Holy H.G. Wells! I just heard Joseph Joachim play! The Glagolitic is pretty sensational, too.

Music Lane

It's all about the music, dude! Sit down, relax and listen to some tunes.

The 1902 recording on this Melodiya blast from the past is amazing! Joachim, friend and confidant of Brahms. I'm blown away.

The needle drops and first impression is just another curiosity with limited dynamic range and a cement mixer in the background but after a few moments I'm drawn into the music, especially the Brahms Hungarian Dance with the noise completely forgotten.

Sorry about the sideways pic, Windows 10 sucks, sucks, sucks, but if you lie down.....

The Janacek Mass is some great music and the recording turns out to be a coveted all-Tulip Label. The DG guys achieved wonderful clarity but I'm not sure about the miking. Is there off-stage Brass and Double Bass to the left? Anyone know how Kubelik arranged his forces?

Ever since I was 15 and found the Sinfonietta on my music stand at weekly rehearsal of our community orchestra, I was hooked on Janacek. Sharing the riser with us trombones were the trumpets led by a local attorney who had the tone of Bernard Adelson if not quite the technique. The other guy was pretty good, too. When those trumpets began to play...oh my! Then the three of us began to blow. Went out and bought the Cleveland/Szell album the next day. Still have it.

BTW, many say the Mackerras is the recording to have citing the huge forces among other attributes. I think it's a mess! Only one Trumpet and One Trombone per part can achieve the purity of what Janacek is writing and it's that same nearly ascetic purity, even if the Brass has been augmented somewhat, that comes through in the Mass.

The Mass is equally wonderful to hear; the solo parts somehow, even with the strange Early Slavic words do convey a religious intensity.

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Topic - Holy H.G. Wells! I just heard Joseph Joachim play! The Glagolitic is pretty sensational, too. - kitch29 09:46:21 02/22/17 (4)

The Joachim recordings are interesting - Chris from Lafayette 10:13:07 02/22/17 (3)

Agreed. - rbolaw 11:20:41 02/22/17 (2)

RE: Agreed. - kitch29 11:54:51 02/22/17 (1)

Maybe I should have said, "Obviously, Sarasate was born later." [nt] ;-) - Chris from Lafayette 16:26:37 02/22/17 (0)

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