Vladimir Horowitz Playing Scriabin 12 Etudes Op.8 No.12

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  • Опубліковано 21 сер 2024
  • If there is a piece that would represent the agony of a man on the verge of sanity, this is most likely be the piece. Extremely Poetic and hard to execute considering... More» that you need to stretch a 11th on a piano (D# to G#) and the rapid chords played by the left hand throughout the piece with no rest.

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  • @MT88_YouTube
    @MT88_YouTube 4 роки тому +885

    I really like how he emphasizes the left hand bass notes “da-dum”... Many other pianists don’t do it. It creates a nice dramatic effect.

    • @johnbartlett9568
      @johnbartlett9568 3 роки тому +57

      It needs more cowbell

    • @amj.composer
      @amj.composer 3 роки тому +13

      @@johnbartlett9568 Agree, was a little disappointed

    • @AlexAlguacil
      @AlexAlguacil 3 роки тому +16

      Horowitz had a special piano "tuned up" for those things.

    • @nghiavan8952
      @nghiavan8952 3 роки тому

      @@AlexAlguacil Like John Cage?

    • @amj.composer
      @amj.composer 3 роки тому +5

      @damniod dion The joke went RIGHT over your head. r/wooosh

  • @caleblayton7836
    @caleblayton7836 3 роки тому +1578

    just here to say it's 2021 and this is still the best interpretation of this piece on youtube

    • @paolo6219
      @paolo6219 3 роки тому +23

      Yes

    • @mlr3188
      @mlr3188 3 роки тому +68

      No sultanov is better

    • @caleblayton7836
      @caleblayton7836 3 роки тому +91

      @@mlr3188 sultanov is absolutely incredible, but lacks the maturity we see in Horowitz, this video is a piece of art that has been tirelessly developed for years

    • @mlr3188
      @mlr3188 3 роки тому +29

      @@caleblayton7836 i disagree sultanov is more fluid and the counter melody is unique

    • @caleblayton7836
      @caleblayton7836 3 роки тому +52

      Sultanov has great flexability and the counter melody is indeed unique. This is (amazing), yet he still lacks the maturity and balance of Horowitz. It may be a question of which you prefer, however a developed sound is in most cases the deciding factor

  • @megumi_0
    @megumi_0 Рік тому +339

    the tonal change at 0:37 is something horowitz does incredibly well, not just in this piece. he was truly a master of tonal control

    • @resonance6531
      @resonance6531 Рік тому +27

      That part gives me chills

    • @MarcAmengual
      @MarcAmengual Рік тому +13

      Yes, I pointed that segment out in another coment, for me he is the only one who plays that part correctly from all versions I've heard of this piece, and really hard to accomplish as a pianist.

    • @Igneous01
      @Igneous01 Рік тому +10

      It shows the depth of his heart and life experiences as a human at the time of this performance.
      No other interpretation that I've heard from any other pianist comes close to his depth of fiery loud to incredibly soft and gentle as if in a dream.

    • @ruoyunshen
      @ruoyunshen Рік тому

      ​@@MarcAmengual correctly? just because you like it doesn't mean it's the only 'correct' way to play that part. a pianist can choose not to do that despite the composer's marking on the score and it's still equally correct because anyone can interpret a piece of music and it's in no way disrespectful towards the composer.

    • @MarcAmengual
      @MarcAmengual Рік тому +4

      @@ruoyunshen You feel smart after saying that? I said "for me" for a reason, and by "correct" I'm not saying academically correct, I'm saying for me it's the way it sounds better and enhances the phrasing of that part which few pianists do like him. Relax dude.

  • @George-Rivera
    @George-Rivera 10 років тому +892

    It's unfair how well he plays this. Any other performance of this song is hard to listen to after hearing this.

    • @AnaArOes
      @AnaArOes 5 років тому +18

      Totally agree

    • @russellthompson9271
      @russellthompson9271 4 роки тому +104

      Piece, not 'song'.

    • @TJFNYC212
      @TJFNYC212 4 роки тому +3

      @Mookie Spindlehurst Sultanov comes closest ua-cam.com/video/a77SEOjA7Vw/v-deo.html

    • @Kernel126
      @Kernel126 4 роки тому +1

      Daniil Trifonov performance is equally good or even better
      ua-cam.com/video/_dP8FMZr2sA/v-deo.html

    • @SCRIABINIST
      @SCRIABINIST 4 роки тому +18

      The others are often a little too soft from most of the recordings I heard

  • @barbarabergmeyer858
    @barbarabergmeyer858 3 роки тому +182

    I was in the audience at Carnegie Hall. I etched his interpretation in my mind and played it myself at Mahattanville College as an encore the following year. My heart was in my mouth!

    • @GPPiano
      @GPPiano 2 роки тому +9

      Very impressive!!

    • @maddannafizz
      @maddannafizz 2 роки тому +9

      Your heart was in your mouth from nerves at playing such a difficult piece or something else? How special a memory for you 🙌

    • @carlosdavidsalazarbotero9432
      @carlosdavidsalazarbotero9432 2 місяці тому

      How many years ago was this?

  • @a.maxime
    @a.maxime 8 років тому +724

    This is certainly the best playing of this piece that I have ever heard.

