Horowitz is one of the few players who emphasizes the D at 1:07 to prepare the dissonance between the D and Eb at 1:09. This is one of the most sublime parts of the entire piece. Many other pianists who do a great job playing this piece miss this detail, which can make it kinda sound like they're sounding from the same voice. When played on the organ the dissonance is a lot more clear and you can understand more fully Bach's idea here.
"..it was very beautiful, very beautiful..." Horrowitz: " But I didn't compose it.... " In this line he shows his sadness. His dream was to become a composer afterall. I bet he is composing in the life after ;)
The slow tempo, the liberty in tone, colors, embellishments and articulation, the incredible rendition of the polyphonic lines... these are the qualities of a genius.. actually three geniuses are at work here, Bach, Busoni, and Horowitz... This is to me the true representation of the sense of great expectation for the Advent of Our Saviour...this really is for good-will people... thank you for posting this video (look at his fingering and posture, please!!)
This performance grips my soul. It is so very beautiful, made even more beautiful by the honesty and humility of Horowitz. I never met him, but how I miss him!
Busoni intended his transcriptions to make Bach's works better known to the public but the result is that most people know ONLY the transcriptions. All those who admire this piece should listen to the complete "18", one of the supreme masterpieces of all music (and then to the rest of the organ works and then to the rest of Bach).
This piece is taken from a collection of 18 chorales called (not by Bach) "18 chorales of various kinds" or "The Leipzig Chorales" or simply "The 18". This collection could be considered to be the summit of Bach's organ works if only there weren't so many other candidates for this title ...
i admire him in this piece for his flexibility of rhythm He takes time to make the phrases. It's also a very interesting video to watch because it gradually focuses on what he is doing with his hands. I simply don't get to see pianists at work this clearly. This music is complex. The independent melody lines weaving in and out you can follow in his fingers. One of the early commenters here said it was great to see someone just play. There's no show-off body mannerisms.
Horowitz was a GENIUS. You can't categorize a genius by "he's better, he's worse" and all that. He was Horowitz,nobody every played like him, and never will, like him, or not. I put him over many others, despite some flaws, because nobody has ever interpreted music like him.
How Horowitz enriches my life, even after his death! To thrill at his pyrotechnics that cause others to give up on the piano! Then this! Reaching into my soul! Thanks to UA-cam and thank you brianting for this gift and blessing!
Another aspect of this recording is the feeling of relaxation I see in him, and that I feel in me. The piece is unhurried. It is like a lullaby. After listening to it perhaps 20 or 30 times, I still find it refreshing. It is the mark of great artisty (and great empathy from a listener) to be able to enjoy something so often and walk away with the same joy. I find this quality in most pieces of JS Bach when they are played well and with heart. Amen.
@@beatlessteve1010 Amen. Recently someone quoted Yo Yo Ma saying "Perfection is not very communicative." I don't know exactly what he meant. Howver I too have experienced someone playing with such CD quality presentation that it did not inspire me. How can you say to such a performer, "That was too perfect?" (Rhetorical question there.)
What's not in this performance?! Beautiful singing tone and phrasing, endless colours, superb voicing, expression written in capitals. No mister Howowitz, you didn't compose it, but you did create something eternal.
Some say God is IN everyone. When I was 20, I got to play my first Bach cantata in a church in St. Louis with the choir of St. Louis University. In that wonderful cathedral, and this choir of college kids, I felt like they were angels singing as I accompanied them, heard the lofty soloists sing. They might have been playing Super Mario 20 minutes later at the break, but for that moment they were transformed. Perhaps I am the most poetic of observers, and I often feel the Divine in music.
Es una de las mejores interpretaciones de esta enorme pieza musical, coral de Bach con arreglos de Bussoni, es impresionante ver a Horowitz ya en el final de su vida dejando en el piano toda la maravillosa plenitud de su arte una joya para el devenir de los tiempos.Gracias maestro para toda la eternidad.
