la musique prendre toute sa place....

[@서진수-k3w]

순례의 해 2권 이탈리아, S.161, 5번 '페트라르카의 소네토 104'

[@ЗдравыйСмысл-ы3щ]

Maestro! The words here ... just superfluous/ Маэстро! Слова здесь... просто лишние...

[@cubanm81]

My Favorite Liszt, better than this, I don`t know yet.

[@pythonoptic]

One of the best things every written

[@VictorMoyaArbo]

Absolutamente inolvidable V.Horowitz... Trascendental, Sublimeee, Grandioso, traspa la linea del infinito esto...............................

[@stefanufer608]

Nobody made the piano sing like Horowitz

[@lucianovalle7178]

Pura bellezza....

[@jemimadoll2405]

I could listen to this all night... and I'm going to ❤️😘🥰💖🌷💐🌼

[@lazarolucero4558]

Listo un verdadero genio lamentablemente el intérprete le hizo daño al músico ...no era solo virtuosismo ...fue arte muy profundo

[@irisdeosiris3273]

Is stunning the sound that he produces when he plays that lower octave in 2:29 Me llena el alma

[@nickfanara8538]

2:31

[@НинаПлаксина-ж4в]

Вновь слушаю Horowitz plays Chopin Ballade No. 4 in F Minor, Op. . Не удивительно, что после прослушивания такого исполнения появляются стихи. У Олега Гаценко вот так отразилась Ваше исполнение: stihi.ru/2020/05/10/4141 Только поздравить Вас и сказать СПАСИБО!

[@1212hjb]

I'm learning this for one of my conservatory auditions. I hope to play it half as well as Horowitz or Bolet!

[@irmacello]

Omg what a Masterpiece 👌🏻❤️ Exquisite

[@salvadoralba8207]

Nostalgia 100 x ciento

[@jujitsuorbassano8687]

Horowitz, rende intima l'interpretazione attraverso l'essenza del romanticismo con uno slancio creativo di individualità interpretativa, rinnovando continuamente il metronomo con l'adeguamento del metro ad una generica ma profonda ed intima razionalità, trasforma l'assoluto nel non più astratto, facendoci scoprire che l'essenza del mistero della musica, sfugge a qualsiasi definizione, ed è irraggiungibile da qualsiasi forma di ragione.

[@CarmenReyes-em9np]

Sigue siendo el genio de Lizst. Cuántos años han pasado. Es incomparable.

[@paulabagotyriute449]

Nice! You can also check my performance of this piece.🙂

[@polonaise]

2:31

[@ぴぃ-u6i]

I miss your playing Maestro

[@CarmenReyes-em9np]

El piano. Mi mejor compañero. ..con Franz Liszt. ...

[@ЛеонидОзадовский-я8л]

Мне нравится Ваша музыкальная подборка да с таким Великим исполнителем

[@graziellamazzuferi8386]

Melodioso ! Bello

[@farazhaiderpiano]

Horowitz was a great pianist in Rachmaninoff and Clementi’s music - and I would’ve loved to hear him play more Medtner than what he’s recorded. In Liszt however, I feel that Horowitz takes too many liberties with Liszt’s scores. I’m not opposed to taking liberties with a score, but the liberties must be tasteful! In the Sonetto, he does a nice job making tasteful changes to Liszt. (Much as Raymond Lewenthal did with a Czerny ètude.) Can’t say the same about his Vallee d’Obermann, however. While I’m amazed by what he did in the Ballade No. 2 regarding extreme voicing, his cadenza almost ruins it for me.

[@buxtehude123]

The arch hand position taught to Maestro at Tchaikovsky Conservatory, Russia, has been lost. unfortunately.

[@stephenmclaughlin1763]

The Master playing music of the Greatest pianist this world will ever know

[@elrorrropirroro244]

2:28 💕💕

[@r.i.p.volodya]

Wonderful playing 😍🎼🎵🎶 (there's an excellent performance on YT of Pavarotti singing this piece, just in case you wish to hear the original song... 😁)

[@carmenreyes6222]

El mejor pianista de su epoca

[@CarmenReyes-em9np]

Gracias Horowits. 🇮🇷 💕💕❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@jouilledaniel1029]

Décidemment... on ne s'en lasse pas ... Djouille

[@mirtacalcagno9260]

Assolutamente d'accordo .Bellissimo .Eccellente interpretazione.Bravo!

[@denisstrakhov5437]

the long fingerman

[@CarmenReyes-em9np]

Gracias Horowits

[@joannaaboukhazaa7496]

I've listened to this pieces hundreds of times and I have listened to others perform it too. I think Horowitz plays it the best, especially the passage at 2:38; so clean and precise and full of colors. Amazing.