    • @papa_mia4495
      @papa_mia4495 8 років тому +16

      Try Sofronitsky.

    • @brucedavies8154
      @brucedavies8154 7 років тому +14

      Try Scriabin's piano roll :O

    • @DihelsonMendonca
      @DihelsonMendonca 7 років тому +31

      Try Scriabin himself...

    • @a.maxime
      @a.maxime 7 років тому +41

      Many amazing pianists have played this piece incredibly well. However, I have not heard anyone else do the part from 1:00 to 1:18 quite like this. Been playing it for years myself, and am nowhere close, even the murderously difficult final section gets easier by comparison once you get comfortable with all of the notes. This part, though, to get "just right", it NEVER gets easier! Horowitz was a master of emotion, nobody can do it like him that i have seen.

    • @goognamgoognw6637
      @goognamgoognw6637 6 років тому +1

      Max, contrary to common held belief that the most important stumbling block of virtuosi piano playing requires genius to overcome, it does not. It requires the correct pedagogy. As a piece requires more advanced techniques there might be a thousands way to learn it that will get you stuck at 80% and will never master it, and only a handful of ways that will master it 100%. It's the pedagogy, not the man. It takes years to learn the correct pedagogy assuming you have the one teacher in a tousands to teach you. Though the best way is to be reborn and learn piano from age 3 then your brain will find it by itself.

  • @Tonysmithmusic
    @Tonysmithmusic 7 років тому +345

    Always impressed by his dynamics. He could go from amazing pianissimo to thunderous!! Incredible.

    • @AnaArOes
      @AnaArOes 5 років тому

      Is perfect.

    • @mickizurcher
      @mickizurcher 4 роки тому +5

      Tony Smith The better the piano the easier it is to do this to don’t forget... if you’re good! 😂

    • @musicclassic5938
      @musicclassic5938 3 роки тому +1

      "Breathing" fingers!

    • @musicclassic5938
      @musicclassic5938 2 роки тому +2

      Exactly! This is what makes his rendition so great; some call it "breathing hands". I am even more impressed by how he suddenly goes the opposite direction - from thunderous forte to pianissimo. I have not heard anyone capable of doing this. And nobody has been able to make such a climax in this piece, let alone mind-boggling agogics.

  • @brucedavies8154
    @brucedavies8154 7 років тому +147

    I have NEVER heard anyone phrase the melody at 1:33 like that before. Absolutely breathtaking .

  • @harleymusicofficial3709
    @harleymusicofficial3709 3 роки тому +199

    The dislikes are the piano keys that got absolutely annihilated

  • @octavimb
    @octavimb 9 років тому +566

    Simply the greatest. Not a single month goes by without me listening to this recording...

    • @hhll6442
      @hhll6442 6 років тому +21

      Octavi Martínez make it a day for me. This piece is like a shot of adrenaline.

    • @big_smexy_gaming6510
      @big_smexy_gaming6510 3 роки тому +1

      This specific recording takes all the pain away, I don't go without for more than a week

    • @GoldenBiba
      @GoldenBiba 2 роки тому

      do you still listen it ?

    • @Malapropify
      @Malapropify 2 роки тому

      @@hhll6442 You should try listening to metal. :D

    • @musicclassic5938
      @musicclassic5938 2 роки тому +1

      I do it for inspiration too: Scriabin is a genius but it took another genius in Horowitz to unlock Scriabin's design for general public.

  • @iorikpiano9596
    @iorikpiano9596 2 роки тому +66

    Horowitz, as well as Arthur Rubinstein and Richter were the true piano masters! All their playing is astonishing!

    • @musicclassic5938
      @musicclassic5938 Рік тому +1

      Maybe Anton Rubinstein? All those men spoke Russian.

    • @user-xn3fm7pu7d
      @user-xn3fm7pu7d Рік тому +4

      @@musicclassic5938
      Arthur Rubinstein!

    • @musicclassic5938
      @musicclassic5938 10 місяців тому

      The Russian school calling the shots as well as in the violin

    • @Saltan1908
      @Saltan1908 7 місяців тому +1

      @@musicclassic5938 Anton Rubinstein died in 1894😆

  • @Your_Local_Dawg
    @Your_Local_Dawg 2 роки тому +179

    1:43 While the piano was brutally massacred , he still has his face acted normal.What a legend.

    • @musicclassic5938
      @musicclassic5938 2 роки тому +25

      I like your figure of speech: piano massacre. Mr. Horowitz even jumped a bit on his stool to make a real statement with his basses. This is what I call "man's playing". However talented female players might be, they just lack physicality and male strength to "massacre the keyboard" as you so aptly put it.

    • @Your_Local_Dawg
      @Your_Local_Dawg 2 роки тому

      @@musicclassic5938 thx man

    • @wadabid6165
      @wadabid6165 Рік тому +18

      @@musicclassic5938 some females be punching the keyboard too... Haha Valentina Lisitsa is pretty strong too

    • @wadabid6165
      @wadabid6165 Рік тому +10

      "Music comes out of the fingers, not the face" he said something like that

    • @musicclassic5938
      @musicclassic5938 Рік тому +6

      The climax of this piece sends shivers down my spine.

  • @leonmaliniak
    @leonmaliniak 9 років тому +213

    JUST AMAZING.
    So good to see him when he was a bit younger and at full power.

