Vladimir Horowitz interviewed by Abram Chasins NY 1965

[@meredith218461]

A fascinating and intelligent interview with a piano legend.

[@thefuturescomplex]

Wonderful interview!

[@valpurves45]

What a joy to hear this

[@spacevspitch4028]

I don't understand how with such early fame there isn't any professional film with audio of him earlier in his career. We have early film of nearly all the 20th century greats. Richter, Gould, Gilels, Arrau, and on and on. Why not Horowitz? Does anyone know when the earliest film with audio of Horowitz is? Where to find it?

[@adambowles3804]

There is a silent film of him playing the Chopin F Major Etude Opus 10, No. 8, but I am not sure if it of the complete piece.

[@beatlessteve1010]

1929 silent film at a doctor friends party in Ohio

[@spacevspitch4028]

@@beatlessteve1010 I know about that one. That's why I said "with audio" but thanks!

[@bealreadyhappy]

@@adambowles3804please post the link thank you

[@Pogouldangeliwitz]

Shuddup, Abram! Let the man talk, goddammit!

[@karlakor]

This video has been here for at least three years, judging from the age of the oldest comments, and it has only gotten 3565 views as of July 2021. It depresses me that this valuable interview with one of history's greatest pianists has excited so little interest.

[@johnschlesinger2009]

I agree completely. It saddens me greatly. I heard Horowitz three times in London: one of the concerts was at a time that was not good for him, but the others were utterly fantastic. Whilst all pianists are somewhat different, most sound fairly similar. Nobody ever sounded even remotely like Horowitz; I think Neville Cardus was right when he said that Horowitz was "The greatest pianist alive or dead": he later said that he should have also included those as yet unborn!

[@notmytempo464]

I agree its a fantastic document!

[@RaineriHakkarainen]

How Emil Gilels Radu Lupu Wilhelm Kempff Artur Rubinstein Had The more colorful piano sound than Horowitz!! How Mikhail Pletnev and Lazar Berman More Louder harder hitters of The Keyboard! Mikhail Pletnev The most Powerful Ever More Louder than Horowitz! Lazar Berman More Louder than Horowitz!! Lazar Berman The Sledgehammer pianist Ever! Lazar Berman The second-rated player!! Horowitz not The greatest Best Concertos Recordings! Tchaikovsky piano concerto no 1 Better than Horowitz=EMIL GILELS Andrei Gavrilov Grigory Sokolov Artur Rubinstein=Warmer Piano piano sound than Horowitz! Horowitz The first movement 17:30 minutes fastest Ever but Horowitz The crazy Mad Roar!! Fashion Tchaikovsky piano concerto no 1!! The Best greatest Brahms piano concerto no 2 players Are really=Grigory Sokolov With The Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra video KZbin from 1987! Sokolov The Best piano sound Ever! Sokolov The Best rhythmic vital beat! Sokolov The most TITANIC EVER!! Sviatoslav Richter with The Paris Orchestra conductor Lorin Maazel recording from 1969!! Edwin Fischer The Recording from 1942!! Van Cliburn in Moscow in 1962!!! Horowitz his Brahms piano concerto no 2 Recordings a trash Art!! The Best greatest Brahms piano concerto no 1 is Radu Lupu With The Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra video KZbin from 1996! Lupu a class of his own!! Lupu The most colorful piano sound Ever!! Horowitz his Brahms piano concerto no 1 Recordings a trash low value Art!! The Best greatest Beethoven piano concerto no 5 players Are really=Wilhelm Kempff The most beautiful piano sound Ever for Beethoven concerto no 5!! Vladimir Ashkenazy The most colorful volcanic piano sound Ever for Beethoven concerto no 5!! Grigory Sokolov The most rhythmic vital beat!! Solomon Cutner The perfect structure of music! Solomon Cutner The highest IQ points Ever! Mikhail Pletnev The most Powerful Ever!! Pletnev The Best crystal clear Bright sharp perfect Beethoven piano concerto no 5!! Maurizio Pollini The Genius playing Beethoven piano concerto no 5!! Horowitz his Beethoven piano concerto no 5 not that Good!! The piano Proffesor Malinin Said that Mozart playing is The most difficult! So we get=The Best greatest Best Mozart piano concertos players Are really=Mozart 15 Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli Mozart 17 Dezo Ranki Mozart 18 Vladimir Ashkenazy Mozart 19 Radu Lupu Mozart 20 Vladimir Ashkenazy Mozart 21 Radu Lupu ( The others The Good=Artur Rubinstein Murray Perahia Maurizio Pollini Vladimir Ashkenazy Stanislav Bunin) Mozart 22 Laura Mikkola Natalia Trull Jörg Demus Robert Casadesus Mozart 23 Solomon Cutner ( The others The Good@=Wilhelm Kempff Grigory Sokolov Murray Perahia Maurizio Pollini Stanislav Bunin Vladimir Ashkenazy Radu Lupu! The extra prize goes to Horowitz only!!) Mozart 24 Grigory Sokolov Maria Grinberg Mozart 25 Murray Perahia Mozart 27 Alexei Lubimov ( Emil Gilels Vladimir Ashkenazy Murray Perahia Stanislav Bunin Natalia Trull)

[@kpokpojiji]

​@RaineriHakkarainen you seem to be chasing Horowitz around all over KZbin, trying to convince us that he was not the genius that he was. You are entitled to your opinion, of course, but we got it the first time.

