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In 1962, Horowitz embarked on a series of highly acclaimed recordings for Columbia Masterworks, which was later renamed to Sony Classical after the label was purchased by Sony in 1990. Horowitz's first stereo recording, made in 1959, was devoted to two of Beethoven's piano sonatas. During Horowitz's second retirement, which began in 1953, he made a series of recordings in his New York townhouse, including LPs of Scriabin and Clementi.
With the creation of the LP in the late 1940s, many of his older recordings were reissued in the new format and some items received multiple issues. 1, both with the NBC Symphony Orchestra under Arturo Toscanini. 2, and in 1941, Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. That year, he recorded Brahms' Piano Concerto No. Beginning in 1940, Horowitz's recording activity was again concentrated in the U.S. Through 1936, Horowitz continued to make recordings for HMV of solo piano repertoire, including his famous 1932 account of Liszt's Sonata in B minor. 3 with Albert Coates and the London Symphony Orchestra, the world premiere recording of that piece. Horowitz's first European recording, in 1930, was of Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. His first audio recordings were made in the United States during 1928 for the Victor Talking Machine Company, Because of a reduction of recording activities due to the economic impact of the Great Depression, RCA Victor agreed to allow its recording artists' European-produced recordings to be made by HMV, RCA Victor's London-based affiliate. He also recorded piano rolls for Aeolian. Horowitz's first recordings were made in 1926, on piano rolls at the Welte-Mignon studios in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany. Horowitz at the time of his first recordings. Horowitz has also appeared in several video items, most of these were produced in the later years of his life.
His discography contains numerous albums and compilations of works by a variety of composers. This final recording consisted of repertoire that he had never previously recorded. Horowitz's final recording, with Sony Classical, was completed in November 1989, four days before his death. For the last years of his life, between 19, Horowitz recorded for Deutsche Grammophon. Between 19 he recorded for Columbia Masterworks In 1975, Horowitz returned to RCA, with which he recorded a series of live recitals. Horowitz continued to record for a variety of record labels throughout his life. The Russian-American classical virtuoso pianist Vladimir Horowitz was a recording artist for over 60 years beginning in 1926 on a piano roll system for Welte-Mignon, then with audio recordings, starting in 1928 for the Victor Talking Machine Company, later RCA Victor.