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Horowitz Plays Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 23 K. 488 / Piano Sonata K. 333 Import

Horowitz (Artist), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Composer), Giulini (Conductor) Format: Audio CD
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Product Details

  • Conductor: Giulini
  • Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  • Audio CD (October 25, 1990)
  • SPARS Code: DDD
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Format: Import
  • Label: Deutsche Grammophon
  • ASIN: B000001G90
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (20 customer reviews)
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4.0 out of 5 starsHorowitz's Delightful Mozart
By Hank Drake VINE VOICE on April 19, 2000
Format: Audio CD
This is one of the most delightful and musically balanced Horowitz recordings I have ever heard. Gone is the demonic quality of earlier years, replaced with a new simplicity. Horowitz studied K. 488 in the 1930s with his father in law, Arturo Toscanini - and there is something of the legendary Italian's musicality in this 1987 recording. Tempos are brisk without being rushed; phrasing is business like without being cold. Perhaps this is why Horowitz chose another Italian, Carlo Maria Giulini as conductor in this concerto. Frankly, this is very much Horowitz's record - the piano is very predominant in the concerto. That's just fine with me, because the small orchestra is nondescript and leaves something to be desired tonally. The sound in the Concerto is synthetic and dry.

It sounds as if the microphones have been pulled back for the Sonata. K. 333 happens to be my favorite Mozart Sonata (I remember being moved the first time I heard it, back in 1979), and this is my favorite recording of it. Purists may quibble with Horowitz's rather unorthodox approach to ornamentation. But the phrasing is so natural, tempos flexible without being anarchic, the colors so impressionistically beautiful that I cannot imagine Mozart being anything other than delighted with this performance. By the way, Horowitz observes all the repeats here, which he did not do in his public performances from 1987 or in 1951.

Aside from the orchestral contribution in the concerto, my only complaint is that this CD could have been more generous in its timing - just over 50 minutes.
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5.0 out of 5 starsHorowitz plays Mozart and gets it right on the money
By A Customer on July 30, 1999
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While Vladimir Horowitz was a piano genius who possessed unparalleled ability to produce color, I've never been a big fan of his Mozart recordings. This CD, however, is the exception to that rule. Perhaps it was the fact that this was the first time he recorded a concerto by Mozart. Or perhaps it resulted from the presence of conductor Carlo Maria Giulini, whose background in opera created the ideal environment for the work of a soloist with an orchestra. Whatever is the explanation, we can be most grateful that Horowitz traveled to Milan with Mozart foremost in his thoughts. With the opening bars of the Allegro movement of this 23rd piano concerto, you're off on a story-book ride where Horowitz's playing flows with the orchestra in a well-balanced, lyrical and delightful performance. The beginning of this piece reminds me of the overtures to Mozart's operas and Horowitz's playing is akin to a diva at center stage. His touch in the first and last movements is deft, delicate, and interspersed with boldness at just the right point to maintain the drama of the work. But it is his realization of the second-movement Adagio that makes this a must-have recording. It's soulful, melancholy, moving and almost brought me to tears. The color is gorgeous. And Giulini's accompaniment with the La Scala Orchestra is ideal. But wait, there's more: the B flat Sonata, chosen by Horowitz because he considers it "is one of Mozart's most advanced and musically rich compositions in that genre." On that day in March of 1987, Horowitz was up to the task. The performance is graceful, enchanting and charming. This recording confirms that for Horowitz, Mozart was "Number 1 for me."
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4.0 out of 5 stars5 stars for the Concerto, 3 for the Sonata
By Amazon Customer on January 14, 2006
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Horowitz was undoubtedly a fantastic pianist, but his strength was more in Romantic pieces, rather than Classical (or Baroque - his recordings of Bach are nothing very special). In fact, I have several of his Mozart sonatas, and they are not particularly good. He varies the tempo and the volume far too much for Mozart. But the concerto on this recording is excellent. Yes, I have read reviews which have criticized things like the sound balance and the orchestra, but I think that Horowitz and Giulini more than make up for these defects by the liveliness and sense of beauty that they bring to the recording. You can tell that everyone in the studio was thrilled to be part of such an unusual and historic event. (Horowitz was, of course, notorious for not recording many concerti.) Their happiness makes this one of the most joy-filled recordings of any Mozart work that I have. Dvorak said that Mozart's music is "sweet sunshine," and listening to this concerto, you can understand why. Alas that Horowitz did not have the chance (or the will or the desire) to record any other Mozart concerto.

