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Vladimir Horowitz

Vladimir Horowitz - The Great Comeback

Artists
Horowitz, Vladimir

Release Date: 23 August 2019

Tracklisting

All Discs • Disc 1 • Disc 2 • Disc 3 • Disc 4 • Disc 5 • Disc 6 • Disc 7 • Disc 8 • Disc 9 • Disc 10 • Disc 11 • Disc 12 • Disc 13 • Disc 14 • Disc 15

Disc 1

  1. Horowitz Improvising
  2. Horowitz Testing the Piano
  3. Horowitz Improvising II
  4. Conversation: "It sounds very good in here"

  5. Johann Sebastian Bach

  6. Toccata, Adagio and Fugue in C Major, BWV 564
    1. I. Preludio, quasi improvisando. Tempo moderato
    2. II. Intermezzo. Adagio
    3. III. Fuga. Moderamente scherzando, un poco umoristico
  8. Conversation: "Just a sample, you know"
  9. Frédéric Chopin: Polonaise-fantaisie in A-Flat Major, Op. 61
  10. Conversation: "Okay, we're all rolling"
  11. Claude Debussy: Etudes, L. 136: 11. Pour les arpèges composés
  12. Conversation: "Yeah. Maybe here it'll be late a few notes"
  13. Robert Schumann: Fantasie in C Major, Op. 17: I. Durchaus phantastisch und leidenschaftlich vorzutragen
  14. Conversation: "Now the remaining five minutes"
  15. Frédéric Chopin: Nocturne No. 15 in F Minor, Op. 55, No. 1

Disc 2

  1. Moritz Moszkowski: Rehearsing Moszkowski Etude, Op. 72, No. 11
  2. Conversation: "Very difficult to play refined"
  3. Conversation: "Mr. Kazdin?"
  4. Frédéric Chopin: Nocturne No. 15 in F Minor, Op. 55, No. 1
  5. Conversation: "How it sounds to you?"

  6. Robert Schumann

  7. Fantasie in C Major, Op. 17
    1. I. Durchaus phantastisch und leidenschaftlich vorzutragen
    2. II. Mässig. Durchaus energisch
    3. III. Langsam getragen. Durchweg leise zu halten
  9. Conversation: "Very good"
  10. Claude Debussy: Horowitz Practicing Etudes, L. 136: 6. Pour les huit doigts
  11. Conversation: "We're ready whenever you are"
  12. Conversation: "Hello?"
  13. Robert Schumann: Mazurka No. 3 in C Minor, Op. 56
  14. Conversation: "I don't want..."
  15. Frédéric Chopin: Ballade No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 23
  16. Conversation: "I did it for my piano"

