The Historic Return: Carnegie Hall 1965; The 1966 Concerts

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Music Review: How Live is Live?
Rating: 5 Stars

First, the corrections used on the original version of "Horowitz at Carnegie Hall" were not made at a "patch session at Carnegie a few days" after the concert. Columbia's engineers had already recorded Horowitz's rehearsals and used that material for the editing.

Second, the editing in the album was neither as extensive as some have suggested, nor as insignificant as others state.

Here is a (mostly) complete list of the patches on the original album, which have been removed from "Live and Unedited":

Bach-Busoni: Preludio: Measures 2-12 and parts of the coda (Horowitz, by the way, does not play the ossias at bars 8, 10, and 12); Intermezzo: Small patches at bars 7 and 11; Fugue: Several edits between bars 97 and 110, and again in the coda.

Schumann Fantasy: 1st Movement: patches at 7:32 and 10:21; 2nd Movement: small patches at 2:44 and 4:32, and a series of patches in the coda 6:58-7:39; 3rd Movement: No edits.

Scriabin: Sonata No 9: No Edits. Poem in F-sharp: Patch from 2:16-2:26

Chopin: Mazurka: Small edit at 2:02; Etude: Patched sections from 1:27-1:33 and 2:15-2:20; Ballade: Small edits at 2:04 and 4:52, at least four patches in the coda.

None of the encores were edited.

It should be pointed out that the editing of supposedly "live" recordings is more commonplace than the recording industry will admit. Although not generally aknowledged, Arthur Rubinstein's 1961 Carnegie Hall Highlights album was patched, and most live recordings today are actually compilations from several performances.

Whether you choose this patched version, or "Live and Unedited" the 1965 return concert contains some stunning piano playing. Can anyone imagine the pressure Horowitz was under on that day? To prove you have not just retained your original greatness, but have deepened and become even greater cannot have been easy. The new, unedited version of the concert is not a revelation, but serves as a reminder of Horowitz's all too human frailty.

Description of The Historic Return: Carnegie Hall 1965; The 1966 Concerts

General CDs

• Styles > Classical
• Ballets & Dances > Mazurkas
• Polonaises
• Featured Composers, A-Z > ( B ) > Bach, Johann Sebastian
• Busoni, Ferruccio
• ( C ) > Carter, Elliott
• ( D ) > Debussy, Claude
• ( H ) > Haydn, Franz Joseph
• ( L ) > Liszt, Franz
• ( M ) > Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
• ( S ) > Schumann, Robert
• Scriabin, Alexander
• Forms & Genres > Ballads
• Etudes
• Fantasies
• Short Forms > Character Pieces
• Nocturnes
• Sonatas > Sonatinas
• General
• Suites
• Toccatas
• Historical Periods > Baroque (c.1600-1750) > General
• Classical (c.1770-1830) > General
• Modern, 20th, & 21st Century > Composers > Scriabin, Alexander
• Forms & Genres > Chamber Music
• Sonatas
• General Modern
• Instruments > Keyboard > Organ
• General
• Bach, Johann Sebastian - Works by J.S. Bach
• Busoni, Ferruccio - Works by Busoni
• Debussy, Claude - Works by Debussy
• Haydn, Franz Joseph - Works by Franz Joseph Haydn
• Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus - Works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
• Classical - Historical Periods - Modern, 20th, & 21st Century - Composers - Scriabin, Alexander - General