    • @datokarchava6445
      @datokarchava6445 9 років тому +12

      You are right he was at full power!!!!

    • @sinajasteh1437
      @sinajasteh1437 8 років тому +12

      He has played this same etude when he was older in another performance. Wasn't flawless and didn't have the "full power". This is one of the best performances I have ever seen!

    • @leonmaliniak
      @leonmaliniak 6 років тому +6

      Exactly. Also, I have now listened to dozens of other artists play this piece, INCLUDING many well known concert pianists and just to be fair even listened to some " Internet " stars and prodigies and what sets HOROWITZ apart from all of them is the CLARITY and POWER of his LEFT hand because in this piece the bass line is what carries this whole piece...although the treble melody ain't too bad either...WOW
      With most other pianists you can barely make out the notes in the BASS line...;with HOROWITZ it stands out in a way that if you do not watch the performance you can almost believe it is TWO pianists playing
      This was true of almost all of HOROWITZ'S performances and what distinguished him from all the other great pianists
      I have stopped trying to learn how to play these pieces...and just leave it to these extra-terrestirals

    • @jackcurley1591
      @jackcurley1591 5 років тому +7

      Leon Maliniak imagine if we had good recordings of Horowitz in his prime in the 30’s and 40’s

  • @RemiliaVampire
    @RemiliaVampire 8 місяців тому +19

    His volume control adds a whole layer of depth that puts him on a whole different level

  • @arcsolver
    @arcsolver 9 років тому +132

    Did anyone else notice Horowitz's sigh of relief at the end when he walked off stage?

  • @cattleman6420012000
    @cattleman6420012000 10 років тому +136

    This is Horowitz playing Scriabin live. He was incredibly great.

    • @pietrospano78
      @pietrospano78 5 років тому +4

      "Capriccio" ua-cam.com/video/W4VngotB6XE/v-deo.html

  • @Living_Lodka
    @Living_Lodka 8 років тому +141

    Anyone with even a remote understanding of the keyboard instruments should appreciate the execution of this piece. The man was is a true legend.

  • @thenameisgsarci
    @thenameisgsarci 10 років тому +557

    To this day, I still wonder how he managed to play this piece wonderfully with his hands flat on the piano.

    • @froehlicherelter
      @froehlicherelter 6 років тому +79

      As far as your wondering how Horowitz manages to play with FLAT hands, is concerned: This position gives your fingers (vectors) all the grip/strength you can imagine. Being in itself an unique technique, it permits a firm develpment of every finger (permiting brain separation of arms), thanks to the WEIGHT of your forearms and, outmost, flexibility of wrists ! Perfektion at the highest level !

    • @coolxjl
      @coolxjl 6 років тому +212

      Rachmaninov commented, on Horowitz's mechanics, something like: "He does everything the way you aren't suppose to, but for him it works"
      Glen Gould is very similar.

    • @alannahashlie6761
      @alannahashlie6761 4 роки тому +2

      thenameisgsarci 😂😂😂

    • @alannahashlie6761
      @alannahashlie6761 4 роки тому +10

      froehlicherelter I still don’t think playing with flat fingers is the best way to play.

    • @KoopaKool
      @KoopaKool 4 роки тому +35

      @@alannahashlie6761 It's certainly not good to play with flat hands in the 1st decade of learning piano, but after that you get the most control and expression by eliminating superficial tensions in the muscles, especially if you have big hands. This piece in particular is just about bashing chords rapidly and doing large leaps, no quick chromatic runs or anything requiring curling the fingers.

  • @nadiadesimone8645
    @nadiadesimone8645 3 роки тому +51

    NOT OTHERS LIKE HIM.
    The final part is indescribable,elettrical,powerfull .. GENIUS! ❣️

  • @XingiteJP
    @XingiteJP 8 років тому +311

    This was performed at Carnegie Hall in 1968.

    • @wendyhuang9277
      @wendyhuang9277 6 років тому +12

      Xiao Long 50 years ago!

    • @andrewc9643
      @andrewc9643 6 років тому +11

      So he was 65 during this recording? amazing

    • @charlesenman2382
      @charlesenman2382 5 років тому +17

      @@andrewc9643 He was actually 64. This concert was recorded in the early months of 1968 and he turned 65 only on October 1st

    • @eatpeople4204
      @eatpeople4204 4 роки тому

      was this the concert of the century?

    • @TJFNYC212
      @TJFNYC212 4 роки тому +5

      I would fallen out of my seat....

  • @cultofscriabin9547
    @cultofscriabin9547 2 роки тому +10

    Imo, 42sec-1min10 is the best part ever written in a piano piece. Just pure genius

  • @alyykk5
    @alyykk5 7 років тому +62

    I have listened to this show 147 times... and it still continues

  • @martinstahle2006
    @martinstahle2006 Рік тому +9

    I simply love his interpretations. And I love many of Scriabin's works.

  • @user-rx9xu4ze4x
    @user-rx9xu4ze4x 5 років тому +4

    迸る情熱とロマンチックな薫り、まさに針が降り切れようとしている極度の緊張。ホロヴィッツ以外ではなし得なかった奇跡の演奏!

