He is so lyrical. His phrasing is breathtaking. His understanding is so deep
@jkhalsa
15 жыл бұрын
Some say God is IN everyone. When I was 20, I got to play my first Bach cantata in a church in St. Louis with the choir of St. Louis University. In that wonderful cathedral, and this choir of college kids, I felt like they were angels singing as I accompanied them, heard the lofty soloists sing. They might have been playing Super Mario 20 minutes later at the break, but for that moment they were transformed. Perhaps I am the most poetic of observers, and I often feel the Divine in music.
@NiPaVou
8 жыл бұрын
Love him. He was a giant and yet so modest. That beautiful smile at the end as well as this simple "i didn't compose it"...
@GregorKropotkin-qu2hp
7 жыл бұрын
He is (was)also the very finest performer of Chopin I have ever heard, a true giant of the art.
@CarmenReyes-em9np
5 ай бұрын
Año 1,924. México Yucatan.
@HotRatsAndTheStooges
2 жыл бұрын
Horowitz is one of the few players who emphasizes the D at 1:07 to prepare the dissonance between the D and Eb at 1:09. This is one of the most sublime parts of the entire piece. Many other pianists who do a great job playing this piece miss this detail, which can make it kinda sound like they're sounding from the same voice. When played on the organ the dissonance is a lot more clear and you can understand more fully Bach's idea here.
@musical_lolu4811
2 жыл бұрын
Astute observation.
@TheSoteriologist
9 ай бұрын
Methinks Gould paid attention to this kind of thing as well.
@Yunitoony1107
7 ай бұрын
That is an absolutely great observation. Horowitz has a deep understanding for those hidden notes and this unique sort of articulation
@ernent
15 жыл бұрын
Busoni intended his transcriptions to make Bach's works better known to the public but the result is that most people know ONLY the transcriptions. All those who admire this piece should listen to the complete "18", one of the supreme masterpieces of all music (and then to the rest of the organ works and then to the rest of Bach).
@davidturri1191
8 жыл бұрын
Rest in peace V. Horowitz. You were truly sent from the heavens.
@Barabanych
17 жыл бұрын
Horowitz was a GENIUS. You can't categorize a genius by "he's better, he's worse" and all that. He was Horowitz,nobody every played like him, and never will, like him, or not. I put him over many others, despite some flaws, because nobody has ever interpreted music like him.
@johnfrobin
3 жыл бұрын
This performance grips my soul. It is so very beautiful, made even more beautiful by the honesty and humility of Horowitz. I never met him, but how I miss him!
@beatlessteve1010
6 ай бұрын
Honesty and humility , are two adjectives that seem to fit his charisma well..and is very poignant..
@remsan03
8 жыл бұрын
The magic happens on 1:39. That pianissimo. My god!
@mahakala
5 жыл бұрын
Only horowitz can
@romanjaviergiordano
3 жыл бұрын
Always get me... straight in the soul
@Contemporary_Music
2 жыл бұрын
Jesus... indeed...
@troy5094
3 жыл бұрын
His smile at the end is just so precious 🥺
@lucabruno77
15 жыл бұрын
The slow tempo, the liberty in tone, colors, embellishments and articulation, the incredible rendition of the polyphonic lines... these are the qualities of a genius.. actually three geniuses are at work here, Bach, Busoni, and Horowitz... This is to me the true representation of the sense of great expectation for the Advent of Our Saviour...this really is for good-will people... thank you for posting this video (look at his fingering and posture, please!!)
@justinandmaxgames5472
2 жыл бұрын
It is everything and all it once. You said it perfectly.
@RemovdSande11
13 жыл бұрын
"..it was very beautiful, very beautiful..." Horrowitz: " But I didn't compose it.... " In this line he shows his sadness. His dream was to become a composer afterall. I bet he is composing in the life after ;)
@alainjames9556
4 жыл бұрын
I think he was just being modest - giving the compliment to JS Bach instead of accepting it for his performance.
@2002FREDERICK
4 жыл бұрын
Beautifull ...
