Vladimir Horowitz, 1978: Piano Recital (Schumann, Liszt, Fauré, R., Chopin, Scriabin & Moszkowski)

Live performance. Carnegie Hall, March 19, 1978. 'Golden Jubilee Recital'. Vladimir Horowitz, pianist.
00:00:00 Schumann: Arabeske in C Major, Op. 18;
00:07:57 Liszt: Sonata in B Minor, S. 178.
00:37:41 Fauré: Nocturne in B Minor, Op. 119;
00:45:22 Fauré: Impromptu in F-Sharp Minor, Op. 102;
00:47:30 Rachmaninoff: Moment Musicaux in B Minor, Op. 16 No. 3;
00:52:20 Rachmaninoff: Moment Musicaux in E-Flat Minor, Op. 16 No. 2;
00:55:19 Chopin: Polonaise in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 26 No. 1;
01:03:37 Chopin: Polonaise in A-Flat Major, Op. 53.
Encores:
01:10:36 Chopin: Mazurka in A Minor, Op. 17 No. 4;
01:14:36 Scriabin: Prelude in C-Sharp Major, Op. 9 No. 1;
01:17:02 Moszkowski: Etincelles, Op. 36 No. 6.

[@JoePatrych]

I was at this recital, and to this day, i consider it the best Liszt Sonata I ever heard live.

[@rafidl5556]

Thank you! I was there with my father who somehow managed to get tickets even though the concert was sold out.I can’t believe this recording exists! Thank you!!!!!

[@Caocao8888]

Such perfect use of rubato! And the voicing of melody and inner voices!

[@CarmenReyes-em9np]

La excelencia. 🇲🇽💞💞💞💞💞💞💞🎹México 🇲🇽

[@kimweonill]

Faure's Nocturne B-minor is ... sublime. When I listen to a piece for the fist time played by Horowitz, it always comes to me how great he was as a pianist.

[@teodorojaranilla5008]

NOT trying to toot my own horns as a nobody...but i used to play this all my playing life..and i think this IS the most amazing B minor i have ever heard...sure...it is not "note perfect" ..more than academnic "correctness" that i feel has crept far too much even among the "superstars" since his time .....his playing makes one feel as if the music ..or LISZT himself just discovered the harmonies...everything ...every detail and turn of phrse is a "NEW DOOR" OR curtain of wonder...terror.....riches upon riches ...but the great man brings out of it the breadth and scope as well as transcendent expression that NO ONE i ever heard...even among the very greatest ;egends have brought...THANK YOU for uploading it..and THANK YOU to the great horowitz for showing what LISZT must have wanted

[@Norman68623]

Signed. Dead on. Except that i wish i would be able to play it. 😂

[@richardharting2490]

Mmmmmm I 😅

[@piano4tay]

Listening to that Liszt Sonata is like being present when God created the Universe...there's nothing like it...

[@morinoroba]

リストは、美しいだけでなく狂気すら感じます。ホロヴィッツのこの解釈が好みかどうかはさておき、これほどの凄まじい気迫とエネルギーが一人の人間から発せられた、という事実に驚嘆します。そういう意味でも伝説のピアニストだったのだと、再認識しました。 Thank you for posting.

[@heifetzoistrakh2559]

全く仰るとおりです。リストのソナタはいろんなピアニストの演奏を聴いていますが、こんな凄まじい演奏は（ホロヴィッツ自身の他の演奏も含めて）初めてです。ピアノでこんな表現ができることに驚愕します。 アンコール最後のモシュコフスキーも単なる「名人芸」の披露ではなく、やっぱり鬼気迫るものがあると感じました。

[@user-cd5hh5cb9d]

Tremendously excellent! It's superb! Extraordinarily wonderful performance!!

[@user-sk4kd7ob2b]

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[@paulwilton735]

I really like this. What he does to a piano is exhilarating. Anyone who tries to write this down as sheet music misses the entire point.Im flabbergasted.

[@jfpary7336]

Such a beautiful Fauré!!!!

[@busyb8676]

Thank you.❤

[@user-cd5hh5cb9d]

Thank you so much!

