The colors, the subtle shading of dynamics....Each variation is increasingly difficult...By the last one, you wonder if Horowitz had 3 hands instead of the usual 2!
The story goes that one music lover, enthralled after watching Horowitz play, went up to him and said : "Maestro, how do you do it? You must have seven levels of playing between "piano" and "pianissimo"!" Horowitz replied: "Thank you for noticing."
Arcadi Volodo's version of this amazing piece is certainly brilliantly executed, but here, you really get to listen to everything which Horowitz poured into his arrangement. When he plays this piece, it is a true match for the range and depth of sound, timbre and tone of a full symphony orchestra.
well, that's what I think anyway