@chingizkhan240
2 жыл бұрын
@@2002FREDERICK х
@insight827
2 жыл бұрын
@@alainjames9556 it was his dream to be a composer.
@DailyBach
2 жыл бұрын
Now he is decomposing.
@EldarPolat
4 жыл бұрын
The humility to say “I didn’t compose it” meaning - praise belongs to Bach. Truly beautiful human being
@malvasia17
2 жыл бұрын
thanks i was about to say the same
@AxisDimension
15 жыл бұрын
Such a beautiful tone on the piano, and not flat and dull like so many piano recordings; this to me is a breath of fresh air
@jorritvandenham9616
2 жыл бұрын
What's not in this performance?! Beautiful singing tone and phrasing, endless colours, superb voicing, expression written in capitals. No mister Howowitz, you didn't compose it, but you did create something eternal.
@jkhalsa
15 жыл бұрын
i admire him in this piece for his flexibility of rhythm He takes time to make the phrases. It's also a very interesting video to watch because it gradually focuses on what he is doing with his hands. I simply don't get to see pianists at work this clearly. This music is complex. The independent melody lines weaving in and out you can follow in his fingers. One of the early commenters here said it was great to see someone just play. There's no show-off body mannerisms.
@jkhalsa
15 жыл бұрын
Another aspect of this recording is the feeling of relaxation I see in him, and that I feel in me. The piece is unhurried. It is like a lullaby. After listening to it perhaps 20 or 30 times, I still find it refreshing. It is the mark of great artisty (and great empathy from a listener) to be able to enjoy something so often and walk away with the same joy. I find this quality in most pieces of JS Bach when they are played well and with heart. Amen.
@abeyusuke1514
2 жыл бұрын
@beatlessteve1010
6 ай бұрын
It's true I have heard Bach played very robotically and while technically impressive it leaves you empty
@jkhalsa
5 ай бұрын
@@beatlessteve1010 Amen. Recently someone quoted Yo Yo Ma saying "Perfection is not very communicative." I don't know exactly what he meant. Howver I too have experienced someone playing with such CD quality presentation that it did not inspire me. How can you say to such a performer, "That was too perfect?" (Rhetorical question there.)
@user-ko2bv5vw7p
6 жыл бұрын
Мне много лет. Слушая эту музыку в прекрасном исполнении Горовица, я думаю о прожитой жизни.
@TwelfthRoot2
5 жыл бұрын
Иосиф Вульфсон and I hope you do sir
@Santiago-rw6sn
Жыл бұрын
Gran comentario. Saludos desde Argentina señor ruso cordiales saludos.
@alainjames9556
4 жыл бұрын
The engineer says, to Horowitz, "You played it very well". Yes. You might say that. A magical interpretation. Heartfelt. Transcendent. Beautiful.
@theharry801
4 жыл бұрын
anyone who just heard this would be left speechless
@azarsaberian6861
Жыл бұрын
One of the best ... !! A voice from the depths of the Earth and Skys ... !! ❤
@tanyaa4266
2 жыл бұрын
Magnificent. Untouchable. ✨✨✨ His smile at the end is everything. 💗
@PhillipLWilcher
13 жыл бұрын
Bach's music is the soul in conversation with itself. At its centre it is a community as diverse as it is complete in itself. The oneness of being.
@chrismackey3228
2 жыл бұрын
He is in such control of the dynamics. I can never listen to anyone else play this without immediate comparison.
@nicolascaste7928
Жыл бұрын
"That was very beautiful!" "I didn't compose it" "That's right, but you play it very well" My God, this is absolutely marvellous!!!! 😍
@titomele9181
2 жыл бұрын
Es una de las mejores interpretaciones de esta enorme pieza musical, coral de Bach con arreglos de Bussoni, es impresionante ver a Horowitz ya en el final de su vida dejando en el piano toda la maravillosa plenitud de su arte una joya para el devenir de los tiempos.Gracias maestro para toda la eternidad.
@mikekarren5010
9 жыл бұрын
How Horowitz enriches my life, even after his death! To thrill at his pyrotechnics that cause others to give up on the piano! Then this! Reaching into my soul! Thanks to KZitem and thank you brianting for this gift and blessing!
