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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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They're available on uTube too. However, I'm not sure that Joachim was in the greatest (or even adequate) technical shape by the time he made those recordings - the first Hungarian Dance is OK, but the second really has some embarrassing moments. In both cases, they sound careful, and I can't believe that this was the way Joachim played in his salad days with Brahms.For violin recordings of that era (the early 1900's), the really amazing ones (at least for me) are the ones by Sarasate. Amazing energy and brilliance just four or five years before he died. I've linked to a sample below.
EDIT: one possible explanation of the differences between Joachim and Sarasate on those 1903-era recordings was that Joachim was in his 70's when he made his recordings, while Sarasate was only in his 60's when he made his. (Obviously, Sarasate died younger.)
Edits: 02/22/17
I don't think you can fairly judge Joachim or Auer from their recordings, though people are interested in the "authentic 19th century performance style" and so these recordings are deemed important.
" (Obviously, Sarasate died younger.)" Yes, but after he made the recordings.
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