[@christopherczajasager9030]

And not to forget....the🎉 magnificent Steinway & Sons, Model D... New York

[@christopherczajasager9030]

Could well imagine Sergei R. beaming with pleasure in heaven hearing in particular the second M.M. played in such a transcendental manner!😊

[@christopherczajasager9030]

Volodya still ferocious at 75.......larger than other mortals 😅

[@germanquintero10121946]

exquisito

[@Vladimir058]

Музыкальный момент Рахманинова номер 3 супер вообще

[@steveegallo3384]

Always grand.....and his Rachmaninoff: Moment Musicaux in B Minor, Op. 16 No. 3 almost rivals Pogorelić......BRAVO from Mexico City!

[@EmptyVee00000]

No direction, pulse, or sense of rhythm; a truly disrespectful performance.

[@steveegallo3384]

@@EmptyVee00000 -- Most ungracious....he always spoke highly of you........

[@EmptyVee00000]

@@steveegallo3384 Horowitz spoke highly of whom?

[@steveegallo3384]

@@EmptyVee00000 -- Of YOU, fool!

[@EmptyVee00000]

@@steveegallo3384 I do not know who you think I am, but certainly not anybody Horowitz knew. Fool indeed! He spoke highly of Rachmaninoff, Cortot (idiot), Gieseking, and Richter.

[@teodorojaranilla5008]

hisrachmaninoff....shows WHY Rachmaninoff HIMSELF..(who also recorded moments musicauxs) said of vladimir.s Rach 3 "HE SWALLOWED IT WHOLE" ....in admiration..

[@teodorojaranilla5008]

HOROWITZ is the ONLY pianist...and that includes the TRUE great ones that had been recorded...that plays THIS work like an OPERA...a WAGNERIAN music drama...not as a PIANISTIC display ...of "pretty tones' or "loud playing" that often lack the VOLCANIC quality of a HUGE wagnerian orchestra....it shows WHY LISZT sonata should really NEVER be displayed by mere "FAST AND LOUD" players...but players that approach it the way Horowitz did...or does riight in this version...the piano in fact should be made to sound as if it s going to BREAK from the POWER of the MUSIC itself...AND also phrases like a high soprano..or a baritone..or heldentenor...or the orchestra bringing majesty or terror in a wagner music drama.....there are phrses where LISZT created harmonies...that LATER ...HIS SON-IN-LAW...Richard Wagner..in TRISTAN ISOLDE ...told his father in law...:"this is YOUR invention" ...the famous TRISTAN chord...which moved the old man so much...this indicates LISZT ...more than anything was composing in certain "moods" LIKE A MUSIC DRAMA played on the "piano"...not just ""orchestrally" but vocally...and "speaking" ...with something like that...a PIANIST can not be LIMITED in the constraints of ""nice piano playing" ....the way most do...

[@christopherczajasager9030]

SAFETY LAST!!!!!!!😅

[@christopherczajasager9030]

Where did this recital take place 😮?

[@therealtruetwelfth798]

I’m guessing Carnegie Hall, since it says Carnegie Hall

[@user-gf1db3qw9m]

Попробую сравнить с современниками, с Султановым не буду. Обое Гении.

[@aramzulumyan6380]

*Оба

[@ntarrexs9478]

Причём здесь Султанов, непонятно.

[@Vladimir058]

Какой ещё Султанов, Вы чего?😂

[@Bruceykeys]

​@@Vladimir058I think he refers to Alexei Sultanov

[@RaineriHakkarainen]

Grigory Sokolov is the Giant of Piano! The Titan of Piano! Sokolov much better than Sultanov! Sultanov only crown Prince! More beautiful colorful piano sound than Horowitz=Wilhelm Kempff Radu Lupu Artur Rubinstein Emil Gilels Vladimir Ashkenazy! More powerful louder than Horowitz=Mikhail Pletnev(Prokofiev piano concerto no 1 by Pletnev!!) The Second Loudest was Lazar Berman! More Genius than Horowitz=Sviatoslav Richter Solomon Cutner Grigory Sokolov!!

[@BoyevoyKabanStyopa]

By that time, VSH sounded like a parody of himself. Great touches, but low quality, obviously did not practice enough

[@paulwilton735]

I'm getting a headache.

[@dyadic]

Hope you find yourself well, dweller of this mode of pagane expression. I do get that feeling some time as well.