It definitely sounds worth buying. I liked your words, in the review, describing the 1932 and the 1977 versions of the Liszt Sonata ... especially your mention...
That is correct - the cut (as in the Islamey cut) seems to have been intentional. Joe P Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device ... From: "mkaykov"...
2 fascinating & remarkable letters from Rudolph Serkin to Horowitz: 9/15/1977 "Dearest ,beloved Volodya, time is such an elusive element that I cannot wait any...
... Having heard it, any thoughts as to why, Hank? Did H think them superfluous, perhaps, or boring for the audience? I recall as a student coming across an...
As I recall, Rachmaninoff played the Liszt Sonata in his recitals during a few seasons. Is he known to have made any cuts as he did in his own works? Maybe...
i forget where i read this but apparently serkin and horowitz were to make a recording of schubert 4 hands but it never happened. what a loss. right up there...
... Rachmaninoff's recording of the Beethoven 32 variations is certainly cut, but I'd always assumed that was so that it could fit onto 78s...he curtailed his...
The liner notes mention the cut but make no other comment. It may well have been more customary in those days, just as the cuts in Rachmaninoff's Third...
I believe Horowitz' early Beethoven Variations is not cut, so getting it all on one record (or one side) should not have been the reason. Both are early...
I recall James Conlon speaking about the end of Rach 3 during a rehearsal at the recent Cliburn Comp. He was speculating that SVR took a less than relaxed...
Rachmaninoff would never make cuts in another composer's piece. Liszt arrangements and mutilations are Horowitz's own perversion./ Who else would think of...
... Perhaps you would like to justify that claim, particularly in the light of his revision of the Beethoven 32 variations? ... 'Perversion' & 'mutilation'...
That's just mkaykov's usual ignorant, unsubstantiated statement - not in line with any facts. Sacrelige or not, many of Horowitz's changes to Liszt's works,...
... Why automatically assume that the cut was made for ignoble or self-serving reasons. As has already been pointed out by another member of this grouop,...
... Nicely put Hans. I recall Horowitz commenting that audiences at this time found even Chopin's G-minor ballade to be 'challenging', and it is important to...
... It is quite surprising that nowadays, when philology has demolished the 20th century's utopian theory of musical text's intangibility and has deepened our...
It is quite surprising that nowadays, when philology has demolished the 20th century's utopian theory of musical text's intangibility and has deepened our...
Horowitz improves Liszt? that is the funniest thing I ever heard. And messing with the damn Liszt sonata - well, that is simply unacceptable. What a terrible...
... Don't you mean the 4th movement? That was what I got when I visited the Pristine site. Anyway, I received the recording yesterday and have now listened to...
... or a cadenza ... in different style ... ... as hank pointed out, at some points horowitz improved on the original. and his transcriptions are almost always...
tru, but I will play it this November, better than Horowitz ever did. I listen to the 1949 recording, it is definitely the worst recording the piece that I...
you are comparing Rachmaninoff cadenza to the Liszt HR 2 to the damn cut that Horowitz put in the Sonata? Shame on you! The Horowitz recording is probably on...
... ...and if you think Horowitz has no technique, you are no pianist - and make yourself an object of ridicule by such claims the more so because you appear...
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