Complete Masterworks Recordings, Vol. 3: The Historic Return

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Sony's series documenting Horowitz's mature career offers many indispensable items, including "live" (with studio touchups) recordings of his mid-1960s return to the concert stage after a prolonged hiatus. The Bach-Busoni is a dazzling opener, followed by a titanic Schumann Fantasy in C amply illustrating Horowitz's total identification with the composer. The performance abounds with tightly controlled nervous energy, precise articulation, and gorgeously shaded timbres. A crisp Haydn Sonata, a marvelously shaded Scriabin, a poetic Schumann Traumerei, and more are all indispensable. Not to be missed: the pregnant pauses and crackling tension of the Chopin G-minor Ballade. --Dan Davis

Horowitz: The Historic Return Carnegie Hall 1965; The 1966 Concerts, Music, Johann Sebastian Bach, Ferruccio Busoni, Fryderyk Chopin, Claude Debussy, Franz Joseph Haydn, Franz Liszt, Moritz Moszkowski, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Robert Schumann, Alexander Scriabin, Vladimir Horowitz, 20th/21st Century Sonata/Sonatina for Keyboard, Ballade for Keyboard, Character/Single-Movement/Miscellaneous Work for Keyboard, Classical, Classical Artists, Classical Music, Classical Sonata/Sonatina for Keyboard, Etude for Keyboard, Fantasy/Fantasia for Keyboard, Keyboard, Keyboard Work with Descriptive or Unclassified Title, Mazurka for Keyboard, Music for Keyboard, Music for Organ, Nocturne for Keyboard, Polonaise for Keyboard, Suite/Partita for Keyboard, Toccata for Keyboard

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  1. Conversation Pieces
  2. Copland: Dance Panels
  3. Copland: Piano Sonata; Piano Fantasy
  4. Corigliano & Rorem: Works for Two Pianos
  5. Corpus Evita
  6. Dvorak: Piano Quartet No.2, Romantic Pieces
  7. Eisler: The Hollywood Songbook
  8. Elgar: The Dream of Gerontius; Parry: Blest Pair of Sirens; I was glad
  9. Enchanted Christmas
  10. Grieg and Chopin: Piano Concertos

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