Track Listings (10) - Disc #1| All Artists: Horowitz Title: At the Met Members Wishing: 0 Total Copies: 0 Label: RCA Release Date: 4/6/1993 Genres: Dance & Electronic, Classical Styles: Chamber Music, Forms & Genres, Ballads, Sonatas, Historical Periods, Baroque (c.1600-1750), Classical (c.1770-1830), Modern, 20th, & 21st Century Number of Discs: 1 SwapaCD Credits: 1 UPC: 090266141623 |
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Vladimir Horowitz's 1981 Metropolitan Opera recital had its ups and downs. Portions of the Liszt and Chopin Ballades, for instance, push the 78-year-old pianist's technique to its limits, though his fortissimos still rock ... more » |
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Amazon.com Vladimir Horowitz's 1981 Metropolitan Opera recital had its ups and downs. Portions of the Liszt and Chopin Ballades, for instance, push the 78-year-old pianist's technique to its limits, though his fortissimos still rock the room. If the G Minor Rachmaninoff prelude is effortful and fussy, the Chopin A Flat Waltz (Op. 69 No. 1) sings with unforced simplicity and individuality. As for Horowitz's imaginative, skittish Scarlatti sonatas, you can't hear how the pianist deliciously varied the repeats because RCA edited them out. For shame! --Jed Distler Similarly Requested CDs
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CD ReviewsA Stunning Recital Hank Drake | Cleveland, OH United States | 09/30/2006 (5 out of 5 stars) "The original release of Horowitz at the Met, the pianist's first digital recording, was one of the first CDs I bought when I got my first player in 1986. The clarity and beauty of sound was nothing short of astonishing back then. This recording captures Horowitz in his autumnal prime in works he was obviously comfortable with.
Horowitz almost single handedly ressurected Scarlatti, and his approach to these elusive works consistenly illuminates. He almost never embellished the text, but provides more than enough variety with an endless pallette of tone colors. Horowitz seemed more at home in Chopin's Ballade #4 than he did in the first Ballade. The phrasing, dynamics, and dramatic build up are just so "right" here, that one can scarcely imagine a better performance--even with the occasional minor slip of finger. Liszt's Ballade is more bombastic than anything else. Horowitz fills the work with such epic "mad-scientist" fury, one can actually take the work seriously, at least until the track ends. The Chopin Waltz combines both--very different--editions of Chopin's text, with perhaps a dash of Horowitz' melancholy. The Rachmaninoff Prelude has a swinging beat that one seldom hears from this piece. The central section is as sexily voiced as a siren's song. The applause at the end is most welcome. " |
