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Overnight video: Vladimir Horowitz on piano, the 'Heroic' Chopin Polonaise

12:27 AM Wed, Oct 08, 2008 |
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Vladimir Horowitz - Chopin Polonaise in A-flat major, Op. 53 in Musikverein, Vienna, Austria on May 31, 1987.


I spent an entire summer when I was 15 teaching myself to play this piece from sheet music I found in an inherited piano bench. I had never heard it played. Can music be more abstract?

But one day, it came on the radio, and I knew it instantly. It was a Eureka! moment. I finally knew what it was supposed to sound like.

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