My interpretation of Rakoczy March during a recital in Paris (Sorbonne, Richelieu Hall) on January 21st, 2006 : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiLVFYl3m3c...
Just poking around itunes, and see that there is a new album out Couldn't tell if it was new material (doubt it) Anyone have it? Comments? -- Joe Salerno ...
Hey y'all, Just joined this group and a few other classical piano groups a day or two ago upon watching "The Golden Age of the Piano" and "Horowitz in Moscow"...
... There are three commonly available Horowitz videos of this piece, one from Carnegie Hall 1968, London Royal Festival Hall 1982 and Moscow Great Hall of the...
Perfect! Thank you for sharing your knowledge. The video clip of the Scriabin etude is pretty sweet! In fact, I'll check out as many of his clips as...
some months ago i was listening to an mp3 that was identified as a live pirate of horowitz playing the mephisto waltz, late 1970s - just the ending 25 seconds...
Michael, I doubt the pitch shift had anything to do with the Mp3 as such. If so the Mp3 was probably encoded at a different sample rate than normal which the...
christian: you'll notice that i didn't denounce the mp3 process as such - hence my saying "somewhere along the line." my main point is that one would hardly...
... just ... water ... too ... It's deliberate I think. There's a funny note on the commercial recording (I presume this recording is the same one and not a ...
... just ... diabolical ... water ... too ... and ... sharp. Actually, have I misunderstood you? Is the whole mp3 a semitone too high or are you talking about...
... no, the whole piece was sharp by almost a semitone. ... in the commercial recording he hits a g-natural by mistake, i think with r/h finger 5. ... not in...
... I like it personally. I think it really adds something to the impact of the chord. (though nothing can beat, as has been discussed before, ... Where is...
Regarding the Hofmann, someone may have transferred the record at 78 rpm. With earlier 78s it is a mistake to assume that they were recorded at 78. The reality...
... v.h.'s voice in the "live" ormandy rach iii, movt. 2 - i think too many record people were sniffing coke and going to studio 54 or something.) ... my mp3...
Has anyone noticed that what seems like the complete performance of Vladimir Horowitz at Carnegie Hall is now on youtube. Some shattering and wonderful...
Many thanks!....A most curious interview - I notice it included footage of him playing part of the Liszt Sonata (oddly truncated?) at some concert or other -...
It was almost surely editied this way for broadcast purposes. It was, I presume, his November concert of the same year in Orchestra Hall, Chicago. It is...
... i agree entirely. there's no way horowitz truncated the ending. the t.v. people just wanted to make a virtuoso "ending" to it. you know, we could try to...