There is so much sadness in this piece expressed not only by the author but also the performer. It's almost as if Horowitz' life would gone by note by note as he was playing. I wonder, what went through his mind? His modest smile at the end was followed by a puzzling comment, is there a regret in "just" performing? I guess we will never know...
'Do weep for me, I go to where music is born'. J. S. Bach 'Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of turning'. James 1:17
His playing is so transparent watching his hands that you can almost see his thoughts. At 2:09, and it happens only once, he realizes his left thumb isn't where it needs to be in the next microsecond and he immediately corrects it. If you were just listening or blinked at that moment, you'd miss it. When something is so close to perfect, little things like this become notable .... like a birthmark ... and in his case makes us remember he is human as well as god-like in this moment of art.
I don't think that's a correction, actually! It looks to me like his left hand is slow-marching down those bass octaves, and then he jumps his thumb over to help his right hand get that A in the lower-middle voice while his right hand is tied up with the C at the top. *Amazingly* smooth and sensitive playing.
@@BrassicaRappa Hah! Now that you mention it, yes he looks like he *is* striking a note there and then going back to the bass side! It happens so quickly and confidently I didn't see it before. To twist Clairol's hair dye slogan, "Only Busoni knows for sure!" I'm a violinist myself. When I see another instrument played so artistically, I am awed. Non-sequitur....... Composer Anton Bruckner was a very shy person. He was at a dress rehearsal for a premiere of one of his new symphonies. The conductor stopped at one point and turned around to him seated in the audience area and says, "Herr Bruckner, should this note be a G# or a G natural?" Bruckner, being his diffident self, says, "M-m-m-m-Maestro...what do think?"
There a childish delight in Horowitz’s smile 4:52 that reveals his inner joy of accomplishment, of a job well done. The old man is moved and he moves us all.
My understanding is that towards the end of his life, he had some regrets about spending all his time focused on his performance career and didn't explore composition more. So there may be an extra layer there.
@@BrassicaRappa Don't think so. He had a very heightened sense of quality (he even criticized some pieces by Chopin), so he undoubtedly was aware of his own shortcomings as a composer. Repeatedly he disqualified his early compositions as old-fashioned (he said it in German: altmodisch).
I feel with the "I didn't compose it" he indicated that even with all his talent and skill he said "Bach was a much greater musician then myself" in a very humble way.
Creo que Vladimir Horowitz es el mejor pianista del mundo, sin embargo, para Beethoven me quedo con Arthur Rubinstein. Admiro a ambos genios del piano.
El piano bajo las manos del Maestro Horowitz cobra vida y se convierte en un manantial de sensaciones sonoras capaz de tocar la sensibilidad en su expresion mas profunda. Horowitz no era un pianista mas, fue uno de los genios de la interpretacion del siglo 20, un monstruo un genio un talento completo
Quel dì HaSchem lo illuminò e gli mandò un angelo a guidar le sue vecchie mani affinchè noi tutti potessimo gioir di cotanta sublime bellezza e umiltà . Grazie Vladimir
To understand the remark of Horowitz ''I didn''t compose it'' you have to know that Horowitz always wanted to be a composer, but he did not succeed. Instead he became one of the best pianists of the world, but that was less important to him. About this interpretation of Bach-Busoni: in my opinion it is even more beautiful than the original, it creates a divine/melancholic atmosphere.
I tried to restore in a kind of 3D AUDIO this video, I hope youtube let me publish, in that case U will find this on my channel..... I don't monetize anything, just a tribute to some great musicians
Ferruccio Dante Michelangiolo Benvenuto Busoni (April 1, 1866 July 27, 1924) was an Italian composer, pianist, editor, writer, piano and composition teacher, and conductor. Among his composition students were Kurt Weill and Edgard Varèse. He was well regarded in his day as a virtuoso Pianist, especially in his playing of J S Bach (whom Busoni made transcriptions of Bach's organ music for Piano. Check out Wikipedia for a complete Bio.
