Vladimir Horowitz - Chopin Ballade No. 1 (live 1946)

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[@BillDyszel]

Wow! Thanks for posting this. What a gorgeous performance, fresh, energetic and so expressive. Love the delicate phrasing in the main themes. It also made me realize that nearly everyone today plays the whole piece mezzo forte and above, no pianissmo.

[@monicabrondo4149]

Maestro Horowitz,siempre presente a través de sus monumentales interpretaciones!!....❤

[@ronl7131]

Inimitable VH. We are lucky to have multiple recordings of VH journeys with some particular Masterpieces at different stages of his life.

[@Yannoux3000]

just discovered your channel, thank you so much for posting those precious recordings

[@ClassicalPianoRarities]

Happy you like it!

[@LukeFaulkner]

Insanely daring performance. Anyone know what's going on with the audio from 8:35?

[@merlindavids]

The octaves are unreal! What a fantastic rendition!

[@ВМаркитпнтова]

Большое видится на расстоянии.... Так и в игре Горовица.

[@kasyapa]

The lead-in to the A Major climax is almost Hofmann'esque in its fury. Thank you.

[@Felix_Li_En]

Quite special version, thank you !

[@ljiljanastanic9076]

Wonderful!!!💙💙💙💝💖💖💖💙💞💙💞💙💞

[@anne-mariedubois5316]

So romantic ! So delicate !

[@pinkfloyddwc]

I like his live version when he was older a lot better

[@ulfwernernielsen6708]

My favorite Horowitz performance of the first Ballade is from the 9.5.1965. recital.

[@ClassicalPianoRarities]

I wish we had a smooth 1920’s Horowitz in this too.

[@TheAydolov]

Wow!

[@ra1n.-211]

8:22 love the left hand rhythm

[@egogerm]

The Horowitz of the 40's --the decade he recorded Brahms 2nd with Toscanini, also in broadcast---daring romantic showboating.. Michelangeli's solid Apollonian reading of this Dionysian piece holds it together better. This is quasi un fantasia.

[@egogerm]

@@hellbooks3024 Not according to the prson whop invented the distinction for Art. reread your Nietzsche

[@egogerm]

My thoughts are too--though Ray Manzarek sides with Nietzsche. I believe that simple opposition is fallacious as it does not allow for the essential dialectic. The opposition is the Apollonian in the Dionysian and the Dionysian in the Apollonian. @@hellbooks3024

[@subplantant]

I adore Horowitz but we must admit some of this is revolting.

[@ClassicalPianoRarities]

There are no absolutes in art

[@subplantant]

@@ClassicalPianoRarities I didn't say it was absolutely revolting...

[@monicabrondo4149]

Tamaña "observacion",quizá venga de un "iluminado"....

[@silversmith1285]

PESSIMA,TERRIBILE ESECUZIONE!!!!

[@ClassicalPianoRarities]

How so? Easy to say “terrible”. What did you not like?

[@gautambose]

Left hand during some parts were too rushed and he got quite a lot of notes wrong and in some places over pedalling but it was good no one should call it terrible I play this myself so ik

[@ulfwernernielsen6708]

I agree. I prefer some of his later performances. Maybe not from the seventies and eighties, but from the sixties , the 9.5.1965. Is maybe the best example. Still my favorite performance of the G minor Ballade is the Arrau Philips recording.

[@monicabrondo4149]

​@@ulfwernernielsen6708Esto fue en el Carneguie Hall...1946.......Las grabaciones salen bastante bien,dentro de lo posible....