Vladimir Horowitz - Chopin Polonaise in A-flat major, Op. 53
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- Опубліковано 29 вер 2024
- This is Vladimir Horowitz playing Chopin's "Heroique" A-flat major Polonaise, Op. 53 as only Vladimir Horowitz could!
Correction! This is Horowitz in Musikverein, Vienna, Austria on May 31, 1987 which makes him 84 years old. Two years before his death on November 5th, 1989.
Sorry for the wrong info and thanks for the correction :)
God bless Horowitz.
"there are three types of pianists.
Jewish pianists.
Homosexual pianists.
and bad pianists." -Vladimir Horowitz
I know this is a repost, but I will not deny my video collection of the great Horowitz, I don't care if this is the only video on youtube 60 million times. make it 60 million and one!
My piano teacher once "stood" in line overnight, in January, to get tickets to see Horowitz play at Carnegie Hall. I was privileged to go.... Chopin's Polonaise in A flat maj was experientially beyond indescription ! As someone who grew up in the 60s and 70s, and attended my share of rock concerts, Horowitz's it's still the most memorable concert I ever experienced........and, I loved his big grin each time he stood...
My parents took me to see Horowitz play an all Chopin program (including this Polonaise) at Carnegie Hall in the early 1960's when I was 7 years old. We sat way up in the balcony and I will never forget the large ebony concert grand piano in the center of the stage with (from the upper balcony) this small figure playing this transformative music that engulfed the entire hall and had everyone transfixed by his virtuosity. It had a profound effect on my life and I have never forgotten it to this day almost 60 years later!!!
@@georgegilbert7485 How lucky you were... I'm 16 years old and I envy a little, the people like you who had the priviledge to listen Horowitz play. This Polonaise played by Horowitz, is one the, if not the piano piece that I like the most listening to. How beautiful it is...
Rachmaninoff had been told some young Russian played his music like nothing he'd ever heard. So they met; "And so I came to Rachmaninoff, and it took five minutes & we were friends. In ten minutes he was playing for me.. Rachmaninoff then asked me to go to the famous Steinway basement, where he accompanied me on his Third Piano Concerto." Rocky after hearing Horowitz's rendition said, "I will never play the 3rd again. It belongs only w/in the hands of Horowitz." Rocky knew the real Horowitz! :D
Fascinating! I find it humorous that his nickname was Rocky. Haha very funny! Horowitz is King with powerful expression.
Love it
I can understand why young musicians might be distracted by Horowitz's technical flubs; that's how they're trained. As they get older, however, I hope they can hear the genius in a performance like this; it takes 80 years of brilliant playing to get there.
It's something that can't be taught or learned, people can play the notes as perfectly as they want, but 99% of the players won't be able to play it with the emotion like this, like chopin intended it, and that's what really makes the difference when playing the piano.
most never get there
I want to hop on this old comment say I imagined his age made him play more freely.
I have never seen it performed like this. Deliberately understated, clipped and staccato only to come back played full FF with flourish. No doubt to enchance the contrast.
Tatiana Nikolaevna Have you heard of Krystian Zimmerman, great pianist, in musicality and technicality.
Mistakes? Lol. Nowdays "perfect" pianists can only dream to be recognizable the way he was. Few notes and you know he was playing. That's the only thing that matters beyond taste.
Very true. You can really recognize him after 1 bar.
Mistakes in this kind of pianists remind us that they are also human and encourage us to continue studying hard to grow a little more every day.
And please like he was 80 something here any other 80yo (except obviously Rubinstein and a few others) wouldn’t even be able to play a note
How he slams the left hand is incomparable!!! Best performance of this piece ever!!!
a composer write a story
a musician tells the story
Horowitz tells stories more than perfectly
To play a wrong note is insignificant; to play without passion is inexcusable.
-Ludwig van Beethoven
In my opinion, out of all the Horowitz Interpretations of this particular piece, I would have to say this was one of, if not the best one! Incredible dynamic control, crisp articulation makes it a joy to listen to!
