Horowitz plays CHOPIN Scherzo No.1 in B Minor

[@charlesnorm4883]

The way he sticks his tongue out at the end and smiles is priceless haha what a great man and pianist.

[@joe_fizz]

"Not bad for an old man!"

[@MrRjcosta]

This is the best moment! Wonderful💛🎹🎼🎵🎶🎶👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻😊

[@MrRjcosta]

​@@joe_fizz So good for an brilliant old man, with jovial mind and an eternal Romantic spirit👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻! Best wishies, Ricardo (Richard)🎹😊🎼🎶🎶🎵!

[@organman52]

You are out of your mind.

[@OuaghlaniAlaa]

Horowitz never misses a single chance to play chromatics in octaves

[@organman52]

So what?

[@douglassmith7750]

If you have it ,why not?..spirit of the 19th century...Liszt (a bad word to some pianists) would have

[@bhalbrooktoo]

Reading the comments reminds me of an old guitarist joke; How many guitarists does it take to change a light bulb? Five. One to change the bulb, four to stand around and talk about how they could have done it better.

[@Mercy_Pants]

I love how he uses the pedal so sparingly

[@ljl451]

The way in which he plays with voicing and accents at 6:45 is just phenomenal.

[@michaelboggio2450]

lol he's just having a joke and you're calling it voicing and 'phenomenal' reminds me of a rubinstein interview where he tells about him playing chopin etude op 25 no 11 completely wrong in the right hand and very strong and full of pathos in the left hand, and at the end of the piece people where going crazy shouting 'genius!' and 'bravos' all over the place... I assume you're being sarcastic..

[@AlexanderArsov]

@@michaelboggio2450, the joke's on you, Michael.

[@mustysheep3977]

@@michaelboggio2450 joke or not, its good

[@gmnr1336]

@@mustysheep3977 Maybe that’s why they call it a scherzo!

[@toucc9638]

@@michaelboggio2450it’s a scherzo

[@긱]

He is THE best pianist in history

[@AndrewRance-y3c]

Wonderful pianist, wonderful man, my hero!!

[@organman52]

If you actually believe that, you are nuts.

[@RabbiTuviaBolton]

Phenomenal!

[@FredericChopin1810]

Scherzo No 1 in C minor

[@plusjeremy]

This is the most underrated comment on KZbin 😂

[@Travisbryson1978]

This was Metal before Metal was Metal.

[@danialbrown4417]

Horowitz and Gould are both very fresh

[@coreybrooks3493]

Pretty amazing. And here I’m hoping at that age I still have the coordination to tie my shoes.

[@helenavondrakenstein4969]

There will never be another Chopin......and there will never be another Horowitz

[@Fyfyfindusus]

Magnificent

[@loganfruchtman953]

Chopin and Horowitz are a match made in heaven

[@aleksandra830]

Cudowny Chopin i cudowny Horovitz.

[@manolocks]

05:23 - 05:28 A beautiful moment, brilliance, and ABSOLUTE control of sound-a wizard!

[@ilovetiananmen]

5:40 Love the overhead shot!!

[@pennyjane9906]

what a chiller!

[@CarmenReyes-em9np]

Desde Mexico 🇮🇷🌹

[@dantelomas88]

🇲🇽

[@bayarbuyan84]

At the end he says “Not bad for an old man!”

[@MakiYamamotoPiano]

What a beautiful sound 🩵

[@polonaise]

Amazing

[@RodrigoElorduy]

Maravilloso!

[@ustadspencertracy7195]

He is like making fun of Arrau's style at 6:45!

[@stefanufer608]

He couldn’t stand Arrau, apparently

[@ulfwernernielsen6708]

Steven Banks Arrau couldn’t stand the old Horowitz, but he admired the young Horowitz highly.

[@marcraider]

rofl!

[@aaliiissssaaaaaa_21]

@@ulfwernernielsen6708 wow

[@Emmanuel-p4p4l]

I don't think so tbh...he always does that

[@AllanJenks-kt8vn]

He is still "the greatest pianist alive or dead."

[@draytone670]

something about the out of tune piano and the mistakes make me enjoy this performance even more

[@RJ9mech]

The imperfection is the magic! Too many little machines in our concert halls these days...

[@RJ9mech]

His piano was quite light, regulated to be quick, and tuned to standard pitch, but it's not magic. Franz Mohr was a gifted tech, and he maintained Horowitz's piano as he would many others. The great performances are great despite the "imperfections."

[@RJ9mech]

In this recording it's not, and I suspect that it changed somewhere along the way in production. Franz was there during that session, and the piano would have been at pitch. Raising the pitch as much as it appears here would be abusive to the structure of the instrument. All that said, I love what he does to this fun piece, and have tried to emulate some of his ideas when performing it.

[@kurakoko]

True. There is no perfection in music. That makes it beautifull.

[@marcraider]

It makes feel the music more human, not like a robot machine playing the notes like it was a pianola piano or a Midi file

[@AA-qj2bn]

ホロビッツの弾くこの曲のCDに悪魔の叫びの様なノイズのはいっている物を持っている。宝物。Chopin 　私だよ。

[@matmm75006]

Horowitz the best❤

[@АлександрКоробкин-й7х]

Какой молодец! Какой артист! Какой виртуоз! Я бы, наверное, тоже язык высунул после такого марафона! 😀

[@花山大ちゃん]

7:57w

[@CrystalJumbo1]

すごい顔してて草

[@trollingwarrobots4176]

いや草

[@sebastianperez3696]

Horowits me ha demostrado que la limpieza no lo es todo.

