Vladimir Horowitz - At Carnegie Hall: The Private Collection

Horowitz employed an engineer to make 78-rpm recordings of his Carnegie Hall concerts in this period, and he used them to review and judge his performances. Most of these mono recordings were originally contained on 12 and 16-inch acetate discs. They have been impeccably mastered, with the sound restored, from new transfers made in the Yale archives. Significant press accompanied the original announcement of the donation of these recordings to Yale, where Horowitz performed often through the years and was an assistant fellow of Silliman College. The first Private Collection release features Horowitz in thrilling performances of a pair of thundering keyboard epics from the Romantic age Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition and Liszt's Sonata in B Minor. Two more Private Collection releases are scheduled to follow in the fall and early 2010.

1) Pictures at An Exhibition; Promenade
2) Pictures at An Exhibition; Gnomus
3) Pictures at An Exhibition; Promenade
4) Pictures at An Exhibition; Il Vecchio Castello
5) Pictures at An Exhibition; Promenade
6) Pictures at An Exhibition; Tuileries
7) Pictures at An Exhibition; Bydlo
8) Pictures at An Exhibition; Promenade
9) Pictures at An Exhibition; Ballet of the Unhatched Chicks
10) Pictures at An Exhibition; Samuel Goldenberg ; Schmuyle
11) Pictures at An Exhibition; Limoges Marché
12) Pictures at An Exhibition; Catacombae (Sepulcrum Romanum)
13) Pictures at An Exhibition; Con Mortius in Lingua Mortua
14) Pictures at An Exhibition; Hut on Fowl's Legs (Baba-Yaga)
15) Pictures at An Exhibition; the Great Gate at Kiev
16) Sonata for Piano in B minor S. 178; I. Lento Assai - Allegro Energico
17) Sonata for Piano in B minor S. 178; II. Andante Sostenuto
18) Sonata for Piano in B minor S. 178; III. Allegro Energico (Fugato)