http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVXEv2Bfw04 [ c/o Bernie H. ] [ We see again that certain would-be biographers may be inaccurate. Horowitz didn't badly bungle...
So, news: My book's been published! "She and I: A Fugue" - seven years in the writing, and has all my soul in it. It's an account of an "amour fou" I...
I've just been listening to Mikhail Pletnov playing the Chopin c-sharp minor nocturne op. posth. As on many other previous occasions, I find his playing devoid...
Virgil Thomson's oft quoted line that VH was a "master of distortion and exaggeration" was turned on its head by VH, who responded "so was Michelangelo, so was...
Consult the collected letters of Arturo Toscanini who wrote one evening after collaborating with H (I believe it was the Emperor Concerto): "Horowitz played...
... Given the lack of commercial success of the original issue - and the current state of the CM market - I wonder why they might do that, particularly when...
this seems self defeating Mark. If all those companies go down the drain, what exactly do you think will happen to their archives? Most likely they would go...
He also played with a mature sense of good judgement most easy to notice in close examination of his work on dvd. Common sense, some might say. Horowitz knew...
... I think what would would happen is perfectly clear - the same as what happens whenever any company goes broke. The assets are sold off to the highest...
Sadly, this seems to be true. Here's an example: In 1970 a splendid documentary film was released about Arthur Rubinstein, called "Love of Life". It won...
This Mussorgsky-Liszt CD should be new in the Private Collection series: http://www.cduniverse.com/productinfo.asp?pid=7944747&style=classical The other...
... I think that the case you describe - that of a single recording - is quite different from the case I am thinking of in which extensive discographies of...
the copyright mess might work the other way also - not that I am encouraging anyone in this manner. I am not an attorney. I don't play one on TV. But if...
... Alfonso Alberti, an Italian pianist who wrote a beautiful book about VH, had the opportunity to listen to the Private Recordings held in Yale University...
... Alberti doesn't compare the 1946 reading with the 1949 one. I don't know if he could listen to all the VH recitals held in Yale (I reasonably think he...
Hi everybody! Mark's post about the 1946 version of Liszt's Sonata convinced me to write something about a book published in Italy (Vladimir Horowitz, by...
... Thank you very much for taking the trouble to translate this interesting information: I may buy the Italian books as an opportunity for me to brush up my...
dear all, thanks for letting me join your group. found you by hazard - was googling for information on tchaikovsky's piano concerto 1 B-flat Minor (one of my...
... Welcomer Ellie, I wonder which version of the Tchaikovsky you came across?...If it was not the 1953 version with George Szell, then you are in for quite a...
There are 3, the 1941 studio recording with Toscanini, the 1943 live recording with same, and the live version with Szell referred to. My personal fav is the...
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