That night, people who couldn't get tickets, stood outside, in the rain, even though they couldn't hear a note of the concert. Just knowing he was there.

This piece of music was played on the radio at the end of WWII. The studio didn't know what to play...it was over. Millions were dead. The guns were silent. So they played this piece. I'd guess from the date of this performance, and the white hair of that gentleman, that he might have been one of the young soldiers or just kids, who heard that silence, then this piece on the radio. I'm old enough to remember the silence in the US, and we were LUCKY, just 250,000...so I know why he was in tears.

@banzobeans

4 жыл бұрын

Could anyone provide a source for further information on this story?

@eduardalavanja9607

4 жыл бұрын

No. Audience was touched because of this music and performance. God bless Robert Schumann and Vladimir Horowitz.

@hmangmail1687

4 жыл бұрын

@@eduardalavanja9607 Eduard Alavanja This piece is sung in Russia on victory day every year. It means alot to them in remembrance of the brave men who defeated Hitler on the Eastern front. The crowd is moved to tears because of how much Horowitz playing Traumerie means to the Russian people.

@marthaanderson2656

4 жыл бұрын

@@banzobeans the Traumerei is played, perpetually, at several war memorial sites in Russia. It is also broadcast annually as part of remembrances. If you Wiki Traumerei you can get more info and there are several videos of one of the memorial sites where this piece is hummed by choir a capella

@eduardalavanja9607

4 жыл бұрын

@@hmangmail1687 No. I cry also, and I'm not a Russian, and I was born 16 years after WW II.

I remember when this performance was rebroadcast in the USA 30 years ago. I was transfixed. He had come home to Russia after 61 years and this was his farewell. The audience, made up of music students and appreciators but no politburo politicians, was full of tears. Scriabin's 86 year old daughter was in the audience! I cried then and I cry now, 30 years later. It was a moment in history.

@gobodrodiont

4 жыл бұрын

What's your problem with politburo politicians?

@susannewiesinger5465

Жыл бұрын

Heartbreaking, because it's so very intimate for him and the audience

Supposedly, Horowitz's expression to the audience immediately after the end of this clip was that of "That's the best I can do". For him to be such a humble performer, to say that he didn't feel like he did Schumann's piece justice...I have endless respect for this man.

@miguelgarijo273

Жыл бұрын

That is exactly the feeling I get when Horowitz looks at the crowd. "I put my entire soul into this performance and I hope it was enough"

this one-of-a-kind poetic performance epitomizes something Horowitz told me back in the 70s when i ventured backstage after one of his Toronto recitals. his recital had just blown me away, & i told him that what i'd just heard (including one of his encores, the 3rd mov. of Rachmaninov's 2nd sonata) seemed to excel his already amazing recorded performances. i'll never forget his reply; sitting & signing autographs, he just looked up at me smiling & said: "Each performance is like a postcard."

You first see an elderly 81 years old, unconsciously you forget he is an elderly, because his play presents a pure heart and mind of an innocent child, wondering a round, day dreaming.

Here we have Horowitz, one of the greatest pianists of the 21st century, performing one of the most beautiful and endearing works of Shumann, the most Romantic of the Romantics, in a land that has the strongest emotional and sentimental attachment to this particular piece. ...truly a historic moment in music

@MrsOliva

5 ай бұрын

XX c. Because he lived in XX cent.

@kirksmith2051

4 ай бұрын

​@@MrsOlivaRight. He was already deceased by the beginning of the 21st century.

This is one of the greatest videos on you tube for so many reasons.

@IthacaScottishGames

3 жыл бұрын

❤️

@TheBroadcastStudio365

3 жыл бұрын

Yes for sure 💕

@mikecuff702

Жыл бұрын

One of my favourites too. I keep coming back to it year after year...

He understands Schumann perfectly. He plays it with emotion and within the strict classical structure which Schumann composed. When Schumann is played like this, his music is just as masterly as Chopin or Mozart.

This song is so beautiful and means so much to me. My father, who passed away at age 91 (last year), loved this song and played it often. I cannot listen to a phrase without tear rising. It is incredible how a simple melody can carry such meaning and feeling. Wonderful.

@nicoleohare9491

6 жыл бұрын

Charley Cameron I also associate it with my Father. He was a young boy, in German occupied Holland. I chose it in our musical tribute at his funeral.

