In the winter of 1928 a sallow, jittery, 23-year-old Russian pianist named Vladimir Horowitz made a sensational Manhattan debut at a Carnegie Hall concert under the baton of gouty Sir Thomas Beecham.

The death of Vladimir Horowitz in November at the age of eighty-five was more than the passing of one of the greatest pianists the world has yet known. In a way that can only become clearer as the ...

[Horowitz plays Rachmaninov's Prelude Op. 32 No. 12] He had, you know, very close relations spiritually and personally with Rachmaninov. For example, one of the stories that Horowitz used to tell me, ...

Rudolf Serkin and Vladimir Horowitz were close contemporaries. By the time the Austrian Serkin (born in 1903) and the Russian Horowitz (a year younger) immigrated to America in the late 1930s, they ...

What: ‘JAS 25th Anniversary Kickoff,’ featuring the James Horowitz Trio with guests Stacey Kent, Jim Tomlinson and Jimmer Bolden When: Dec. 19 & 20, 7 & 9:15 p.m. Twenty-five years ago, as Jim ...

Vladimir Horowitz , whom many identify as the greatest pianist of his day, quietly recorded all of his Carnegie Hall recitals in the 1940s as a private reference library. He analyzed them with ...