Your Most Loved Classical pieces...
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Re: Your Most Loved Classical pieces...
Listening to Leontyne price all morning...Caro Nome, from Verdi's Rigoletto...
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Four Seasons Vivaldi...
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The family of the renowned pianist, Vladimir Horowitz, was dispossessed by the Russian Revolution and lost everything. Horowitz vowed never to return to Russia. As his fame grew the Russians became aware of the magnificence of Horowitz's piano interpretations. They also knew his story and the fact that he had been a personal friend of Sergei Rachmaninoff and Alexande Scriabin when he lived in Russia - their two most famous modern day composers.
In 1986, in the closing days of Horowitz's life, he decided to return to Moscow to play a concert in a gesture of reconciliation and world peace. News of the concert spread though it was "officially ignored" by the Russian state. Lines began to que overnight as the tickets for the concert became available and it was soon sold out.
The final selection Horowitz played as an encore (link to actual performance below) was from Schumann's Traumerei ("Songs From Childhood"). The day World War Two ended Russian state radio played this piece over and over and over without pause. Russia had lost 20,000,000 people in the war. This piece of music had tremendous emotional meaning to the people sitting in the audience though a western viewer would not know that. The emotional reaction of the crowd, including one man openly weeping, was, I'm sure, an indication of the crowd's memory of that storied radio broadcast ... as well, perhaps, of Horowitz's own "memories of childhood" when he lived in Russia.
Now you know the story, and here is the video ....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qq7ncjhSqtk
From the same concert ... "heavy metal" for the classical crowd ... Scriabin Etude Op 8 No 12
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHKRuxiIKiU
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Wow... That's incredible. Horowitz's interpretive art is one I greatly admire. I didn't know this story. It gives so much more meaning to the music. Thank you for sharing, Dato.DATo wrote:True story with accompanying video.
The family of the renowned pianist, Vladimir Horowitz, was dispossessed by the Russian Revolution and lost everything. Horowitz vowed never to return to Russia. As his fame grew the Russians became aware of the magnificence of Horowitz's piano interpretations. They also knew his story and the fact that he had been a personal friend of Sergei Rachmaninoff and Alexande Scriabin when he lived in Russia - their two most famous modern day composers.
In 1986, in the closing days of Horowitz's life, he decided to return to Moscow to play a concert in a gesture of reconciliation and world peace. News of the concert spread though it was "officially ignored" by the Russian state. Lines began to que overnight as the tickets for the concert became available and it was soon sold out.
The final selection Horowitz played as an encore (link to actual performance below) was from Schumann's Traumerei ("Songs From Childhood"). The day World War Two ended Russian state radio played this piece over and over and over without pause. Russia had lost 20,000,000 people in the war. This piece of music had tremendous emotional meaning to the people sitting in the audience though a western viewer would not know that. The emotional reaction of the crowd, including one man openly weeping, was, I'm sure, an indication of the crowd's memory of that storied radio broadcast ... as well, perhaps, of Horowitz's own "memories of childhood" when he lived in Russia.
Now you know the story, and here is the video ....
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Quartet Soave il Vento from Mozart's Cosi fan Tutte
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