Vladimir Horowitz: the last romantic /

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Horowitz : a biography of Vladimir Horowitz / by Plaskin, Glenn

Virtuoso : the life and art of Niccolò Paganini, Franz Liszt, Anton Rubinstein, Ignace Jan Paderewski, Fritz Kreisler, Pablo Casals, Wanda Landowska, Vladimir Horowitz, Glenn Gould / by Sachs, Harvey, 1946-

Albert Maysles / by McElhaney, Joe, 1957-

Table of Contents: “…Democratic Art Forms: A Visit with Truman Capote, A Journey to Jerusalem, Muhammad and Larry, Ozawa, Vladimir Horowitz: The Last Romantic, Horowitz Plays Mozart, Soldiers of Music: Rostropovich Retums to Russia, and the Christo and Jeanne-Claude films --…”
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Horowitz plays Mozart /

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Remembering Horowitz : 125 pianists recall a legend /

Arcadi Volodos debut recording

Table of Contents: “…Carmen variations : after Vladimir Horowitz : 1968 version / Georges Bizet (3:39) -- Utro : op. 4, no. 2 = Morning : from 6 songs (2:03) ; Melodiya : op. 21, no. 9 = Melody : from 12 songs (3:42) / Sergei Rachmaninoff ; [arr.] …”

Horowitz in London.

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Horowitz Collection.

Soulmates from the pages of history : from mythical to contemporary, 75 examples of the power of friendship / by Adler, Jack

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Music to My Eyes / by Bendiner, Alfred

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Live at Carnegie Hall

The glorious ones : classical music's legendary performers / by Schonberg, Harold C.

Table of Contents: “…The castrati : lungs of men, voices of women -- Angelica Catalani : pyrotechnics and greed -- A digression on travel, the industrial revolution, and related matters -- Giuditta Pasta, Maria Malibran, Henrietta Sontag, and Giulia Grisi : bel canto -- Giovanni-Battista Rubini, Mario, and Luigi Lablache : Bengal rockets, sweetness, and cannonades -- A digression on money -- Nicolò Paganini : spawn of the devil -- Franz Liszt : the eagle of the piano -- Jenny Lind : the moral lady -- Joseph Joachim : the incorruptable -- Anton Rubinstein : Russian elemental -- Adelina Patti : the queen of song -- Jean and Edouard de Reszke : the singing brothers -- Ignaz Paderewski : the aureoled Pole -- Pablo de Sarasate, Eugène Ysaÿe, Jan Kubelik, and Fritz Kreisler : a quartet of violinists -- Nellie Melba : the singing machine -- Enrico Caruso : the tenor of tenors -- Josef Hofmann : the Polish keyboard master -- Sergei Rachmaninoff : the Russian master -- John McCormack : Irish gold -- Feodor Chaliapin : bass from Mother Russia -- Arturo Toscanini : the maestro -- Jascha Heifetz : unruffled perfection -- Kirsten Flagstad and Lauritz Melchior : the two Wagnerians -- Arthur Rubinstein : joie de vivre -- Vladimir Horowitz : electrical energy -- Maria Callas : the will to succeed -- Leonard Bernstein, Herbert von Karajan, and Georg Solti : timebeaters three -- Luciano Pavarotti and Placido Domingo : mano a mano.…”

Samuel Barber : his life and legacy / by Pollack, Howard

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Soloists & conductors

Table of Contents: “…Preludio/Bach (Sergei Rachmaninoff, piano) -- Etude in A minor, op. 25 no. 11 "Winter wind"/Chopin (Josef Lhevinne, piano) -- Jalousie--Tango tzigone/Gade (Boston Pops Orchestra, Arthur Fiedler, conductor) -- Violoncello concerto no. 2 in E minor, op. 30--II: Lento-Andante tranquillo (abridged)/Herbert (Emanuel Feuermann, violoncello) -- Schon Rosmarin/Kreisler (William Primrose, viola) -- Serenade for strings in C, op. 48--II: Waltz/Tchaikovsky (Boston Symphony Orchestra, Serge Koussevitzky, conductor) -- Beatrice et Benedict-Overture/Berlioz (Boston Symphony Orchestra, Charles Munch, conductor) -- Messiah, part II, no. 44--Hallelujah Chorus/Handel (Robert Shaw Chorale) -- The swan (from Carnival of the animals)/Saint-Saens (Gregor Piatigorsky, violoncello) -- Don Pasquale-overture/Donizetti (NBC Symphony Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini, conductor) -- Mazurka in A minor, op. 7 no. 2/Chopin (William Kapell, piano) -- Cancion de cuna (Cradle song)/Iturbi (Jose Iturbi, piano) -- Disc 2: Prelude in C-sharp minor, op. 45/Chopin (Arthur Rubinstein, piano) -- Fantasy on themes from Bizet's Carmen/Horowitz (Vladimir Horowitz, piano) -- Fantasia in C minor, BWV 906/Bach (Wanda Landowska, harpsichord) -- Coppelia--Prelude, Mazurka/Delibes (Boston Symphony Orchestra, Pierre Monteux, conductor) -- Colas Breugnon, op. 24: overture/Kabelevsky (Chicago Symphony Orchestra (Fritz Reiner, conductor) -- Porgy and Bess: Summertime/Gershwin (Jascha Heifetz, violin) -- A woman is a sometime thing -- Five Bagatelles--no. 1, Allegro/Walton (Julian Bream, guitar) -- I vespri siciliano--Ballet: The four seasons: winter/Verdi (New Philharmonia Orchestra, James Levine, conductor) -- L'Isle joyeuse/ Debussy (Van Cliburn, piano) -- Pan and the birds (from La flute de Pan)/Mouquet (James Galway, flute) -- Rosamunde, D 797-Ballet music no. …”

Horowitz in Moscow/

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Virtuosi : a defense and a (sometimes erotic) celebration of great pianists / by Mitchell, Mark

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