Відео

beautiful

Sounds great. Did you re-equalize for the different curve? I find that a cut at about 1K and a slight bump up from 2K-5K often can help with 50s mono recordings that have an "auditorium" sound.

Excellent restoration!

He taught my teacher, very enlightening. Thank you for posting ❤️

I really appreciate those who tackle ALKAN

thank you so much

He was in fantastic form in 1942. Certainly surpasses the rejected 1935 take

Back when society had class and decorum

Now its Cardi B

Excellent transfer.

One of my faves

Is interesting. Will do the 7th rhapsody on the other side now that I’ve swapped out for a newer cartridge.

Yesssss

Thanks!!

Tall zaddy shredding hard oh fuk yeah

Ogdon was one of the greatest pianists

Do you see he had plasters or bandage on his litte fingers And his play is great

和《義勇軍進行曲》完全是兩碼事！

The Piano Files with Mark Ainley "A glorious 1926 recording of the legendary Polish pianist Ignaz Friedman playing Chopin's Mazurka in B minor Op.33 No.4. The highly individual interpreter was largely ignored by recording companies after his death in 1948: Columbia never issued a single LP (or CD) containing any of several hours' worth of 78rpm discs he produced for the label. I first read about the artist in Harold C Schonberg's classic tome The Great Pianists in the mid-1980s, when I first got into historical recordings, and dreamed of finding the Nocturne in E-Flat Op.55 No.2 that he wrote so poetically about; I would have to wait until Schonberg himself gave a lecture in my home town of Montreal in 1988 and played the performance... and nothing was the same after that. Friedman's playing is not for the faint of heart, particularly as the conception of Romanticism these days is much more sanitized than things actually were during that era and those that immediately followed it. The Polish pianist's playing is bold and impetuous, quixotic and evocative, individual in a way that can be startling to some listeners today... but truly today's pianists are by and large individual in a much more self-centred way than was Friedman, despite the stated intention of respecting the score. When Friedman stretches a phrase, he is not just adjusting the timing but also the dynamic shading, tonal colour, and auric quality (via the pedal and touch), as well as its relationship with harmonic and other melodic elements - but modern ears tend to hear things along a single plane and not this multi-dimensional shift. Particularly remarkable are Friedman's legendary traversal of Chopin Mazurkas, which feature a rhythmic pulse and accenting that are completely different from the norm. Yet Friedman actually danced this folk song as a child in his native country, and Chopin was known to have insisted on particular accenting in mazurkas: Schonberg writes of an incident when Meyerbeer visited Chopin and the two ended up in a disagreement of the rhythmic element of his mazurkas, Meyerbeer saying he was playing it 2/4 and Chopin insisting it was 3/4. To those who find Friedman's readings unsettling, it is worth considering: is there any guarantee that if by some miracle a recording of Chopin was found that he would play as we imagine he would - and that we would like it? And if not, what does that suggest about our tastes and preferences, when musicians and music lovers today speak so strongly about the need to respect the composer's wishes and the score? Friedman recorded a dozen mazurkas for in 1930 but also recorded a few one-offs, and this 1926 account of one of these pieces that he included in his 1930 set is also very much worth hearing. As always with Friedman, we have that rich singing sound, incredible rhythmic bite and buoyancy, phrasing that alternates between sensual and playful, gorgeous legato lines, and intelligent use of articulation to provide dimension and shaping. A 3-minute master class by one of the all-time greats!"

Grande performance! After Etude no. 8 Wilde Jagd, the audience was stunning! No one moved; they needed a minute to realize it was the end. Boris presented this piece with such a powerful technique! It is one of the most difficult and well-known. Demonic power inside him! Bravo Boris!

liszt reincarnated

Great Three Remasters! This Czerny Variation is one of my favorite of Horowitz. I had uploaded the Sony's 2008 remaster of this recording, which they did a good job at reducing white-noises but the result is in a bad sonic. Also at the opening there is a small noise issue! ua-cam.com/video/4o1l2ZpeuDk/v-deo.html

Horowitz is for shure among the world top pianists ever

Thanks for your great video! Could you do a remaster at the 1949 Liszt Sonata or the 1969 Boston Recital?

오...신이시여...미국이여...부활하라...트럼앞길에 영광있으라..

un grande horovitz

This is what youtube is for. Preserving historical events

Горовиц великий пианист, но мне больше всего нравится, что он невозмутим и безэмоционален, он не дергается как многие пианисты, он просто передает эмоции по средствам самой музыки

"Les tringles des sisters tintaient..." There appear to be several versions of these incredible variations. Can you imagine Trump going anywhere near this kind of class? He'd probably lean on the piano cover, wolfing a MCBurger and throwing ketchup at the wals, belching, and asking Horowitz if he knows YMCA. Does Horo have a bandaid on his pinky?? Bizet: dead at, what?, 36 or so? What a loss.

plus cette horrible bande bleue..Enfin ! Quand je pense qu'une partie seulement de ses récitals de 65/66 ont été commercialisés en un seul dvd, et que la qualité de la vidéo était mauvaise, alors qu'Horowitz était au mieux de sa forme...

Rubinstein will always be the greatest for the Polonaise, but the Sonata more than made up for it

By far the best piano rendition of this waltz I have ever heard.

superb!

I wish you could remaster the whole recital at 1969 Boston. Or just the Chopin Ballade..

is there pedal

Won't be seeing this for the next four years.

Merveilleux...quelle émotion,quelle délicatesse,quelle passion ,quelle fougue ...Liszt le compositeur qui a ma préférence, l'a peut être joué ainsi...merci pour ce grand moment de bonheur

Es un orquesta ❤🥰

Still the master of music but old age u cant deny so many wrong notes... 😁but then, u dont judge based in that! Dearest supreme maestro💐

すみません、私はこの時代にまだ生まれてないので分からないから教えて欲しいのです。 ロシア人のホロヴィッツがアメリカのホワイトハウスに呼ばれることはとても凄い事なのは分かりますが、当時冷戦のいざこざはなかったのでしょうか。

how is that slow?

Classic rec

One of the greatest talents of Russia ever!!! Incredible musical purity and everything one needs to become No 1! I never understood what happened and why she disappeared a short time after her incredible performances at the Reine Elisabeth competition! I hope she is happy and she had a good life!

Can you imagine this now in the White House?

Definitely the best and most easily listenable versions of these I’ve heard yet-a lot of Rach’s recordings were made during my absolute least favorite period of recording history sonic-wise, but this transfer/restoration is fantastic!

Btw alt takes of these exist. Still have not located them tho

wow. great transfer.

Your work is at the same level of Ward Marston's audio restoration of these recordings for the Naxos label. Bravo! "When Rachmaninoff came to record Schumann's Carnaval, Op. 9, on 9th April 1929 he recorded two takes of each side and three of side four in a 3-hour afternoon session. The next morning he spent two hours recording further takes of each side with the exception of side four, and in the afternoon recorded part of his 2nd Piano Concerto in C minor, Op. 18 with the Philadelphia Orchestra. Two days later the session took place with the aborted attempt at the beginning of the Chopin B-flat minor Piano Sonata Op. 35, followed by retakes of the first two sides of 'Carnaval'. Rachmaninoff was obviously not satisfied with the first side of 'Carnaval' as he made eight(!) attempts, the seventh being passed for publication." ~ from the Naxos #8.112020 booklet notes written by Jonathan Summers

ohhhh thank you so much!!!!

The clearest audio from the rachmaninoff recording! Thank you kind sir. ❤