Horowtiz isn´t playing the piano here. He´s singing the piano. It´s a channeling of spirit. If you wonder why Callas is special in the vocal field, and Horowitz is special, that´s the reason. Emotions get shallow.. this has to do with soul, being. His comment at the end said it all as a response to the compliments: "I didn´t compose it!" He´s the artist not standing in way of the intention of the Art.
Busoni did lots of adaptations of J S Bach's works... Why you didn't have written the title at least to know what is it? Horowitz always gives the maximum of feeling, this perfomance is amazing!!
He admitted himself that he wanted to be a composer, not just a pianist. You can read his biography or just listen to the tone of his voice as he says that line.
Horowitz and Bach...a good match. Vladimir seems to be capable of expressing and impressing without really touching the keys. Kinda floating over them instead. Bach always seems to be capable of writing incredibly expressive pieces of music while using half or even less the number of notes others would need to achieve a similar result. Join the virtuoso composer and the maestro performer and you get this kind of subtle performance. Excellent.
Ferruccio Busoni, was a great pianist who composed some very good works, but made some astoudingly beautiful transcriptions of pieces especially Bach's works.
Yes, everyone has preferences. This piece is unfamiliar to me, but hearing it I've already fallen in love. That may be because I'm a classical nerd, but those who seriously want to talk about how Horowitz doesn't play "right", or simply they don't like the piece, well I can say you're not hearing or seeing what's truly being played. That of course is still just my opinion.
This is unmatchable. I would be happy to go to my grave with this video being played. The lifetime of experience and sensitivity that he conveys, with the most utter control of the keyboard sound - in his mid 80s - it's just incredible.
1:40 is the best moment. I just read your comment now after discovering this upload a few months ago and listened to it many times. I am a violinist myself, and if I can always muster the interpretive power that Horowitz demonstrates in this piece, that is my highest hope in music.
Magistral horowitz,típica obra maestra atemporal de Bach donde se puede y se debe dar rienda suelta a los sentimientos mas profundos del ser humano,por ej el arrepentimiento ante dios,por lo tanto caben rubatos y todo lo que desee el interprete siempre y cuando lo haga con buen gusto y técnica.
The magic happens on 1:39. That pianissimo. My god!
Only horowitz can
Always get me... straight in the soul
Jesus... indeed...
Horowitz is one of the few players who emphasizes the D at 1:07 to prepare the dissonance between the D and Eb at 1:09. This is one of the most sublime parts of the entire piece. Many other pianists who do a great job playing this piece miss this detail, which can make it kinda sound like they're sounding from the same voice. When played on the organ the dissonance is a lot more clear and you can understand more fully Bach's idea here.
Astute observation.
Methinks Gould paid attention to this kind of thing as well.
That is an absolutely great observation. Horowitz has a deep understanding for those hidden notes and this unique sort of articulation
"I didn't compose it." :)
"No, that's right"
Love him. He was a giant and yet so modest. That beautiful smile at the end as well as this simple "i didn't compose it"...
He is (was)also the very finest performer of Chopin I have ever heard, a true giant of the art.
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"..it was very beautiful, very beautiful..."
Horrowitz: " But I didn't compose it.... "
In this line he shows his sadness. His dream was to become a composer afterall. I bet he is composing in the life after ;)
I think he was just being modest - giving the compliment to JS Bach instead of accepting it for his performance.
Beautifull ...
@@2002FREDERICK х
@@alainjames9556 it was his dream to be a composer.
Now he is decomposing.
The slow tempo, the liberty in tone, colors, embellishments and articulation, the incredible rendition of the polyphonic lines... these are the qualities of a genius.. actually three geniuses are at work here, Bach, Busoni, and Horowitz... This is to me the true representation of the sense of great expectation for the Advent of Our Saviour...this really is for good-will people... thank you for posting this video (look at his fingering and posture, please!!)
