Vladimir Horowitz plays Rachmaninoff Piano Sonata No. 2, op. 36 in B-flat minor

[@nadiadesimone8645]

At 12:26 he breaks the strings and continues as nothing had happened... Power and genius!!!!💪🔝🌺💐🌺🙏

[@ronl7131]

In a vid, Martha A sitting with another female pianist listening to various recordings. They get to a VH performance, and Martha smiles, and said, “Horowitz was the best Lover a piano could have”…..to be a bit ‘poetic’, I would add: sometimes soft and gentle, maybe a little rough sometimes….But the Best 🍻

[@legendofcha]

The legendary broken string performance.

[@gdkabsbdkwkwm4187]

Piano with percussion

[@tongbunsing]

Aka. String breaker

[@pianoplayer2692]

WOW! One of the great performances of all time!

[@DAVEDIKIAN]

I discovered Mister Horowitz at 14 with this . First I didn't really realize I could hear here a genius. His playing was so different of whatever I've heard before. I can say now that my love for piano comes from this particular experience. Every pianist all over the world should listen to that : No one has played this or will play this as Horowitz played it (and this is specialy true in the 1968 rendition). Impossible to reach such a level of unbelievable perfection. I remenber : before playing an Albeniz piece at a piano contest I longly listened to that record ...

[@hugoaragor967]

I believe as you do I discovered him at my 17yo as I did with the composers in the case of Mahler, once you get into their world deep in the human sense of beauty you grap it and will never leave you. Fantastic and insuperable magic enigmatic

[@MathieuPrevot]

I discevered Horowitz at 13. There is no such thing as impossible. But yes, V. Horowitz is a singularity among geniuses.

[@vladimir1341]

I first heard Horowitz playing the Rachmaninoff 3rd Concerto. Conductor was Eugene Ormandy. I must have listened to it a thousand times and i still get goose bumps.

[@livliv2958]

One could listen to this forever

[@nassera]

do it

[@VICTOBERN]

I wish l had been a fly on the wall when Vladimir was a young man at the keyboard. The mind boggles.

[@Fritz_Maisenbacher]

12:31 ..... what a pity .... this moment was so absolutely beautiful ......

[@GAMLAPATTE]

omg I can't imagine how amazing it must be to think back at that time in 1968, hearing this historic performance

[@branislavbaca5882]

0:48 - 0:58 - brutal slaughter, the way he builds it up and kills it, I almost died from expectation ... LEGENDARY PERFORMANCE (and yeah, broken strings later :D )

[@Fritz_Maisenbacher]

Thank you . At least someone who understands something .

[@Fritz_Maisenbacher]

And the silence at 0:56 .... this sudden silence at 0:56 .... this tells you everything ... this is a nightmare ...

[@DAVEDIKIAN]

or the last silent second preceeding a tsunami ...

[@yimuxiao8941]

Branislav Baca it’s a like train running right to your face

[@Ferdinand314]

Exactly right!! For once, the phrase "he killed it" is true! Horowitz KILLED it, and he very nearly killed me! This is the best recording of this piece.

[@pianoman598]

It happens at 12:25

[@ootamanabu]

Crazy dynamite perform. Wow.........legendary attack live

[@jackcurley1591]

Legendary pic of Horowitz ripping a cig… I love it

[@이채원-l4i]

CRAZY BASS SOUND

[@nadiadesimone8645]

Yes... UNIQUE.

[@MrCinemuso]

Horowitz in bowtie, inhaling his cigarette and launching into the Rach 2nd Sonata - sounding like some not-quite-human character who's walked straight out of Bulgakov's Master and Margarita.

[@ronl7131]

Had a stage seat, a folding chair, just off the left hand of VH, with view of keyboard, at Chicago Orchestra Hall. Maybe 8 feet or so, away from VH as he ripped through his version of the Rachmaninov piano sonata 2. Unbelievable!

[@annjeanmillikan]

Horowitz is always stupendous!

[@polonaise]

Legend

[@rosge]

Une Perfection ! Son ami Rachmaninov est aux Anges.

[@antonio.scalia]

Impresionante

[@juancarlosnunez795]

En verdad, la mejor y mas grande versión, claridad, transparencia, tecnica, y ferocidad brutal!!!!!

[@뭐-n2q]

Nobody plays like that. This is the best among his performance!!!!!

[@giuseppelivolsi3059]

Zoltan Kocsic suona quasi così.....

[@BWV846]

WOW!

[@OlgaSaleh-if3cm]

До мурашек…

[@user-Tanusha69]

Bravo!!!!!!!!!!!

[@bortkievitch]

Great ¡¡¡¡¡

[@marksmith3947]

I consider this Rachmaninoffs best piece for piano or piano and orchestra. You only need to listen Horowitz for this piece

[@polonaise]

0:48

[@denmasxe]

What's that sound between 12:24 - 12:25?

[@teddythemlgcorgi7309]

A string breaks

[@denmasxe]

@@teddythemlgcorgi7309 Oh wow, thanks. I didn't know this could happen while playing the piano

[@nassera]

@@denmasxe You need a Horowitz to find out.