[@beatlessteve1010]

"louder and harder hitting" are these superlatives...you sound like you are throwing a word tantrum because Horowitz is so well liked...please don't be jealous it doesn't make you look good..don't be a hater be a congratulater...plus none of the pianiats you mentioned had as long and successful a career as Horowitz...I believe even record sales beat out many of the mentioned pianiats ..plus he got 80%of the gross on all concerts except for Chicago and New York ..none of the pianiats could demand this type of arrangement!!!!!

[@rysegs4498]

Chasins and The maestro, classic interview.

[@papagen00]

Horowitz talks about coming out of retirement, among other things, in a delightful chatty conversation.

[@milarayo4174]

Never thought that Mr V.Horowitz is such a fine, renowned pianist of the music industry. No wonder i come to love his piano playing..Kindly feature more of his recitals, pls

[@davidwhite2949]

Chasins keeps interrupting him

[@Viktorvelat95]

It’s lovely to hear Horowitz, he’s one of my most favorite musicians of all time, however the interviewer is pretty rude and he kept interrupting Maestro throughout the whole interview, what a shame!

[@RaineriHakkarainen]

The greatest pianists of All Time Are really Artur Rubinstein ( The God) Grigory Sokolov ( The Titan The Giant of The piano) Emil Gilels ( The King) Wilhelm Kempff ( The most beautiful piano sound Ever!) Radu Lupu( Brahms piano concerto no 1 with The Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra video KZbin! Lupu a class of his own playing Brahms!) Sviatoslav Richter Maurizio Pollini Vladimir Ashkenazy Alexei Lubimov( Mozart piano concerto no 27!) Stanislav Igolinsky ( better than Lipatti and Joseph Hofman) Solomon Cutner Maria Grinberg Natalia Trull Rosa Tamarkina ( The RAW Power!) Andrei Gavrilov Victor Eresko Lubov Timofeeva Ekaterina Novitskaya Dimitri Bashkirov

[@RaineriHakkarainen]

Horowitz and Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli and Mikhail Pletnev were The Best technicians! Mikhail Pletnev The most Powerful Prokoviev piano concerto no 11! Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli no errors! ABM played The second-rated concertos like Mozart piano concerto no 15 Haydn concerto G major Liszt piano concerto no 1! ABM never played The Best piano concertos like Chopin 1-2 Brahms 1-2 Prokoviev 1-3 Mozart 24 Bach 1052 Rachmaninov 1-3 Because ABM The Great machine! Horowitz his Best Works were Scarlatti sonatas from 1962! Also Horowitz his Mozart piano concerto no 23 is The Good one! Pletnev has his moments CPE Bach sonatas and Rondos and Haydn concerto no 11! But they Are not The greatest pianists list!!

[@r.i.p.volodya]

@@RaineriHakkarainen You called Rubinstein "The God" - I couldn't disagree more. I have, I believe, the complete recordings of Rubinstein and I can only identify FIRE in one performance of his - namely: Chopin's Fantasy. And I'm talking about the sort of FIRE that Horowitz achieved most of his life. I find more beauty and colour in Horowitz's performance of Scriabin's Poeme than in the whole of Rubinstein's output. But, i sadly acknowledge that some people just don't hear it.

[@djole1231000]

Thank you on this great interview! If you have more unpublished material please share it with us.

[@calin33050]

I own 11 complete and unpublished recitals that Horowitz played at Carnegie Hall in New York between 1945-1950 Diabolically virtuoso, powerful, romantic, depressive and heroic, in other words the greatest pianist alive or dead. If you want I can send them to you for free by wetransfer. Just give me your mail With my musical greetings

[@grubbetuchus]

Please, might I also be able to latch onto your offer to get those recitals? I hope yes,it would mean so much.

[@calin33050]

Give me your mail and I send you that. You will be able to hear and understand why Horowitz was considered the king of pianists. At that time he was playing as a fairy tale hero I wait for your mail, but I will not be able to send them to you before tomorrow because there will be a power cut in my area for the whole night. You will have them for tomorrow night.

[@djole1231000]

Sorry on late response. You own treasure, can you send it to my email? Also, do you maybe have more unpublished interviews?

[@calin33050]

yes of course, give me your mail and i send it. (no , i don't have more interviews but i think live recitals are much more interesting )

[@goodmanmusica]

wow

[@micheleescouboue2351]

Pourrait -on le traduire en français.?

[@beatlessteve1010]

Im pretty sure I thumbed up this video before

[@beatlessteve1010]

Horowitz was great...Glenn Gould plays Bach like no other...Richter was a great overall pianist and his Beethoven was number1..Rubinstein one of the greatest as well...amongst the majority of pianist from the early 20th century Joseph Hoffmann was the best ... Artur Rubinstein said Horowitz was a better pianist but he was a better musician.also that his favorite pianiat was Busoni..and i may agree.

[@tobiedavis8841]

What is that pooting sound ?! lol

[@neilkilleen3911]

Chasins is really very annoying!

[@christopherczajasager9030]

Not really : modern...no Schoenberg, Bartok, later Stravinsky......all quite conservative, neo Romantic...

[@elagabalusrex390]

Of course no Schoenberg - he didn't want the audience to start leaving the concert hall. He did play a lot of Scriabin, and his music was at least as advanced as that of Stravinsky or Bartok, and just as unattractive.