@benedictjohannes
7 жыл бұрын
Mike Karren luckily YujaWang didn't quit. but I am quitting seeing him and her...
@jakeforrest
2 жыл бұрын
KZitem: But we didn’t compose it...
@pompodorius
4 жыл бұрын
I feel with the "I didn't compose it" he indicated that even with all his talent and skill he said "Bach was a much greater musician then myself" in a very humble way.
@liedersanger1
3 жыл бұрын
Exactly!
@jkhalsa
15 жыл бұрын
His playing is so transparent watching his hands that you can almost see his thoughts. At 2:09, and it happens only once, he realizes his left thumb isn't where it needs to be in the next microsecond and he immediately corrects it. If you were just listening or blinked at that moment, you'd miss it. When something is so close to perfect, little things like this become notable .... like a birthmark ... and in his case makes us remember he is human as well as god-like in this moment of art.
@BrassicaRappa
3 жыл бұрын
I don't think that's a correction, actually! It looks to me like his left hand is slow-marching down those bass octaves, and then he jumps his thumb over to help his right hand get that A in the lower-middle voice while his right hand is tied up with the C at the top. *Amazingly* smooth and sensitive playing.
@jkhalsa
3 жыл бұрын
@@BrassicaRappa Hah! Now that you mention it, yes he looks like he *is* striking a note there and then going back to the bass side! It happens so quickly and confidently I didn't see it before. To twist Clairol's hair dye slogan, "Only Busoni knows for sure!" I'm a violinist myself. When I see another instrument played so artistically, I am awed. Non-sequitur....... Composer Anton Bruckner was a very shy person. He was at a dress rehearsal for a premiere of one of his new symphonies. The conductor stopped at one point and turned around to him seated in the audience area and says, "Herr Bruckner, should this note be a G# or a G natural?" Bruckner, being his diffident self, says, "M-m-m-m-Maestro...what do think?"
@evanofelipe
Жыл бұрын
There a childish delight in Horowitz’s smile 4:52 that reveals his inner joy of accomplishment, of a job well done. The old man is moved and he moves us all.
@yeddle
13 жыл бұрын
I miss him so dearly, what a beautiful mind, and this is in fact very well done.... his touch is so amazing...perfection. R~
@JuliaAleksandraMusic
13 жыл бұрын
absolutely phenomenal.. I want to be a better person after listening to this video..
@leylaqasimova9576
3 жыл бұрын
Божественная музыкв в гениальном исполнении
@ernent
15 жыл бұрын
This piece is taken from a collection of 18 chorales called (not by Bach) "18 chorales of various kinds" or "The Leipzig Chorales" or simply "The 18". This collection could be considered to be the summit of Bach's organ works if only there weren't so many other candidates for this title ...
@FishGush
14 жыл бұрын
how is such sound possible? this recording is a gem of piano playing.
@leraglory6115
4 жыл бұрын
Horowitz is the core of piano music. In my opinion everything he performed meant to sound exactly like this
@marcodaniello4288
4 жыл бұрын
What a master... he managed to create organ sonority with such an intensity and deepness , which nowdays is very rare to listen to...
@diegovendramin8870
10 жыл бұрын
Quel dì HaSchem lo illuminò e gli mandò un angelo a guidar le sue vecchie mani affinchè noi tutti potessimo gioir di cotanta sublime bellezza e umiltà . Grazie Vladimir
@doubledee9675
Ай бұрын
Just outstanding. Then to finish with that nod and little smile!
@jayPT77
5 жыл бұрын
The way his fingers gracefully dance on those keys is spectacular.
@andreapraderio8458
Жыл бұрын
Bach romantico come Chopin. Strepitoso! Imbattibile, inarrivabile!
@hesus6177
5 жыл бұрын
I was reminded what a glorious instrument the piano is.
@kasyapa
14 жыл бұрын
this comes from a very deep place. thank you, maestro.