@aliciadeliacorreas8734

5 жыл бұрын

@@nicoleohare9491 ñup

@JuniorFarquar

3 жыл бұрын

Love you.

@ralphbaier7793

2 жыл бұрын

God bless

He does SOOO MUCH with so "little". Make no mistake, "Traumerei" is not an easy piece despite how it sounds. What this giant of a man is doing its nothing short of incredible.

I first came across this video 10 years ago. I was in my early 20s, doing a "bird course" in music as an undergrad, and I thought it was funny/ overdramatic that the man in the audience shed tears during this. Im turning 31 this October and I just cried uncontrollably after I came across a nursery rhyme I used hum along as a kid. I thought of this video immediately, and I understood him now. Some of us will always, always miss that special place called childhood.

Then I began to listen to Mr Horowitz, and after this piece of music I found myself sitting there having my tears quietly running down. The tears tasted salty, but my heart felt soft, touched and gently beautiful. Mr Horowitz's play is the cure for my withering heart.

@demonte6582

3 жыл бұрын

cure? my heart happily bleeding to death.

@davoudshojaei7834

2 жыл бұрын

same♥️ and I never cry

I remember watching this concert on CBS Sunday morning in 1986 on a show hosted by Charles Kuralt. The first concert by Horowitz in the Soviet Union since 1925. The sweet sounds of Schuman as an encode were bittersweet but lovely. At 1:30, the tear-drenched face of that Russian gentleman is heartbreaking in a way.

When I was a baby, mom used to let me listen to the classic music of which the melody was very soft and sweet. Now I could know the title of the music and the player, Vladmir Horowitz! I missed him!

This piece of music was played on the radio at the end of WWII. The studio didn't know what to play...it was over. Millions were dead. The guns were silent. So they played this piece. I'd guess from the date of this performance, and the white hair of that gentleman, that he might have been one of the young soldiers or just kids, who heard that silence, then this piece on the radio. I'm old enough to remember the silence in the US, and we were LUCKY, just 250,000...so I know why he was in tears. (Comment posted 7 years ago by ffurgy. Im just reposting it because no one seems to know where the tears come from...)

@Stratahoovius

8 жыл бұрын

That......is chilling.

@19Koty96

7 жыл бұрын

This person remembered WW1.

@nadiadesimone9853

7 жыл бұрын

lecheparavaka Sonia and Vladimir rest in peace. 🌹🌹

@Gosch18011995

7 жыл бұрын

I'm sorry but do you have any sources for that?

@daluasobretudo

7 жыл бұрын

Well done. Thank's. I am going to "travel" with this words to another place.

Simply wonderful ! Danke ! May the "Träumerei" always connect Russians with Germans in peace and understanding ! God bless Russia !

こんにちは。　はじめまして。　私の記憶が確かなら、この演奏はアンコール曲で、ホロヴィッツが何十年ぶりかに祖国を訪れた時のものです。　聴衆の皆さんが涙を浮かべられているのも、演奏の素晴らしさもさることながら、この曲を通じて祖国を忘れてはいなかった、ピアニストとして成功するには、祖国を離れなければならなかった、という悲しいメッセージも感じとったからなのかもしれませんね・・・

So soft and sweet melody... One of my favorites of Robert Schumann. Amazing performance by Vladimir Horowitz. Great pianist.

Every time I listen to this piece I am moved. It's breathe taking...and Horowitz is by far and away, my favorite concert pianist. Even now, years after his death, his playing is still so inspired and briliant.

This is the first time that I've watched this master pianist and heard his interpretation of this piece. I have played it for many years but never with the emotion and dreamlike quality he gives it.

Most attentive audience ever!

@Yodavid1

5 жыл бұрын

not a single one using a smart phone, huh?

@danmenefee5437

5 жыл бұрын

@@Yodavid1 It was before the advent of smart phones! DUH!

@Yodavid1

5 жыл бұрын

@@danmenefee5437 i wouldn't have noticed

@NYCBG

3 жыл бұрын

@@danmenefee5437 It wouldn't have made any difference. This is Russia... the land of deep rooted culture and love of arts.

@lucasariel3133

3 жыл бұрын

@@Yodavid1 Most importantly: not a single cough.

No one can play this piece like him. Such was the emotion instilled in their listeners' hearts that tears flowed incessantly!

