drewqq Yes, he was really a dear person.

martha jane Did you know him?

No, but from his history as a pianist and his interviews he seemed very approachable with a lovely disposition. Did you have the pleasure of meeting him?

Indeed, what a brilliant, charismatic funny man, I can see why he captivated audiences, not just a musical genius!

now you learn

his mind didn't know it during the question, but his hands did! I = mind, they = hands

@@TwelfthRoot2 onika burgers

Wow. Would love to have seen him play in person, but I can understand that it would probably tempt you to burn your own piano!

It's funny but seeing him play must have made many young pianist give up their pianist career dream out of pure rationality. But in fact, i believe Horowitz when he say it's not true he could do things other pianist couldn't, the reverse is also true.

ur so gorgeous

childlike? yes creepy but safe? yes joker / evil-clown-like? yes wonderful? not the adjective I would choose :P

He sounded so genuine not like typical musicians who are so politically correct and careful. He said as it is.

Me too!!

me too. Horowitz is the first maestro whom I've drawn into his life story too, not just his skills. Hope to meet him in Heaven one day.

He still is alive he hust turned into music

You still could meet him in Heaven!

That is the absolute key to such level of performance, you can't play like this unless the action is going to be exactly like your own piano.

Actually musicians fee is like a tabboo, and it is not bad to have some idea about it.

He replied, "after 50 years of hard work I finally got 80%" "No I'm not proud, but I guess that is so.." For some reason the interviewer is trying to downplay how humble Horowitz was...

@@RockinTheDub it is okay. The interviewer doesn't have half the super cool accent Horowitz has.

@@jameslorenz3718 Russian Jews?

@@sebengkoh Russian-jews missed a great opportunity to be movie stars (;

Wallace obviously adored Horowitz, but he feels with enough moral to talk in a straight way. And you are right Horowitz was pleased with Wallace, like if he was an alter ego 🤔

Wow you really did order 66 didn't you

Yeah, that interviewer really gets on my nerves with his arrogant and at times rude remarks. But maybe it's just interviewing style at the time.

@@essencejoyclairv People today are just incredibly sensitive and weak. This is how people used to talk to each other. I listen to this interview and there is nothing even mildly offensive here. The difference is that today an interview is really all about publicity and image. You interview someone to get them publicity and show that they are, 'important.' Interviews and the media used to be about information. Horowitz was a global sensation since 1920 - no one doubts his skill. They wanted to know about him. The interviewer is asking about him. That's only rude in a world where an interview ISN'T an interview. Media ISN'T about information anymore.

Lol

Agree

Very interesting

Nonsense. He's using a pretense of frankness as an excuse for being rude. It's a familiar ruse of television interviewers which others imitated because they found it enhanced their sense of self importance and mollified their envy. And you've evidently been taken in by it .

I can't stand any TV interviewers today who start a sentence on the Imperative style of speech : "Tell me this or that.. " instead of using the polite form "Could you tell us about.." To me that is extremely rude, just because they provide the platform for the interview they think they can drop polite forms. I'd kick them with a boot.

golden comment!

i wish i could see you...:-))

Dumb fucking question if I've ever heard one

@@DanielMartinez-nw1pn it is a beautiful question. It is a human question

Hatred is also a form of love

It was a rhethorical question you dumbass This journalism is better than 95% of todays BS

I MEAN, YOU REALLY LOVE TO PLAY THE PIANO

I think it was probably one of many many encores. He makes a comment when he comes off stage “I’ve worked enough tonight” lol. Hilarious. But he can do it.

He did finish the sonata....that is almost the ending where your stamina is getting over but you are to excite to quit 🤔

After he stopped, he put both arms stretched out resting on the piano rim in front of him still looking at the keys. That is strong body language for having enough humility to quit as he knew he did not have what it took that night out of respect for the art of performing. That is a masterful display of healthy ego that would not be possible in today's egocentric conventions.

