ArkivMusic Original Jacket Collection - Vladimir Horowitz that vladimir horowitz spent as an exclusive artist with Columbia Masterworks from 1962 to 1973 represented a kind of artistic rebirth for the great pianist. http://www.arkivmusic.com/classical/album.jsp?album_id=37966
St. Petersburg Times Online: Floridian Many years ago, in the luxurious Manhattan townhouse of vladimir and Wanda horowitz, a prominent young pianist named Constance Keene asked, after a game of http://www.sptimes.com/2003/09/28/Floridian/The_people_s_pianist.shtml
Extractions: [Times file photo (1982)] Many years ago, in the luxurious Manhattan townhouse of Vladimir and Wanda Horowitz, a prominent young pianist named Constance Keene asked, after a game of bridge with her hosts, if she could play something for the maestro. Horowitz, his patterned silk bow tie and matching pocket square slightly askew, consented. Taking her seat at the Steinway grand, she launched into one of Rachmaninoff's most difficult works, his Prelude in E Flat Minor. She waited for the verdict. "It was wonderful," he said. "But you should speed up at the end."
Signature Of Greatness The Shepherd School of Music s extraordinary piano Volodyia is named after master pianist vladimir horowitz and has 19 autographs on its cast iron plate. http://riceinfo.rice.edu/projects/reno/rn/19980319/piano.html
Extractions: March 19, 1998 When you hear Dean Shank talk about Volodyia's colorful personality and brilliance, you might think he's referring to a beloved member of his own family. Volodyia is, in fact, a renowned Steinway concert grand piano which Shank, an artist teacher of piano, piano pedogogy and piano technology, considers to be an extraordinary musical instrument. Some of the world's greatest pianists would agree. When master pianists are taken with a piano after playing it, they may sign their name on its cast iron plate. Among the legends whose autographs appear on Volodyia are Vladimir Horowitz, Arthur Rubin-stein and Van Cliburn. "Volodyia" is a Russian nickname for Vladimir, as in Horowitz. Shank finds it fitting that the piano would be named after the master pianist because it reminds him of Horowitz's sonority, in that it's "very brilliant and powerful with a very large dynamic range." Shank admires the piano's remarkable combination of tonal qualitiesan enormous dynamic range and a tone that lasts a very long time. "It can be very beautiful and softly lyrical while playing slow movements of romantic piano sonatas and Chopin nocturnes, and then it can turn around and play a concerto and absolutely soar above the biggest symphony orchestra," says Shank. "I've never seen another Steinway concert grand that could be so successful in such a wide variety of musical styles and acoustical environments."
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Extractions: (Ukraine) Ivan Karabyts is the People's Artist of Ukraine, composer, Professor of the P.Tchaikovsky National Musicfk Academy. He was born in 1945 in Donetsk region of Ukraine. In 1971 he graduated from the Tchaikovsky State Conservatory. In 1974 he finished post-graduate courses under such famous Ukrainian composers as Boris Lyatoshinsky and Myroslav Skoryk. He wrote his first works when he was a student. Recognition came to him at the age of 24 when he became a laureate of the All- Union competition of Young Composers. Ivan Karabyts' creative works are an important constituent of achievements of eminent Ukrainian composers. They exert a significant influence on the development of modern Ukrainian music. The composer has created more then ten large-scale instrumental and vocal - symphonic works (3 symphonies, 3 oratorios, 4 concerts for an orchestra, and 2 concertos for piano with orchestra), tens of chamber music pieces, 3 vocal cycles, 24 preludes for piano, and music for movies and theater.
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Extractions: PERSPECTIVE ON THE ART OF HOROWITZ Horowitz was more than a performer; he was a creator at the piano. (Herbert Stessin) Like an actor who with unrelieved intensity makes one forget the text, the playwright, the theater, the world, Horowitz made the composers pristine intentions totally irrelevant. He was not praying at anyones altar, he was not anyones humble messenger. It was he who was sitting on Mt. Olympus, no one else. He, the master magician who breathed life into sounds. He, the mesmerizer, the spellbinder. And he was probably the last of a breed. (David Bar-Illan) Horowitz creates his own musical truths. (Samuel Sanders) The universe of Horowitz indeed parallels that of Einstein, wherein space is curved, time is relative, and four or more dimensions are required to maintain equilibrium along the competing and infinite orbits. (Russell Sherman) The importance Horowitz gave to each note stimulated the concentration of his listeners, who awaited eagerly the advent of the next new sound. He thus stopped the flow of time.