When I was a teen, my piano skill set was not a big deal to me and never really thought of music as something this profound. Then, I saw this recital on DVD back when KZread was not yet a thing. I then realized what an enormous gift it is to be a musician. I looked at my hands and realized, as I practice, I am befriending these great composers from the grave and what is it that they know that I feel so profoundly. Why do I feel this depth of beauty? I felt like I was in communion with the universe in this desire of great beauty. This was one of those pieces that turned me around to truly understanding what art is all about. It was not an emotional experience, but, as Rodin puts it, it was truth revealing itself.

@JuniorFarquar

3 жыл бұрын

This was no recital, friend. It was a performance...a coveted place to attend and behold.

Who would ever dislike this... Just wow. Its magic.

i have seen this dozens of times. And then I watch again. So grateful for this video.

Horowitz seemed to have been searching much of his life for the perfect Traumerei. Fortunately, many performances exist and are available for all to hear. They are each, very different from any other, as Horowitz's quest was guided by his unparalleled ability to find an endless number of new ideas. Since I first heard this from Moscow (the concert was broadcast live on TV here in the USA) this was my favorite and has remained so. It is so deep in its stillness, its quietude, so constant in its spontaneity and so delicately expressive with the use of a seemingly endless number of subtle rubatos. It holds one in a sustained sense of wonder that only Horowitz could create.

God knows how long I've searched for this piece of music and I've found the best rendition. God bless Horowitz.

The sir at 1:29 is very touched by the music. What a beautiful demonstration of emotion!

@eduardalavanja9607

4 жыл бұрын

Every normal person should be deeply touched by this beautiful music and perfomance...Schumann and Horowitz, two genius...❤

I am in the beautiful part of you tube ! and I forgive all weirdo vids posters again for this masterpiece. What a presentation ! Enchanting ! To Great Schumann and Horowitz - Thank you for allowing us to enjoy your music and and thank you for having us in your era. God bless you, rest in peace in the sweetest place on heaven !

I think this must be the video that I have watched most times in youtube. I never get tired of it. The best version I havee heard of this masterpiece. When you hear the last notes it sounds like Horowitz is saying good bye.

Masterful. Hearing his interpretation here reminds me of how important the silence and space between the notes are so, so important. Bravo.

Makes me think of my mom and dad god I miss them

Meraviglioso vedere un pubblico così attento ed emozionato. Nessuno smoking, nessun diamante, gente vera ed umile come Horowitz.

The Horowitz touch. Superb.

It is the most amazing performance of that piece ever. I heard it a few years back and never forgot it. So glad to be able to be touched by it again

Makes me think of being on a boat with my dad in the middle of the ocean just sitting next to him fishing and talking I was 7 years old but every time I hear this piece of music that's what I remember very powerful only music can do that

IMHO This is the most emotionally gripping classic composition that God ever gave to a man. I weep at it's heart tugging strains...

What a gift to listen to this genius play and make the years of war and pain dissolve into "...Dreams." No wonder the audience was a respectful, silent throng who realized they were witnessing the performance of a lifetime. There has never been a finer "Traumerei."

Unforgetable Wladimir Horowitz !

Just serene and beautiful from a heavy metal fan. BRAVO MR HOROWITZ.

I can't stop crying every time I listen to Horowitz's Troimerai. In his final performance and pyojing, which he returns to his hometown in his later years, there is an indescribable sense of sadness and sadness. His performance is more like a god.

So, so gentle and so beautiful! I'm learning to play this piece at the moment and I hope that one day I can infuse at least a fraction of this emotion into the playing of it.

Each time I hear certain pieces of Schumann-such as this -I think of his sad death and tears come to my eyes.

@bosareva

8 ай бұрын

GOD bless you!

@brucejackson4219

8 ай бұрын

Thank you Maria: I reciprocate your kind comment. Best etc. Bruce @@bosareva

sinergie of schumann, horowitz and educated audience - perfect.

So well written. He was amazing. This piece moves me like no other.

So exquisitly beautifull, it brings me down to my knees and to an unquenshing overflow of tears and peaceful joy. Thank you Maestro, where ever you may be.

Amazing.. I am playing this for my exam on Tuesday. I play thinking of the way he played this piece. Thank you...