  • @chaladier1086
    @chaladier1086 Рік тому +9

    we are in december 2022 and it is still the Best interpretation

  • @tylersorenson8655
    @tylersorenson8655 11 років тому +32

    This is my favorite piece ever written. Absolutely beautiful.

    • @geroelze929
      @geroelze929 4 роки тому

      No came on!

    • @zinagiannopoulou9254
      @zinagiannopoulou9254 4 роки тому

      i agree.

    • @musicclassic5938
      @musicclassic5938 3 роки тому +3

      Scriabin is an underestimated genius and a revolutionary in music, inventor of light-music, the singer of flame and light, a great philosopher: just listen to his Poem of Extasy!

  • @liliaraab2358
    @liliaraab2358 2 роки тому +18

    Я просто не могу наслушаться!!! Это так неповторимо сыграно!!! Нет лучше пианиста на свете, которой так тонко может передать произведение и которое потом западает в душу!!!

    • @user-ph3jf5ce9k
      @user-ph3jf5ce9k 2 роки тому +3

      полностью согласен, Мацуев своей игрой не смог передать то, что передал Горовиц

    • @musicclassic5938
      @musicclassic5938 2 роки тому +2

      ​ @Данил Алексеев Какой там Мацуев - даже Кисин не смог. Послушайте его исполнение этого произведения и сравните с эталонным исполнением Горовица - и вы найдете минимум 7-8 исполнительских приемов, которые выдающемуся пианисту Кисину просто неведомы.

    • @ninarubcova7348
      @ninarubcova7348 2 роки тому +2

      @@musicclassic5938, на исполние этюда СУЛТАНОВЫМ вы написали, что Горовиц исполнил его в 10 раз лучше. Стоит ли " поверять алгеброй гармонию"? Тем более известно, что великий ГОРОВИЦ был одним из значимых ориентиров в мировом пианизме для талантливого молодого пианиста Алексея СУЛТАНОВА.
      Я не буду сыпать музыкальными терминами типа tempo rubato, которые вы разбрасываете налево и направо, а просто с превеликим удовольствием послушаю замечательный этюд СКРЯБИНА и в исполнении великого ГОРОВИЦА и гениального СУЛТАНОВА.

    • @musicclassic5938
      @musicclassic5938 2 роки тому

      @@ninarubcova7348 Рад за вас. Фраза "на порядок" в моем посте - это просто фигура речи, не более того, не нужно толковать так буквально: "в 10 раз". Поверьте, я прослышал исполнение этого произведения всеми известными пианистами и сделал свои выводы. Но похоже, вы лишаете меня права на личное мнение. Ни в коем случае не претендую на абсолютную истину.

  • @leonmaliniak
    @leonmaliniak 5 років тому +14

    I have rarely seen HOROWITZ so invested in a piece....he must really like Scriabin in a way that is different and more emotional than the way he loves and plays Chopin, which he does very artistically but more mechanically.
    I have also never seen Horowitz so physically " animated '....he is usually very stoic and not very active bodily, with only his fingers usually doing the " walking "
    Very interesting. Also, good to see one video example of a much younger, much physically stronger and dynamic Horowitz. Most of his videos on UA-cam are of a much older man when he can hardly walk or breathe...although it never interfered with his playing

    • @josh6402
      @josh6402 5 років тому +2

      He loved and met both scriabin and rachmaninoff

    • @79Tomasso
      @79Tomasso 5 років тому

      He definitely gets wrapped up in this one, more than usual.

  • @IamKonstantin
    @IamKonstantin 5 років тому +24

    Probably my most favorite piece in the world! I get chills down my spine every time i listen to it. Currently studying it.

  • @gun0.daaaaa
    @gun0.daaaaa 2 роки тому +11

    March 2022 and I’m still here. I’m 18 and this piece is masterpiece and Horowitz is master of this piece.

    • @skeuwaa
      @skeuwaa 2 роки тому +1

      i don't know if you know that but scriabin was a good friend of horowitz uncle. when vladimir horowitz was a child, he asked scriabin to come hear his nephew. Scriabin said " he will be one of the greatest pianist if he has access to learning culture" like art poetry reading etc. this is the best way to return his respect for scriabin. i find this very inspirational.

    • @skeuwaa
      @skeuwaa 2 роки тому

      by the way 2022 and i'm also here listening the best youtube version of op 8 no12

  • @ThePianoguy89
    @ThePianoguy89 11 років тому +43

    My favorite interpretation of this piece! Horowitz is a legend!

  • @musicclassic5938
    @musicclassic5938 3 роки тому +29

    It's amazing how his hands "breathe"; this is what makes his manner of playing so distinct from others, but not only that, of course. Scriabin's Etude certainly has some connotations with Chopin's Etude No. 12, but I'd say this is a more powerful and cooler piece of music: the dramatic tension is absolutely unprecedented. Scriabin is a genius; no wonder Rachmaninoff had him in the highest esteem and Scriabin's death was a great tragedy to him. Mr. Horowitz certainly knew how to interpret every phrase of this outstanding piece. He knew Scriabin in person.