I've never heard him make a mistake that detracted from the musical experience. I swear, some of these modern virtuosos who are note perfect don't do it for me. (opinion)
Yeah, little slips and emotions really make a pianist human honestly.
I think that everyone can hear clarinets, horns and drums in this performance. Last but not least: Horowitz’s octaves have always been grenades and, in this piece, grenades are absolutely needed. He was unbelievable.
Imagine, this is a video of an 84 year old man performing this incredible piece. When I'm 84, I just hope I'm still able to tell C from D! Horowitz was amazing.
Best rendition of Chopins polonaise in A flat major I have heard. What a great man!
I love his playing, wonderful performance, very powerful!
Such beauty. The flourish and embellishments in this mans hands and heart clearly show his soul and the power of music from the greats of our past...
I've watched this performance for years, as I still have it on VHS. No one performed the classics like Mr. Horowitz.
GOD bless your soul sir and thank you for the amazing performances. Hope to meet you and the Masters on the other side :)
25 people accidentally clicked thumbs down because they were concentrated on listening to this amazing pianist
This performance and the one of Rubinstein are the absolute best. When you compare it to the performace of Kissin, Lang lang, etc. It's clear why these 2 are in a league of their own. Seong jin cho the winner of the 2015 chopin competition, despite the young age played it decently. He did well the beginning but then got too excited 🤣.
Most beautiful and elegant "Heroique "ever!
For me the inique piano player with that unique and real sound, and the very clear music!!
With ALL due respect to this Maestro's talent, brilliance, emotive depth, physical power, musical intelligence, immersion in the beauty of the poetry of the romantic era:
I am also astounded by the mere basic fact that this man's little finger was the length of my INDEX finger! Yikes!
He wanted to be a composer - only!!! Thank goodness Life motivated him also to share his interpretive performance gifts with the musical world!🙏🌹🎆
Its so good, one of the first vids i watched on utube and here we are 9 years later.. damn
Sheer delight. The sweetness and crisp execution is stunning. I don't know B Flat from a banana, but I know genius when I hear it. You have to love Chopin too.
Extraordinario, perfecto, respeta totalmente al autor. Fabuloso imterprete.
may i say that it's not just the extremely clear chords that defines this piece but that pianissimo repeated left hand that later made the perfect crescendo! what absolutely incredible control.
How can a 80+ old man play such a powerful music?
Forget about heaven, this is higher.
i barely noticed the wrong notes and i’m a pianist. he is technically and emotionally unmatched.
There are ccategories of musicians you don't even bother commenting on. VH is one . I just love the complete control he has of even the hardest parts (the second section of this Polonaise, e.g., which he busilds up so carefully is orgiastic). One of my piano teachers knew him. He told me, VH would start talking about music and while standing would play the most difficult passages...
これ以上の演奏はない。
You listen to his Japan concert and know and understand that he was ill at the time with his medication - and then return to this time after time to hear the 'comeback' he did. What I'd give for a time machine and to be there in the front row!!
Hermosa interpretación, respiraba y vivia por la música, gran maestro!!¡¡
Honestly, this is my favourite interpretation of this piece so far. He was such an amazing pianist. (Stop hating on him!)
Mi dai un grande senso di Pace, Maestro..... Nelle Tue mani VIVE il vero CHOPIN!
brilliant video of a brilliant pianist playing a brilliant piece superbly!
thanks sincerely thepolonaise.
Grande , meraviglioso , indimenticabile Maestro Horowitz!
If it ever gets better, I wanna be there.
I will miss good old horowitz :)
Died in his good old 80's a while ago, about 20-30 years. I will miss him :)
Listening gave me inner warmth, chills, and tears. Wow.
