Alex Posted April 19, 2007 Share Posted April 19, 2007 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M_is_D Posted April 19, 2007 Share Posted April 19, 2007 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex Posted April 20, 2007 Author Share Posted April 20, 2007 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
violinfiddler Posted April 20, 2007 Share Posted April 20, 2007 Hey, I was going to start a thread about the same thing.:) Isn't awesome? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fredrik Posted April 20, 2007 Share Posted April 20, 2007 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest JohnGalt Posted April 20, 2007 Share Posted April 20, 2007 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex Posted April 21, 2007 Author Share Posted April 21, 2007 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fredrik Posted April 21, 2007 Share Posted April 21, 2007 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!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pianistboy Posted February 12, 2008 Share Posted February 12, 2008 Horowitz is brilliant, all right. I have to say, though, I have a soft spot for the way that Leif Ove Andsnes plays it... :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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