(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...
Just to clarify in case a misunderstanding develops, I didn't contribute to the text quoted in any way. I studied German [and other languages] in college and...
... Nor should you be - in fact quite the opposite: to be challenged in ones core values and to be prompted to defend them is always worthwhile. It becomes...
Thanks for taking this all in the spirit I intended Val. Although Mark seemed quick to try and dismiss my remark regarding the translation you understood...
Wishful thinking! No Boston '69 never was recorded, which incidentally and ironically is the whole reason we have that hissy audience tape. /Chris ... it...
... Just to expand on Chris' comment, the reason that Columbia didn't record that particular concert (Oct. 26, 1969) was that since he was trying out a couple ...
Interview with Eduardus Halim on Horowitz: http://www.artistshousemusic.org/videos/pianist+eduardus+halim+on+studyi ng+with+vladimir+horowitz I attended a...
I've ordered a copy of the book from Berlin and when it arrives I will post these quotes from Gulda in the original language. [Just a note, my computer doesn't...
Well, Horowitz is hard to describe, so this can be forgiven: http://bushlibrary.tamu.edu/research/public_papers.php? id=1220&year=1989&month=11 At least he's...
My copy of "mein ganzes Leben ist einskandal just arrived. Here's the posted English [which I had gotten from a web page] from before and the original from...
I would rephrase Gulda's unwashed complaint thus: The electric, elemental energy displayed in the performances of Vladimir Horowitz present a different and, to...
I am inclined to agree with your summary. I appreciate you taking the time to post the original German. I think that confirms many of our suspicions......
Horowitz and Liszt played in order to eat. They had cunning as to what live audiences want and/or need. The long-held general opinion that as one get warm...
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