I've listened to this video 4 times. I also have read the comments. Most of them were silly as hell. I have learned the piano in Bangalore school of music for 3 years. I've come across Chopin many times. His stuff is cool. The polonaise especially! But seriusly Vladimir Horowitz is cool! I am in grade 3 in the piano. I wonder when I will learn cool stuff like this! I really liked this video! Horowitz is just to good! I've checked up 1000 dictionaries but there is no word to describe this Polonaise which Chopin composed and how Horowitz playes it! But just one thing give me and other listeners some more information about Horowitz. And please upload more Horowitz videos on Utube! And I only wish I could learn the notes. Thank you. Lol!
For rubinstein(also a great pianist) horowitz was the new liszt. Thats why rubinstein startet to practice the piano every day instead of just chilling,haha
Do you think you improved on the "silly as hell" nature of the comments?
those octaves at 3:26 he plays it as if u play twinkle star this man was a legend wish i cud hv met him
That mistake at 4:03 sounded like an improvisation the talent of this man
Absolutely wonderful!
Horowitz is an amzing pianist and deserves the best respect from the rest of the world. The sound he produces is BEAUTIFUL! Amazing technic! Absolutely incredible performance... hes old and he can still play such wonderful piano! BRAVO HOROWITZ! (Also check out Haochen Zhang playing the chopin concerto when only 13ish! He's also very good!) Overall, HOROWITZ IS BRILLIANT!!!!!!!!
4.00-4.50 is superb from almost silence to thunder storm. Masterpiece !
Playing prevents arthritis for your information, my great grandfather a virtuso keyboardist never had it and he was 97 and still playing
Wow, even Chopin will be proud of his music❤😇💟
Excellent !!!!! Great pianist Maestro Horowitz !!!!
Der Meister aller Meister - unerreicht und unübertroffen !!
There come them damn tears again
If you have ever tried to play this piece, you will understand Horowitz's expression at the end of this great performance!
Está gravação é importante pelo seu signicado, e não pela performance. Nota 1000000 para imortal Horowitz, pois conseguiu entender a vida num todo; da juventude até a terceira idade. No futuro quero ser velhinho que nem ele.
I thought I played this well, correct tempo, etc.. Boy was I mistaken! Lol I don't think I can ever keep up with him and I've been practicing this piece for decades!!
This Genious is a beast at the piano!
Piano arrangement of Stars and Stripes Forever that had to be heard to he believed (especially the piccolo part). I would also recommend the RCA recording of the Bacarole Op. 60 for an outstanding Horowitz interpretation of one of my favorite Chopin pieces.
Cherio!
This performance makes me think of a conclusion to a life well lived.
Its all about the practice and joy of playing piano my friend..
Marvelous playing.
Absolutely magnificent.
Horowitz is like a Porsche 356.... modern cars may be faster, more precise, and more powerful, but he gets there with amazing style. (On the flip side, Lang Lang is like a Porsche Boxter.... overpriced and overpowered like a glorified Miata)
I couldn't agree more.
このDVDを見て育ちました。
Bravo, oldtimer.
I love this interpretation. Horowitz is the master!
Sorry naysayers, this playing is straight up BadAss for anyone at any age, Here's a man in his 80's pulling this off, anybody who's knows anything about the difficulty of this piece and speed at which he plays and the interesting unique and gorgeous COURAGEOUS interpretation and relative accuracy know what a brilliant moment this performance represents in the history of classical music!!
I agree 100%. I think Fryderyk Chopin composed this pieces and it is to be played in the manner like Horowitz does. Only very few like Horowitz does justice to the composer.
The way how Horrowitz play Heroic is in my opinion the best
I loved the facial expression Horowitz made at the end of the song
7:00 guess he sweats on his mouth
Martin Sun wiping his nose
I would kill to have him as my teacher.
The applause at the end
Quelque chose de grand et de dramatique … des sentiments humains purs exprimés par la musique..
Wow! He was energetic even in his 80s!
amazing!!
I love when he hits the low B-flat😁
totally agree with you. i think that after 70 years he would have lost his touch. some mistakes here and there. but still was an incredible pianist.
a masterpiece
very good
Okay. I really need to post this. How can one of the best classical pianist of the 20th century, receive 35 dislikes? WTF. Are there too many notes? Do want him to "cut a few"? SMH
Divine.