演奏の素晴らしさは勿論のこと、観客の方々の涙にもらい泣きしました。

I am humbled just by listening. A man without measure.

Sir Paulo...what can I say? this isn't music..this is poetry...no!..Better..this is emotion,emotion,emotion!!!! TRUE LOVE for art...TRUE LOVE for life!An endless childhood! thanks! nina

Danke "volowitz" für's Einstellen! Einer der berührendsten Klavierabende des 20. Jahrhunderts (zumindest in diesem Ausschnitt) - und hier zeigt sich die Größe von Horowitz' Genialität: das scheinbar Einfache scheinbar ganz natürlich gespielt - und immer voller spontaner Musikalität ...

Yes, there are other pianists who may play faster, more accurate, technically more sophisticated etc. than Horowitz. But NOBODY else but him is able to give music such a beauty, such magic, such an emotion, such a wonderful sound that is not from this world. He is the greatest of all times and will always be.

@lioneldemello9707

12 күн бұрын

Absolutamente! Nadie trasmite tanto como el a traves de sus manos en el teclado!!!

this is one of the most incredible pieces i have ever heard...a true genius

Horowitz's return to Moscow is enough to invoke an awe inspired feeling in light fleeing himself. Additionally ,the piece, and its significance as poignantly described by Doubleklunk, sends me into a deep burst of emotional appreciation

An amazing testament to the emotional power of music at the hands of a great master

One of the most beautifull thing i ever heard. Thank you.

Horowitz is mesmerizing and soothing. The audience is so beautifully attentive.

An easy piece which is difficult to play.

@mendellabkowski7828

9 жыл бұрын

Couldn't say it better!

@GrothendiecksWish

8 жыл бұрын

+Manene Castañon non sequitur

@notesandclef2147

7 жыл бұрын

Hey Manene Castañon do you think you could check out my cover of traumerei?

This piece is already so touching but seeing how everyone is listening with bated breath makes this recording that much more profound. Really lovely.

This is the only piece of piano music that ever was played perfectly.

I See many good Russian people with beautiful emotional reactions!!!Greetings from Germany 🇷🇺⚘🥂🇩🇪

@TheBroadcastStudio365

3 жыл бұрын

😉😘

@e.conboy4286

2 жыл бұрын

Roland Feller, the world has been so blessed by the great peoples of your Germany; astronomy, sciences, physics, aeronautics, medicine, geographical exploration, the fine arts, especially music, which needs no translation.I am thankful to have occupied a small portion (one acre) of this planet. Let’s pray for peace. God bless you. Elizabeth 🇺🇸

jillgivler, I saw your comment about Brahms waltz in A flat major. The same tearful feeling it gives me. I connect it with some melancholy film, but cannot remember the title. The music is very beautiful and moving. But NOTHING beats this wonderfully played "Träumerei"!!

His interpretation is very lovely in its own way. On first listen, I had a few disagreements with how he was playing it, yet by the end of the piece I nearly had a tear in my eye despite myself. Touched me subconsciously, I suppose.

This is just wonderful. There are no words to express the beauty in the composition and the passion in the performance. Bravissimo Mr Horowitz, and thank you Mr Schumann.

One of my favorite classicals of all time. I'd never get tired listening to it over and over. Thanks for posting.

This feels like a piece I could play for 24 hrs straight

I almost cry, the music touches my heart

The ability to make a grown man shed a tear. How extremely touching.

He knows how to play with the soft touch. Perfecto.

GBJPhotoWorks - THANK YOU! Since I first saw this concert back in 1990 or so when it aired on PBS, I have been trying to describe that gesture without success. You have hit the nail on the head! "So, there you have it, such as it was" - Perfect.

なんて素敵な演奏なんでしょう・・・　心が震える。沢山の方がその震えから涙を流されていますよね。その光景を、この演奏を聴きながら捉えていらっしゃる方の愛情あふれるショットに、二重に感激します。

This is the absolute most beautiful music experience I ever had!

Incredibly lovely performance. Horowitz showed how charming he was even through his playing. He was charming and captivating, unlike pianists these days who just play music for it's technical value. This and Scriabin by Vladimir Horowitz are my favorite pieces of all time.

This is the best thing I have heard. Probably I won't hear anything better in future. No exaggeration.