Unfortunately, I cannot be as enthusiastic about the sonata. I wouldn't say that it left me cold: the third movement is quite good, with just the right amount of playfulness. But the other two movements are rather nondescript. This, coupled with his disappointing recordings of other Mozart sonatas, makes me think that he did not really understand Mozart's solo works.

But, overall, the disc is worth getting. I got it used and it is one of the best purchases I have ever made. I think it belongs in the collection of any Mozart lover.
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5.0 out of 5 starsMozart "was a Romantic"
By Ralph Moore TOP 500 REVIEWER on August 21, 2014
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So, according to the fascinating notes by Edward Greenfield, said the legendary pianist, in this rare collaboration of two musical giants in Horowitz's favourite composer (no; not Rachmaninov or Chopin).

Not that this credo results in anything soupy or indulgent; far from it. Horowitz reveals that he always took his guidance regarding how to play Mozart from no source other than the composer's letters, in that they reveal the man as he was: sensuous, earthy and, I would add, highly cultivated, despite the image promulgated by such absurdities as the play and film "Amadeus". Thus this disc reveals multiple aspects of Mozart's personality filtered through the artistry of two equally cultivated interpreters.

One of the tenets of Horowitz's playing, endorsed by Chopin, too, is that the left hand is the conductor which keeps time and the right applies the rubato and expressiveness; that may clearly be heard here. The other is that Mozart's marking "Adagio" never really was meant to be such but was his precaution against others playing the middle movements too fast; nonetheless, he always had Andante" in mind". Again, how clearly Horowitz's grasp of that fact emerges.

These are swift, unsentimental, sparkling performances of both the concerto and sonata, both paradoxically suffused with Romantic expression. The sound for the concerto is very slightly tubby digital sound - unusual for DG at this period - but it is perfect for the solo work. The piano is decidedly and unrealistically too prominent in the concerto with the orchestra too distant as a result but most listeners won't be inclined to complain as it highlights Horowitz's nuanced mastery.Read more ›
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2.0 out of 5 starsNo, no, no.

A disappointment, in that I think Horowitz' stated belief that Mozart needs romanticizing in tone-color and technique is nonsense. Read more

Published 1 month ago by Blue Zinnia
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Probablement une des plus belles interprétations de concerto n°23 de Mozart
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Published 1 month ago by JOUBERT Jean-Philippe
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Excellent work and a great, must have, for anyone who appreciates classical music. It brings back memories of field trips to the symphony back in grade school.

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Much MUCH too fast! It robs the music of the exquisite lyricism of which Mozart is capable, along with the depth of emotional response Mozart is capable of elicitin from the... Read more

Published 12 months ago by Man About London Town
5.0 out of 5 starsPerfect Clarity and Touch

Fans of Horowitz who have not heard him play the larger Mozart works will be astounded by the sound Horowitz evokes here. How can one have a delicate AND powerful touch? Read more

Published 23 months ago by Barbara Kelly
4.0 out of 5 starsPerfection, East of Eden

Horowitz experienced a phenomenal Indian Summer - I wonder to what extent it was underwritten by his renewed love of Mozart. Bohm referred to his music as a fountain of youth. Read more

Published 24 months ago by Bernard Michael O'Hanlon
4.0 out of 5 starsHorowitz plays Mozart

By the date on this recording, this performance was made in the late years of Vladimir Horowitz's life -- but you'd never know it, for the fleetness of his playing!! Read more

Published on April 7, 2013 by Ralph Luciano
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This is definitely NOT your father's Mozart, that is, if your father was a proponent of the school of interpretation espoused by the likes the cerebral Rudolph Serkin, the remote... Read more

Published on February 5, 2012 by John K. Casey
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Very good record, saw it first on u-tube and wanted to have my copy. Got it used but in very good shape. Thanks

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