Horowitz in Ann Arbor - 1980 live concert

[@tomoakhill8825]

My wife and I were there. It took us 10 minutes to recover enough to move afterward. It was so emotionally overwhelming.

[@pghagen]

Amazing recital! I heard voices in many of these works I never noticed before. The man had a touch of heaven! That's for sure. Wished pianists of today listened to this kind of playing. This is what people like to hear; not only perfect playing dictated by record companies. Tears in my eyes😥 when he played Liebesleid. Was at his recital in Amsterdam in the eighties which I shall never forget.🙏 Thanks for sharing this concert!👍

[@HankDrake]

A friend was at this concert and described it as one of the most intoxicating events of his life. Marvelous from first note to last.

[@jaynordlinger4750]

Mr. Brown, I want to thank you for this posting. I attended this recital. I have always held it, in memory, to be great. Memory can be tricky. But the tape tells the tale - it was indeed great. Thoroughly Horowitzian. Again, thank you for bringing this recital back.

[@grubbetuchus]

The maestro was an avatar. Gifts to this world, like him, only happened so far a few times in world history. Those of us who so admire Mr. Horowitz see my statements as heartfelt, not as hyperbole.

[@tabd6840]

愛の悲しみをクリアな音質で聴ける日が来るとは思っていなかったです。 アップロードしてくださってありがとうございます。 Thank you for uploading such a rare recording!(^-^)

[@OE1FEU]

This is a truly remarkable document! Beethoven's Op. 101 is one of those pieces that in his unfortunate appearances in 1983 showed a Vladimir Horowitz who had lost all his sense of music and also pianistic capabilities due to drug and alcohol abuse. He played it back in 1967 as a super virtuoso piece, but this recording shows him as a superb player for late Beethoven. Outstanding. And now we even have decent recordings of the Scriabin Op.8#1 and Rachmaninoff/Kreisler Liebsleid in decent sound quality. This is probably the most important Horowitz find of the past two decades. Kudos.

[@timotot123]

There is a video of Horowitz live in Japan playing the Opus 101. It was sad to see him in that condition struggling his way through. Clearly he looked dazed and blank also.

[@ricardoroel7402]

No common drugs..He was taking medicine for his personality and high blood ppp.

[@OE1FEU]

@@ricardoroel7402 And he was drucken to such an extent that Wanda even refused to travel to Tokyo with him.

[@josephhapp9]

@@ricardoroel7402 while enjoying alcohol daily.

[@liedersanger1]

Peter Lemken. This is probably the most absurdly inaccurate comment of the last two decades, in so many particulars. He doesn't deserve it. He WAS sloppy in 1983, but obviously he had not "all his sense of music" because he came back, unforgettably., and performed with amazing consistency, and some say a new depth, for five seasons after that. (I heard him in Carnegie Hall in 1985, and it was unforgettable.) An alcoholic, which is what you're accusing him of being, does not recover. His own story about that year was that his anti-depression medications were badly adjusted. He suffered from depression again and again in his career, and he ALWAYS rallied. That's courage and artistic commitment.

[@philiprostek]

The one and only Horowitz! Thank you for posting!

[@temperedwell6295]

I was at this concert. He was suffering from a bad cold. I didn't touch the piano for three weeks afterwards.. That was me coughing at 2:44.

[@hellbooks3024]

That is so funny...I was there and I remember the coughing. I also just wrote a comment to another comment writer about Horowitz’s cold, his hankie, his blowing his nose in the middle of the Schubert, and adding measures so he could do so.

[@parukita9228]

Thanks so much. I did not know Kreisler was in his repertoire.

[@kasyapa]

My pleasure! There is another performance on my channel from him at Rochester.

[@sambafamba]

stunning

[@Burno136]

I was there....couldn't breathe just waiting for him to walk on stage lol

[@hellbooks3024]

Hey Anthony- I was there too. I imagine the whole audience was pianists. I seem to remember that he had his hankie draped on top of the piano- I believe he had a cold...his nose seemed to be running . During the Schubert, he added measures to the ends of phrases- holding the fifth in the bass clef with the sustain pedal and vamping the tremolo figure with the right so he could grab his hankie with the left hand and blow his nose. In this way, he actually added several measures to some phrases, which I thought funny, since everyone in the audience that afternoon had most certainly played that impromptu. Anyway, that’s how I remember it. Also, I remember that Scriabin etude he always plays...at the climax with those resounding octaves in the left hand, the force with which he hit those octaves lifted his butt off the piano bench. And it was deafening.

[@PaulJones-oj4kr]

there'll never be another Horowitz, there never was another Horowitz; there's one and only Horowitz.

[@fernandomariacavaller5575]

Unforguetable Horowitz, specially today.

[@elef50]

Chopin Ballade 4 - at 42:10 ?

[@shumiatcher]

Crazy how people couldn’t contain their coughing at such a concert

[@kpokpojiji]

Artur Rubenstein once remarked that "10% of the people who develop a cough go to the doctor. The other 90% come to my concerts."

[@matejadamy2839]

The amount of coughing here is incredible, even for piano recital standards.

[@loxpower]

@@kpokpojiji LMAO!

[@Pogouldangeliwitz]

Minor error here (if I may say so): Scriabin's Op. 8 No. 10 is in D-flat-MAJOR, not minor... ;)

[@PianistKimHanul]

19:54

[@giuseppelivolsi3059]

Veramente pazzesco!

[@mynamemynamemyname]

42:09 Chopin: Ballade in F minor 1:04:29 Chopin: Scherzo in B minor

[@jjbloyber]

Liebeslied starts at 1:15

[@foundershinenation8380]

Sounds like he's playing the Schubert in the "alternate" key of G, a different piece in that key.... Not just the recording, as the Beethoven seems to be in the always A major key.

[@brtherjohn]

Tausig arrangement, which VH occasionally played.

[@bztelcms]

Kein Klavierspiel von dieser Welt - der Meister aller Meister - unverwechselbar und unerreicht !

[@shimmstar7]

39:38

[@dielotosblume1205]

19:55 schubert

[@danilorongo3644]

with a memory lapse in Scriabin

[@blakeray9856]

And I remeber it to this day. I was at this recital and nearly had a heart attack when it happened! There was also close call that I think few were aware of in the Chopin Ballade. But the concert was unforgettable, and as another commenter remarked here, it left me somehow changed. I was not the same afterwords. Such inexhaustible imagination of sonorities, haunting beauties, seriousness of purpose.