Vladimir Horowitz - The Last Romantic 8/12 Rachmaninoff - Prelude in G-Sharp, Op 32, No. 12

[@Keira13]

When Horowitz said "he was a friend, my best friend" I teared up a little

[@lepredator189]

I did tear up too. harsh lohani, what the fuck was your unnecessary comment for? Way to denigrate a moment of such high praise from one giant to another.

[@rachmaninoffsergeivasilyev4738]

I miss the old good times.

[@rpfigueiredo]

One can only begin to imagine Rachmaninoff and Horowitz playing together...it might have been as brilliant as Chopin and Liszt!

[@giulianaguerresi4648]

HA mani straordinarie che dominano la tastiera senza parere e l'interpretazione è straordinaria sempre

[@HeadlessJedi]

I dont know why, but when I hear him talking about Rachmaninoff, I get all teary. And then he plays that prelude absolutely incredibly.... The two greats....

[@leonmaliniak]

I have run out of SUPERLATIVES to describe this man. In a class by himslef. His performances are transcendental and his repertoire by memory is incredible. It is so sad that many people who do not know the piano or do not know the complexity of classical compositions cannot really understand how hard it is to do what he is doing. There are many great pianists and many of them can probably play many if not all of the same pieces that HOROWITZ plays, which is a tribute to the quality of education of all the great music schools, but there is not one other one even today who has the whole package like HOROWITZ has. What's more amazing is how he could continue to play at such a high level even in his eighties...a PHYSICAL feat in itself. He looks so frail, can barely walk at this stage, and his speech and movements are so slow and feeble...UNTIL HE SITS DOWN AT THE PIANO

[@hoangbv]

I cannot agree more to this!

[@satyu131089]

1:00 was when I was simply blown away when he played the best melody ever, from the Rachmaninoff Concerto 2.. A pity he never recorded it..

[@hafman715]

Mr. Horowitz was, to me, such a prime example of how ones technical abilities, like one’s dexterity, deteriorates over time, yet one’s musical sensibilities may evolve and grow till the end. He was, indeed, a marvel of emotional expression.

[@hellomate639]

I love how Horowitz just sorta goes and plays something casual as an example and the little bit is ridiculously gorgeous.

[@liedersanger1]

Opus 32 Exactly!

[@kirkwahmmet8406]

Rach 2

[@sofrech1991]

That tiny bit of the Second sent a chill down my spine. Rachmaninoff just comes naturally to him.

[@JamisonEmmett]

His playing in without question incredible, but the way he speaks briefly of his relationship with Rachmaninoff is what I find most appealing. It is to unfortunate that none of the times they played his pieces for two pianos were recorded. These two amazing talents playing together would be unrivaled in my mind.

[@drssdinblck]

At the end he says HE couldn't do better, but I'm convinced no one could do better. I have heard different interpretation of this prelude from Horowitz, but this is his best.

[@iburakulker]

Oh my.. How fluent, natural and emotional. He says ; I cannot do better!! Can anyone do better? Wish you long live..be still alive

[@uhartchristian]

horowitz does force us to listen. nobody else reached this power on us like him. the secret of his succes and the exaltation of the public comes from that ability to capture the attention fo those who listen.

[@beatrusa]

Such wonderful music played so exquisite and full of emotion, Rachmaninoff would enjoy his playing so much! Amazing!

[@liyumeiable]

wow! This was my encore piece in my graduation solo recital! Full of memories. Love Horowitz's interpretation.

[@bizbizo2988]

I cannot do it better nobody can do better I wish I could do it better what a love my good thanks to all you angels of music

[@PorscheGT-yj2me]

Theirs something about this prelude that makes it so mysterious, for example the low octave at 2:03 and the blending of all the notes.

