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Title: breathtaking and poetic
Review: This is the long-awaited 1953 Horowitz scorcher of the Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 1. George Szell was said to have told the pianist to play at whatever tempo he liked, Szell and Co. would follow. They sure did follow! The keyboard virtuoso did not disappoint. The 3 movements have a daredevil bravura that was never repeated since as Horowitz never performed this Concerto again unlike his Rachmaninoff 3. The virtuosity is certainly breathtaking and sometimes to the point of being technically superb but losing the musical point altogether especially in the slow movement where Rubinstein does it better. The final cadenza by Horowitz is about the same as the 1940 version with Barbirolli on APR. Overall, the 1948 performance with Bruno Walter on Music & Arts seems more balanced and poetic. Well, Rubinstein may be behind the Russian in terms of technical terms, he makes it up with his singing tone.
