Hi Everyone - I'm out of the country for a couple weeks and out of touch with the forum so apologies if this has been covered already. I received an email from...
Hi, all members! Deutsche Grammophon will release in june this year the last concert of VH's career, in Hamburg, 21-6-1987. Here what I have received yesterday...
Wonderful!!! Horowitz diehard fans can finally replace the noisy radio broadcast with a clear digital recording. I hope DG will add a little bonus to this...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8YybN8vmfg we all know he is being a little primadonna (and how can you blame him when being put on the spot like that at his...
Alexander Grynyuk (winner of the Horowitz competition in Kiew) plays a version of Carmen that is to the 1928 version. see his website: http://www.grynyuk.com/ ...
Works fine on mine. Switch to Firefox, far superior to Internet Explorer.... This guy is a major talent. As is Valeri Kuleshev who made a great recording of...
... i first heard him a few years in a scrambled mp3 of the "carmen variations" from a russian competition. he definitely was trying to out-horowitz horowitz -...
Rosenthal, among others, apparently started as a fire breathing virtuoso and matured into a technically-astounding but musical artist. So I have hope for ...
Mr. Janis did favor us with a little playing, including a beautifully liquid opening of the Piano Concerto No. 4 of Beethoven, following this charming...
The keyboard was sent to Wells, Maine, to be restored by Russell Grethe, who has done ivory restoration work for Vladimir Horowitz and Henry Kissinger. - ...
[Walter Ponce] came to the United States at age 17 on a Fulbright grant, receiving a Master's and doctorate from The Juilliard School, where he was one of...
Dieckow, who's originally from Texas, said he knew from a young age that he wanted to be a pianist. He studied under Dalies Frantz at the University of Texas...
I didn't hear a thing that suggests he interprets a single note, personally. Impressive speed but I couldn't say a single positive thing beyond that. He is...
We know that Horowitz has five pianos, and his CD503 is the one he took on tours in his late years (including the Moscow recital, of course). I wonder,...
CD 186 began having problems in 1972, mostly related to the action. According to the Plaskin biography, it became so bad that Horowitz erupted into a temper...
Thanks to you all. So that means the piano he thought "sounded too strident" and replaced by CD186 was actually CD503 that he used for his concert tours in...
... Curious: I wonder where he got it? I recall in the mid 1980's that Steinway's in London had on sale the piano Horowitz played when he came to the Festival...
Same impression here: Lang Lang might be playing on one of the H's pianos, but he might not own them. Perhaps he has access to the piano through Gary...
I was thinking the other day about all the things that shape and change musicality as one goes through life. I don't think I've ever seen anything about this...
... Nothing apparent in H's evolved 'musical approach' could be accounted for by any form of hearing loss, in my opinion - his sensitivity to voicing and...
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