It is everything and all it once. You said it perfectly.
This performance grips my soul. It is so very beautiful, made even more beautiful by the honesty and humility of Horowitz. I never met him, but how I miss him!
Honesty and humility , are two adjectives that seem to fit his charisma well..and is very poignant..
He is so lyrical. His phrasing is breathtaking. His understanding is so deep
Rest in peace V. Horowitz. You were truly sent from the heavens.
Мне много лет. Слушая эту музыку в прекрасном исполнении Горовица, я думаю о прожитой жизни.
Иосиф Вульфсон and I hope you do sir
Gran comentario. Saludos desde Argentina señor ruso cordiales saludos.
Busoni intended his transcriptions to make Bach's works better known to the public but the result is that most people know ONLY the transcriptions. All those who admire this piece should listen to the complete "18", one of the supreme masterpieces of all music (and then to the rest of the organ works and then to the rest of Bach).
This piece is taken from a collection of 18 chorales called (not by Bach) "18 chorales of various kinds" or "The Leipzig Chorales" or simply "The 18". This collection could be considered to be the summit of Bach's organ works if only there weren't so many other candidates for this title ...
i admire him in this piece for his flexibility of rhythm He takes time to make the phrases. It's also a very interesting video to watch because it gradually focuses on what he is doing with his hands. I simply don't get to see pianists at work this clearly. This music is complex. The independent melody lines weaving in and out you can follow in his fingers. One of the early commenters here said it was great to see someone just play. There's no show-off body mannerisms.
Horowitz was a GENIUS. You can't categorize a genius by "he's better, he's worse" and all that. He was Horowitz,nobody every played like him, and never will, like him, or not. I put him over many others, despite some flaws, because nobody has ever interpreted music like him.
How Horowitz enriches my life, even after his death! To thrill at his pyrotechnics that cause others to give up on the piano! Then this! Reaching into my soul! Thanks to UA-cam and thank you brianting for this gift and blessing!
Mike Karren luckily YujaWang didn't quit. but I am quitting seeing him and her...
UA-cam: But we didn’t compose it...
Another aspect of this recording is the feeling of relaxation I see in him, and that I feel in me. The piece is unhurried. It is like a lullaby. After listening to it perhaps 20 or 30 times, I still find it refreshing. It is the mark of great artisty (and great empathy from a listener) to be able to enjoy something so often and walk away with the same joy. I find this quality in most pieces of JS Bach when they are played well and with heart. Amen.
It's true I have heard Bach played very robotically and while technically impressive it leaves you empty
@@beatlessteve1010 Amen.
Recently someone quoted Yo Yo Ma saying "Perfection is not very communicative." I don't know exactly what he meant. Howver I too have experienced someone playing with such CD quality presentation that it did not inspire me. How can you say to such a performer, "That was too perfect?" (Rhetorical question there.)
Jesus Chris Almighty, shit shit, I am out of breath, please help!!!!! I am stunned, humbled, .....no words
tomaspianist the same reaction I've had in my first time)
What's not in this performance?! Beautiful singing tone and phrasing, endless colours, superb voicing, expression written in capitals. No mister Howowitz, you didn't compose it, but you did create something eternal.
Some say God is IN everyone. When I was 20, I got to play my first Bach cantata in a church in St. Louis with the choir of St. Louis University. In that wonderful cathedral, and this choir of college kids, I felt like they were angels singing as I accompanied them, heard the lofty soloists sing. They might have been playing Super Mario 20 minutes later at the break, but for that moment they were transformed. Perhaps I am the most poetic of observers, and I often feel the Divine in music.
His smile at the end is just so precious 🥺
Es una de las mejores interpretaciones de esta enorme pieza musical, coral de Bach con arreglos de Bussoni, es impresionante ver a Horowitz ya en el final de su vida dejando en el piano toda la maravillosa plenitud de su arte una joya para el devenir de los tiempos.Gracias maestro para toda la eternidad.