I can't believe someone can write music like this! I mean, I give major credit for him and others who can play this...as close as he can...but, think about Chopin, Mozart, Beethoven, etc...they actually wrote these songs. and we never got to hear them play them.
This man is so good that it looks like he is typing.
Imagine being a close friend to Rachmaninoff. Thats Horowitz.
Indeed!!! The played piano toguether many times👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🎹🎼🎶🎶🎶💛😊!
best friend actually
Imagine being a close friend to Horowitz. That's Rachmaninoff.
@@MathieuPrevot Imagine being. That is
@@felizianosole896 being is. That’s imagine
Amazing!!
Let's keep something in mind...He was 84 years old when he performed this incredibly beautiful piece!!! At 4:20 or so I thought that Steinway would fall apart under those hands! I hope I can walk straight when I'm that age. RIP Vladimir
Same here
This was the 1st time I ever watched this video. I loved the man. I didn't know he died. I'm very sad. I seen a lot of power in him controlling that piano and bringing out a lot of Spirit.
If you can't walk straight at age 84, at least the time--4:20--would provide an excuse...
fuck, you are right
Yes, it touches you in the inner core.
Horowitz once stated, "If you want me to play a piece with no dynamic variation I will play it perfectly all the time, but true music comes from emotion and with emotion comes a much greater risk for mistakes."
I also play this piece, It is terribly difficult to do what he does at the speed he does with as little mistakes as he does with all the emotion he puts into it.
The perfect example why Vladimir Horowitz and Fréderic Chopin were a match made in heaven.
Konni Chopin would have loved to hear Horowitz play his music.
Horowitz was such a great pianist people thought he was possed by the devil i know thats funny but its true
@@keithjones9546 I feel your right Nobody ever Mastered playing Chopin like Howowitz
You have to have a huge ego to claim that you can play something perfectly all the time, even without dynamics. But he can back it up so it’s fine
why are you telling a 84 year old man that he made mistakes like wtf😭😭 this performance was PERFECT and i'm so sad he died.
Well, he isn't dead!
JE4A sadly he is
@@diamoz7597 His music is still alive
As long as we, the audience,
exists He Will live for ever!
@@je4a301 ur dumb
People who know piano better than me may talk about 'mistakes' - perhaps I'm a Philistine not to care. Mistakes or no, this is simply one of the most moving, passionate and beautiful performances I have seen. Had I ever been fortunate enough to see this great man play live I'm sure it would have been one of the most special moments in my life. Wonderful stuff.
We are lucky to be able to see and hear him with the new technology. Think how many masters we would never have seen without the internet.
I did, and it was.
@@copeseethedilate I don't know why i'm writing this but i couldn't agree more
I experienced him at Orchestra Hall in Chicago . Ill never get over the experience. May his memory forever be a blessing
I was lucky to get to hear him once in Chicago, thanks to my father who somehow managed to get tickets for the family and my University of Iowa piano teacher (Greg Pepetone--a wonderful pianist himself who, alas, still refuses to upload his recordings to UA-cam--and who played the best Bach-Busoni Chaconne I've ever heard at the Dame Myra Hess concert series in Chicago). Horowitz was, I read later, "under medication" and was it was a difficult time of life for him. The early 1980s. He had some memory lapses and bunches of missed notes. But my lord. It was the most incredible piano sound (sounds!) I've ever heard in my life. Nothing I've heard in live recitals could ever compare to the sound(s) that Horowitz got even on a bad day for him! Absolute wizardry. John Browning once said in some book of pianist interviews I read a long time ago that he felt that Horowitz had actually gone beyond the piano. I think in a sense he was right. There was a special kind of orchestral sound--and color and dynamic range--that Horowitz "conjured" that I've never heard from any other pianist in my recital-going experience. A kind of fireworks for the ears. And all of it coming from a "visually untheatrical" pianist! Just this still concentrating figure. Then again, his lack of "theater" made what he did all the more mesmerizing. I particularly remember his symphonic take on Beethoven's Op. 101 sonata. And the colors he got in Schumann's "Carnival." Horowitz's technical peak was already many years behind him, but this recital was still the most staggering I've ever heard.