Disc 3

  1. Conversation: "...to see how it sounds for you"
  2. Frédéric Chopin: Polonaise-fantaisie in A-Flat Major, Op. 61 - Soundcheck [bars 1-23]
  3. Conversation:"It sounds very beautiful"
  4. Frédéric Chopin: Polonaise-fantaisie in A-Flat Major, Op. 61 - Take 1 [bars 1-39]
  5. Frédéric Chopin: Polonaise-fantaisie in A-Flat Major, Op. 61 - Take 1 [bars 21-87]
  6. Frédéric Chopin: Polonaise-fantaisie in A-Flat Major, Op. 61 - Take 1 [bars 56-61]
  7. Frédéric Chopin: Polonaise-fantaisie in A-Flat Major, Op. 61 - Take 1 [bars 60-198]
  8. Frédéric Chopin: Polonaise-fantaisie in A-Flat Major, Op. 61 - Take 1 [bars 196-288 (end)]
  9. Conversation: "That probably..."
  10. Frédéric Chopin: Nocturne No. 15 in F Minor, Op. 55, No. 1 - Take 1
  11. Conversation:"Very good take"
  12. Frédéric Chopin: Nocturne No. 15 in F Minor, Op. 55, No. 1 - Insert 1 Take 1 [bar 41]
  13. Frédéric Chopin: Nocturne No. 15 in F Minor, Op. 55, No. 1 - Insert 1 Take 1 [bars 41-88]
  14. Frédéric Chopin: Nocturne No. 15 in F Minor, Op. 55, No. 1 - Insert 1 Take 1 [bars 85-93]
  15. Frédéric Chopin: Nocturne No. 15 in F Minor, Op. 55, No. 1 - Insert 1 Take 1 [bars 89-92]
  16. Frédéric Chopin: Nocturne No. 15 in F Minor, Op. 55, No. 1 - Insert 1 Take 1 [bars 89-99 (except ending)]
  17. Conversation: "Okay then. Ballade now"
  18. Frédéric Chopin: Ballade No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 23 - Take 1 [bars 1-36]
  19. Frédéric Chopin: Ballade No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 23 - Take 1 [Bars 32-179]
  20. Frédéric Chopin: Ballade No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 23 - Take 1 [Bars 162-258]
  21. Frédéric Chopin: Ballade No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 23 - Take 1 [bars 257-264 (end)]
  22. Conversation: "Well, we have to...to go over"
  23. Frédéric Chopin: Ballade No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 23 - Insert 1 Take 1 [bars 6-9,']
  24. Frédéric Chopin: Ballade No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 23 - Insert 1 Take 1 [bars 6-163]
  25. Frédéric Chopin: Ballade No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 23 - Insert 1 Take 1 [bars 162-177]
  26. Frédéric Chopin: Ballade No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 23 - Insert 1 Take 1 [bars 177-190]
  27. Frédéric Chopin: Ballade No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 23 - Insert 1 Take 1 [bars 188-229]
  28. Frédéric Chopin: Ballade No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 23 - Insert 1 Take 1 [bars 228-250 (with false starts)]
  29. Frédéric Chopin: Ballade No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 23 - Insert 1 Take 1 [bars 242-250]
  30. Frédéric Chopin: Ballade No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 23 - Insert 1 Take 1 [bars 242-256]
  31. Frédéric Chopin: Ballade No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 23 - Insert 1 Take 1 [bars 255-264 (end)]
  32. Conversation:"Bravo! What shall I announce?"
  33. Frédéric Chopin: Mazurka in E Minor, Op, 41, No. 1 - Take 1
  34. Conversation: "And another one"
  35. Frédéric Chopin: Mazurka in B Minor, Op. 33, No. 4 [Excerpt] - Take 1
  36. Conversation: "...je vais le faire un peu.."
  37. Frédéric Chopin: Mazurka in F-Sharp Minor, Op. 59, No. 3 - Take 1
  38. Conversation: "À peu près. C'est joli aussi"
  39. Frédéric Chopin: Polonaise-fantaisie in A-Flat Major, Op. 61 - (Take 1, edited)

Disc 4

  1. Horowitz Improvising
  2. Conversation: "You want to hear something now?"
  3. Johann Sebastian Bach: I. Preludio, quasi improvisando. Tempo moderato
  4. Conversation: "Would you like to hear it?"
  5. Johann Sebastian Bach: Toccata Insert
  6. Conversation: "It...it sounds better now"
  7. Johann Sebastian Bach: II. Intermezzo. Adagio
  8. Conversation: "I will do only the beginning"
  9. Toccata, Adagio and Fugue in C Major, BWV 564
    1. Johann Sebastian Bach: III. Fuga. Moderamente scherzando, un poco umoristico
    2. Conversation: "I played the whole one"
    3. Robert Schumann: II. Mässig. Durchaus energisch
    4. Conversation: "Very good. You want to play some more?"
    5. Fantasy in C Major, Op. 17
      1. Robert Schumann: III. Langsam getragen. Durchweg leise zu halten
      2. Conversation: "Very beautiful"
      3. Conversation: "Okay.. I will play just pieces"
      4. Alessandro Scarlatti: Sonata in E Major, K. 380
      5. Sergei Rachmaninoff: Prélude in G-Sharp Minor, Op. 32, No. 12
    7. Frédéric Chopin: 3 Nouvelles études, B. 130: No. 2 in A-Flat Major
    8. Moritz Moszkowski: Étude in A-Flat Major, Op. 72, No. 11
    9. Franz Liszt: Valse oubliée No. 1 in F-Sharp Major, S. 215/1
    10. Frédéric Chopin: Étude in F Major, Op. 10, No. 8
    11. Alexander Scriabin: Piano Sonata No. 9 in F Major, Op. 68 "Black Mass"
    12. Conversation: "You know that something is buzzing in the piano"