[@sebasjung7201]

what a love take a photo of young rachmaninov and young horowitz together this energy you hear here and now the two finally together for good and for god in paradise making music for all the beautiful angels there and for me here and there since i am teenager what a love

[@jasonchiang251]

at the end he says he cannot do better... he is already doing what nobody else has done in the entire world and it is playing it as everybody intended

[@DrOli]

@asphalteaters 0:40- 0:47 Start of the 1st movement of Rachmaninoff's Third concerto. Horowitz plays the strings part 1:02-1:12 The third movement of the second concerto by Rachmaninoff, thought I don't think Horowitz ever played the second concerto in public.

[@ronl7131]

....heart and soul.....wow....

[@belialah]

loock his age, then loock his memory. perfecto descanza en paz mi querido Horowitz

[@thejesusfreak919]

You should understand, though, it's like picking through your two bestfriends and saying which you like more. :)

[@ValseMelancolique]

He was playing straight from his ❤️

[@bassann22]

i always prefered richters version of this piece over any others.... Now (despite few false tones) i find this one the nicest for me.... simply wonderfull somehow sad and melancholic.... how did he do it i do not know but after he finished i even had tiers in my eyes... wonderfull....

[@francodegrandis7531]

Lei preferisce Richter,quando Rachmaninov preferisce Horowitz avendo anche studiato con lui i suoi pezzi?

[@gphilipsparks]

@mikeasteele That was the Concerto No. 2. That particular motif, the huge chords presenting the melody in the right hand and the large rolling arpeggios in the left, is very prominent in the second concerto.

[@camilocastiblanco6544]

Horowitz was unique!

[@pierpaderni2970]

this aesthetic communication enters my soul deeply and echoes times and people that aren't anymore...lost into a spell that brings beauty to highest levels and a deep melancholy...magic...

[@СергейБезрукавный-с4н]

Что не говори, а ведь они Русские пианисты! Русская фортепианная школа!

[@ultracoolhomies]

I wish he recorded concerto no. 2. I only think he did no3

[@rpfigueiredo]

@44STYLE187 It is the first movement from his second piano concerto.

[@NewParodiano]

"""i can do it better!!!""" ahahah horowitz is an amazing pianist and so nice!!!

[@bassann22]

i always liked this piece from richter.... now thought (despite few false tones) i find this version the nicest.... it is wonderfull... no other words for it... i do not know somehow sad and melancholic.... i had one tier out of my eye when he finished...

[@counterpoints_]

@tony92montana it's the very beginning of the first movement of Rach 3. But it is in the second piano/orchestra part

[@DAKLAN2377]

what a wonderful human being

[@137uc14]

I didn´t know he played Rachmaninov second piano concerto. I wonder if he played Beethoven 32 sonatas too or just some of them.

[@dzanc]

@RemovdSande11 Position at the piano is a major factor in tecnique. There are some (like Berezovsky and, as I recall, Richter) who sit very high (despite being very tall already), and there are some (Horowitz, or Gould) who sit lower. The way you sit must fit your body and your tecnique. Personally I used to set the stool as low as I could because it was good when playing Bach, Scarlatti, Chopin. In the last two years I've been playing a lot of Liszt, Rachmaninov, Chopin etc. so my tecnique...

[@dmcII]

@tony92montana That part that he played is pretty much the best known melody from the Rach 2nd PC.

[@uhartchristian]

@Bret6464 I do recommend you to listen also to the recordings of Annie Fischer here on youtube. She is far away from Horrowitz s excentric play but forces also every heart to listen . With Horowitz you listen with your ears, with Annie Fischer you listen with your heart.... She was a giant but relatively little known, as behind the iron curtain in a country used as colony for russia... Richter admired her

[@RemovdSande11]

@TheSwordsweeper thanks for the reply. Myself im 1.94 long, but I recall that the length of your upper arm is the most important factor. Atm im having problems with my seithheight and my handpositioning (I had a teacher but not atm, so its difficult to know if im in correct position seat and armwise.

[@小林弘明-n2y]

KOBE JAPAN,なんと素晴らしい。7.2016.

[@fredhoupt4078]

Though he looses control in a few places, it is still a very haunting performance.