[@danielvalenciabegazo4325]

En el minuto 7:56 saca la lengüita de Einstein 😂😂

[@mgm_custom178]

素晴らしい

[@joshuafruend3348]

Half a step sharp..

[@colins7771]

You’re a full step sharp

[@cheekysaint2413]

it's the KZbin codex, happens all the time.

[@DiegoCarrillo3]

Why is the piano so out of tune? It's not even in b minor anymore

[@nicho588]

I think it’s the recording.

[@javascripthacker8191]

mysteries we’ll never find out

[@DiegoCarrillo3]

@Franz Schubert Oh hi Shubert

[@toucc9638]

Because it’s from the film “the last romantic” and the film is pitched up

[@XD_XDSi]

7:45

[@jacobhuggins5448]

Countless other recordings of this piece without the bombastic, over exaggerated, tasteless, and sometimes violent moments of this "music making" the beautiful moments are so sparse it sounds like someone banging the real of the piece out. This artist was pushed onto us, there are thousands of other pianists that play as sensible (non sensible most of the time) as him and they get no recognition. What exactly makes this such a gem? We award minimal control now?

[@edie5169]

I wish the camera would have stayed on the keyboard and his playing hands. That's all I'm interested in.

[@RyuIssey]

I guess, but I think the film crew did a great job at balancing everything a future audience would want to see

[@danieledirubbo3813]

❤amore mio❤

[@0lgawise]

Listen to Sultanov

[@mjpf]

Scherzo in B minor. B minor. B MINOR.

[@sebastianciarfella3061]

It's the recording, it's got a slight pitch raise

[@lorisbonetti4250]

In C minor 🤣

[@smichelin19]

C minor😂

[@cristiandone5749]

Gould & Horowitz could love or hate, but sounds different the rest

[@jeidel2334]

The best

[@subrunnerrun9137]

Is the piano or the recording out of tune? That is definitely not a 440hz a...

[@DiegoCarrillo3]

I know! It's soooo out of tune. Like, very

[@ChefGourmet]

It’s not the piano, it’s the way they’re recording it. Back then they didn’t have as good of technology as we have today, so the recording got out of tune one semitone along the way

[@stevefoley4073]

Horowitz own piano would never be out of tune. This is way out of B minor, so it's the recording, not the piano

[@Deeznutsmynamejeff21]

You really think someone who is as picky as Horowitz would play a piano this out of tune lol. He specifically had Franz tune the higher range slightly sharp but nothing like this haha

[@toucc9638]

Because it’s from a film “the last romantic” and the pitch is different in films

[@TheTwizx]

Chinese dance song ( feat. Long long )

[@duckium2851]

My man didn't just play the piece *HE TRANSPOSED THE WHOLE PIECE TO A NEW KEY* unless it was just the audio idk haha

[@justintimetoclashandbrawl3348]

Yea it was just the audio haha

[@끼요르힝-e9t]

Why didn’t he step the pedal? somebody knows?

[@rcn2478]

호로비츠 연주들 대부분이 그래요

[@Ali.Shlaibeq]

Monuumax Music I hadn’t heard it, I’ve just listened to it now. It is a very good interpretation I think, he chided a very good tempo and articulation and dynamics are all very lovely. I would still take Horowitz’ first though, but thank you for telling me about Weissenburg’s recording.

[@francissquire9910]

@@Ali.Shlaibeq When young Murray Perahia played for Horowitz he played Bach. When he finished playing Horowitz asked him why he didn't use the sustaining pedal. Perahia said he didn't think it was appropriate for Bach. Horowitz told him "the piano has pedals, you have to use them". Horowitz didn't use minimal pedal but was very skilled at pedal changes and using the pedal at different depths. This is part of what made that wonderful unique Horowitz sound.

[@thomassieg666]

In Chopins time the Pedal was used much much less than today. I think Horowitz matches very well the "scherzo" character by this.

[@thomassieg666]

@Massi True! And even in Chopins time the pedal was still rather new and just for certain effects. The standard was still non-pedal-playing.

[@dryades1]

마지막에 편곡한건가? 양손 반음계로가네 ㅋㅋ

[@Fyfyfindusus]

🤍

[@DEMIAN-NAIMED]

Horowitz I really love you...but this? NO!

[@heinzheinzl5908]

not exactly clean how he plays however ...

[@piotrkobza2776]

Bad joke

[@adambuhrer]

Eww no that super out of tune pianooooo 🤮

[@alexandrosbekiari4802]

It's the recording. It has a 4% pitch increase.

[@organman52]

Those who admire this butchery reveal something about themselves - that they condone butchery. Oh and - could he pound out the secondary voices a little more? And add notes to CHOPIN's music? And play out of rhythm all over the place? He clearly despises this music. Disgusting.

[@angelobonacci461]

Un mostro

[@angelobonacci461]

Ha fatto cose non scritte e le ha rese belle..

[@SpontaneityJD]

1:43