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Vladimir Horowitz - BMG Classics 3 One of the most celebrated pianists of the twentieth century, vladimir horowitz was born on October 1, 1903 in Berdichev (near Kiev), Ukraine. http://www.bmg-classics.de/classics/artistdetails.do?Kuenstler_Nr=4606
Extractions: I really wanted to rate this a 4.5 but the absolute brilliance of the Scriabin etudes forced me to round upward rather than down. The Etude Op 65, No 3, is a thing of incredible beauty in the masters hands. Something unusual occurred as Horowitz evolved as an artist: His interpretations of individual works did not become static. To be sure, the size of his repertorie shrunk dramatically but those that remained he performed with a panache, newness and vibrancy that continually startle yet satisfy. This is nowhere more present than on this CD in which he gives his beloved Scriabin yet new meanings and interpretations with all the fire, passion, detail and finesse one can muster. The clarity of the notes is secondary to the overall architecture of the small pieces. As Horowitz aged the length of his performed pieces shrunk so that he achieved an almost crystaline clarity in the few short ones he did play.
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Arthur Rubinstein - The Artist interesting. (There were exceptions, of course. Benno Moiseiwitsch and vladimir horowitz were major pianists by any standards). The http://www.arims.org.il/artist.htm
Extractions: Above all pianists - indeed, above virtually any musician of the last fifty years - Arthur Rubinstein represented in both his life and his music-making a unique joie de vivre . That alone would set him apart in this serious musical age, where there is a high degree of skill but very little charm or poetry. Arthur Rubinstein was able to communicate joy in his playing. He loved the piano, he loved the music he played, and he was always able to charm audiences all over the world with one of the most extraordinary personalities that this century has seen. Of course that charm was buttressed by the mind of a superb musician, and by the fingers of a spectacular technician. Rubinstein coaxed a big, sonorous, golden tone from the instrument, and his fingers were in total command of anything in his repertoire. And that, paradoxically, was true even when he dropped notes or smudged passages here and there. For it was clear that a sloppy episode resulted not from lack of native ability but rather from sheer scorn of pedanticism. He was daring, he took chances, and if a few notes suffered en route that was unimportant. He was a natural, born to play the piano, and when he was on the concert stage one felt as though the piano itself was welded to his body. Musician and instrument were one. innigkeit of others, or the egoism of still others. Rubinstein played every piece in a natural, healthy, extroverted manner, with sweep and a big line, with color and fire. As he played, everything sounded natural and logical.
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Extractions: Adam de la Halle, also known as Adam le Bossu ("Adam the Hunchback') lived from around 1237 to around 1286. He was a poet and composer, born in Arras, France. He was court poet and musician to Robert II of Artois, and followed him to Naples in 1283. He was the originator of French comic opera, with Le Jeu de Robin et de Marion , and the partly autobiographical composition Jeu de la fuellée (Play of the Greensward). He also wrote poems in mediaeval verse forms.
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Horowitz Competition Winners Tour Eastern United States (11/09/97) PARSIPPANY, NJ Six outstanding young pianists from Ukraine and the US, winners of the second vladimir horowitz International Young Pianists Competition held http://www.ukrweekly.com/Archive/1997/459721.shtml
Extractions: Horowitz competition winners tour eastern United States by Ika Koznarska Casanova PARSIPPANY, N.J. - Six outstanding young pianists from Ukraine and the U.S., winners of the second Vladimir Horowitz International Young Pianists' Competition held in Kyiv in April, appeared recently in a series of concerts. They were presented by the Morris International Festival of the Arts, whose founder and artistic director is Alexander Slobodyanik, in a concert hosted by the County College of Morris in Randolph, N.J., on October 19. They also performed in Philadelphia at the Ukrainian Educational and Cultural Center on October 21; the Sumner School Museum in Washington on October 23 under the sponsorship of The Washington Group Cultural Fund, (Laryssa Lapychak Chopivsky, director); and at the New England Conservatory in Boston on October 25. The pianists will return to the U.S. on April 9, 1998, for a concert at Carnegie Hall. The Vladimir Horowitz International Young Pianists' Competition was founded in 1995 by the Gliere State College of Music in Kyiv on the occasion of the 90th anniversary of Horowitz's birth. The competition's founder and director is Yuri Zilberman, a native of Kharkiv and the school's assistant-director. Among the co-sponsors of the competition are the Kyiv Conservatory, the Ministry of Culture and Arts of Ukraine, and the Kyiv Municipal Administration. The competition bears the name of the legendary pianist who was born, studied and performed in Kyiv.