    • @ConcertGrande
      @ConcertGrande Місяць тому

      I love Scriabin and you give such an eloquent description of it, beautiful interpretation under the fingers of Horowitz that there is nothing more to add. What intensity in this music that day in Vienna.! merci

  • @TomBarrister
    @TomBarrister 10 місяців тому +4

    This is from the album "Horowitz on Television. The music on that DVD were taken from two concerts at Carnegie Hall, given on Tuesday January 2nd and Thursday February 1st in 1968. The concerts, which were aired live on CBS, and which contained the same works and encores, were for invited audiences.

  • @SopiNanetashvili
    @SopiNanetashvili Рік тому +9

    Великий пианист и великий композитор.❤

  • @tomh2176
    @tomh2176 4 місяці тому +2

    I have never heard an interpretation like this. This man is a genius. His ability to control volume and tone is second to none

  • @calebclark9114
    @calebclark9114 Рік тому +3

    Horowitz just absolutely destroyed that piano like a mad lad and walked away like nothing happened

  • @delko000
    @delko000 4 роки тому +65

    2:06 a guy in the audience is looking for his jaw

    • @GZ9090
      @GZ9090 4 роки тому +3

      2:08 Looks like ol' Vlad is checking to make sure his own jaw is intact. 😆

  • @MiaDobie
    @MiaDobie 3 роки тому +24

    Simply Piano: “YoU cAn PlAy ThIs In LeSs ThAn A WeEk!”

    • @CLASSICALFAN100
      @CLASSICALFAN100 3 роки тому +3

      Yeah, right...lol

    • @LazarkGaming
      @LazarkGaming 3 роки тому

      @@CLASSICALFAN100 Easy, but playing it like this, impossible. Obviously not easy for everyone, but should be easy for someone who's done all their grades.

  • @giuseppemariaperego8937
    @giuseppemariaperego8937 Рік тому +4

    ❤❤❤Rest in peace Grande Maestro Vladimir Horowitz ❤I'm crying crying ❤Giuseppe Perego Monza 16.2.1962

  • @marcuspaulhasenauer357
    @marcuspaulhasenauer357 3 роки тому +4

    Horowitz tells a story of tragedy within this 2 min etude. If you read works by Puschkin, Tolstoi or Turgenew you get close to the heart of russian drama and lyricism. For me Horowitz interpretations embody those forgotten and utterly beautiful virtues.

  • @karpabla
    @karpabla 3 роки тому +9

    Since I listened/saw this interpretation by Horowitz I have thought this is one of the gems of classical music in UA-cam.
    This literally extra-ordinary piece from Scriabin is played 100% with the heart out by an already oldish Horowitz with full expressive and passionate power. It is a top among the best videos ever.

  • @PaulRx4
    @PaulRx4 12 років тому +4

    Talk about nailing a piece, WOW, 50 years ago about 12-14 pianist played this
    piece at the VERY VERY GOOD level, now it seems there are 40-50 who play
    it at the same level. Because it is such a great piece pianist can't resist it.
    Classical music is not dead, real music will always hang in there, things like
    hip hop will be like the Charleston given enough years.

  • @thanongkhanthong3414
    @thanongkhanthong3414 8 років тому +200

    This is how the Demon is unleashed.

  • @leonardoD81
    @leonardoD81 10 років тому +20

    Speechless, because words can't describe the brilliance of this man and the composition he so brilliantly plays.

  • @paulharris3000
    @paulharris3000 10 років тому +48

    Exalted,noble,tragic,psychotic...exhilarating!

    • @chrisbenna506
      @chrisbenna506 4 роки тому +1

      Horrowitz

    • @eatpeople4204
      @eatpeople4204 4 роки тому +1

      HORROWITZ! SCRIABIN! SATAN! and LIFE! Truly a shining example of free will and the black flame. know thyself. hail thyself, Hail Sathan!

  • @josac7602
    @josac7602 2 роки тому +4

    Just here to say it's 2022 and this is still the best interpretation of this piece on UA-cam

  • @oolongoboingo2149
    @oolongoboingo2149 7 місяців тому +1

    one year after, hours after hours spend trying to recreate a world where my music is as beautiful, crazy, poetic as him. I cannot be as good as him .
    Thanks horowitz.

  • @DrMGoesWild
    @DrMGoesWild 17 днів тому

    Even through the genius of Horowitz you can tell how tough this 2 minute scrap of a piece is! Most other phenomenally difficult pieces he virtually breezes through, here he is utterly focused and, I think, a little relieved when it is over so spectacularly well and he can get off the stage! Horowitz and Scriabin special geniuses both! Dr M

  • @selwyn-lloydmcpherson2814
    @selwyn-lloydmcpherson2814 4 роки тому +98

    Vladimir Horowitz is the piano. There's literally no separation between the two.

    • @aeroslothy
      @aeroslothy 3 роки тому

      @Samuel Doesema hahahahahaha

    • @geoffstemen3652
      @geoffstemen3652 2 роки тому

      He traveled with this one, if I’m not mistaken. Always used it.

  • @hiroishi3668
    @hiroishi3668 4 роки тому +18

    Ah, his last face expression goes like, 'Tough stuff!'

    • @musicclassic5938
      @musicclassic5938 3 роки тому

      Verse La Flamme is even a tougher piece by Scriabin, according to Horovitz himself.

  • @oni_giri_maruu
    @oni_giri_maruu 3 місяці тому +1

    8-12、別のピアニストさんのものを聴いてすっかり好きになったのですが、ホロヴィッツはやはり別格です‥‥素晴らしすぎる🥹

  • @musicclassic5938
    @musicclassic5938 3 роки тому +96

    As much as I love Chopin's Revolutionary Etude, I must admit that Scriabin's one is more powerful.

    • @vivvpprof
      @vivvpprof 2 роки тому +7

      The two pieces are totally different.

    • @user-rn8wk6ik4h
      @user-rn8wk6ik4h 2 роки тому +10

      they are similar in a way that both are:
      -very dramatic
      -one of the more popular pieces by the composer
      -both are etudes
      -right hand playing powerful chords and octaves and left hand playing a major role too

    • @musicclassic5938
      @musicclassic5938 2 роки тому +1

      @@user-rn8wk6ik4h In Scriabin's etude the strain is absolutely insane.

    • @eugenelevin9809
      @eugenelevin9809 Рік тому

      @@vivvpprof They are as similar as you can possibly find, no need to be elitist over nothing. He’s not comparing the revolutionary with Mozart’s 40th symphony is he.

    • @vivvpprof
      @vivvpprof Рік тому +1

      ​@@eugenelevin9809 Don't you think you're assuming things which I didn't say in my comment?

  • @danilovargas6478
    @danilovargas6478 3 роки тому +5

    Tocaste la cuerda de mi alma, te admiro gran compositor Scriabin, en honor a ti llegare a estudiar más.

  • @classicalmusic432hz8
    @classicalmusic432hz8 2 роки тому +3

    i think he gets the award for the most insane verison.

  • @Mitchellyap12
    @Mitchellyap12 Рік тому +2

    I just recently found out about this piece and saw that this video was posted 15 years ago. Idk why but I check what date and it was a day before I was born. I just think it’s really cool lmao

    • @alainspiteri502
      @alainspiteri502 Рік тому

      you like exhibition-piano opposite to recordings by Alfred Cortot it's a fact ; we listen Cortot since one Century if you don't known

    • @pianista-mediocre
      @pianista-mediocre 10 місяців тому +1

      This video was posted about 2 weeks before I was born. I'm from May 2, 2008

  • @user-rj2mx1nw2f
    @user-rj2mx1nw2f 5 років тому +10

    Потрясающее исполнение,сколько других слышала, но такой драматургии в исполнении... каждый раз возвращаюсь именно к Горовицу.

    • @user-xg1wb7dn9g
      @user-xg1wb7dn9g 4 роки тому +3

      А Султанова слышали ?

    • @user-rj2mx1nw2f
      @user-rj2mx1nw2f 4 роки тому +2

      Нет. Надо послушать. Спасибо.

    • @user-cy8yc1qn2r
      @user-cy8yc1qn2r 10 місяців тому +2

      Рекомендую послушать Алексея Султанова.

  • @orianlatroupe
    @orianlatroupe Рік тому +11

    I juste love the part from 1:00 to 1:18

    • @cartermu4471
      @cartermu4471 Рік тому +1

      No one did this part like he did !

  • @user-xl5ss2np3u
    @user-xl5ss2np3u 3 роки тому +5

    Владимир Горовиц величайший пианист 20 века

  • @andreasmittelstaedt591
    @andreasmittelstaedt591 11 місяців тому +1

    Unfassbar. Viele Pianisten würden ein solches Stück dazu benutzen, ihre eigene Virtuosität heraus zu stellen. Horowitz spielte es einfach. Nichts weiter, aber genau darin liegt die allergrößte Meisterschaft.

  • @albertshahnazaryan647
    @albertshahnazaryan647 4 роки тому +16

    why is only 1 million views ? what wrong with this world ?

    • @baruchben-david4196
      @baruchben-david4196 4 роки тому +2

      Well, it may be due to the UA-cam recommendation algorithm. And it may be that the world can be a wonderful place, even if someone never hears Scriabin. There are more wonders than anyone can experience in a lifetime.

    • @avadaentertainment3429
      @avadaentertainment3429 4 роки тому

      trust me 2 years ago there were less the 300,000

    • @foreverunsure
      @foreverunsure 3 роки тому +1

      no, the question is "why people dislike?"

    • @fredsik
      @fredsik 3 роки тому

      There's more to life than Horowitz playing Scriabin m8

    • @worstpianist3985
      @worstpianist3985 3 роки тому

      @@baruchben-david4196 "There are more wonders than anyone can experience in a lifetime” I like that.

  • @musicclassic5938
    @musicclassic5938 2 роки тому +5

    I'd like to pay the attention of my fellow pianists to some master strokes:
    0:22 - a typical man's or male bass, I doubt any female pianist has enough strength in her forearms to play it as powerful.
    0:39 - a thunderous fortissimo all of a sudden melts into a delicate pianissimo - what a master stroke! Horowitz lets go the sustain pedal to avoid sound mess or chord overlay.
    0:45-46 - intentional slowdown, a sort of rubato.
    1:03 changing the mode, a sort of total reset or "breathing hands" as I call it. No other pianist does that so masterfully.
    1:07 - now comes acceleration, another sample of agogics.
    1:11-12 - another reset, to create a breathing hands effect.
    1:16 - slowing down the pace, tempo variation.
    1:33 - here comes this strongman's bass again, the maestro even jumping on his stool to absolutely destroy the bass keys.
    1:37 - beautiful and very elegant slowdown in the run-up to the climax.
    1:42 - absolutely insane basses once again.
    1:42 - 1:54 - what a climax and acceleration (agogics once again), absolutely breathtaking and powerful.
    1:55 and 1:59 - another da-dum with a jump on the stool.
    Fantastic craftsmanship!!

