Horowitz plays rachmaninoff concerto 3
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To celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of his American debut in 1978, Vladimir Horowitz resurrected the Rachmaninoff 3rd for his first public concerto performances in twenty five years.
It was Horowitz' advocacy that established this work in the active concerto repertoire, and pianists around the world were curious as to how the seventy four year old legend would measure up to his benchmark 1930 and 1951 recordings.
Considering he hadn't played with an orchestra in years, the "official" Golden Jubilee concert recorded by RCA was understandably a high pressure event that didn't show Horowitz at his best.
Horowitz plays rachmaninoff concerto 3
Subsequent performances in Los Angeles, Philadelphia and Ann Arbor, however, proved to be more assured and relaxed. So was this fifth and final one, taped at a New York Philharmonic Pension Fund benefit. True, there are vestiges of the mannered phrasings and cloying cantabiles that marred much of Horowitz' late seventies/early eighties work.
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