[@denmasxe]

@@nassera 😀👍❤️

[@PianoBangBang]

10:43- i feel like i fell deep in love just to loose it bit by bit lol

[@valentinbouchard125]

It's crazy that nobody remarks he's jumping from the 1st version to the 2nd sometimes

[@orizoref]

Damn right brother lol🤣

[@emilgilels]

He did his own combination of the two. The score is available somewhere out there on the internet...

[@tongbunsing]

What happen to 12:26

[@quentinholmes9516]

virile erotic power to a degree that he destroys the very instrument he communicates through. I LOVE HOROWITZ!!!

[@BuddyStewart94]

He fixed the string so quick?!

[@alexarroyopianist]

Well, I think they only put the broken one away, probably they had changed it by a new one when he finished performing the sonata

[@carlosguaymas6507]

Se corta o se pone la cuerda a un costado y se sigue...el pianista no lo hace, probablemente su afinador o personal del teatro...

[@nassera]

Thank you. Cristal clear sound. Best interpretation. My opus 36 that I love very much. Thanks! What's your source? Where did you get it from? Any chance for a FLAC file (uncompressed) audio straight from the source?

[@polonaise]

10:20

[@ТороидальноеПоле]

19:52 20:03

[@tongbunsing]

Aka. String breaker

[@KingBrolesław]

Franz Mohr

[@洪月紅-u5b]

真好聽

[@БорисШалагінов]

Ну никак не могу принять его звучания заключительного эпизода piano перед побочной партией meno mosso (часть 1, экспозиция, 1:15 и далее)! Такое впечатление, что, если б можно было, пианист бы его рад был просто выкинуть! Он там и в других местах ещё немного "посоавторствовал". А эта его склонность к "сухому" звуку, словно клубы табачного дыма!

[@arjens0]

Oke like Horowitz was.(Wants to be unique) The other version from Rachmaninov with the live performance from Michael Ponti is really UNIQUE!!!!!!!!!

[@Chrisdvc26]

...what?

[@dobromirdobrev775]

U fucking kidding me😂😂😂

[@antoniodamato2018]

Michael who??🙃🙈🙉

[@qpianist]

Though I respect Horowitz immensely, I just can never be a fan of his performance of this piece. I don't get it. I also don't get why people drool over it. He just bashes it, it is sloppy, and reckless. The best recording of this piece is Hélène Grimaud's recording from 1985 when she was only 15 years old. It is absolute perfection. It is passionate and forceful yet extremely clean and polished. If you listen to it, make sure it is specifically the 1985 recording which is much better than her re-recording in the early 2000's.

[@BurningSky9]

Let yourself go places and you'll 'get' Horowitz's interpretation.

[@WLeop]

Horowitz plays it right- with intensity and loudness. This song is not supposed to be quiet and in the background. It is supposed to be the Russian style of playing- Big, tumultuous, grand, and such.

[@willgraham8878]

I'm sorry but I can't stand Helene Grimaud's performance of this piece. Totally lifeless compared to this transcendental tour de force. Note perfect is not the goal it's the intense evocation of unbridled emotion!!!

[@nestorar]

Sorry but if you don’t understand the Horowitz-Rachmaninoff connection; VH’s genius and cite Helene Grimaud’s performance against VH, there’s nothing to be said.

[@luizfernandg]

They are not quite up to it yet, Junior! Perhaps one day, if they live and love and have real experience of life they'll understand what he does. I was lucky to hear this live, and the only thing is that he ruined the piece for me for ever: I can't even beging to listen to all the hundreds of versions available without wanting to go back straight away to our beloved Horowitz! Can you imagine the sacrilege of comparing him with Helene Grimaux! She herself would think it is a joke! The things we hear here on you tube! Fancy that!

[@luc3753]

Horowitz was personally acquainted with the composer. He probably knew what he was doing. But his version of the 2nd Sonata is tacky, unbalanced and off the mark. A caricature.

[@neiljosephbennett9119]

I totally agree with you! My piano tutor met Horowitz in London in the 70's and was of a similar opinion.

[@carlosguaymas6507]

Ojalá yo tocara un uno por ciento de esa manera...seria famoso...ah, por cierto, la envidia es casii particularmente patrimonio de algunos profesores de piano....

[@gdkabsbdkwkwm4187]

Extremely great virtuoso but i dont like interpratation. I love Lugansky. It sounds like jazz improvisation here

[@nassera]

Maybe that's what Rachmaninoff had in mind.

[@ronwalker4849]

WELL, BROKEN STRING OR NOT HE PLAYS TO FUCKING FAST AND TRIVALIZES A GREAT WORK OF RACHMANINOFF. THE POINT IS NOT TO PLAY AS MANY NOTES PER SECOND AS POSSIBLE-AND ONE WOULD THINK THAT HOROWITZ KNOWS BETTER. WELL-- TWO FOR THE PRICE OF ONE. JEWISH DILEMA-- PORK HALF PRICE.

[@jamesholiday321]

Ron Walker you are a soupless moron

[@Fritz_Maisenbacher]

Are you mad ?

[@j.vonhogen9650]

Never comment on a video while being on drugs and alcohol, because it will make you look like an insane drunk.

[@nassera]

Well goodbye Mr. Walker!