The Yin & Yang of Concert Pianists (Rubinstein / Horowitz) | ft. David Dubal

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• DL

  @dlefil1364 · 1 year ago

  Horowitz had a great sense of humour.<br>A journalist asked him what was his opinion about another artist &nbsp;(Rubinstein ?) &nbsp;he replied &quot; a great man and &nbsp;artist&quot;.<br>The journalist asked &nbsp;&quot;Do you know what the other one is telling bad things about you ?&quot;<br>Horowitz laughed and said &quot; I know, but everybody knows that we are both perfect liars&quot; 😊

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• DA

  @davidyess1 · 1 year ago

  I was fortunate to hear Rubinstein, Horowitz, Serkin, Watts, Larocha, Arrau , and Cliburne all live in my lifetime.

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• SA

  @sappallow · 1 year ago

  Mr. Dubal said it perfectly: &quot;Horowitz loved the piano. Rubenstein loved life.&quot; Rubenstein left us with many moving recordings, full of natural musicality. But only Horowitz could make my jaw drop with a simple scale, a lightly articulated arpeggio, or thundering octaves with hardly any pedal.

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• FO

  @forgottensonata83 · 1 year ago

  I&apos;m addicted to your videos now, Ben. I cannot put into words how much I admire and appreciate you. I am so grateful I stumbled upon your little corner of the YouTube universe. I have been so depressed for so long...yet you awakened the dormant pianist in me, the teenager who was obsessed with Chopin. You reminded my heart what I have been missing...the missing piece in my therapy and healing...which is to play and study piano again. Thank you with all my heart. With gratitude, Mara

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• PA

  @paulkramer7844 · 1 year ago

  Growing up, Rubinstein was bigger than life for me. After quitting piano lessons at age 12, I started listening to Rubinstein at age 16 (1968). When I heard Rudolf Serkin in Dallas in 1971, I decided I must play piano again. I played for five years (1971 - 1976) -- then, (after living in Europe as a student) finally, in Rhode Island, I was able to buy a Baldwin piano in 1998 -- and I played for six years (and I played Bach &amp; Mozart on the flute, which I learned on my own). A hand injury stopped me from playing my instruments -- until I finally started playing again at age 69. Now, after 3 1/2 years of practice, I am again playing -- mostly Mozart, Brahms, Beethoven, Schubert, &amp; Bach (plus learning Mendelssohn and Schumann now at age 73). I owe it all to Rubinstein and Serkin (and a few others too). I can&apos;t play golf or basketball any more -- but at 73, I spend my day at the piano -- thanks, most of all, to Artur Rubinstein.

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• PA

  @paulglobus9999 · 1 year ago

  Love Rubinstein. He was my Polish grandmother’s first cousin. Imagine that!

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• MA

  @mariellouise1 · 1 year ago

  “I’ll tell you when to clap!” &nbsp;that’s what I remember Rubinstein saying to an audience of naval personnel and scientists at the naval base of China Lake California. This was in the 50s and most of these men had recently returned from the second world war. They brought their wives and children to the isolated base in the middle of the Mojave desert.The wives organize a concert series and Rubinstein appeared in it. Some people didn’t understand the slight pause between movements and clapped enthusiastically. After a few of these, Rubinstein rose to his feet and exclaimed the phrase I’ve remembered all my life. 😮

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• RU

  @russellmeyer2236 · 1 year ago

  I was fortunate to hear Horowitz at his first concert after retiring from the stage. He seemed genuinely surprised by the warmth of our welcome and generously filled the hall with imaginative, glorious music. It was electrical and magical, the audience was silent and the quietist notes floated in the atmosphere. Later, in 1970, I heard Rubinstein at the Salle Pleyel in Paris. It was a red-carpeted event with a formal contingent of palace guards, it seemed, in parallel facing lines, sabres obliquely in air, and between them we walked to the doors of the hall. Rubinstein presented himself with similar formality — musically as well, at first — but as the recital progressed his warmth suffused the music and performer and audience seemed to become one. His first encore — for no-one was leaving — was the first Chopin Étude Opus 10. Unusually, it sang. He walked off, returned and played the second, playfully. Returning, played the third and smiling as though at home with our company, played all twelve in succession. They were so different in character, so musical and poetically performed and so easily delivered that I suddenly realized: these are études but they seem simply like music! That transcendence was his nature..

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• JU

  @justdoitsolutions269 · 1 year ago

  I saw Rubinstein in London when he was 82. He &nbsp;played 3 Beethoven Piano concertos in one night. amazing

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• 林柏

  @林柏辰-m7i · 1 year ago

  Horowitz his aesthetic is <br>beyond humankind <br>Devious lustful

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• AI

  @aidamarkiw · 1 year ago

  Horowitz has such beautiful hands and fingers

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• RO

  @rod1167 · 4 months ago

  for those who are not aware, in 1999 ms wanda toscanini horowitz, wife of horowitz, made a 5 million dollar donation to the Retirement Home for Musicians &quot;Giuseppe Verdi&quot; in Milan, Italy.

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