Disc 5

  1. Conversation: "Listen, are we not further today?"
  2. Conversation: "Mr. Frost"

  3. Johann Sebastian Bach

  4. Toccata, Adagio and Fugue in C Major, BWV 564
    1. I. Preludio, quasi improvisando. Tempo moderato
    2. II. Intermezzo. Adagio
    3. III. Fuga. Moderamente scherzando, un poco umoristico
  6. Conversation: "Okay, we're running"

  7. Robert Schumann

  8. Fantasie in C Major, Op. 17
    1. I. Durchaus phantastisch und leidenschaftlich vorzutragen
    2. II. Mässig. Durchaus energisch
    3. III. Langsam getragen. Durchweg leise zu halten
  10. Conversation: "Alright"

Disc 6

  1. Conversation: "Yeah, the Vibration today"
  2. Alexander Scriabin: Piano Sonata No. 9 in F Major, Op. 68 "Black Mass"
  3. Conversation: "Hello, hello, Yeah?"
  4. Alexander Scriabin: Poème in F-Sharp Major, Op. 32, No. 1
  5. Conversation: "Now I play the Étude of Chopin"
  6. Frédéric Chopin: Etude in F Major, Op. 10, No. 8
  7. Conversation: "That will go better, later"
  8. Frédéric Chopin: Mazurka in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 30, No. 4
  9. Frédéric Chopin: Mazurka in B Minor, Op. 33, No. 4
  10. Conversation: "I will not play the Scherzo"
  11. Moritz Moszkowski: Étude in A-Flat Major, Op. 72, No. 11
  12. Conversation: It's like encore"
  13. Alexander Scriabin: Étude in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 2, No. 1
  14. Conversation: "I don't have anything more"
  15. Claude Debussy: Children's Corner, L.113: III. Serenade for the Doll
  16. Conversation: "It's finished"

Disc 7

  1. Johann Sebastian Bach

  2. Toccata, Adagio and Fugue in C Major, BWV 564
    1. I. Preludio, quasi improvvisando. Tempo moderato
    2. II. Intermezzo - Adagio
    3. III. Fuga - Moderamente scherzando, un poco umoristico - Moderamente scherzando, un poco umoristico

  4. Robert Schumann

  5. Fantasy in C Major, Op. 17
    1. I. Durchaus phantastisch und leidenschaftlich vorzutragen
    2. II. Mässig - Durchaus energisch
    3. III. Langsam getragen - Durchweg leise zu halten

Disc 8

  1. Alexander Scriabin: Piano Sonata No. 9 in F Major, Op. 68 "Black Mass"
  2. Alexander Scriabin: Poème in F-Sharp Major, Op. 32, No. 1
  3. Frédéric Chopin: Mazurka No. 4 in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 30
  4. Frédéric Chopin: Étude in F Major, Op. 10, No. 8
  5. Frédéric Chopin: Ballade No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 23
  6. Claude Debussy: Children's Corner, L. 113: III. Serenade for the Doll
  7. Alexander Scriabin: Étude in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 2, No. 1
  8. Moritz Moszkowski: Étude in A-Flat Major, Op. 72, No. 11
  9. Robert Schumann: Kinderszenen, Op. 15, No. 7: Träumerei

Disc 9

  1. Warm-up Improvisations and Conversation: "Not completely.."
  2. Domenico Scarlatti: Sonata in A Major, K. 101, L. 494
  3. Domenico Scarlatti: Sonata in F Minor, K. 466, L. 118
  4. Domenico Scarlatti: Sonata in G Major, K. 455, L. 209
  5. Warm-up Improvisations

  6. Ludwig van Beethoven

  7. Piano Sonata No. 7 in D Major, Op. 10, No. 3
    1. I. Presto
    2. II. Largo e mesto
    3. III. Minuet. Allegro
    4. IV. Rondo. Allegro
  9. Warm-up Improvisations
  10. Alexander Scriabin: Piano Sonata No. 10 in C Major, Op. 70
  11. Applause
  12. Conversation
  13. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Piano Sonata No. 11 in A Major, K.331: I. Tema. Andante - Var. I-III - Take 1
  14. Conversation: "Next is all right"
  15. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Piano Sonata No. 11 in A Major, K.331: I. Tema. Andante - Var. V. Adagio - Var. VI. Allegro - Take 1
  16. Conversation: "The rest is good"
  17. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Piano Sonata No. 11 in A Major, K.331/300i: II. Menuetto - Trio - Rehearsal
  18. Conversation: I want to try a little Adagio more"
  19. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Piano Sonata No. 11 in A Major, K.331/300i: I. Tema. Var. V. Adagio - Take 2
  20. Conversation: Ah, listen, ah..."
  21. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Piano Sonata No. 11 in A Major, K.331/300i: I. Tema. Andante - Take 2
  22. Conversation: "Very good"

Disc 10

  1. Conversation: "Where is Mr. Frost?"
  2. Horowitz Improvising
  3. Conversation: "How it sounds there?"
  4. Horowitz Improvising
  5. Conversation: "Our machines are going"
  6. Domenico Scarlatti: Piano Sonata in F Minor, K. 481
  7. Conversation: "Sonne bien?"
  8. Ludwig van Beethoven: 32 Variations in C Minor, WoO 80
  9. Conversation: "Ah, Mr. Hupfer..."

  10. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  11. Piano Sonata No. 11 in A Major, K.331/300i
    1. I. Tema. Andante grazioso e variazioni
    2. II. Menuetto - Trio
    3. III. (Rondo) alla Turca. Allegretto

Disc 11

  1. Conversation: "The machine is going there?"
  2. Alexander Scriabin: Sonata No. 10 in C Major for Piano, Op. 70
  3. Conversation: "See, I start the whole sonata from the beginning"
  4. Frédéric Chopin: Polonaise-Fantaisie in A-Flat Major, Op. 61
  5. Conversation: "Voilà! It's a difficult number"
  6. Frédéric Chopin: Nocturne in E Minor, Op. Posth. 72/1
  7. Conversation: "The Mazzurka, the Scherzo"
  8. Domenico Scarlatti: Piano Sonata in E Major, K. 380
  9. Conversation: "Bis, bis , bis , bis, bis!"
  10. Franz Liszt: Valses oubliée in F-Sharp Major, S. 215, No. 1
  11. Conversation: "Bis, bis , bis , bis, bis, bis!"
  12. Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy: Lieder ohne Worte, Op. 67: V. Moderato
  13. Conversation:"..not the notes good"
  14. Sergei Rachmaninoff: Étude-tableux in D Major, Op. 39, No. 9
  15. Conversation: "That's all"

Disc 12

  1. Opening Applause to Horowitz Recital
  2. Domenico Scarlatti: Sonata in F Minor, K. 481, L. 187
  3. Ludwig van Beethoven: 32 Variations in C Minor, WoO 80

  4. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  5. Piano Sonata No. 11 in A Major, K.331/300i
    1. I. Tema Andante grazioso e variazioni
    2. II. Menuetto - Trio
    3. III. Rondo alla Turca. Allegretto
  7. Alexander Scriabin: Piano Sonata in C Major, Op. 70, No. 10

Disc 13

  1. Opening Applause to Horowitz Recital
  2. Frédéric Chopin: Polonaise-Fantaisie in A-Flat Major, Op. 61
  3. Frédéric Chopin: Mazurka in B Minor, Op. 33, No. 4
  4. Frédéric Chopin: Nocturne in E Minor, Op. 72 No. 1
  5. Frédéric Chopin: Scherzo No. 1 in B Minor, Op. 20
  6. Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy: Lieder ohne Worte, Op. 67: V. Moderato
  7. Franz Liszt: Valses oubliée in F-Sharp Major, S. 215, No. 1
  8. Sergei Rachmaninoff: Étude-tableau in D Major, Op. 39, No. 9

Disc 14

  1. Introducing Horowitz
  2. The Withdrawal
  3. Horowitz on his Childhood
  4. Horowitz's Artistic Expansion
  5. Discovering Clementi
  6. Reading and Studying
  7. Playing Chamber Music in Russia
  8. Success and Satisfaction
  9. Artistic Truth
  10. The Clementi and Scriabin Recordings
  11. Moving to Columbia Records and Changing Recording Venue
  12. On Walking and Practicing
  13. The Return to Public Performance
  14. On Helping Young Artists
  15. Friendships

Disc 15

  1. The Comeback Concert
  2. The Recording
  3. The Program
  4. Future Performances and Repertory Choices
  5. Ravel in Paris
  6. Scarlatti and Horowitz's Favorite Recordings
  7. This Interview in High Fidelity
  8. Playing and Improvising
  9. Performing in the Afternoon
  10. No People on the Stage
  11. Intention and Realization
  12. Conclusion

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