[@ChrisBreemer]

Actually, in that bar starting at 2:38 he leaves out most of the chords in the left hand, so it's far from clean... For all I know he could be playing that flourish of sixteenth with both hands, it's impossible to see.

[@CarmenReyes-em9np]

La. Interprte con público. 💕🇲🇽. 🇲🇽

[@DATo_DATonian]

Thank you for posting this. It was, for me, one of the highlights of the concert.

[@patrickbirner6573]

DATo DATonian Learning this piece now, and man the left hand in the beginning are way too big for me.... Dangit liszt

[@DATo_DATonian]

I originally saw a tape this concert on 'Sunday Morning with Charles Kuralt' decades ago. It was aired right after the concert took place and I was totally spellbound as I watched it. Good luck with that left hand. Just remember - this one is WORTH the pain. It really is.

[@pdr770]

הפסנתר יכיל ערגליות גדולות מאוד בתחתית בכל ארבעת העמודים בצורת L.

[@russellthompson9271]

A lost art.

[@ronstriebig2749]

Such beauty Such astonishing playing

[@marasmo65]

Talento , sencillez y humildad en un solo artista ,

[@jouilledaniel1029]

Il y a eu pour moi HOROWITZ...CESAR VEZZANI.THILL...ET ANDRE BONIFACE ..PLUS GUY ...QUE J'AI VUS JOUER ..EUX...ÉCLECTIQUE ???JE TROUVE MA VIE ASSEZ COMPLETE ET HEUREUSE SUR CES PLANS LÀ DJOUILLE ELUSALYRICS

[@mariadaconceicaocostaperro7762]

Maravilhosamente Eterno.

[@pistakis656]

Beautiful interpretation.

[@belladonna10591]

Liszt still astounds me.

[@2002FREDERICK]

Bravo !!!

[@robertotorres7832]

De la première note c'est de la pure poésie !

[@betelgeuseromanee-conti162]

ホロヴィッツは永遠なり(^_^)

[@jeanli9030]

I got goosebumps!

[@xyanderson9002]

INCREDIBLE!!!!!!!!

[@jayjonesjunior893]

2:36 just what in the fuck

[@stefanbernhard2710]

The one time they should've showed his hands 😅

[@emanuel33e]

like

[@dummag4126]

Mah......e questo sarebbe un grande pianista? Io ascoltando il pezzo noto molte imprecisiopni, anche qualche errore ripreso al volo e poca precisione troppo pedale, una pessima registrazione. Comunque pezzo difficilissimo, suonato da dio da molti giovani interpreti contemporanei.

[@insanekid2014]

Maybe you should take more time to appreciate his tone and approach instead of being so rude.

[@christinefruchard8912]

Il n’y a rien à rajouter à une telle interprétation , avec ce toucher qui est une caresse et laisse chaque note comme suspendue au dessus du clavier..impressionnant d’émotion et de sensibilité ..est-ce égalable ?? En émotion , je ne le pense pas..D jouille

[@danieljouille6822]

D JOUILLE ..plus j'écoute et plus je trouve de la profondeur et une porte vers l au-delá ?? Le genre humain est aussi capable de composer et d 'interpréter de telles merveilles ...on en oublierais le quotidien ?

[@danieljouille6822]

Hèlas les notes retombent å leurs places...djouille

[@Paul-vd8ek]

Way too rushed for my taste... at some parts he literally did not bring out any emotion.

[@axelmorgan4023]

I must disagree, but hey that's the beauty of music I guess

[@Paul-vd8ek]

Axel Morgan Listen to Bolet‘s performance - then you will understand

[@axelmorgan4023]

@@Paul-vd8ek Thank you for the recommendation, I really enjoyed the ending of Bolet's. They obviously have very different interpretations of the piece I just wish I could play it as well as either of them:)

[@Paul-vd8ek]

Axel Morgan yes, sure. They‘re both virtuos.

[@charlesfoster141]

Horowitz always looks emotionless but no one can possibly play like he does without possessing a huge degree of emotional experience. My grandmother taught me to play piano. Grandma always told me that emotion only comes with age and life experience.

[@stephenn77]

Lots of mistakes! Seems like he’s not enjoying this piece... As pretty as this piece is there’s really not much melodic substance to it, but again this is Liszt...

[@sandercouck8454]

I have to agree with Jaime on this one. Regarding his age at the time of the video, his playing is still marvelous!

[@carlhopkinson]

'Not much melodic substance"....Are you joking??? The entire piece is one long luxurious mystical melodic line.

[@henrigaziel2002]

You know nothing. What a demonstration of utter ignorance and stupidity.

[@GM-gv8qd]

The only thing not enjoyable here is your comment

[@sonorouspiano2225]

@@carlhopkinson yes! And if you listen to all seven of these pieces you cannot possible say there is "No MeLoDiC SuBsTaNcE."