Vladimir Horowitz

The legendary pianist Vladimir Horowitz always took two pianos on tour, but not for use on the same program.

When Two Makes Perfect Byron Janis 2011

European emigre classical pianists, from Sergei Rachmaninov to Vladimir Horowitz and Arthur Rubinstein, were among the fans of a virtuoso who could throw off improvised pieces as complex and orchestral in scope as the most advanced classical piano compositions.

Art Tatum stuns his contemporaries in New York 2011

After years of focusing on the Great American Songbook, this piano is now learning the classical repertory in which Janis has excelled since he was a child prodigy, a pupil of the legendary Vladimir Horowitz.

Howard Kissel: Maria Cooper Janis Howard Kissel 2012

First as a sideman with George Shearing and Stan Getz, and then out on his own, this kid from rural Indiana, who looked like a fifth Beatle but performed with the dazzling virtuosity of a Vladimir Horowitz, really made waves.

'The Guy With Four Sticks' Stuart Isacoff 2011

European emigre classical pianists, from Sergei Rachmaninov to Vladimir Horowitz and Arthur Rubinstein, were among the fans of a virtuoso who could throw off improvised pieces as complex and orchestral in scope as the most advanced classical piano compositions.

Art Tatum stuns his contemporaries in New York 2011

After years of focusing on the Great American Songbook, this piano is now learning the classical repertory in which Janis has excelled since he was a child prodigy, a pupil of the legendary Vladimir Horowitz.

Howard Kissel: Maria Cooper Janis Howard Kissel 2012

Vladimir Horowitz created a sensation with the sonata at his 1928 Carnegie hall debut.

Radical Romanticism David Dubal 2012

European emigre classical pianists, from Sergei Rachmaninov to Vladimir Horowitz and Arthur Rubinstein, were among the fans of a virtuoso who could throw off improvised pieces as complex and orchestral in scope as the most advanced classical piano compositions.

Art Tatum stuns his contemporaries in New York 2011

For him, the language of the 19th century had not yet been exhausted, and he created music that was rhythmically complex and harmonically rich — and admired by some of the day's foremost musicians, including pianist Vladimir Horowitz and the conductor Arturo Toscanini.

A Classical Composer in a Modern World Dalya Alberge 2010

For him, the language of the 19th century had not yet been exhausted, and he created music that was rhythmically complex and harmonically rich — and admired by some of the day's foremost musicians, including pianist Vladimir Horowitz and the conductor Arturo Toscanini.

A Classical Composer in a Modern World Dalya Alberge 2010