Horowitz April 24, 1946: Carnegie Hall 07. Chopin Grande Polonaise Op.22

April 24, 1946: Carnegie Hall, New York City, New York

Mendelssohn: Variations Sérieuses, Op.54
Schumann: Arabesque, Op.18
Prokofiev: Sonata No.7 in B-flat major, Op.83

Chopin: Andante Spianato & Grande Polonaise Brillante, Op.22
Chopin: Etude in E major, Op.10 No.3
Chopin: Etude in C minor, Op.10 No.12 (Revolutionary)
Chopin: Mazurka in C-sharp minor, Op.41 No.1
Chopin: Mazurka in E minor, Op.41 No.2
Liszt/Horowitz: Wedding March & Variations (after Mendelssohn)

Encores:
Scarlatti: Sonata in E major, K.380
Schumann: Träumerei, Op.15 No.7
Kabalevsky: Prelude Op.38 No.24
Brahms: Waltz in A flat, Op.39 No.15
Sousa/Horowitz: The Stars and Stripes Forever

[MrInterestingthings]

I can't believe the spontaneity here in a New York performance . You'd think in NewYork he'd play more in the standard way . He does wonderful things here but there is too much that sounds cartoonish -n
glib as his 1950 perusal (I can't believe he ever played this boozily .The famous intensity sounds like its become a maniac carnival joyluck type of musician .Reveling in halftints and insinuation and flights of whimsy NODEPTH ANYWHERE HERE! But the pianistic things he does with the score are Horowitz pretending to be Hofmann.?!and really one can't compare it to Hofmann's unbelievably imaginative and really Chopin style reading of 1937 or the later better Horowitz and Rubinstein traversals . Argerich has long been my fave after Hofmann but I've heard so few in this Zimmerman is stylish and the aristocrat of all time. Did Gilels or Richter do op.22 .Gonna go rersearch would love to hear Cherkassky, Arrau, Bolet in this! Did VanCliburn, or Anievas record this ?