Archives for April 22, 2020

Vladimir Horowitz plays Scarlatti’s E Major Sonata, K. 380, at Carnegie Hall in 1968. The video is from a concert telecast by CBS. The audio has been synchronized from a high-quality audio recording of the same performance:

(This is the latest in a series of arts- and history-related videos that appear in this space each Monday, Wednesday, and Friday)

“He found that it was easy to make a heroic gesture, but hard to abide by its results.”

W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage