Great performance!

Thanks for posting!

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Played with real feeling, as it seems to me - and, in contrast to most acoustic orchestral recordings, I cannot hear any grunting tubas usurping the bass part.

the Sibelius is brisk but very meaningful.

She is really wonderful! And what a clean recording!

What exquisite playing! Bach must be smiling in his heaven!

How can this recording sound so good? Did you eq it? Because I had a 78 rpm gramophone player but that didn't produce these rich and warm sounds. If this sound quality is possible, I'd really like to know how to acquire such a thing.

Great transfer!

Fascinating. Before the E flat fugue you also have 'Ich ruf zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ", BWV 639.

How strange it seems for these modern ears to hear an authentic German pre-Amadeus take on the Requiem. It sounds unusually restrained, with none of the theatrics and "fire" one is accustomed to in modern performances.

Viajamos no passado, isto que a música nos proporciona.

I have been thoroughly enjoying these Capet String Quartet recordings. They sound great through my JBL boom box and remind me of what a pre-commercialized musical performance used to sound like. There's no grandstanding, no attempt at "flashiness" or obvious appeal to commercial appeal. This is strict, dignified artistic musical performance; this is the music itself on display, not personalities.

I wonder if M. Ravel ever heard this beautiful recording of his work. Thank you so much for this listen into the past!

He is an excellent violinist, fashioned in typical 19th century style. This becomes obvious from his narrow vibrato. He plays with really first class intonation!

Very beautiful playing!!!

this is the best quartet playing from the first part of the 20th century I have heard, and their playing is far superior to some more famous groups who performed at the same time.

Fantastically musical, and different from today's playing. An older-sounding piano, which works wonderfully well for Schubert. And more of a 19c style from the string players. Odd note about Zimmerman-- he retired from the Concertgebouw in 1940. Just a few months before the German invasion, but I wonder if there was another story behind that.

What a treat! Old-fashioned playing (distinctive vibrato, for one thing) of the highest quality. I'd never heard of them before, and am glad to have found them.

I had nevrer heard of this group. Fascinating! With this recording and that of the Capet Quartet we have an interesting look into styles of the period. They were a little younger (and less French) than Capet, but very fine nonetheless. Very careful intonation work on many crucial chords.

I have great admiration for their playing!

one of the best pianist ever lived or ever existed

I very much enjoyed listening to this, because it is wonderful and deeply felt music making!

This beautiful recording is like a time portal into the past. Many thanks.

I can’t think of any other group more suited to this piece. Thank you!

2楽章を淡々と弾いているのがとても良い。ここは、凍った空間の中で音と成って出てきた時に氷つくような演奏でいいと思う。

What an amazement that - thanks to technology - we can sit here one hundred years later and, with the merest flick of a finger, enjoy this delightful performance. I am always keenly aware of the fact that people long since passed can be - if not remembered - at least appreciated even a century later through the wonder that is sound recording. To me, at least, the past is always present, and these people and their art can live again through the echoes of their recordings.

Inspirational. Beautiful. "Liked"

noble

Delightful, refined and very well performed.

Perfect

0:23, progressione 1:21, inizio crescendo, poi frase acuta

what a beautiful, narrow and shimmering vibrato Szigeti had a that time!

Spirited, delightful. How well the acoustic apparatus often picked up a string ensemble. Gorgeous.

And here we are 100 years later enjoying them in time for Beethoven's 200th Anniversary. That is the power of history for you.

I just found this and your others on the channel. Very nice. Thank you for making these.

FUN FACT: In the original 1954 Japanese version of Godzilla, the two lovers have plans to attend a concert of the Budapest String Quartet; which then have to be cancelled because a giant monster appears in Tokyo Bay. What is easily overlooked is the fact that in 1954 at the time the film was being made, the BSQ really was on a concert tour of Japan.

To me, Vecsey was the greatest violinist ever recorded. Thank you for the uploads.

Mascagni didn't win an "actress"; he won a competition for a 1 act opera.

I never cease to be impressed with the sound quality of Edison's diamond discs.

With the exception of the (mercifully brief) orchestra passage, you'd never guess this was recorded acoustically one hundred years ago. Yes, there is surface noise, and yes, the volume is low, but the overall quality of the recording itself is impressive for the time.

Nice.

Wonderful!

In this period there was also an enormous amount of "studio" recordings of standard operas with the new electric process done by the La Scala forces for both HMV and Columbia (where they were called the "Milan Symphony Orchestra".) I didn't know there were also live records - thank you. Love how the second excerpt cuts out unceremoniously before the Princess opens her mouth!

"Webern - this ought to be nice. I just love Invitation to the Dance!"

Amazing! Very musical playing of this extremely difficult work. Best performance I've ever heard. Almost impossible to believe that this could have existed in 1939.

Curious as to why the finale was recorded ten years earlier than the rest.

always interesting to hear the players of the past. thank you

Thank you very much for uploading.

You are from France ?