Liszt: Legend No. 2 "St. Francis of Paola walking on the waves" [Horowitz 1947]

February 3, 1947: Carnegie Hall, New York City, New York (Live) It's a recording of Horowitz's recital in his younger days that survived very fortunately. He performed this piece several time at the end of formal repertoire (that is just before the encore) in 1947. I had previously uploaded it to this channel after remastering it poorly and received a lot of criticism. Two years later, it has been corrected properly and I want to rectify my mistake now. One of the few points I particularly want to highlight is from 3:09. Octave leaps that are getting faster and faster, and that bass grace notes like striked with steel. The extremely fast chromatic thirds and the speed of continuous leaps, especially from M. 79, have never been achieved in any other recording. He dared to do this in a live performance! Other technically outstanding parts may include a neat and long cadenza-like passage expressed in various tones (1:45-), and octaves appearing in each hand or both hands (4:10- and so on). These can be thought to be a little overkill since they go far beyond the average agreed-upon speed at which the parts are played, but given the context, he put this Liszt piece at the last to literally show off, and he did so. Why not? He knew what he was doing. Horowitz's personal arrangement of the coda (M. 161-) is a fairly old debate among Horowitz enthusiasts. Personally I don't hate his attempt to change the existing ending that can be thought a little bit boring into the brilliant one, while maintaining the original harmony and melody. But is the purely showy 8-bar coda from M. 186 that doesn't quote any elements from the piece appropriate? The decision is yours.