He actually finished the Liszt sonata… you can listen to the recital here: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/j5iDrcyrm8vHZqc.html

@@ericastier1646 no....he put the arms on the rim because he was exhausted....look at Yundi Li's video performing the Sonata at Baden Baden, almost the same attitude....

mysterytrain3 I'm not so sure about that. Try listening to Daniil Trifonov, now that's one guy that could very well become a Horowitz in a couple decades.

mysterytrain3 I think Yefim Bronfman is a great interpreter, in a class by himself, however i agree most of today's pianist are just classical clowns, it's about them not the composer, just living for the fame and money and it shows in their playing(if you call it that) that i resent with the prices they charge, however at least you know they will never get another cent of your money.

its because today the most important things are speed and no mistakes. Today you have pianist who at 27 years have nearly all the repertoire in their fingers. Like the Liszt sonata for exemple, that piece was written by a mature and advanced Liszt, and today, the best way of playing it is faster as you can... leraning it as fast as you can, without the deep thought about the piece. Rubinstein was saying about young pianists, "they don't take any risk anymore. They try too much to be accurate". I listen about a study of Chopin played by Lang Lang and Yuja Wang, I was amazed by the sound and the easiness of their playing. then i saw a link to rubinstein playing the same study, bad sound, bad recording, but after few bars, I was in the piece with him and totally forgot about the technic. I was just on the musicality. That pianist make you forgot about technic. Rubonstein was saying "if someone says about my playing, What an incredible lzft hand technic, so fluid, then I feel hurt because its mean that he did not been touched by my playing !"

But I choose to speak about the big star, but you also have very good pianist out there with an incredible musicality. Just not the star of youtube unfortunately...

Olga Kern hits close to the mark. If she had been born a couple of generations before, she would be up there with the "old school" pianists. She's still young and has time to secure her position among the ranks of the finest. I can actually feel the heritage of the great Russian pianists in her playing. I state this as my opinion, only. But like everyone else, I'm entitled to mine, too. :-)

I wish I could understand that :P

Georg Solti said the same about Claudia Cassidy

Not Heifetz

@@beatlessteve1010 Gesundheit !!

Horowitz not the Greatest! More beautiful colorful piano Sound than Horowitz=Wilhelm Kempff Emil Gilels Radu Lupu Artur Rubinstein Vladimir Ashkenazy! More powerful Louder than Horowitz=Mikhail Pletnev The Supernova Explosion Power!( Prokofiev piano concerto no 1 by Pletnev!) The Second Loudest was Lazar Berman! More Genius than Horowitz=Sviatoslav Richter Solomon Cutner Grigory Sokolov Maurizio Pollini Alexei Lubimov Stanislav Igolinsky!

@@RaineriHakkarainen 🙄

​​​​​@@RaineriHakkarainen Pollini more genius? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 If we want to get serious, we might talk about Hofman, Friedman, Moisewitsch, Backhaus, Koczalski, Siloti, Cortot, Katchen and others. But I don't like to rank in this category.

She was in love with Horowitz the MUSICIAN, not the man!! It's difficult to be married to an avowed homosexual and claim him as her husband.

@@pianoman551000 there is a lot of theories around Horowitz. Unlike Shura Cherkassky, for example, I can't find any element or behaviour that denotes some desviations.....who knows. The fact is they were a couple strange, bizarre and neccesary for each other....🤷‍♂️

totally agree

+drovid008 Na. Mahler thought romanticism would end in the early 1900's. It didn't. There are still plenty of virtuoso romantics out there... :)

+drovid008 check out Daniil Trifonov

+drovid008 check out Daniil Trifonov

+BenjaminGessel no, the last individualist, as he had put it. he didn't believe he was the last romantic

BenjaminGessel Where are these Rachmaninoffs, Godowskys, and Friedmans of our day?

today the news and culture in the mainstream seem to be completely driven by political agenda

No such thing. Every pianist has different qualities. Horowitz excelled in some areas and not in others. But without a doubt he reached his own ultimate potential and that is only what matters.

@@ericastier1646 That and what resonates with you mostly.

+Lemontech74 Just like in his rach g minor prelude xD

+Lemontech74 . perfection is boring. watch a midi and find out

Hope you're that good at 87

nonsense Lemonade

He's a bit like a mountain - you don't look at the scree but the peak, and it is towering.

only other pianists know...

I agree on both Horowitz and Wallace (the interviewer). There's a video here on KZfaq where he interviews Callas - he's very rude to her.

If only Wallace was around to interview Brahms. That would be a much more fair interview. (:

Well said. This interviewer was terrible.

Are you new? Have you never seen 60 minutes before? I'm quite certain Horowitz was not so thin skinned to be insulted by probing questions. Great interview.

+JD Clarkston Well, you know, what did you expect? Wallace is just like that... :)

+JD Clarkston how VULGAR to ask a question that EVERYBODY WANTS TO KNOW. ewwww. so vulgar. you ARE a BRIT right?

+genius mchaggis fuck him. Nobody wanted to know or even gives a shit

+genius mchaggis "EVERYBODY WANTS TO KNOW". Not everyone is a materialistic pleb you know. Or well, you probably don't.

TausMunk i know. youre a superior upper cruster who is always "polite". ya right.