That is so well said. Haydn has always been one of my favorite composers and I've always wondered why his sonatas aren't featured by more concert pianists. It seems that many pianists turn to Haydn late in their careers once they have impressed the audiences with enough Beethoven and other standard repitoire. This has been the case with Horowitz (this recording notwithstanding) Schiff and Brendel.

Armand Huang-Saberi

5y↑5

His playing has so much character, simply wonderful!

John Townsend

8y↑7

Horowitz is 28 (or so) here with this very lively rendition of a beautiful Haydn sonata.I find it fascinating that his last released recording some 60 odd years later included another equally beautiful inventive Haydn sonata performed as lively as ever although slightly more subdued.

Ulf Werner Nielsen

7y↑5

John Townsend I agree. Horowitz was great in Haydn Sonatas , Scarlatti Sonatas and Chopin Mazurkas his whole career.

Lua3648

11y↑8

Absolutely masterfully played. Horowitz plays with outstanding imagination and keen sense of style and dynamics. His piano tone is so vivid and unique! This is one of the most elegant interpretations of this masterpiece I have ever come across!

Jemand Anderes

Horowitz is great!... and what do You think of this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uv1bLG5s6Nc

Highinsight7

3y↑1

wholeheartedly agree...

p dincelli

13y↑4

Master Horowitz... Outstanding playing and good 1932 recording....! Thanks!

John Townsend

4y↑5

The Haydn piano sonatas are truly unique compositions. They are poetic gems as odes of a great poet that gently ease the soul into a golden world of dreams and then carry it aloft to the highest realms of the ideal. Admirable in their diversity, they require scrupulous examination of the remarkable workmanship and thought that went into them before they can be properly executed and appreciated. It takes a capable pianistic talent and an exquisite virtuosity to render them properly such that they retain the character of spontaneous improvisations proffered with ease seemingly without the slightest effort. They possess that freedom and charm which characterize works of genius.

Jemand Anderes

Horowitz is great!... and what do You think of this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uv1bLG5s6Nc

Ricardo da Mata

9y↑8

Haydn and Horowitz, what a combination!

Patrycja Nizio

9y↑4

I play this sonata now and I have just discovered his performance.... Just wow, what a genius!

Jemand Anderes

Horowitz is great!... and what do You think of this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uv1bLG5s6Nc

paulprocopolis

13y↑3

it's often refreshing to hear interpretations of the Viennese classics by non-specialists and Horowitz always brought something unique to whatever he touched. The pianist's playful and colouritic approach for me works really well here. The Adagio in particular is beautifully crafted!

Jemand Anderes

Horowitz is great!... and what do You think of this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uv1bLG5s6Nc

written12

paulprocopolis
Who are some specialists of the Viennese classics you’d recommend listening to?

Meredith Foster

12y↑3

This playing is wonderfully alive and characterful. Horowitz was a fine classicist on many occasions as amply demonstrated here. Sometimes his super-virtuoso capabilities obscured this aspect of his art.

Jemand Anderes

Horowitz is great!... and what do You think of this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uv1bLG5s6Nc

nevskixx

Excellent comment. Horowitz was a phenomenal artist.

ponderosa1850

13y↑1

masterful haydn performance. wonderful. thanks.

65attila

8y↑5

How beautiful and exciting.

koichi goto

10y↑7

1904年生まれのホロヴィッツ先生の２７、８歳の頃の録音になる。単に技術力だけでなく、異常なまでの緊張感と集中力のすばらしさ。そして、フォルテシモとピアニシモの繊細な輝くばかりの美しさ。ピアノ芸術の極致を体現している。

Frédéric François Chopin

Born in 1903

Paul Van Bladel

4y↑2

This recording from 1932 is the most modern there is today, it incorporates already visionary insights from the period instruments world that where only becoming common sense in the ninethies. I guess that great other performances of e.g. Andras Schiff found a source of inspiration in this pure reference recording. Well done Vladimir.

James Vaughan

13y↑1

Great! Horowitz could surprise you throughout his career...his reputation as super-virtuoso sometimes obscured the fact that he could be a musician as well! After all the pyrotechnics he turned to Mozart at the very end of his life...proof that "less is more"....

Jemand Anderes

Horowitz is great!... and what do You think of this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uv1bLG5s6Nc

Steven Michael

5y↑2

Imagine if he was this age today with the recording technology we now have? Then again, I guess he wouldn't sound the same.

