Posted on 12/28/2012 6:10:14 PM PST by AZamericonnie
Hi Everybody!
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Thanks for posting that link!
The DYNAMICS of that rendition are fantastic.
On the same YT page is the Rock playing the first movement of his 2nd Piano Concerto.
O. M. G!
Hand over heart......
The recording of the “Star Spangled Banner” was taken from an Ampico piano roll. Rachmaninov recorded dozens of these rolls, and the reproduction of his dynamics is excellent for a mechanical medium.
Two of the pieces from that effort are deserving of a re-post. One is the original complete 1929 recording of Sergei playing his own Second Concerto with Stokowski on the podium of the Philadelphia Orchestra. It was recorded in RCA’s studio in an old church in Camden, NJ. For early electric direct-to-disk technology, it still sounds pretty decent.
Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto #2 in C minor
This link is a shock. An amateur took Rachmaninov’s 1934 recording of the Paganini Rhapsody with Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra and re-mastered it himself. It’s better than RCA’s 1973 re-mastering for the Rachmaninov Centennial Edition and sounds like it was recorded recently. I sent the link to Adam Neiman, one of the best young Rachmaninov pianists in the game, and he was blown away by the quality.
Rachmaninov: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
In the original posting, I told the story of my mother’s encounter with Rachmaninov in 1936 when she was a star-struck teenager teaching herself piano. I also did analyses of both pieces.
Thank you so much for those links. The sound quality is wonderful, considering the technology of the times.
I am struck by the slightly “peppier” tempo than some of my more recent recordings of the 2nd Concerto. It seems that Rachmaninoff liked it a wee bit brighter, if not faster. Do you know if he indicated metronome numbers on his pieces?
Also...if you know of a recording of him doing his prelude in Cm, I would love to hear it!
Are you familiar with the recordings done on the Welte Forsetzer? That was a machine with 88 metal “fingers” that captured a lot of nuance in the days before electronic recording techniques. I used to listen to a radio program YEARS ago that played these recordings.
http://www.pianola.org/reproducing/reproducing_welte.cfm
Here’s the link to the Welte site.
Paderewski recorded on one of their machines! :-)
Rachmaninov didn't indicate metronome markings, but he was handcuffed by the 4 minute recording limit for a 78 rpm side, which is why he speeded things up.
I know about the Welte Vorsitzer. I had a recording years ago of Welte rolls of Mahler playing his songs and all the great pianists of the era. I don't believe it ever made it to CD.
The Welte recordings show how things were done in the old days.
Ha Ha...the “Four Minute Rule”.
Kind of like the 3 minute rule for 45 rpm records.
I remember Bob Dylan’s single “Like a Rolling Stone” took up BOTH sides.
Perhaps that is what inspired Joni Mitchell’s song...
“Both Sides Now” :-)
Thanks for the link!
Over this past year, I've done the lives and music of Brahms, Chopin, Rachmaninov and now Gottschalk for the Canteen. It's fun doing the research.
It brings a few mimutes of beauty into a soldier's life.
Do you remember the radio program that played different Vorsetzer Rolls every week? I was just a teen when I used to listen to those programs, but I believe it was on NPR back-in-the-Day.
(I’m listening to Gustav right now on another tab! A poster has commented that the hurried tempo is because Gustav was between TRAINS when he recorded it on the Welte! LOL!)
I don’t remember any Welte programs on the air, but that doesn’t prove anything. I was never much for NPR, but I didn’t have FM in my car until 1989.
Well, NOW, I have NO use for NPR! Ha Ha Ha.
Left-Wing Toadies. LOL
Off to the kitchen to make pasta with clams in an olive oil and garlic base. I won't have any close friends for a day or so!
Well, I am a Woman and a Minority, and it’s the Lefties who hit me the hardest! Ha Ha Ha!
I mean a REAL minority. A Female MiQ’Mac Inuit Irish Biker Bass Playing Right Winger. I guess that would make me a MiQ-Mac Paddy Whack-o! :-)
I just gave the dog a bone.
Your lunch sounds YUMMY!
What is "MiQ'Mac"? That's a new one for me.
"Mic Mac Mic Mac paddy wack a bone,
This old man came rolling home".
A remnant of the Boer War.
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