April 19, 200718 yr This guy's amazing. :) YouTube - Horowitz Plays Rachmaninoff Concerto No.3 - 1st movement YouTube - Horowitz Plays Rachmaninoff Concerto No.3 - 2nd movement YouTube - Horowitz Plays Rachmaninoff Concerto No.3 - 3rd movement
April 19, 200718 yr Of course he is. He does the best Rach 3. And Rach 3 is amazing, amazing music. Btw he's over 80 in that video. EDIT: just checked. He was 83.
April 20, 200718 yr Author Yeah he died like three years later. Yeah his interpretation of Rach 3 was my favorite. I did like the way Olga Kern played in the Kliburn comp though.
April 20, 200718 yr This guy's amazing. :whistling:YouTube - Horowitz Plays Rachmaninoff Concerto No.3 - 1st movement YouTube - Horowitz Plays Rachmaninoff Concerto No.3 - 2nd movement YouTube - Horowitz Plays Rachmaninoff Concerto No.3 - 3rd movement I have the DVD, have watched and listened to it many times. The conductor Zubin Mehta is also fantastic! Vladimir was a great personality. He also had strange sides, like at one time in his career he thought that his hands were a part of his piano. He spent 12 years in an Asylum, but luckily he got rid of this strange fixation and became normal again. This concert is after the mentioned stay at the nuthouse. Many Russian musicians have magic Fredrik
April 20, 200718 yr Absolutely fantastic. I only have one complaint, the 9:30ish mark in the first movement. Horowitz has done better before. It was far too slow.
April 21, 200718 yr Author Hmm, yes. But his interpretation definitely beats most others. I can't argue that he hasn't done better, but this is still an amazing performance.
April 21, 200718 yr Hmm, yes. But his interpretation definitely beats most others. I can't argue that he hasn't done better, but this is still an amazing performance. Vladimir is the king, no doubt about it! He was once attacked by a critic that claimed that he played his right hand octaves to loud. He replied "I play them loud because I can!"
February 12, 200818 yr Horowitz is brilliant, all right. I have to say, though, I have a soft spot for the way that Leif Ove Andsnes plays it... :)
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