Horowitz's Hand Viewed From The Above

This seems to be the only video I've seen showing Horowitz's hands from above, albeit only at the very begining, for a brief while. Another interesting angle is at 6:40, too. It's interesting to see how he sometimes curl his thumb.

too bad, removed for copyright violation...

It was actually a very long documentary (1hour+, in several clips), much of it in Russian (??? a language I don't understand ). His wife says a lot about him. Horowitz says (in english) that he doesn't do the external gesture, and it's all in the inside. He also talks about his early years, his friendship with Rachmaninov. A shame I didn't watch the whole thing, just browsed through quickly........ The following link, as far as I could remember, is from that documentary. The camera is not straightly from above, but the angle is still sort of interesting and gives me some insights in the middle section.:

The documentary you mention sounds like 'Horowitz: A Reminiscence.' He says he doesn't do any external gestures, then plays Vers la Flamme and actually starts fooling around with the 'classic arm out' because it was on his mind... When I watch this Bach-Busoni clip I can hardly think about his hands at all, the musicianship is so amazing - he is hearing how the voices speak to each other, he is hearing what one voice has to say - this is UNDERSTANDING. But his hands and his whole physical being remind me about what I am now discovering myself on the Landowska Steinway: the hands seeming to do nothing, and yet doing everything, arises from an amazing inner quietness that allows one to sense the keys to incredibly fine tolerances, and to make a movement so precise that the sound is chiseled with virtually no effort. By the way, the man you hear and see speaking with Horowitz at the end of this clip is Jack Pfeiffer, Horowitz's producer and the man in whose living room the Landowska Steinway lived for 40 years before it came to me... Thanks for posting this, AFF