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Vladimir Horowitz at Carnegie Hall–The Private Collection: Haydn and Beethoven (RCA Red Seal). The latest installment of RCA’s ongoing series of previously unreleased concert recordings contains versions of Haydn’s E Flat Piano Sonata and Beethoven’s “Moonlight” and “Waldstein” Sonatas made at Carnegie Hall between 1945 and 1947. As usual with Horowitz, these commanding live performances have a nervous, sometimes unsettling edge not always present in his studio recordings. Given the age and nature of the source material, the sound is surprisingly good (TT).