@yourforte
14 жыл бұрын
I've never heard this piece before. It's beautiful and I love this performance.
@lydiayi931
4 жыл бұрын
Every time at 1:39 my heart skips a beat and I end up holding my breaths...such beauty can't be expressed with words only can be felt with heart...
@54spiritedwill54
16 жыл бұрын
Nobody beats the old man. View the "Vers la Flamme" video. I totally miss him.
@paulinepayne1271
4 жыл бұрын
'Do weep for me, I go to where music is born'. J. S. Bach 'Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of turning'. James 1:17
@Facconti
9 жыл бұрын
"I didn't compose it." :)
@13WillSullivan
7 жыл бұрын
"No, that's right"
@user-ko2bv5vw7p
6 жыл бұрын
Великий композитор! Великий пианист!
@malandoTIm
7 жыл бұрын
3:02 This voice is so beautiful.
@frncgrc
14 жыл бұрын
One of the most beautiful thing I listened during my life...Horowitz: the best sound=the best pianist!
@RaineriHakkarainen
11 ай бұрын
Not True!! More colorful beautiful piano sound than Horowitz=Wilhelm Kempff Emil Gilels Artur Rubinstein Radu Lupu Vladimir Ashkenazy!!
@DAVEDIKIAN
3 жыл бұрын
Listening to Volodia always means witnessing a sort of miracle.
@jkhalsa
15 жыл бұрын
1:40 is the best moment. I just read your comment now after discovering this upload a few months ago and listened to it many times. I am a violinist myself, and if I can always muster the interpretive power that Horowitz demonstrates in this piece, that is my highest hope in music.
@peter5.056
2 жыл бұрын
I have the Bach-Busoni transcriptions on my bookshelf, and it's high time I learn them. This video just hit me with a wave of REAL inspiration.
@beatlessteve1010
7 ай бұрын
Vladimir Horowitz really turns this piece into a very emotionally charged masterpiece...
@aeonsonance
17 жыл бұрын
Exquisite~ tone... intensity... beauty... and how his soul is imbued throughout.
@MrUseur
8 жыл бұрын
A lot of piano players, and there is/was Horrorwitz. "I didn't compose it": Sign of his humility, a great gesture.
@lsbrother
4 жыл бұрын
Horrorwitz!!! I love it.
@BrassicaRappa
4 жыл бұрын
My understanding is that towards the end of his life, he had some regrets about spending all his time focused on his performance career and didn't explore composition more. So there may be an extra layer there.
@Pogouldangeliwitz
4 жыл бұрын
@@BrassicaRappa Don't think so. He had a very heightened sense of quality (he even criticized some pieces by Chopin), so he undoubtedly was aware of his own shortcomings as a composer. Repeatedly he disqualified his early compositions as old-fashioned (he said it in German: altmodisch).
@raymondgood6555
3 жыл бұрын
He was making a joke - that’s all
@Chopin4321
16 жыл бұрын
A true marvel of astounding emotion, purity, beauty, proportion and restraint.
@123eldest
14 жыл бұрын
It's amazing how he accentuates the melody with such ease
@HenryArko
5 жыл бұрын
His touch on the keys is heavenly!
@lilysmithson606
12 жыл бұрын
A music for soul.........a stunning,flawless work of art,,
@dr3Am3r73
16 жыл бұрын
There is so much sadness in this piece expressed not only by the author but also the performer. It's almost as if Horowitz' life would gone by note by note as he was playing. I wonder, what went through his mind? His modest smile at the end was followed by a puzzling comment, is there a regret in "just" performing? I guess we will never know...
@scafell11
14 жыл бұрын
This is unmatchable. I would be happy to go to my grave with this video being played. The lifetime of experience and sensitivity that he conveys, with the most utter control of the keyboard sound - in his mid 80s - it's just incredible.
@04feb1955
14 жыл бұрын
To understand the remark of Horowitz ''I didn''t compose it'' you have to know that Horowitz always wanted to be a composer, but he did not succeed. Instead he became one of the best pianists of the world, but that was less important to him. About this interpretation of Bach-Busoni: in my opinion it is even more beautiful than the original, it creates a divine/melancholic atmosphere.
