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Along with the extra-musical significance of the aged Horowitz's return to his erstwhile homeland, there's plenty here for seekers of the essential Horowitz. Perhaps his finest Mozart recording, the C major Sonata, gets a forward-moving reading distinguished by an "Andante Cantabile" movement that sings the music with the tonal splendour and command of line characteristic of the beloved
bel canto singers of the past whom Horowitz looked to as musical models. The programme's remainder is as formidable, and only a curmudgeon could fail to smile with delight at a favourite Horowitz encore, Rachmaninoff's
Polka de W.R. --
Dan Davis