I have yet to hear any other pianist alive or dead who matched Vladimir Horowitz's playing. He is very old in this video but still plays brilliantly, with unique phrasings & individual tonality. I can always identify his playing just by his touch. He hit each key in a precise way. His crescendos are even, graduating to a thunderous roar. He uses the pedal sparingly & in good taste. He was one of a kind & never boring.
Theres something strangely unique on how horowitz plays the piano
His fingers are always so straight
@@leowu988 IKR?? WTF?? Wrists Are low, fingers straight, except for his pinky. I cant - just can't - tried it - doesn't work. Such control.
@@adrianbartholomew3785 try relaxing your body so much that gravity starts to put your hands down. Play as if your hands are skydiving. Don't force them to stay up. Play with your body weight and you will kind of achieve it
i think the piano tell horowitz how to play it
Part comes of his very long.and.spatulate fingers? I've never seen hands play like his.
I can’t say how beautiful this is, very dynamic and so many details put into this interpretation. Such a divine and unique performance. No one, NO ONE, will ever replace Horowitz!
IMO he owns Ballad in G minor as well. I love watching and hearing the video of his performance.
Just thinking: one ship from Russia to the west contained Horowitz, Milstein, and Piatigorsky. What a trio...
What made America great was often the
immigrants.
Usually....
MELVYN HAUSER
Well, yeah, America is a country of immigrants...
There's none like Horowitz....
Kristian Oma Rønnes that man has passion
Arthur Rubinstein too
Ashkenazy
Lang lang
@@banumathi8684 😂
My father is 99 y/o. He is an autodidact on the piano though not classical.I play this for him on earphones.He wells up. Thank you Mr Horowitz.
Honestly, I think this is the best interpretation.
The way he plays the first theme so quiet is so amazing and I have no idea how he did that with this piece
英雄の持つ強さ、抱える孤独、勇気、葛藤、そして儚さが上手く表現された良い演奏。
英雄って誰のことなんでしょうか
俳優の中野英雄さんです。
I'm no music expert, but every time I come to a video like this (and by this I mostly mean Chopin because his works require so much interpretation) all I see is:
"I like THIS other video more" or "He's not as good as Yundi-Lang Lang-Rubinstein's version"
Can't it be that people just add a little bit of themselves to the music when they play it? I think Rubinstein himself put it best-- when asked what he thought about be called the best pianist of his time, he said that he's an artist, and there is no 'best' artist. Just different art.
Beauty, to a degree, is in the eyes of the beholder.
Hanina Singer If you say you don't like Vladimir Horowitz you must be the world's most brainless ass. Noone can dislike Vladimir Horowitz!
Hanina Singer didn't say anything about not liking Horowitz.
She didn't say anything about not liking Horowitz how did you think she said that?
With all due respect, please remove yundi from same sentence and or conversation as Horowitz
yes but i get the impression when Rubenstein says that that he's sort of sayng that pianists are somehow in the same category as the composers themselves. I speaks of each composer as being a 'different world'. Sure, but let's not confuse composers with pianists - a composer's worldis massive - a mere pianist's 'so=called world' is tiny.
Unsurpassed. Nobody in the history of recorded music has yet come close in interpretation, depth, and seeming effortlessness.
3:17 looks like he’s plucking something
Господи, какое счастье, слушать такую музыку, в таком исполнении! Браво, Великий Горовиц! 💖💐💐💐💐💐🥰
The greatest pianist of the 20th century!
No Art Tatum "if Art Tatum took up classical music seriously, I'd quit my job the next day!" Horowitz said that
Fat Boi we’re in the 21st century now
Some say Rachmaninoff.
@@wouterh5134 ever heard Hamelin?
without any doubt for me
This performance is by far the best of all, the spirit, emotions and the adventure that he takes with the music is just beatiful.