Do you know if the 70 CDs set is already available on European or American Amazon sites? I couldn't find it! Thanks for the informations about the contents: I...
... Not necessarily a blind alley, sometimes a gateway to discovery & eventually (hopefully) maturity, I think. Horowitz followed this path after all, setting...
... carpenter, though the same thing applies to volodos, and all the other speed-demon kids. once you play something at the outer limits of technique and/or...
... You mean Volodos or Mr Carpenter? Haven't heard much of the former recently (is he playing Brahms 2 at the moment?)...and I only came across Cameron...
... Thanks for that. If you're right about the date, then here's the programme of the concert: Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No.3 in D minor, Op.30 Liszt: Piano...
I have just received the 70 CD set. After a first listening, it seems that the Schumann sonata no 3 of the Horowitz concerts 1975-76 come from the same...
Amazon has announced the release of Volume 5 of the Private Collection for January 5, 2010. It will contain Haydn's Sonata No. 52 in E-flat, and Beethoven's...
Allan, Please contact me via email. I have a copy of the 1969 Kreisleriana made directly from the original LP and would be happy to send it to you, along with...
... That first picture is priceless - a great one to use for a caption competition...I offer :'Who are these schmucks?...' The second pic is interesting too -...
If you could send me a list of all these consistencies and errors I will try to have them remedied although it is too late to be done for the new set that is...
... Horowitz manuscripts available? what a shame, donald ... especially in light of one of the pianists quoted in the plaskin biography saying that horowitz...
... Not true, except for the 1957 Carmen Fantasy, for which Horowitz sketched out a rough score for editing purposes. Yale has cataloged and published complete...
I thought RCA insisted he wrote out any transcription he recorded -= cant remember who told me but it was decades ago. if so they may be buried in the yale...
... Well, I hope Mr. Kong Ju Lee has indicated where, in his versions, he believes Horowitz made slips and what he thinks the correct notes should be. With the...
... My reference was to complete, finished versions of the transcriptions in autograph score. None of the three cited fit that description. D.Manildi...
There are at least three Horowitz manuscripts known to me, only one of which is in his hand, however. The early Etude-Fantasy, the 1957 Carmen and a snippet...
I know a guy name Kong Ju Lee who wrote down the transcriptions. According to Kong, who spent many years getting the transcriptions off the recordings and...
Here are some photos I found while net browsing, which may be of interest to the group: 1: Claudio Arrau, Horowitz, Alicia de Larrocha 2: From left to right.:...
... How can anyone make such a statement when there are no original Horowitz manuscripts available? The existing notations were all done by various individuals...
... ....a good point - I wouldn't call any of Horowitz's 'official' transcriptions 'easy' - things like the Danse Macabre & HR 2 & 19 are a damned sight more...
AFAIK, Scriabin never re-worked the compositions of others?....But I admire your suggestion that Scriabin's music is easier to play than it sounds (assuming...