... the way it would be heard in a concert performance. Have you ever listened to a piano with your head stuck inside the instrument? I didn't think so. Why...
... piano for several hours a day, combined with age-related deterioration, have suffered moderate hearing loss. in dubal's "evenings with horowitz" book,...
... Now you've just reminded me about those 1976 Toronto recitals that we discussed here back in 2006: what on earth has happened to them, I wonder? Mark...
1977: Wallace, profile of Vladimir Horowitz.Who else but Wallace could browbeat the aging, resistant maestro to sit at the piano and play a song he hadn't...
In addition, Jim and I have both been involved with musical groups that performed as guests with the DSO at Orchestra Hall, and when you do that you get to...
It's especially interesting to hear his 105th , or, at least, his last thoughts on interpretation. I'm hearing more pedal in both etudes with more swing and...
Looks like Sony/BMG is offering another Orignal Jacket boxed set, this time drawing from his RCA recordings. No new items, but possibly better remasterings. ...
The similarly timed Rubinstein Original Jacket release has remasterings (from the giant Rubinstein collection from a few years back) Just in case folks haven't...
I've been able to gather some more information about Volume II. The sequence will duplicate many of RCA's Gold Seal Horowitz reissues of the early 1990s, and...
... The owner of the vid says the rest of it (21 mins including interview) 'cannot be shared', but he might trade it for other rare material...what is it with...
Vladimir Horowitz Receives the Presidential Medal of Freedom - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qXwGqzIUhs [ no music, only the inimitable personality ]...
Just recently did a few finger twists on a lovely new "D" at the Steinway showcase, and had to react fast to the unexpectedly light action, which was a total...
noble piano lovers: since it's entirely OT and personally-related, i'll keep it brief. i've written a book - seven years' writing - and not only is it finished...
(http://pianosociety.com/new/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=2451&sid=b3b7b8ece2aefd1d2fac6c61300a7d59#2451) Posted: Wed Oct 11, 2006 11:45 am on Piano Society web...
Didn't we detect just a little professional jealousy? It's tantamount to saying Liszt couldn't play the piano. Gulda who?? ... From: LaVirtuosa@... To:...
... I couldn't help asking myself the same question when I read this. I have full understanding for those who prefer other approaches to music than Horowitz's,...
This has always been the criticism of VH. That anyone who is a virtuoso and has such a distinctive and expressive tone must be a charlatan. Sadly Steinberg in...
Gulda Mozart. Like, he was an extreme show-off, more than Horowitz. View Gulda dvd's. ... tantamount to saying Liszt couldn't play the piano. Gulda who?? ... ...
... p=2451&sid=b3b7b8ece2aefd1d2fac6c61300a7d59#2451) Posted: Wed Oct 11, 2006 11:45 am on Piano ... Horowitz; a ... I have ... musicians from ... overrate ...
Consider: Toscannini, perhaps the greatest of interpreter/conductors, was ferociously critical of soloists and of his collaborators. This being said, refer to...
We need to be careful not to through the baby out with the bath water. I think we need to critically examine what is going on here. First of all--we are...
I read somewhere that it was professionally recorded and so probably exists. But Horowitz was savaged by the idiot music critic Michael Steinberg and the...
Gulda was undoubtedly an interesting pianist, especially in terms of his willingness to confront the musical establishment with his unorthodox forays into...
Gulda was an egomaniac who probably hadn't much good to say about anybody who was at the top of the music establishment. Similar comments have been made by his...
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