Includes work(s) for piano by various composers. Soloist: Vladimir Horowitz.Includes work(s) for piano by various composers. Soloist: Vladimir Horowitz. Read less
Works on This Recording
1.
Toccata, Adagio and Fugue in C major, BWV 564by Johann Sebastian Bach Performer:
Vladimir Horowitz (Piano)
Period: Baroque Written: 1708-1717; ?Weimar, Germany Date of Recording: 05/09/1965 Venue: Live Carnegie Hall, New York City Notes: Arranger: Ferruccio Busoni.
2.
Phantasie for Piano in C major, Op. 17by Robert Schumann Performer:
Vladimir Horowitz (Piano)
Period: Romantic Written: 1836-1838; Germany Date of Recording: 05/09/1965 Venue: Live Carnegie Hall, New York City
3.
Sonata for Piano no 9 in F major, Op. 68 "Black Mass"by Alexander Scriabin Performer:
Vladimir Horowitz (Piano)
Period: 20th Century Written: 1912-1913; Russia Date of Recording: 05/09/1965 Venue: Live Carnegie Hall, New York City
4.
Sonata for Piano no 10, Op. 70by Alexander Scriabin Performer:
Vladimir Horowitz (Piano)
Period: 20th Century Written: 1913; Russia Date of Recording: 04/17/1966 Venue: Live Carnegie Hall, New York City
5.
Mazurkas (4) for Piano, B 105/Op. 30: no 4 in C sharp minorby Frédéric Chopin Performer:
Vladimir Horowitz (Piano)
Period: Romantic Written: 1836-1837; Paris, France Date of Recording: 05/09/1965 Venue: Live Carnegie Hall, New York City
6.
Ballade for Piano no 1 in G minor, B 66/Op. 23by Frédéric Chopin Performer:
Vladimir Horowitz (Piano)
Period: Romantic Written: 1831-1835 Date of Recording: 1968 Venue: Live Carnegie Hall, New York City
7.
Children's Corner: no 3, Serenade for the Dollby Claude Debussy Performer:
Vladimir Horowitz (Piano)
Period: 20th Century Written: 1906-1908; France Date of Recording: 05/09/1965 Venue: Live Carnegie Hall, New York City
8.
L'isle joyeuseby Claude Debussy Performer:
Vladimir Horowitz (Piano)
Period: 20th Century Written: 1904; France Date of Recording: 11/27/1966 Venue: Live Carnegie Hall, New York City
Sonata for Piano no 11 in A major, K 331 (300i)by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Performer:
Vladimir Horowitz (Piano)
Period: Classical Written: 1781-1783; Vienna, Austria Date of Recording: 04/17/1966 Venue: Live Carnegie Hall, New York City
11.
Sonata for Keyboard no 38 in F major, H 16 no 23by Franz Joseph Haydn Performer:
Vladimir Horowitz (Piano)
Period: Classical Written: 1773; Eszterhazá, Hungary Date of Recording: 11/27/1966 Venue: Live Carnegie Hall, New York City
Nocturnes (2) for Piano, B 152/Op. 55: no 1 in F minorby Frédéric Chopin Performer:
Vladimir Horowitz (Piano)
Period: Romantic Written: 1843; Paris, France Date of Recording: 1968 Venue: Live Carnegie Hall, New York City
Etudes-tableaux (9) for Piano, Op. 33: no 2 in C majorby Sergei Rachmaninov Performer:
Vladimir Horowitz (Piano)
Period: Romantic Written: 1911; Russia Date of Recording: 12/10/1967 Venue: Live Constitution Hall, Washington, DC
Pieces (3) for Piano, Op. 2: no 1, Etude in C sharp minorby Alexander Scriabin Performer:
Vladimir Horowitz (Piano)
Period: 20th Century Written: 1887-1889; Russia Date of Recording: 1962 Notes: This work is also heard in a live recording from 1965 in this set.
22.
Etudes (12) for Piano, Op. 8: no 12 in D sharp minorby Alexander Scriabin Performer:
Vladimir Horowitz (Piano)
Period: 20th Century Written: 1894; Russia Date of Recording: 1968 Venue: Live Carnegie Hall, New York City
23.
Polonaise for Piano in F sharp minor, B 135/Op. 44by Frédéric Chopin Performer:
Vladimir Horowitz (Piano)
Period: Romantic Written: 1840-1841; Paris, France Date of Recording: 1968 Venue: Live Carnegie Hall, New York City
24.
Arabeske for Piano in C major, Op. 18by Robert Schumann Performer:
Vladimir Horowitz (Piano)
Period: Romantic Written: 1838; Germany Date of Recording: 1968 Venue: Live Carnegie Hall, New York City
25.
Kinderszenen, Op. 15: no 7, Träumereiby Robert Schumann Performer:
Vladimir Horowitz (Piano)
Period: Romantic Written: 1838; Germany Date of Recording: 1968 Venue: Live Carnegie Hall, New York City
26.
Variations on a Theme from Bizet's "Carmen"by Vladimir Horowitz Performer:
Vladimir Horowitz (Piano)
Period: 20th Century Date of Recording: 1968 Venue: Live Carnegie Hall, New York City
27.
Sonata for Harpsichord in E major, K 380/L 23by Domenico Scarlatti Performer:
Vladimir Horowitz (Piano)
Period: Baroque Written: 18th Century Date of Recording: 1968 Venue: Live Carnegie Hall, New York City
28.
