Horowitz at the Met
List Price:
Our Price: $4.42
You Save: $3.57 (45%)
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Buy Used: from $0.43 (click here)
Category: Music CD
See more new music releases
Buy this Music CD at online store in your country
Canadian Music Store
Canadian Music Store
Music CD Cover
Composer: Domenico ScarlattiComposer: Frederic Chopin
Composer: Franz Liszt
Composer: Sergey Rachmaninov
Performer: Vladimir Horowitz
Edition: Music CD
Format: Enhanced, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 1999-05-18
Music Label: RCA
Soundtracks:
- Six Sonatas: In A-Flat, Kk. 127, L. 186: Allegro
- Six Sonatas: In F Minor, Kk. 466, L. 118: Andante moderato
- Six Sonatas: In F Minor, Kk. 184, L. 189: Allegro
- Six Sonatas: In A, Kk. 101, L. 494: Allegro
- Six Sonatas: In B Minor, Kk. 87, L. 33: Andante mosso
- Six Sonatas: In E, Kk. 135, L. 224: Allegro molto
- Ballade No. 4 In F Minor, Op.52
- Ballade No. 2 In B Minor
- Waltz In A-Flat, Op. 69, No. 1 'L'adieu'
- Prelude In G Minor, Op. 23, No. 5
Free Music Notes for Horowitz at the Met
Free Music Review: a rewarding Horowitz disc
Hit: 5 Stars
One of Horowitz's most rewarding discs. I don't like the remastering work here much either, but it's still a first-rate recording. The first issue had a more authentic sound. Audiophile concerns, however, are the least important aspect attending a recording like this. The playing is stupendous in every way - magisterial and lighthearted at once! For all his natural Russian bluff (something essential to his art, and hardly a disparaged excess), Horowitz is ultimately a color man, and a singer when he plays; his Scarlatti in fact owes everything to the opera, so layered with detail, and delight of the 'first' voices. When I hear Horowitz's Chopin, I often think of Guiomar Novaes- not the same movement of sound, but the same ideal of singing in the playing. The 'L'Adieu' is perfect art here, the kind Horowitz never failed to honor with his Chopin. A good deal of what we truly love about Horowitz's playing is of course the pianos he uses, why not say it?! HE would! This recording at the Met illustrates that principle in beautiful proportions; the sound of the instrument (I suspect it's the one from his home?) is a constant joy throughout the recording, especially on the first issue CD. The second half of the program here is both ambitious and safe (I think the programming finer on the Moscow concert), but it's the Scarlatti that means the most; those sonatas like a row of little jewelled houses living under the sun are each a testament to the greatness of this man's pianistic art. Not only that, Horowitz was an enormously cultured man of constant individuality; the elegance of a legacy comprised of uncompromising musical taste and consummate daring speaks louder than the shadow of an almost savant facility. I think he was one of music's rare beings - this recording so testifies. Don't wait.