I miss him so dearly, what a beautiful mind, and this is in fact very well done.... his touch is so amazing...perfection. R~
Such a beautiful tone on the piano, and not flat and dull like so many piano recordings;
this to me is a breath of fresh air
absolutely phenomenal.. I want to be a better person after listening to this video..
The humility to say “I didn’t compose it” meaning - praise belongs to Bach. Truly beautiful human being
thanks i was about to say the same
There is so much sadness in this piece expressed not only by the author but also the performer. It's almost as if Horowitz' life would gone by note by note as he was playing. I wonder, what went through his mind? His modest smile at the end was followed by a puzzling comment, is there a regret in "just" performing? I guess we will never know...
Horowitz is the core of piano music. In my opinion everything he performed meant to sound exactly like this
'Do weep for me, I go to where music is born'. J. S. Bach
'Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of turning'. James 1:17
I sat there next to him. Mr. Horowitz liked me.
Are you the same John Nauman...the pianist? If so, I attended one of your concerts...many years ago...in Pasadena.
His touch was without equal. Maybe Gilels came close. But after hearing Horowitz play the quieter Bach pieces, everything else sounds like pounding.
Bach's music is the soul in conversation with itself.
At its centre it is a community as diverse as it is complete in itself.
The oneness of being.
His playing is so transparent watching his hands that you can almost see his thoughts. At 2:09, and it happens only once, he realizes his left thumb isn't where it needs to be in the next microsecond and he immediately corrects it. If you were just listening or blinked at that moment, you'd miss it. When something is so close to perfect, little things like this become notable .... like a birthmark ... and in his case makes us remember he is human as well as god-like in this moment of art.
I don't think that's a correction, actually! It looks to me like his left hand is slow-marching down those bass octaves, and then he jumps his thumb over to help his right hand get that A in the lower-middle voice while his right hand is tied up with the C at the top. *Amazingly* smooth and sensitive playing.
@@BrassicaRappa Hah! Now that you mention it, yes he looks like he *is* striking a note there and then going back to the bass side! It happens so quickly and confidently I didn't see it before. To twist Clairol's hair dye slogan, "Only Busoni knows for sure!" I'm a violinist myself. When I see another instrument played so artistically, I am awed.
Non-sequitur....... Composer Anton Bruckner was a very shy person. He was at a dress rehearsal for a premiere of one of his new symphonies. The conductor stopped at one point and turned around to him seated in the audience area and says, "Herr Bruckner, should this note be a G# or a G natural?" Bruckner, being his diffident self, says, "M-m-m-m-Maestro...what do think?"
There a childish delight in Horowitz’s smile 4:52 that reveals his inner joy of accomplishment, of a job well done. The old man is moved and he moves us all.
Божественная музыкв в гениальном исполнении
3:02 This voice is so beautiful.
The engineer says, to Horowitz, "You played it very well".
Yes. You might say that.
A magical interpretation. Heartfelt. Transcendent. Beautiful.
anyone who just heard this would be left speechless
Великий композитор! Великий пианист!
this comes from a very deep place. thank you, maestro.
Bach romantico come Chopin. Strepitoso!
Imbattibile, inarrivabile!
A lot of piano players, and there is/was Horrorwitz. "I didn't compose it": Sign of his humility, a great gesture.
Horrorwitz!!! I love it.
My understanding is that towards the end of his life, he had some regrets about spending all his time focused on his performance career and didn't explore composition more. So there may be an extra layer there.
@@BrassicaRappa Don't think so. He had a very heightened sense of quality (he even criticized some pieces by Chopin), so he undoubtedly was aware of his own shortcomings as a composer. Repeatedly he disqualified his early compositions as old-fashioned (he said it in German: altmodisch).
He was making a joke - that’s all
"That was very beautiful!"
