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Offline sevencircles

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Horowitz greatest recording
on: September 22, 2011, 09:28:28 AM
What would you consider Horowitz greatest recording ever?

From a pianotechnical respect in particular.  ;)

Offline richterfan1

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Re: Horowitz greatest recording
Reply #1 on: September 22, 2011, 11:02:31 AM
Chopin's g minor ballade in all ways ^^, that was the biggest applause i ever heard, and the greatest interpretation i ever heard

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Re: Horowitz greatest recording
Reply #2 on: September 22, 2011, 04:17:33 PM
Chopin's g minor ballade in all ways ^^, that was the biggest applause i ever heard, and the greatest interpretation i ever heard

When and where did he do this recording?  :)

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Re: Horowitz greatest recording
Reply #3 on: September 22, 2011, 05:37:12 PM
When and where did he do this recording?  :)

At the Carnegie Hall - 1968  ;)

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Re: Horowitz greatest recording
Reply #4 on: September 23, 2011, 08:22:39 AM
At the Carnegie Hall - 1968  ;)



Itīs propably the best of his later recordings. I prefer the way Horowitz played in the 30:s and 40:s though  ;)

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Re: Horowitz greatest recording
Reply #5 on: September 23, 2011, 03:08:54 PM
and as a Master or Rach3 -

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Re: Horowitz greatest recording
Reply #6 on: September 24, 2011, 11:11:16 PM
Scriabin - Etude 42/5

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Re: Horowitz greatest recording
Reply #7 on: September 25, 2011, 04:58:34 PM
1941 Rach 3 with Barbirolli-the Scriabin 42/5 is a fine choice or the many recordings of Scriabin 12/8 that possibly only the composer completes with for a total reading of that etude.

Offline forgottenbooks

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Re: Horowitz greatest recording
Reply #8 on: September 27, 2011, 10:41:12 PM
His 1941 recording of Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 3.
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Offline philb

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Re: Horowitz greatest recording
Reply #9 on: September 28, 2011, 05:04:02 AM
1951 Rach 3? I also very much like his Mephisto waltz and all of his Scarlatti recordings

Offline danhuyle

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Re: Horowitz greatest recording
Reply #10 on: September 28, 2011, 05:37:43 AM
Scriabin Etude Op8 No12 - No one plays this better than Horowitz.
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Offline pianoplayjl

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Re: Horowitz greatest recording
Reply #11 on: October 15, 2011, 10:48:43 AM
Chopin sonata in B flat minor? even though it is not his greatest recording it should be up there somewhere.
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