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In Reply to: Favorite Horowitz recording? posted by jimbill on February 14, 2021 at 11:19:41:
This may be a minority opinion, but I think that by the time Horowitz signed his contract with Columbia/CBS he was already on his decline.
Fortunately, he was able to record a lot of stuff before that - I've mentioned in previous posts his 1939 Brahms First Concerto with Walter and the Concertgebouw Orchestra (a small part of it is missing unfortunately), his Tchaikovsky Concerto and Brahms Second Concerto with Toscanini, his early 50's Rachmaninoff Third with Reiner (with some cuts - although not as extensive as in his earlier recording of the work with Coates). . . and there's lots of good solo repertoire too, including the Kabelevsky Second Sonata (and miscellaneous Preludes), all those little (but great!) Moszkowski pieces, a fair amount of Scriabin works, and his justly celebrated piano transcription of Sousa's "Stars and Stripes Forever". He also had a recording with Milstein of the Brahms Violin Sonata No. 3, with a pretty unbelievable last movement.
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- With Horowitz, the earlier recordings are the best IMHO - Chris from Lafayette 13:44:26 02/14/21 (0)