  • @user-fh6tv3me5b
    @user-fh6tv3me5b 3 роки тому +7

    Прекрасное исполнение. СКРЯБИН гений!

  • @r.i.p.volodya
    @r.i.p.volodya 10 місяців тому +2

    Happy Birthday Mr. Horowitz 🎼🎵🎶

  • @789armstrong
    @789armstrong Рік тому +1

    I waited 10 years for this priceless DVD of the 1968 TV concert!

  • @ludmilag2692
    @ludmilag2692 Рік тому +3

    Редко бывает что слушаю классику , но это исключительный случай . Учитель, исполнитель и мастер от Бога - Горовиц ни кем ни повторим уникален на всегда .

  • @dockaren
    @dockaren 11 років тому +3

    This is one of the greatest pieces of music ever written for piano, played by one of the greatest pianists who ever lived. How can 26 people NOT like this?!

    • @maddannafizz
      @maddannafizz 2 роки тому

      Horowitz hands ARE the piano . This is one of the greatest pieces of music ever written for piano. Played by one of the greatest ( to me) pianist's who ever lived.
      His changing pianossimo's to fortissimos are astounding to me.... the piano after all, is only a hammer instrument..It takes huge skill and a millions of different ways one must touch the hammer (note) with miniscule. minute changes in pressure and weight and memory. .
      It is the greatest of all instruments to master, as you cannot compare the ability, as H displays, what it takes to read and play so many notes compared to other instruments scores. The pianist must have needed strength for dynamic physicality, but a gentle barely there touch also required, the many rub your tummy complex bars of different rhythms from left and light hand...all maybe except for melody...very like drummers.
      I don't worship religious leaders, but Horowitz and their other worldly musicians, I do worship ♥
      1960's concert in Russia... the piano made a thunderous noise under his hands.
      Best version in a hundred years, even more than Skryabin playing himself🤣🎶

  • @jonathanbell7287
    @jonathanbell7287 2 роки тому +2

    no other pianist can carry this guy's jockstrap when it comes to conveying the sense of possessing a seemingly infinite reserve of savage, almost brutal power- always deployed with finesses and mercurial flashes of aching tenderness- yet the demons always just around the corner. Stupendous.

  • @SD-vb7kc
    @SD-vb7kc 4 роки тому +2

    I think this is the most perfect climax I have ever heard and seen executed on a piano.

  • @ToddBeal
    @ToddBeal 4 роки тому +7

    Scriabin would be proud - truly proud! This piece - this performance - moves me!

  • @priscillashi2873
    @priscillashi2873 2 роки тому +5

    So beautiful that takes my breath away and touches my heart deeply

  • @gracegoodenough5895
    @gracegoodenough5895 2 роки тому +2

    I am not a pianist, but I just love watching him play. So many young professional concert pianists appear to think that hammering at the instrument gets more sound from it. This man, God Rest his genius soul, gets more out of those ivories by tickling them with those gifted long fingers, than any ten young performers.
    He is very much missed.

  • @alessandraragno8141
    @alessandraragno8141 Рік тому +1

    I’ve been playing this piece for years, and now i’m listening to this after a while and i’m barely breathing… Vladimir invaded my soul.

  • @bitplane_chan
    @bitplane_chan Рік тому +3

    The legend sounds here.

  • @amerain1729
    @amerain1729 4 роки тому +52

    I'm surprised the Your Lie in April community hasn't reached this post yet

    • @aerohydra3849
      @aerohydra3849 4 роки тому +20

      I don't think there was any Scriabin in Your Lie in April though? Maybe I'm mistaken.
      Update: Actually there is lol... just very hidden.

    • @fuzz2142
      @fuzz2142 4 роки тому +6

      played by the girl pianist only the last part

    • @NaoshikuuAnimations
      @NaoshikuuAnimations 4 роки тому

      What the guy plays is the Revolutionary Etude by Chopin (op10 no12, which Scriabin apparently built upon); is there someone playing Scriabin at some point?

    • @aerohydra3849
      @aerohydra3849 4 роки тому +3

      @@NaoshikuuAnimations I believe the girl pianist plays this etude during the finals (only a snippet since it doesn't focus on her performance).

    • @cancy5292
      @cancy5292 4 роки тому +5

      @@NaoshikuuAnimations emi plays it (ep.21 I think but they only show the end of the piece)

  • @loren8888
    @loren8888 Рік тому +2

    Sure the climax is a beautiful summit of emotion, but it seems like the beginning gets overlooked. The difference in the phrases of each of the three "runs" before their "octave drop" "ba-dum" in the melody is done differently each time, as if you can hear Scriabin himself singing (more like humming madly) Horowitz's piano. I've never heard anybody else play it in such a unique and polished way.

  • @hedgehog4683
    @hedgehog4683 3 роки тому +7

    Одно из лучших исполнений. Не Этюда, жизни!

