Vladimir Horowitz plays Rachmaninoff sonata No. 2 op. 36

There is only one Horowitz, then the rest. A true titan

He plays just like my piano teacher told me never to do! Friggin pioano teachers!

The Greatest

Horowitz was born to play Liszt and Rachmaninoff, but he should not have bothered with Mozart, there are others who played it better than he did.

This is not music.

La disperazione di un artista in musica rip Sergej

These look like the fingers of God himself.

He is the supreme master of sonorities. As Isaac Stern said of him: "With two notes he could produce twenty colours." And his ability to create "the singing line" is matchless. There are not enough superlatives to describe his playing.

Horowitz playing was just pure magic, slight mistakes and all. His sound was so original, no imitation here whatsoever!

Les graves sont trop accentués, et c'est très brouillon, très décousu !
Si Rachmaninov l'a félicité, ça n'est certainement pas pour l'interprétation de ce jour-là !
Le cirque, c'est très bien... au cirque !

The bass notes are too accentuated, and the whole thing is very jumbled and disjointed!
If Rachmaninov congratulated him, it certainly wasn't for his performance that day!
The circus is all very well... at the circus!

Had 2 wipe dat. Gape duh xoxo 🦴🙊

私が聞いてきた中で1番素晴らしい演奏。彼の演奏が大好きです

Little comment from someone who doesn't play music: Horowitz keeps his fingers flatter than any other pianist I've ever seen. I know this was a point with him.

1968년 라이브도 영상으로 남았음 좋았을텐데

When he performed it?

Headbanging to Horowitz-Rachmaninoff like it's death metal

When I was a young pianist I so wanted to hear him in person. Never got the chance, but so thrilled to find this recording.

I actually like Horowitz's version of the second movement more than both versions of this Sonata. I think that it flows much more nicely, still retaining all the most beautiful parts.

From to eternity 🙏🙏🙏❤

Остаётся лишь выразиться словами поэта, - как же могут эти руки эти звуки извлекать? Звук у Горовица никем другим невоспроизводим, это просто плен, безоговорочный и безусловный.

actually a wonderful non classical rendering of a classical masterpiece

Судя по всему, почему-то некоторые комментаторы не понимают в середине 21 века, что в музыке - самое главное. Что главное - именно СМЫСЛ и ОРИГИНАЛЬНОСТЬ интерпретации, а не правильные ноты и даже ремарки редакторов и композитора. Это говорит об уровне культуры данных комментаторов...

Дедушка Горовиц просто молодчина! Так играть в 75 лет... Столько теплоты, сердечности. Не то, что нынешние лауреаты - лишь бы только ноты сыграть быстрее и точнее...Компьютер всё равно сыграет быстрее и точнее - это уже давно понятно. Если, хотя бы, вспомнить шахматные матчи Каспарова с компьютером...

I mean this in total seriousness: Watching Horowitz play is a piano lesson for me. I learn so many things. I have to be mentally and emotionally prepared for it because it's otherwise like drinking from a firehose.

Ok, tar & feather me, Fats Waller, Glenn Miller, Liberace & Johan Blohm do more for me.

Efectivamente, Vladimir Horowitz, fue un gran pianista legendario de la elite de otros maestros virtuosos tales como los rusos Emil Gilels, Sviatoslav Richter, Lazar Berman, además de otros como Arthur Rubinstein, Cláudio Arrau, Alfred Brendel, Gyorgi Czsiffra, etc. Gracias! Por compartir. Saludos desde México.

Крутой на многие времена 🔥🔥👍👍👍💐💐💐👏

Horowitz once referred to Rachmaninoff as “the musical God of my youth.”

😭😭I cried

Why does it sound to me like someone is constantly popping bubble wrap in the video?

That's called an overflow of applause that just burst forth in sheer enthusiasm

Mind blowing A full exposition of the possibilities of pianistic technical feats Must be an ordeal to master,but always passionate and alive and very strong

One can watch this performance again and again add somehow be transported by the clarity of melody and the " on the edge" delivery. Perhaps Vladimir is the only pianist who somehow overrides any slight mishap or indiscretion without it making a jot of difference!

I‘m really disappointed to find advertisement in the middle of the piece, at the end or beginning, ok, but not during the video itself!

Amazing, truly fascinating to see the dynamics change so fast and beautifully. Truly a genius.

But I must say that this is quite surprising, I don't know how he didn't break a few strings here and there playing this loud honestly

Great✨️✨️✨️

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