[@John19182004]

Looses? Who the fuck taught you how to spell? Perhaps you mean "loses" ?? And no, he doesn't. It's called being an artist, not a robot.

[@nicoerr]

+John19182004 Relax man

[@NguyenNguyen-sz4yj]

No he didn't lose anything man. Be polite to talk about him next time.

[@fredhoupt4078]

with all due respect, I have listened to many Horowitz recordings covering his very long career. When he was a young man he had phenomenal technique coupled with equally strong control. As he aged his grip weakened even though he trotted out the high horsepower technique even after his body could no longer control all those horses. So, he lapsed into more and more technique rather than polished finesse. I know what he can crank out and at his best in certain genre's he is at the top of a big list of great talents. If you compare his younger days with the same piece when he was an old man you can easily pick out where the train lifts off the tracks a bit. It also helps if you are very familiar with the music. So, when you want to compare performances, make sure you have the sheet music handy. For a guy like Gould he rarely released if ever a performance that did not sound letter perfect. The same is true, so far, with someone like Marc Andre Hamelin, whose technique is super human.

[@digitalpatrick]

I think moreso than anything else it was a funny comment, like, "dont take the lords name in vein" - Horowitz was just such an incredible man. I love him, that rare love you have for your favourite teacher kind of love.

[@PhiliisCool]

A pity he never recorded a large amount of his rep. Brahms-paganini, Mazeppa, Feux follets, Gaspard, Prok 6, Don jaun, and the list goes on.

[@pptcly]

go on plz

[@R0elR0elz]

@HotSo0P, I have to disagree. Although Horowitz certainly is one of the best if not THE best pianist of the last century there are a few people I can truly appreciate in these times as well: Martha Argerich, Evgeny Kissin, Daniel Barenboim and Boris Berezovsky are some of my favourites. I'm certainly forgetting a few as I'm not familiar with all pianists.

[@moritzb.7273]

What is the piece played at 0:44? Is it from the concerto no 3?

[@ieuandavies9380]

Moritz B. I think it's the start of the orchestral part of Rach3, mvmnt. 1.

[@leonschneider8667]

its similar to 3 but actually its 2

[@peterrowan9955]

Piraschki10kg Fan it’s 3

[@peterrowan9955]

@@flyingpenandpaper6119 time stamp 0:44 is him playing the first movement of the third concerto. He then plays the excerpt you are referring to a good while after this.

[@flyingpenandpaper6119]

@@peterrowan9955 Oh boy, that's a silly mistake. I didn't even register that he played an actual piece there so I assumed the question was about 1:00. Sorry.

[@tteu123]

The opening bars of Rachmaninov's Prelude Op. 32, No. 12, are so similar - if not identical - to the opening of Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody No. 11. Check it out, and please tell me if you agree or disagree.

[@TomBarrister]

Both open with the same flutter. After that, they're different.

[@jayshko]

Is it weird that I like this interpretation much better than that of Rachmaninoff himself?

[@HAL_NlNETH0USAND]

Which are the other portraits besides Rachmaninoff's? The one on the left is either Medtner or Padarewski the one on top is Rubinstein I suppose.

[@dzanc]

@RemovdSande11 ...has changed, and I changed my way of sitting, setting the stool 4 cms higher. It makes a HUGE difference. (I'm 1.80 m tall).

[@belialah]

@belialah Mejor aun veo que eres de España entonces si entiendes. Estaba añadiendo un comentario al maestro, me imagino que tu sabes mucho mas que yo de musica, voy a darme una vuelta por tu canal a ver.

[@pwoswim11]

@tony92montana it's the start of rachmaninoff's 3rd piano concerto.

[@ciaconne]

too bad the audio video is out of sync. what's really scary is how music just flows out of those fingers

[@SuperLeonardo40]

Que lugar ocuparia Horowitz entre el ranking de pianistas del mundo_?.Ell mejor>>? diria yo?