Steven Michael

3y↑1

@Lee Hope Musician of the century? Uhhh lol no bro

Lee Hope

There were a lot of candidates, however, He was rightfully regarded Musician Of The Century. That was a perfect call considering what He played from composers from Busoni to Bach.

CHU Avis

8y↑3

Wonderful

chad414

9y↑3

he can play anything because he has a the most educated ear than most.His Scarlatti is marvellous too.Thanks for this.

멀봐욥

이번 겨울 대회가 이 곡인데 곡 열심히 듣고 있어요~!

Hemlock

11y

Wonderful!! But can someone please explain the meaning of these giggling motives in the first movement? They don't fit in in my interpretation of this peace and begin to start soubding slightly ridiculous. So it would be really nice, if someone could tell me what is meant by these mini-seufzer-motivs!! ;)

Jemand Anderes

Horowitz is great!... and what do You think of this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uv1bLG5s6Nc

BeBopElmo

13y

Thank you once again Piano Opera. Another gem. Horowitz and Haydn. A perfect marriage.

Jemand Anderes

Horowitz is great!... and what do You think of this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uv1bLG5s6Nc

김수환

노래 넘 좋다 ㅎ

Geof Pawlicki

Himono Onna Thanks for your characterization "giggling" . . . there are certain pieces for which, no matter how much fun it is to toss off figures leggierezza - I think of them almost as gruppetti - it can be simply frivolous too. I've no such objections to the effect here, but for example much Bach can be done great harm this way.

duke of curls

Horowitz does a great job here but him playing an A-flat instead of an A-natural at 1:35 was physically painful to listen to

piano walnut

ハイドン習ったら参考にします。素敵～。

Sanvital Y

8y↑8

음질이 좀 그렇긴 한데 호로비치가
다른 사람들보다 훨씬 많이 낫네

knsy du

Teu best!

onlysooming

11y↑2

Thanks for posting this:-)

Jemand Anderes

Horowitz is great!... and what do You think of this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uv1bLG5s6Nc

Luigi D'Istria

10y↑3

Thank you!

Elena Livsjits

Divine

Aron Demeter

It's Hob. XVI:52 no. 62; not no. 52.

pianopera

9y↑3

No. 52 in the title of the video was according to the Hoboken Verzeichnis (category XVI, Piano Sonatas); it's a little confusing, so I added the other number now (referring to H. C. Robbins Landon's numbering) to be more specific.

Shiroyasha

5y↑4

It's so pretty and sparkly and elegant :) But at the same time not shallow and childish the way that Mozart feels like to me.

Jemand Anderes

Horowitz is great!... and what do You think of this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uv1bLG5s6Nc

Layser H

Pot Luck Amen, tell that Haydn lover to stay in his place.

Pot Luck

4y↑2

Why compare two incomparable masters? Mozart is at times child-like but never childish. Shallow? Maybe in certain commissioned works, but one could never call Don Giovanni shallow. If one writes over 600 works in one's short career (Mozart died around 35 years of age) one cannot expect every composition to be a masterpiece. That said, one would be hard pressed to find a badly crafted work by Mozart. But the final judgment lies with Franz Joseph Haydn himself who regarded Mozart in this way, as expressed to Franz Rott:

"If only I could impress Mozart's inimitable works on the soul of every friend of music, and the souls of high personages in particular, as deeply, with the same musical understanding and with the same deep feeling, as I understand and feel them, the nations would vie with each other to possess such a jewel."

Antoanela Udila

Minunat ptr todeauna horowitz volodia

Ulf Werner Nielsen

7y↑1

Horowitz was a great Haydn player . I think his Liszt is overrated .

Ulf Werner Nielsen

@P Rusman You are right. In that piece he was wonderful in every performance you can hear with him. On you tube you can find a lot of performances between 1947 to 1985 of Au bord d’une source . Two other Liszt pieces he played wonderful: Valse Oubliee no. 1 and sonetto del Petrarch 104 , both in the 1951 recordings . On the other hand he did terrible things with Liszt . In the sonata I only like the 1932 recording . The cuts in the 1946 and 1949 performances are horrible and the Performances are terrible ugly and out of control. Worst of all are the perverse changings in the second Ballade .

Jemand Anderes

Horowitz is great!... and what do You think of this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uv1bLG5s6Nc

punkpoetry

5y↑1

The Mephisto Waltz is horribly pompous but there are some gems, not least the sonata

P Rusman

6y↑1

Ulf Werner Nielsen Not sure about that. He plays Au nord d'une source better than I have ever heard it. NYC live concert ca. 1968, it breaks yr heart.