"Actor: Vladimir Horowitz"

• Horowitz in Moscow | DVD | (20/10/2005) from £20.00   |  Saving you £-8.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £11.99

  One of the most widely publicized concert of the 20th century occurred on April 20 1986 when 82-year old piano virtuoso Vladimir Horowitz returned to the country of his birth for the first time in 61 years to perform a recital in the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory. Beginning with a jauntily unassuming wave to his rapt audience as he took the stage Horowitz did not stint in his choices: selections include sublime music from Chopin Schubert Rachmaninoff Scarlotti Shumann Scriabin Liszt and Mozart exquisitely interpreted by arguably the greatest piano maestro ever recorded.

• Vladimir Horowitz: The Video Collection | DVD | (05/03/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £61.99

  Vladimir Horowitz's standard-setting virtuosity and boundless imagination resonate throughout a remarkable collection of films gathered together for the first time on DVD. It includes the first London and Vienna recitals Horowitz gave in decades, along with his celebrated historic return to Moscow after more than sixty years' absence. The Last Romantic features Horowitz in his New York home, playing and speaking about Liszt, Chopin, Schumann, Scriabin and Rachmaninoff - all composers with whom he had a lifelong affinity. By contrast, a behind-the-scenes documentary of Horowitz's only Mozart concerto recording conveys the veteran pianist's palpable joy and freshness of approach in rediscovering this composer late in life. Vladimir Horowitz - A Reminiscence interweaves rare footage from concerts, interviews and private archives into a loving, insightful portrait narrated on screen by the pianist's widow, Wanda Toscanini HorowitzDVD 1 Vladimir Horowitz - The Last RomanticA HOME RECITAL and musical discussion with Vladimir Horowitz and Wanda Toscanini Horowitz DVD 2Horowitz in London - THE CONCERT at the Royal Festival Hall in 1982 - Includes an intermission interview with HorowitzDVD 3Horowitz in Moscow - HIS LEGENDARY CONCERT at the Moscow Conservatory in 1986DVD 4Horowitz in Vienna - THE CONCERT at the Musikvereinssaal in 1987DVD 5Horowitz Plays Mozart- HOROWITZ'S FIRST RECORDING EVER of a Mozart concerto: No. 23 in A majorCarlo Maria Giulini Orchestra della ScalaDVD 6Vladimir Horowitz - A Reminiscence - A film with and about Vladimir Horowitz and Wanda Toscanini HorowitzPerformances of SCRIABIN Vers la flamme CHOPIN Scherzo No. 1 in B minor