Many thanks for you kind words! Very much appreciated. Unfortunately, I do not have Franck's symphony on 78s. If I ever get hold of a copy, I will digitize it for sure.

@@martinadler73 Oh, that's okay, you don't apologize, you're very welcome, and sounds good.

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Quite possible, as it was his main instrument until 1936 when he switched for a short period to his newly acquired Guarneri, leaving the Strad unattented, leading to it being taken by a thief, just like in 1919, but now it was gone for many years, unlike 1919 when it was back after a short time.

Thanks a lot. I agree, he is really incredible! Never heard the concerto better. Steinberg (William, of course 😂) and the Staatskapelle are equally great!

@@martinadler73 it's definitely my favourite reading. I played this in a university presentation a few years ago and the violinists adored some parts and were intensely shocked by others; my main point was that for all the expressed intent to 'do justice to the composer's intention', they sure tend to be dismissive of things that were done in the composers' lifetimes. Wonderful to hear this again with your fresh transfer - thanks again!

@ThePianoFiles I agree - it is always worth listening to recordings made by artists that were near to the composer's times. Many things get lost over the decades. Thanks again.

Just checking his discography, and I see that he also recorded Nos. 2 and 5 in the same session in 1928!

@@pianopera Thanks a lot for your kind words and the information. Hopefully I can get hold of the other record, too.

Great! Glad you like it!

Thanks, Nosh! There is a Wikipedia article "Sergei Rachmaninoff recordings" stating that he had to use an obscure brand of grand piano at his earliest sessions with the Edison company. I could not find anything about an upright, though.

@@martinadler73 Danke schön, mein herr. The great pianist should have said, “Get me a Steinway, or there will be no recording!” 😃 The latest audio restorations of his recordings, yours among them, are revealing all sorts of amazing details in his playing. 👏🏻

@@noshirm6285 Thank you so much!

Many thanks! Greatly appreciated!

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@@martinadler73 Martin, have you ever heard of quadraphonic recordings? What is your opinion of the sound quality thereof, and can such an effect be achieved with remixed older recordings? 😲

@@noshirm6285 Dear Nosh, yes I have heard about it. It is recording with four separate channels to get an additional spatial dimension (stereo - two channels -> left/right; quadro - four channels -> left/right/front/rear). Unfortunately there is only one channel in old recordings (mono - one channel -> no spatial information). So my "spatial enhancement" is only a "fake stereo" which just helps to separate the sound from the hiss a bit. It is more a psychoacoustic effect. As it affects the sound slightly (on the right channel, the left channel is the pure unchanged mono signal), a further manipulation to get something pseudo quadrophonic would be too much, I guess. Furthermore, we do not have quadrophonic playback possibilities any more in every home. The modern equivalent are e.g. Dolby Digital technologies.

@@martinadler73 Danke, Martino, for this detailed response. 🙏🏻 It certainly sounds complicated to a layman like me. 😳