  • @alexbizannes7501
    @alexbizannes7501 Рік тому +4

    This a work of genius It would rank as amongst the greatest 40 one movement pianistic works Arthur Rubinstein said on film that he had actually met Scriabin and Horowitz sdid knew Rachmaninov For me , the greatest composers for piano are Chopin and Rachmaninov , though Beethoven and Liszt and Debussy rank very highly too and Ravel is commendable too

  • @evifnoskcaj
    @evifnoskcaj 2 роки тому +1

    Horowitz 4 Ever! ❤️ He knew the composer personally and Scriabin admired Horowitz's performances of his works, he is such a class act yet playful and warm instead of being elitist and cold, and his personal arrangements and improvisations are genius. Horowitz was (to quote Back to the Future) one in a million, one in a billion, one in a googolplex!

  • @TheGDChap
    @TheGDChap Рік тому +1

    I have this saved in my liked videos but whenever it comes up in my feed organically, I HAVE to watch and listen to this. Unmatched and sublime.

  • @songur0614
    @songur0614 5 років тому +7

    Imagine humans sent this recording to the space and you are the alien that founds this, simply horrific.

  • @tatianazaharova1360
    @tatianazaharova1360 3 роки тому +4

    Высший пилотаж!😯👍👏👏👏👏👏💐

  • @roxiegirl442
    @roxiegirl442 13 років тому +2

    Horowitz is the only pianist that can make errors and still have the number one interpretation of almost every song he masters to perfection!

  • @virgilrobertsjr7870
    @virgilrobertsjr7870 2 місяці тому

    I have this performance by Horowitz on cd and have probably listened to it close to 100 times...
    #BRILLIANT!
    ☆☆☆☆☆
    💯

  • @Keystuddio
    @Keystuddio Рік тому +3

    Буйство красок! Браво!

  • @EpicGamerPotato
    @EpicGamerPotato Рік тому +3

    just fucking unreal. will always keep returning to this

  • @russellthompson9271
    @russellthompson9271 4 місяці тому +1

    The shifts in dynamics and mood are so dramatic and the emotion and magic he creates makes him the greatest! Genius!

  • @evanwyatt2862
    @evanwyatt2862 Рік тому +1

    Great heavens those left hand octaves are just something else.

  • @user-lg6bz5nn1r
    @user-lg6bz5nn1r 6 років тому +5

    Браво браво браво! !!!!!!!!

  • @davidgray2
    @davidgray2 15 років тому +11

    Probably the most gobsmacking two minutes of piano playing in the last hundred years.

  • @giuseppemariaperego8937
    @giuseppemariaperego8937 7 місяців тому

    Grazie Maestro Grande!!! ❤❤❤❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉🎉 Giuseppe Perego Monza 16.2.1962

  • @mmmmSmegma
    @mmmmSmegma 2 роки тому +1

    I may have not been born during the time that Scriabin was alive, but I still feel tremendously grateful, not only for having been born on the same planet as Scriabin, but even for being born in the same universe as Scriabin. Thanks to Horowitz I get to listen to this piece of music that moves me like nothing else in this world does.

  • @user-sb3ye2jy3o
    @user-sb3ye2jy3o 3 роки тому +7

    God created his hands for this job

  • @jomatt5133
    @jomatt5133 5 років тому +6

    Браво!!!!!

  • @ninomartinvillamor3688
    @ninomartinvillamor3688 3 роки тому +2

    Music like this deserves to be heard forever

  • @noahmysic1389
    @noahmysic1389 4 роки тому +2

    i really can't breathe when i listen to this. i just love it

  • @susieinla
    @susieinla 8 років тому +24

    The absolute zenith in the execution of this masterpiece. I can only hope to aspire to play it as remotely as well as he does...the range of his tone and sound and volume, the lyricism that nobody has been able to duplicate - nobody! - just everything is to die for. What a service he does for Scriabin, if it weren't for Horowitz, very few would be inspired to include this piece in their repertoire.

    • @suzyflorida1193
      @suzyflorida1193 5 років тому +1

      If your hand can't reach an 11th, what do you do with this piece?

    • @TomCL-vb6xc
      @TomCL-vb6xc 5 років тому +5

      Suzy Florida Scriabin himself could barely reach a 9th comfortably. The obvious answer to your question is build technique to the point where you can roll the chord so quickly that it isn’t noticeably rolled. Or you could simply rubato through the sections featuring the large reaches and roll it for effect.

    • @ytyt3922
      @ytyt3922 5 років тому +4

      Suzy Florida as mentioned, either roll the chord or simply modify it to an octave. Yes I know that is sacrilege to some, but not everyone is physically capable of such stretches. Unless you’re playing the piece in a competition, nobody will know and it will still sound just as good.

  • @retrogamerdave362
    @retrogamerdave362 9 місяців тому +3

    Holy shit that was the real deal

  • @mariapodlesnaja4349
    @mariapodlesnaja4349 2 роки тому +1

    Genius plays genius' etude. No comments, only emotions.

  • @AlkanPaganini
    @AlkanPaganini 11 місяців тому +2

    00:38 and 00:45, god mode pianissimo octaves, insane.

  • @charliegold3227
    @charliegold3227 6 місяців тому +4

    The only one who plays it better than Carnegie hall Horowitz is Moscow horowitz