[@baerhegen]

does anybody know where his version of this in moscou or vienna has gone? or where i can find it else?

[@valeephi]

please which is the date of registration?

[@CRH1A-1145]

Oh strange... Why does the prelude sound as if the key is in A minor? Was the piano overtuned? Deliberately?

[@TomBakkermuziek]

@nevienslats beginning of rachmaninov concerto No. 3 ( not 2 )

[@Ally123234]

@ultracoolhomies He recorded 2 as well. You wont find a video though.

[@steinway1901]

Is it possible to reload in the correct key?

[@BananaPeelzOfficial]

Georgie says vid not synced dude

[@whitecocoa08]

I don't like the curtains, but the music is wonderful (!).

[@uhartchristian]

@Bret6464 there are also more than 200 vidoes to listen of Sergio Fiorentino who had a bigger repertory than Svatoslav Richter !!!! his career was stopped brutally because of a flight accident but his last recordings in germany shows the importance of this man till the end.... he had a tremendous technique and knowledge. His interprations are very natural. Pollini was an amateur compared to him....

[@HAL_NlNETH0USAND]

@ClassicalMusicPL Thank you for the elucidation, I was in the wrong. You have to admit though that the profile of Toscanini looks devilishly like Padarewski.

[@gzoluble]

its Rachmaninov ,Concerto for piano 3

[@yuraseg88]

That was Rachmaninov's 2nd, 3rd movement.

[@hellomate639]

Mistake at 2:33 that is very unusual for Horowitz. Maybe he hadn't practiced it in a while.

[@belialah]

@lovethepiano sorry, my english isnt good. Podemos hablar en español si prefieres que es mi lengua, y es en la que escribo correctamente, lamento tener una falta de ortografia tan grave para tu criterio, mil disculpas ok? respondeme en español por favor

[@rpfigueiredo]

@swingballbros oops, true!

[@xyzpno6847]

What is the composition at 0:43?

[@satiethetutor3337]

The opening bars of the great 3rd Piano Concerto of Rachmaninov

[@xyzpno6847]

Thank you!

[@satiethetutor3337]

It's very much the first movt of Rach 3. Are you saying he's playing it in Eb of D minor? Because the original piece is in D minor

[@satiethetutor3337]

The first bar is just strings . Piano enters in the second bar with the melody. He's playing the strings part.

[@satiethetutor3337]

Totally worth listening to. Horowitz is probably the best player of the piece.

[@PhillyB702]

Did he ever record the second?

[@TheSarahChandler]

@nevienslats Rachmanioff's Concerto No. 2

[@harrynking777]

Yes. Why is that?

[@satyu131089]

Rachmaninoff and Toscanini, his father-in-law

[@RemovdSande11]

can somebody explain why he sits so to low ?

[@TheSarahChandler]

@nevienslats Rachmaninov Concerto No.2

[@dzanc]

1.94? You can sit on the ground dude. Just don't sit too high or your articulation power might suffer.

[@USER-jo7yz]

His hands "speak" much better....

[@GH-oi2jf]

Horowitz was not a Romantic. The Romantic pianists preceded Horowitz and Rubinstein.

[@turnerwarehouse]

video response: watch?v=EcEEfZBFrNw

[@asoidfvgi]

sounds like A minor?

[@2003BenDu]

this sounds better in A minor 🥺

[@HotSo0P]

Hearing Horowitz speak about and play Rachmaninoff is like a glimpse into another world. There was once a time and a place when men such as this achieved incredible heights of artistic triumph. Today, that world is lost.

[@HeadlessJedi]

I dont know why, but when I hear him talking about Rachmaninoff, I get all teary. And then he plays that prelude absolutely incredibly.... The two greats....

[@leanderkolen]

What is the piece at 0:44 ?

[@HQsTR]

Sergei Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No 3 - 1 mvt intro

[@leanderkolen]

@@HQsTR Thanks so much!

[@HQsTR]

@@leanderkolen 🤠