"I didn't compose it"
"That's right, but you play it very well"
My God, this is absolutely marvellous!!!! 😍
Beautiful. No flailing around here like modern pianists acting like they're having ass orgasms. Total concentration and playing from the soul.
@sonodavide ...because it's Horowitz. He and Sviatoslav Richter were the best pianists in the world. Npwadays there's no pianists of such a level.
Andras Schiff, Gregory soklov
that was good? that was "you took me to another world"!!!!!
Nobody beats the old man. View the "Vers la Flamme" video.
I totally miss him.
"I didn't compose it" reminds me of an episode of Brahms praising Johann StraussⅡ for his Donau.
I feel with the "I didn't compose it" he indicated that even with all his talent and skill he said "Bach was a much greater musician then myself" in a very humble way.
Exactly!
i love him...cause he was a spriritual warrior, he lost and found himself...
Creo que Vladimir Horowitz es el mejor pianista del mundo, sin embargo, para Beethoven me quedo con Arthur Rubinstein. Admiro a ambos genios del piano.
2:30 Incredible control. He plays those two-note slurred phrases like a string player would.
старательно ничего не осмысливаю.прогоняю банальные мысли.трагический пианист мало кем верно понятый
I was reminded what a glorious instrument the piano is.
When you see him play, the way he touches the keys, you think that his hands are an extension of them or ,rather, the keys themselves!
El piano bajo las manos del Maestro Horowitz cobra vida y se convierte en un manantial de sensaciones sonoras capaz de tocar la sensibilidad en su expresion mas profunda. Horowitz no era un pianista mas, fue uno de los genios de la interpretacion del siglo 20, un monstruo un genio un talento completo
Quel dì HaSchem lo illuminò e gli mandò un angelo a guidar le sue vecchie mani affinchè noi tutti potessimo gioir di cotanta sublime bellezza e umiltà . Grazie Vladimir
Magnificent. Untouchable. ✨✨✨
His smile at the end is everything.
💗
Voice of GOD!
ONER Klig Fuck God.
+Benoit Obled
Goblins, goblins, wherever you go on UA-cam...
+Benoit Obled Thank you for setting the record straight!
Benoit Obled oh you’re hard
Every time at 1:39 my heart skips a beat and I end up holding my breaths...such beauty can't be expressed with words only can be felt with heart...
how is such sound possible?
this recording is a gem of piano playing.
To understand the remark of Horowitz ''I didn''t compose it'' you have to know that Horowitz always wanted to be a composer, but he did not succeed. Instead he became one of the best pianists of the world, but that was less important to him.
About this interpretation of Bach-Busoni: in my opinion it is even more beautiful than the original, it creates a divine/melancholic atmosphere.
Several arrangements, but no original works?
@@legamature A few. Only one has been recorded by the composer, as far as I know. Forgot the name. Was it a Humoresque?
I tried to restore in a kind of 3D AUDIO this video, I hope youtube let me publish, in that case U will find this on my channel..... I don't monetize anything, just a tribute to some great musicians
OK it's public now
고등학교때 음반으로 들었던 곡인데 이렇게 들을수 있다니 감동적이네요
Vladimir Horowitz really turns this piece into a very emotionally charged masterpiece...
С 26 секунды кажется, что ты услышал Бога..
I've never heard this piece before. It's beautiful and I love this performance.
Ferruccio Dante Michelangiolo Benvenuto Busoni (April 1, 1866 July 27, 1924) was an Italian composer, pianist, editor, writer, piano and composition teacher, and conductor. Among his composition students were Kurt Weill and Edgard Varèse. He was well regarded in his day as a virtuoso Pianist, especially in his playing of J S Bach (whom Busoni made transcriptions of Bach's organ music for Piano. Check out Wikipedia for a complete Bio.
it's impossible to play better...
So many genius commentators.
Listening to Volodia always means witnessing a sort of miracle.
One of the best ... !! A voice from the depths of the Earth and Skys ... !! ❤
A champion of modesty: the smile of a wise man at 4:52.
