Some more unheard Horowitz from his prime

Ruben Greenberg says:

January 19, 2020 at 9:04 am

“..from his prime”? He was always in his prime!

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Steven van Stadeb says:

January 19, 2020 at 10:25 am

Except when he was overdoing the depression meds, I agree. Actually I think he was in his prime- prime during his sixties when CBS’s Thomas Frost captured his sound so magnificentlly.

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Fliszt says:

January 19, 2020 at 5:35 pm

According to the first-hand accounts I heard from old-timers, Horowitz’s prime was during the 1920’s through 1953, after which he took his 12 year retirement. Yes he did some marvelous playing in subsequent decades, but those who heard him prior to 1953 insisted that he never again reached the pinnacles of his youth.

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Eliseo Ñ aMartinez says:

January 19, 2020 at 6:04 pm

Thanks. What was it?
Amazing resemblance to her father.

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Wanda beard says:

January 20, 2020 at 11:37 am

And as mean and volcanic as her dad was too.

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Jo Hammond says:

January 19, 2020 at 7:30 pm

Thanks for this. Finally I “get” Debussy.

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The Ghost of Horowitz says:

January 20, 2020 at 12:20 am

Hard to say when his prime was.

Some prefer his more refined and monochrome playing from 1928-1936 and 1966-1968.

Others love the newfound heaviness, more extreme percussive attacks, whispering pianissimos and limitless color and raw savageness of the 1945-1950 live series of recording long kept under lock and key at Yale.

This 1946 recording is from that middle period and Horowitz does not disappoint.

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