We have a special guest, a piano that belonged to the late Vladimir Horowitz. The pianist enjoyed a level of worldwide fame few classical musicians achieve, and in his later years, he took his own ...

Sergei Rachmaninoff called him the greatest pianist of the 20th century, but Vladimir Horowitz was filled with self-doubt. After a self-imposed... Vladimir Horowitz: The Piano Titan Returns Vladimir ...

No pianist of our time has had a more curious history than Vladimir Horowitz. After a brief but brilliant career in Europe he made his American debut in 1928 at the age of twenty-four. It was no easy ...

[Horowitz plays Rachmaninov's Polka de V.R.] Peter Gelb: What Horowitz did was he selected a program that enabled him to reserve what he used to call the 'pyrotechnics.' That was his name for it, for ...

Rudolf Serkin and Vladimir Horowitz were close contemporaries. By the time the Austrian Serkin (born in 1903) and the Russian Horowitz (a year younger) immigrated to America in the late 1930s, they ...

[Horowitz plays Rachmaninov's Prelude Op. 32 No. 12] He had, you know, very close relations spiritually and personally with Rachmaninov. For example, one of the stories that Horowitz used to tell me, ...

When George Li, the 23-year-old American pianist, revealed his Tiny Desk setlist, one thought came to mind: How will these powerhouse showstoppers sound on an upright piano? The music he intended to ...

Allegro. He is born on Musikalnyi Peruelok — Music Street — in Kiev. His uncle is a music critic, his mother a brilliant amateur pianist. At the age of ten he memorizes the piano scores of Tannhäuser, ...