Horowtiz isn´t playing the piano here. He´s singing the piano. It´s a channeling of spirit. If you wonder why Callas is special in the vocal field, and Horowitz is special, that´s the reason. Emotions get shallow.. this has to do with soul, being. His comment at the end said it all as a response to the compliments: "I didn´t compose it!" He´s the artist not standing in way of the intention of the Art.
Love-
1:32 here the secret climax .
Yes , you're right , but the listener has to hear the mezzoforte before it .
He is in such control of the dynamics. I can never listen to anyone else play this without immediate comparison.
Busoni did lots of adaptations of J S Bach's works... Why you didn't have written the title at least to know what is it? Horowitz always gives the maximum of feeling, this perfomance is amazing!!
He admitted himself that he wanted to be a composer, not just a pianist. You can read his biography or just listen to the tone of his voice as he says that line.
I think the title is "The Last of the Romantics"
The Last Romantic
A legend,,,last of the romantics,,,,,in short a chatacter who breathed art and its beauty,,
welcome to the age of note perfect digital souless musak.
OMG - how i like! The immortal Vladimir Horowitz.
Horowitz and Bach...a good match. Vladimir seems to be capable of expressing and impressing without really touching the keys. Kinda floating over them instead.
Bach always seems to be capable of writing incredibly expressive pieces of music while using half or even less the number of notes others would need to achieve a similar result.
Join the virtuoso composer and the maestro performer and you get this kind of subtle performance.
Excellent.
Gracias 🇮🇷 ❤️😘
Technically a fairly simple piece of music, but played by a master like Horowitz, it transcends its simplicity and becomes a thing of elegant beauty.
How is it simple? The inner voices sound canonic to me and the ornementation the chorale is very sophisticated.. And the bass line
The ones that sound simple are the toughest by my opinion. No chance to cover up any mistakes or gaps.
Oh, I love this. I love his smile at the end. I love.... the complete lack of pretension here.
He did, my friend. But also, he made his own transcriptions. GG made his name as a Bach interpreter; Horowitz played everything. Both are fantastic!
Ferruccio Busoni, was a great pianist who composed some very good works, but made some astoudingly beautiful transcriptions of pieces especially Bach's works.
Bach...Horowitz....Paz Espiritual.....
beautiful. this melts my heart!!
What a master... he managed to create organ sonority with such an intensity and deepness , which nowdays is very rare to listen to...
His rubato is masterful
Yes, everyone has preferences. This piece is unfamiliar to me, but hearing it I've already fallen in love. That may be because I'm a classical nerd, but those who seriously want to talk about how Horowitz doesn't play "right", or simply they don't like the piece, well I can say you're not hearing or seeing what's truly being played. That of course is still just my opinion.
This is unmatchable. I would be happy to go to my grave with this video being played. The lifetime of experience and sensitivity that he conveys, with the most utter control of the keyboard sound - in his mid 80s - it's just incredible.
Просто. Непринужденно.ГЕНИАЛЬНО.
Es la autentica.
A music for soul.........a stunning,flawless work of art,,
Yucatan
The King .
1:40 is the best moment. I just read your comment now after discovering this upload a few months ago and listened to it many times. I am a violinist myself, and if I can always muster the interpretive power that Horowitz demonstrates in this piece, that is my highest hope in music.
It's amazing how he accentuates the melody with such ease
Entre. los de primera fila. 🇮🇷🖐️. 🇮🇷. 🌟🌟😂🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🇮🇷
Magistral horowitz,típica obra maestra atemporal de Bach donde se puede y se debe dar rienda suelta a los sentimientos mas profundos del ser humano,por ej el arrepentimiento ante dios,por lo tanto caben rubatos y todo lo que desee el interprete siempre y cuando lo haga con buen gusto y técnica.
"I think gould considered Busoni-transciptions not as real music..."
Eh?