Sonata for Harpsichord in G major, K 55/L 335by Domenico Scarlatti Performer:
Vladimir Horowitz (Piano)
Period: Baroque Written: 18th Century Date of Recording: 1968 Venue: Live Carnegie Hall, New York City
Sonata for Harpsichord in F sharp major, K 319/L 35by Domenico Scarlatti Performer:
Vladimir Horowitz (Piano)
Period: Baroque Written: 18th Century Date of Recording: 11/12/1967 Venue: Live Whitman Auditorium, Brooklyn, New York
33.
Sonata for Keyboard no 58 in C major, H 16 no 48by Franz Joseph Haydn Performer:
Vladimir Horowitz (Piano)
Period: Classical Written: 1789 Date of Recording: 12/01/1968 Venue: Live Academy of Music, Philadelphia, PA
34.
Sonata for Piano no 28 in A major, Op. 101by Ludwig van Beethoven Performer:
Vladimir Horowitz (Piano)
Period: Classical Written: 1816; Vienna, Austria Notes: Colden Center, Queens College, New York (10/22/1967); Carnegie Hall, New York City, USA (11/26/1967)
Orgelbüchlein: Ich ruf'zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ, BWV 639by Johann Sebastian Bach Performer:
Vladimir Horowitz (Piano)
Period: Baroque Written: circa 1713-1717; Weimar, Germany Date of Recording: 06/12/1969 Notes: Arranger: Ferruccio Busoni.
58.
Etudes (3) for Piano, Op. 104b: no 3 in A minorby Felix Mendelssohn Performer:
Vladimir Horowitz (Piano)
Period: Romantic Written: ?1838; Germany Date of Recording: 11/26/1967 Venue: Live Carnegie Hall, New York City
59.
Scherzo and March for Piano, S 177by Franz Liszt Performer:
Vladimir Horowitz (Piano)
Period: Romantic Written: 1851; Weimar, Germany Date of Recording: 10/22/1967 Venue: Live Colden Center, Queens College, New York
Feuillet d'album, Op. 58by Alexander Scriabin Performer:
Vladimir Horowitz (Piano)
Period: 20th Century Written: 1910; Russia Date of Recording: 1972
70.
Poèmes (2) for Piano, Op. 69by Alexander Scriabin Performer:
Vladimir Horowitz (Piano)
Period: 20th Century Written: 1913; Russia Date of Recording: 04/27/1972
71.
Vers la flamme, Op. 72by Alexander Scriabin Performer:
Vladimir Horowitz (Piano)
Period: 20th Century Written: 1914; Russia Date of Recording: 05/31/1972
Sonata for Piano no 2 in B flat minor, Op. 36by Sergei Rachmaninov Performer:
Vladimir Horowitz (Piano)
Period: 20th Century Written: 1913/1931; Russia Date of Recording: 12/15/1968 Venue: Live Carnegie Hall, New York City Notes: Composition written: Russia (1913). Composition revised: Russia (1931).
Etudes-tableaux (9) for Piano, Op. 33: no 5 in D minorby Sergei Rachmaninov Performer:
Vladimir Horowitz (Piano)
Period: Romantic Written: 1911; Russia Date of Recording: 12/10/1967 Venue: Live Constitution Hall, Washington, DC
77.
Etudes-tableaux (9) for Piano, Op. 39: no 9 in D majorby Sergei Rachmaninov Performer:
Vladimir Horowitz (Piano)
Period: Romantic Written: 1916-1917; Russia Date of Recording: 12/10/1967 Venue: Live Constitution Hall, Washington, DC
Beautiful music, poor online presentationDecember 30, 2014By Nadezda VOLKOV (HAYMARKET, VA)See All My Reviews"There are 174 MP3 files, info is available for 94 only."Report Abuse
A must for piano fansDecember 23, 2011By T. Drake (South Euclid, OH)See All My Reviews"The recordings, made between 1962-1973, show Vladimir Horowitz at the absolute top of his form. The set includes a total of 13CDs divided into nine volumes.
The first two volumes chronicle Horowitz's return to the studios after signing an exclusive recording contract with Columbia Masterworks. Highlights include the legendary Scarlatti album (which has been expanded with six more Sonatas from those sessions), Horowitz's finest recorded performance of Chopin's Sonata, Op. 35, and an astonishing performance of Horowitz's own arrangement of Liszt's relatively unknown Hungarian Rhapsody No. 19.
Volumes 3 & 4 document Horowitz's Carnegie Hall recitals from 1965-1968, a time when he was making no studio recordings. His "Historic Return to Carnegie Hall" album has never been out of the catalogue since 1965, and it is most welcome to hear it in this improved remastering - an unedited version of this recital has been issued separately. The only regret here is that the 1968 Television Recital has not been made available on video. Sony should put this on DVD immediately.
The remaining volumes, 5 - 9, are assembled from Horowitz's 1969 - 1973 studio recordings and various recitals from 1966 - 1968. The highlights here are Horowitz's Scriabin recordings, Rachmaninoff's Second Sonata, and Schumann's Kreisleriana - perhaps Horowitz's finest solo recording ever.
The sequencing of works within the individual volumes is in keeping with Horowitz's concepts (the pianist was very particular about how his recordings were programmed). Each volume contains a blurb by Wanda Toscanini Horowitz, a perceptive essay by Byron Janis, and photographs - some of which I'd never seen before. The liner notes from the original recordings are also included, but are unfortunately truncated.
The sound, remastered from the original session tapes, is far improved from the late 1980s CBS CD issues which were painfully tinny sounding. One caveat: Some of these issues had to be reconstructed "by ear", as documentation of which "take" was used has mostly been lost. As has been documented elsewhere, Kreisleriana is here issued using several alternate takes - which have since been duplicated in most CD issues. There are also small portions of other works that use alternate takes, but these are less consequential. Alternate takes or not (and I've spoken to people who prefer the alternates) this set is indispensable. "Report Abuse