"Horszowski / Wigmore Hall Live: Beethoven, Chopin, Mozart, Schumann"

Wigmore Hall Live
MIECZYSLAW HORSZOWSKI [1892-1993]

Andras Schiff said of Horszowski’s Chopin: ‘It's as though he had written the music himself. It’s unbelievably unpredictable, and yet it’s completely natural, and comes from within the composition. I learned a great deal about rubato from Horszowski, because he uses it in a way that’s like Chopin must have done: he never loses the pulse, and yet it’s played with great freedom.’

Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 17 in D minor, Op. 31 No. 2 'Tempest'
Chopin: Mazurka in B minor, Op. 33 No. 4
Chopin: Nocturne No. 9 in B major, Op. 32 No. 1
Chopin: Etude in F minor, Op. 25 No. 2
Chopin: Impromptu No. 4 in C sharp minor, Op. 66 'Fantaisie-Impromptu'
Mozart: Piano Sonata No. 17 in B flat major, K. 570
Schumann: Arabesque in C major, Op. 18
(Encore) Schumann: Traumerei (from Kinderszenen, Op. 15)

Mieczyslaw Horszowski, piano

Recorded June 4th 1991.