Looking at this even more than 30 years after I first saw it on American television, I am even more impressed now. Seeing the audience being THAT attentive adds to the power of the performance, especially when you notice (since this was 1986) - not a single cell phone, not a single person taking a video, not a single person taking a picture - sometimes "old school" beats out the technology of 2019.

I had heard about this encore performance by Horowitz many years ago from a friend of mine. How I have envied him all these years... until YOU posted this majestic video here! I can't thank you enough... you made my day, my week, my month...

Truly out of this world that beautiful! This is the best rendition I've ever heard of this beautiful piece. Horowitz his touch was awesome he understood what in between the notes means.

I simply cannot imagine a more moving peformance of this piece. Heartbreakingly beautiful. Magic.

Unbelievable... I've been listening to this over and over again with misty eyes. This is truly one of those pieces that require no words at all.

I miss my Grandma

I don't know anything in music but this piece touched my heart and tears came out from my eyes

Bravo, great playing by an old master.

Two and a half minutes of pure bliss

Very true. No one goes to a concert specifically to be bored. This is respect. Some people just don't get it.

I agree with you Senor Juancillo. Horowitz, as a child cultivated a great love for opera and singing (at the expense of practising his scales, much to his mum's chagrin) and admired the portamento of the great Italian bel canto baritone Mattia Battistini. He loved Caruso also and would often try to imitate their singing on the piano. He said that he always remembered Anton Rubinstein's advice to his students: "Try to imitate the sound of the human voice." sd goh (malaysia)

When I was very little, I'd got a Träumerei musical box as a gift from my elementary school. This video brought me back my memory... Makes me cry. Sadly we can download and hear music so easily now. But - I could reach to this music after my youtube piano surfing! Thank you.

I saw this live on TV. AWESOME. Complete control of the Piano, and anything he played on it. I'ts great to know we can still listen & see this performance, years later. And decades to come.

Breath-taking! Not as easy as it sounds, but well worth the effort. Hearing & seeing him play it in Moscow after so many decades made me hold my breath---literally not wanting to break the spell ! Thank you for this !!! FredE

I recently read a comment on some video about a young new asian pianist: "it is easy and weak to critisize new pianists, just name an older master and state that he was better." despite the ignorance of the writer of this comment, he did, without knowing it, make a point that undermines his own thoughts. Horowitz was, and will forever be the best pianist of modern age, and I prefer his beautiful playing over all other pianists. even now when he is somewhere up above. DonFrankos.

When I die and go to heaven, this is the song I expect to hear.

@nikoloznikoladze5118

4 жыл бұрын

I hope so, but how you know you're going to heaven? :D

@paulmetdebbie447

4 жыл бұрын

@@nikoloznikoladze5118 God also loves Schumann.

@anwa6169

3 жыл бұрын

@@paulmetdebbie447 Sure, he created Schumann and Horowitz and heavenly music.

Its magic... Cant describe in words what this song does to me. I am not even some old dude with memories, I am just 19..

gorokhovtseva those tears are sincere. those are tears of people who remember when WWII ended and this piece was played over the Russian airwave. Those are true tears of rememberance of those who never made it to the end of the war.

Many great musicians such as Horowitz present quite different interpretations of the same piece of work. That individuality and interpretation is what makes them great. Horowitz emotion and expression often brings tears to my eyes.

이 곡이 원래 이렇게 눈물이 쏟아질 것 같은 곡이였냐...

@sharonburke4690

7 жыл бұрын

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@user-oh8my8qr7y

6 жыл бұрын

😢😭😭

@likelake111

6 жыл бұрын

조국의 못난 이념 대결로 밖으로만 떠돌던 한국의 윤이상 같은 분을 생각하면 이해가 가는 상황 ... 그가 그 긴 세월을 밖으로 떠돌면서 했던 Träumerei 가 뭐였을꼬 ... 죽을 때 다되서야 조국에 가서 한 곡 올리 것이니 보는 이 눈물 지을 밖에 ...

Beautifully preformed!

this is simply amazing! and it's a recording! what the live music must have been like. the audience is very rapt in this one- no coughing, thank God. it takes such skill to draw this lovely tone out of the piano, he is so masterful it sounds as easy as wearing silk.

Time just stopped, as I watched this.

I thank you for this so much, it remember me when I was a child.

I remember watching this on TV and being held breathless by Horowitz's playing.. Like the man in the video, tears rolled down my cheeks.