@legamature
3 жыл бұрын
Several arrangements, but no original works?
@liedersanger1
3 жыл бұрын
@@legamature A few. Only one has been recorded by the composer, as far as I know. Forgot the name. Was it a Humoresque?
@m9hymas
14 жыл бұрын
Oh, I love this. I love his smile at the end. I love.... the complete lack of pretension here.
@thomasmschenk
6 жыл бұрын
Technically a fairly simple piece of music, but played by a master like Horowitz, it transcends its simplicity and becomes a thing of elegant beauty.
@rayancharafeddine4982
5 жыл бұрын
How is it simple? The inner voices sound canonic to me and the ornementation the chorale is very sophisticated.. And the bass line
@stelabella2792
Жыл бұрын
The ones that sound simple are the toughest by my opinion. No chance to cover up any mistakes or gaps.
@GZ9090
13 жыл бұрын
absolutely beautiful interpretation i love how soft and delicate he plays it without losing the tempo, the phrasing is perfect and the ending bars are heavenly played!
@jkhalsa
11 жыл бұрын
2:30 Incredible control. He plays those two-note slurred phrases like a string player would.
@mariacristinadeblasis8344
6 жыл бұрын
Così straordinario nella sua raffinata semplicità. Io l'adoro!
@gonzalojosevb
15 жыл бұрын
El piano bajo las manos del Maestro Horowitz cobra vida y se convierte en un manantial de sensaciones sonoras capaz de tocar la sensibilidad en su expresion mas profunda. Horowitz no era un pianista mas, fue uno de los genios de la interpretacion del siglo 20, un monstruo un genio un talento completo
@krisjustin3884
3 ай бұрын
Only Horowitz could make such a huge study of bass octaves sound as beautiful as this! Miss him!
@peplicus
16 жыл бұрын
He did, my friend. But also, he made his own transcriptions. GG made his name as a Bach interpreter; Horowitz played everything. Both are fantastic!
@therightmusic7639
6 жыл бұрын
Rarely, you hear something as deep, sublime and beautiful as this ... I'll never get tired of listening to it ... I bet this is the kind of music you hear in heaven ... Bravo Maestro Bach, Bravo Maestro Horowitz and thank you Maestro Busoni! ...
@tomaspianist
9 жыл бұрын
Jesus Chris Almighty, shit shit, I am out of breath, please help!!!!! I am stunned, humbled, .....no words
@deadne
7 жыл бұрын
tomaspianist the same reaction I've had in my first time)
@steinway1901
15 жыл бұрын
Was so moved when I first heard this at Carnegie Hall when the film premiered. Then listened to the record and watched students emulate Horowitz. After reading all the comments, comparing to others on piano and organ; Horowitz is still to me astonishing. Different from the original Bach but true to the spirit of Busoni - new colors, dancing around a central pulse.
@gomagoma313
8 жыл бұрын
"I didn't compose it" reminds me of an episode of Brahms praising Johann StraussⅡ for his Donau.
@hyperklavier
16 жыл бұрын
Supreme, Superlative, Incomparable!!!
@eriklvandijk
14 жыл бұрын
Horowitz and Bach...a good match. Vladimir seems to be capable of expressing and impressing without really touching the keys. Kinda floating over them instead. Bach always seems to be capable of writing incredibly expressive pieces of music while using half or even less the number of notes others would need to achieve a similar result. Join the virtuoso composer and the maestro performer and you get this kind of subtle performance. Excellent.
@leylaqasimova9576
4 жыл бұрын
Просто. Непринужденно.ГЕНИАЛЬНО.
@HauntingPoet
13 жыл бұрын
I made a playlist with only this piece of music in it so every time I am writing a poem I can listen to my life being told by the sounds coming out of that piano.
@lynus7265
3 жыл бұрын
고등학교때 음반으로 들었던 곡인데 이렇게 들을수 있다니 감동적이네요
@roerfluit
13 жыл бұрын
Incredible beautiful mind that sounds here..... Wish to be there at the end of my life.
