... Just for your information SONY will include two previously unreleased recitals from March 5, 1951 & Nov 12, 1967. this is sensational news. thank you,...
I came across this book written in published in 1997, and wondered if anyone here might have read it?: http://www.allbookstores.com/book/2843190002 Hadn't come...
I vividly remember the first time I heard the 1969 Kreisleriana. It was September of 1985 - I was fresh out of high school. I worked at a classical record...
Reading your passages, I felt I was reading a novel or something. I wish I could express myself that way too! In my case, it was 1989 when I first marveled at...
Is the 2007 Horowitz plays Schumann the Blu-spec release? I haven't heard it, so I don't know which takes were used. However, every reissue of the 1969...
hank - thank you for this beautiful writing. i must think that horowitz himself would have been moved. MRB http://www.fuguewriter.com ... was September of 1985...
The complete Origial Jacket collection is now listed on American Amazon for release on November 10th. The Legendary Berlin Concert has been pushed back to...
Mr. Cram's advertising career began at Dowd, Redfield & Johnstone, continued as vice president at J. Walter Thompson Company, and then senior vice president at...
Looks like release of the Original Jackets box has been pushed back to December 1 in the US and Canada. It's still scheduled to come out in early November in...
Today I received an email from Sony Music Japan as an answer to my inquiry. As for Schumann's Kreisleriana (CBS) and Sonata Op.14 (RCA), they say the genuine...
Complete Set released from Sony Japan http://www.amazon.co.jp/gp/switch-language/product/B002IUBHEI/ref=dp_change_lang?ie=UTF8&language=en%5FJP I do not know...
In Japan, some people are prevailing the rumour that, on hearing the death of William Kapell, Horowitz said somthing like "Now I am the No.1!" Do you happen to...
I have been studying Horowitz for over 25 years and I have never heard of him making this comment. As an editor of Wikipedia, I can assure you, not everything...
There was a newspaper report that Horowitz was dining at Maxwell's Plum (a restaurant on Manhattan's East Side) the day that Liberace died. A patron came up to...
That was also mentioned in David Dubal's Evenings with Horowitz. Interesting info about the "corrrect" Kriesleriana being included in the Japanese set. The...
I think the statement is absurd, and coming from Wiki makes me doubt it even more. So many things are attributed to famous people but with so little...
Wikipedia has its issues - the most problematic, which Joe pointed out, is that anyone can add or delete information from an article. Many editors, myself...
... Despite the fact that Horowitz was highly narcissistic, insecure, child-ish/like, frequently bitchy and unkind (as well as the opposite of all these), and...
Except that Kapell's record company was also Horowitz's record company. And considering that Horowitz's producer at the time, Jack Pfeiffer, was also Kapell's...
Thank you, everyone! Now I am sure my understanding is correct and that episode is nothing but a made-up story. Unfortunately, though, since the passages had...
Gotta be bogus. I think VH had a great sense of humour and talked nonsense knowing that gullible folks would believe him. Read much of Dubal's Conversations...
Thought this was interesting: http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/classical/article6904982.ece "Stephen Hough is more...
Hmm. Didn't Antonio Banderas' character say that exact quote at the end of the film "Assassins" after Sylvester Stallone's character quit the business? Or...