Classical Music CDs
Music Genres
Top music charts in Classical Music CDs
Winterscapesby London Philharmonic
Prophetic Voice; Published: 2000-07; Audio CD; Book
Best price: $2.74
Price in other shops:
The Queen, the Bear, & the Bumblebeeby Dini Petty
Children's Group; Published: 2001-03; Audio CD; Book
Best price: $13.40
Price in other shops:
Classical Kids - Beethoven Lives Upstairs CdrRelease date: 2000-04-05; Music CD
Best price: $25.98
Tchaikovsky (Life and Works (Naxos))by Malcolm Sinclair, Jeremy Siepmann
Naxos; Published: 2003-11; Audio CD; Book
Best price: $35.99
![Jose Carreras - Jubileum Concert [VHS] Image](/images/Jose-Carreras-Jubileum-Concert-VHS-1584481471-X.jpg){kind=small}
Jose Carreras - Jose Carreras - Jubileum Concert [VHS]Sling Shot; Release date: 2000-04-18; VHS Tape; VHS Video
Best price: $5.87
Price in other shops:
![Tchaikovsky - The Nutcracker / Nureyev, Park, Royal Ballet [VHS] Image](/images/Tchaikovsky-The-Nutcracker-Nureyev-Park-Royal-Ballet-VHS-156127092X-X.jpg){kind=small}
Tchaikovsky - The Nutcracker / Nureyev, Park, Royal Ballet [VHS]Kultur Video; Release date: 1997-09-09; VHS Tape; VHS Video
Best price: $29.94
Price in other shops:
![Lonely Town Lonley Street / Sergeant's Early Dream [VHS] Image](/images/Lonely-Town-Lonley-Street-Sergeant-Early-Dream-VHS-1561270857-X.jpg){kind=small}
Rambert Dance Company - Lonely Town Lonley Street / Sergeant's Early Dream [VHS]Kultur Video; Release date: 1997-10-28; VHS Tape; VHS Video
Best price: $24.99
Price in other shops:
Winter Music: Composing the Northby John Luther Adams
Wesleyan; Published: 2004-11-10; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $23.62
Price in other shops:
![Puccini - La Fanciulla del West / Santi, Domingo, Neblett, Royal Opera Covent Garden [VHS] Image](/images/Puccini-La-Fanciulla-del-West-Santi-Domingo-Neblett-Royal-Opera-Covent-Garden-VHS-0769720382-X.jpg){kind=small}
Puccini - La Fanciulla del West / Santi, Domingo, Neblett, Royal Opera Covent Garden [VHS]Kultur Video; Release date: 1999-05-25; VHS Tape; VHS Video
Price in other shops:
![Verdi - Falstaff / Giulini, Bruson, Ricciarelli, Nucci, Royal Opera Covent Garden [VHS] Image](/images/Verdi-Falstaff-Giulini-Bruson-Ricciarelli-Nucci-Royal-Opera-Covent-Garden-VHS-0769720358-X.jpg){kind=small}
Verdi - Falstaff / Giulini, Bruson, Ricciarelli, Nucci, Royal Opera Covent Garden [VHS]Kultur Video; Release date: 1999-05-25; VHS Tape; VHS Video
Best price: $12.95
Price in other shops:
Top Rated Albums
Bob Dylan - Blonde on Blonde (Reis)Release date: 2004-06-01; Music CD
Best price: $7.27
Price in other shops:
Michael Tilson Thomas, Seiji Ozawa - Stravinsky: Rite Of Spring, Fireworks, Petrouchka / Ozawa, Tilson Thomas, Chicago SymphonyRelease date: 1999-03-09; Music CD
Best price: $5.34
Price in other shops:
Tchaikovsky: Concerto No.1/ Beethoven: Concerto No. 5 "Emperor"Release date: 1990-04-19; Music CD
Best price: $5.53
Price in other shops:
At Carnegie Hall: Private Collection - Haydn & BeethovenRelease date: 2010-01-05; Music CD
Best price: $7.10
Price in other shops:
In the Hands of the MasterRelease date: 2003-09-30; Music CD
Best price: $11.49
Price in other shops:
Holst: The Planets / R. Strauss: Also Sprach ZarathustraSTEINBERG,W/BOSTON; Release date: 2001-05-08; Music CD
Best price: $6.54
Price in other shops:
Schumann: Kinderszenen Op15, Kreisleriana, Arabesque, ToccataRelease date: 1990-10-25; Music CD
Best price: $6.44
Price in other shops:
Horowitz: Legendary RCA RecordingsRelease date: 2003-11-04; Music CD
Best price: $6.92
Price in other shops:
Horowitz: Discovered TreasuresRelease date: 1992-10-06; Music CD
Best price: $2.00
Price in other shops:
Horowitz Plays ScarlattiRelease date: 2003-09-30; Music CD
Best price: $5.97
Price in other shops: