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Thursday 5 November 2009

Vladimir Horowitz - Rest in Peace

Twenty years ago today Vladimir Horowitz passed away; luckily we still have many recordings available to us of his superb and sometimes idiosyncratic piano performances.


Vladimir Samoylovich Horowitz
1 October 1903 - 5 November 1989
~ Rest in Peace ~


Vladimir Horowitz plays "Träumerei" (Robert Schumann)
Moscow - April 1986


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