Mieczyslaw Horszowski Plays Mozart, Chopin, Debussy, Beethoven

Ludwig van Beethoven (Composer), Frederic Chopin (Composer), Claude Debussy (Composer), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Composer), Mieczyslaw Horszowski (Performer) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Performer: Mieczyslaw Horszowski
• Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven, Frederic Chopin, Claude Debussy, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
• Audio CD (May 28, 1992)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Nonesuch
• ASIN: B000005IYG
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #357,222 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Fantasia for piano in D minor (fragment), K. 397 (K. 385g)

2. Nocturne for piano No. 5 in F sharp major, Op. 15/2, CT. 112: No 5 (No 2 of Op 15) in F sharp major

3. Nocturne for piano No. 8 in D flat major, Op. 27/2, CT. 115

4. Children's Corner, suite for piano (or orchestra), L. 113: No 1, Doctor Gradus ad Parnassum

5. Children's Corner, suite for piano (or orchestra), L. 113: No 2, Jimbo's Lullaby

6. Children's Corner, suite for piano (or orchestra), L. 113: No 3, Serenade for the Doll

7. Children's Corner, suite for piano (or orchestra), L. 113: No 4, The Snow is Dancing

8. Children's Corner, suite for piano (or orchestra), L. 113: No 5, The Little Shepherd

9. Children's Corner, suite for piano (or orchestra), L. 113: No 6, Golliwog's Cake-Walk

10. Piano Sonata No. 2 in A major, Op. 2/2: Allegro vivace

11. Piano Sonata No. 2 in A major, Op. 2/2: Largo appassionato

12. Piano Sonata No. 2 in A major, Op. 2/2: Scherzo, Allegretto

13. Piano Sonata No. 2 in A major, Op. 2/2: Rondo, Grazioso

Customer Reviews

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The life blessed Horzowski!, November 3, 2004

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This review is from: Mieczyslaw Horszowski Plays Mozart, Chopin, Debussy, Beethoven (Audio CD)

The cantablie line and the sincere sound ; the clarity and purity given for his golden fingers will impress you much more keeping in mind we are in presence of a man who lived his ninth decade .
Horzkowski was a fellow partner of Casals and once more the Casals spell seemed to cover all the musician who joined him in Prades .
The list is enormous and remarkable : Istomin, Serkin , Vegh, Stern , Grumiaux , Haskill and Horszkowski .
Prades Festival was a happy encounter place where a special energy seemed to flow and load all those artists who definitively improved his skills and even more after these musical meetings.
The Mozart of Horzskwoski is so natural and specially soulfelt that hardly we will be able to find such kind of original approach.
What happened with this magnificencent artistic level ?
May be Andras Schiff and Daniel Barenboim have still the gift to play this way.
Great choice and best buy for you in case you decide to get this CD.

7 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars If We Have to Compare the Greats, February 10, 2003

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BLee "bpslee" (HK) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Mieczyslaw Horszowski Plays Mozart, Chopin, Debussy, Beethoven (Audio CD)

I agree entirely with the previous reviewer save that I won't compare Horszowki with either Rubinstein or Horowitz.

Not so much that Horszowski didn't care so much about publicity as the other two did, rather for the fact that Rubinstein lacked what Heifetz possessed and the strongest point of the latter is exactly the weakest point of the former: not just technique, but the thorough understanding and over all command of the whole piece. As a result, when Rubinstein comes to more intricate parts or before the climax, like what Toscanini said of Bruno Walter, he melts...

Horowitz is great but he is too much a showman to compare with Horszowski's naturalness. He scarcely touched Bach or Beethoven. For his Chopin, there are too many better ( and of course different ) comparables, and for his Scriabin, I would prefer the deeper Sofronitsky...

Accepted that Horowitz had left with us dozens of his nice recordings, I would still invite readers to explore Simon Barere for a better comparable, in terms of technique or touch or even musicianship...well, in almost every way: both are explosive, both taught by Blumenfeld, both had to support themselves early by playing the piano though in the case of Barere, even earlier. Even Horowitz admitted that Barere is a miracle maker and Glazunov went so far as describing him "Lizst in one hand and Rubinstein the other"...

Coming back to Horszowski, he is just unique: it's a great tradition well recorded and well preserved. If we have to compare him with any other pianists, one wouldn't choose Schnabel, the Schubert of his time, but Edwin Fischer: both sound celestial and very soothing. Even his teacher Leschetisky said Horszowski had Mozart in his blood.

Given that he was already ninety something, his playing is most astonishing and pleasantly surprising. Highly recommended.