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| ACTORS: | Vladimir Horowitz |
| CATEGORY: | DVD |
| DIRECTOR: | David Maysles |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 01 January, 1988 |
| MANUFACTURER: | Pioneer Video |
| MPAA RATING: | NR (Not Rated) |
| FEATURES: | Color, Dolby |
| TYPE: | Music Videos - Classical |
| MEDIA: | DVD |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 013023053496 |
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Customer Reviews of Vladimir Horowitz - The Last Romantic
Average Okay, I know this film won all sorts of awards and yes, it is a good film, but it's not great. Firstly, I'm afraid I don't agree with the other reviewers: Horowitz's playing was not up to his usual stratospheric standard. The Scherzo is pretty bad in places, I'm sorry to say, particularly in the recapitulation of the main theme. The Mozart sonata is okay but the last movement is too fast and contains a few clinkers (even Horowitz says disconsolately at the end of it "I cannot do better"). Some of the pieces are (dare I say it) uninteresting, for example the Nouvelette and the Consolation (how many more times do we have to hear that piece? The best Horowitz VHS recording of it is on Horowitz in Vienna). Then the picture quality and camera work are not great and, crucially, the sound quality is terrible. The piano sounds very tinny and harsh, maybe because Horowitz had insisted on having it calibrated that way, maybe because the recording equipment was not up to scratch. This makes the Mozart Sonata sound so awful that I can't listen to it.
On the plus side, between each piece Horowitz and his wife talk and discuss music, their life together and the great musicians that he knew. These are the best moments and it is worth having this recording just for that. Be warned: a considerable amount of footage from this tape is used in the Horowitz - A Reminiscence video, so if you have one it's almost not worth buying the other unless you are a real die-hard Horowitz fan. All in all, a wonderful idea for a film spoilt by poor production quality. I find that I watch the other Horowitz videos frequently, but this one only very rarely.
Collectable
Like DVD "Horowitz in Moscow", this is another wonderful Horowitz DVD. I have the CD by Deutsche Grammophon for all the same music in this DVD, but this DVD has a lot more than just piano music. It showed a lot of personnalities of this, perhaps, the greatest pianist of all time and it is a piece of vanished history. His facial expressions, interviews and comments to the composors between the pieces are so funny and make him so lovable an old gentleman. Close and different camera angles certainly help you view his unique and unduplicatable playing style. I have to admit that some of pieces with physical passages in this DVD may not match Horowitz's earlier recordings especially the Moszkowski's Etude in F Major which is in the CD but only as a background music for this DVD's production recognition. All the recordings are still excellent and very tastful. If I am asked to recommend DVDs for any piano lovers, I will place this DVD on one of the top list without any hesitation.
An intimate meeting with Vladimir Horowitz
This DVD gives us the possibility of approaching the artist and his world as much as possible. We are taken to his home studio with his supporting wife , and get to know Horowitz as a warm person. Horowitz knows very well all the technical aspects of playing the piano. He has done his homework, and while he plays he is concentrated on the projection of what he feels the Composer want us to feel. When Horowitz plays he projects us musical piece as a whole, every note has a meaning in the development and the structure and the movement of the work. His range of expression is very wide, Horowitz as he says, has an angel and a devil inside him. He has an ability of understanding a piece of music and expressing it in his playing that takes us as deep as possible. Horowitz as he says, don't look for inhuman perfection, and that is ok to play in public rehearsal one wrong note. In my opinion Horowitz is interested, as all great artists, in communication, creating something that will last for a long time.