@stevekuhn9138
9 жыл бұрын
Voice of GOD!
@Moodlecach
9 жыл бұрын
ONER Klig Fuck God.
@CLASSICALFAN100
8 жыл бұрын
+Benoit Obled Goblins, goblins, wherever you go on KZitem...
@NYCBG
8 жыл бұрын
+Benoit Obled Thank you for setting the record straight!
@kirkwahmmet8406
5 жыл бұрын
Benoit Obled oh you’re hard
@cubanbach
14 жыл бұрын
Ferruccio Busoni, was a great pianist who composed some very good works, but made some astoudingly beautiful transcriptions of pieces especially Bach's works.
@eligarf
17 жыл бұрын
nice comments. isn't it a shame how some people choose not to enjoy all the great music we are fortunate enough to be able to watch and hear here!?!?
@BlessedAngel07
15 жыл бұрын
beautiful. this melts my heart!!
@valpurves45
2 жыл бұрын
STUNNING PERFORMANCE
@djfulviuss
11 жыл бұрын
The best, irrational, beautyful sound....
@RaineriHakkarainen
11 ай бұрын
Not True! More colorful beautiful piano sound than Horowitz=Wilhelm Kempff Emil Gilels Artur Rubinstein Radu Lupu Vladimir Ashkenazy!!
@deanropchan7213
2 жыл бұрын
The way he lightly bounces the keys from 2:32 to 2:38 gives me the goosebumps.
@Chopin4321
8 жыл бұрын
i love him...cause he was a spriritual warrior, he lost and found himself...
@satoshichrist1422
6 жыл бұрын
OMG I referred to this in my book. This is a game changer for our humanity!
@Fredegunda7
14 жыл бұрын
Csodalatos zene,Bach mester a legnagyobb! Isteni.
@PhilippeMarquesPianist
18 жыл бұрын
oh man... for me he is one of the best pianist i've heard in my life...the tecnhician.... you know a very dificult thing... he make it in a very simple thing... it is fantastic... but tell me who is your favorite pianists...
@Renshen1957
14 жыл бұрын
Ferruccio Dante Michelangiolo Benvenuto Busoni (April 1, 1866 July 27, 1924) was an Italian composer, pianist, editor, writer, piano and composition teacher, and conductor. Among his composition students were Kurt Weill and Edgard Varèse. He was well regarded in his day as a virtuoso Pianist, especially in his playing of J S Bach (whom Busoni made transcriptions of Bach's organ music for Piano. Check out Wikipedia for a complete Bio.
@aston0708
14 жыл бұрын
A legend,,,last of the romantics,,,,,in short a chatacter who breathed art and its beauty,, welcome to the age of note perfect digital souless musak.
@christophdoelz6758
2 күн бұрын
Thank You! A 1000times Thank you.
@BlessedAngel07
15 жыл бұрын
Horowitz is always humble in his playing, so I agree with you
@SOPMEZAL
11 жыл бұрын
He was the unique player of last romantic times... He was special...
@tserenity6942
4 жыл бұрын
His ability to create colors of sound on the keyboard has yet to be surpassed.
@denversteller5231
Жыл бұрын
...aber wann?
@RaineriHakkarainen
11 ай бұрын
Not True! More colorful beautiful piano sound than Horowitz=Wilhelm Kempff Emil Gilels Artur Rubinstein Radu Lupu Vladimir Ashkenazy! More powerful louder than Horowitz=Mikhail Pletnev! The second loudest was Lazar Berman! More Genius than Horowitz=Sviatoslav Richter Solomon Cutner Grigory Sokolov Maurizio Pollini Alexei Lubimov Stanislav Igolinski!!
@sergiocattapan1192
6 ай бұрын
Memoria enciclopedica, musicalità e tocco eccelsi in ogni esecuzione.
@Yuriy21
15 жыл бұрын
This real miracle! What amazing possession of a sound!
@dostojews
14 жыл бұрын
I wrote many songs but no one among them sounds so great like this piece, thanks Great-Bach !
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