Tchaikovsky: Concerto No.1/Beethoven: Concerto No. 5 "Emperor"
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Composer: Ludwig van BeethovenComposer: Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky
Conductor: Arturo Toscanini
Conductor: Fritz Reiner
Orchestra: NBC Symphony Orchestra
Orchestra: RCA Victor Orchestra
Orchestra: RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra
Performer: Vladimir Horowitz
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1990-04-19
Music Label: RCA
Soundtracks:
- Allegro Non Troppo E Molto Maestoso
- Andantino Simplice
- Allegro Con Fuoco
- Allegro
- Adagio Un Poco Mosso
- Rondo: Allegro
Music reviews of Tchaikovsky: Concerto No.1/Beethoven: Concerto No. 5 "Emperor"
Music Review: Clasical/instrumental:tune out the sound:listen to the musivcianship
Rating: 4 Stars
the much hackneyed Tchaikovsky First gets a different aura from the Horowits legendry fingers and the interference of 1940s sound and Toscanini's pedantic ryhthms cannot exinhuish the fire of the pianist: Horowits always shone in live concerts amd he was so emotional about his performances that he lamented the little slips of a finger from which even the greatest virtuosos suffer .He'd be nearly in tears when telling his friends the number of mistakes he had made; yes he counted them and would turn to his rehearsing keyboard to practicecorrected versions of the'guilty'passages...I always knew ththe was aslim man but imagined him being athletic, muscular. This until I saw him live in Brussels shortly after his triumphant return to Carnegie concert after a self inflicted 12 year hiatus( actually a 12 year drunk!)He was silm and small, moved quite decisively but without bounce. Yetwhen he sat art his beloved Steinway and unleshed his vaunted hands, he grew to 10 foot tall - I kid you not!(you had to be there.)Musicologists who were present at his Carnegie Hall retun concert still choke up when they tell how Horowits, when performing the J.S. Bach Toccata nd fugue transformed his Steinway into a giant organ onthe tenth bar of the first movement. The CD does notreflect this butI believe it as I heard Horoits playing Scarlatti harpsicord snatas and never before did any stenway sound like a harpsicord - honest!But back tothe reording at hand; While the tchaikowski is mgnificent the 'Emperor is off the mark, paricukarlyin thesecond movement(tha adagio) where Horowits is oddly alooofjust playing along ith Toacanini's metonomic accuracy. For great performances, I turn sometimes to the Rubinstein/Barenboim where the nonagenarian Artur defeats old age and pours outs his enomous love for Beethoven's finest pianoconcerto( arguably,). Mostof the time,I turn to my Serkin the earlier muscular performnce that displays Beethoven's rage at hisrapidly dvancing deafness. When I am more reposed and unconflicted, Iturn to Serkin's final recording with Seiji Ozawa conducting; thoroughly lirical rendiion echoing Beethoven's reluctant acceptance of his infirmity. It is to my ears, the ultimate 'Emperor'!.his Telarc CD is to me impeccable in every way andI have only one other reordingthat satisfies me as beautifully: theHorowits/Orandy/Phildelphia symphony.of Rachmaninof's third piano concertwhich sounds as if Rachmaninof were both atthe piano and at the podium. Some big name reviewers have founf this Rachmaninoff concert'flawed'.
I may not be a musicologist, not even a musician but if this qualies as'flawed', let allpiano concertos be 'flawed!
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Also: Beethoven Concerto No. 5,Op. 73 "Emperor". Recorded LIVE 1943 with Fritz Reiner.Classical CDs
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