carbro Posted November 15, 2009 Share Posted November 15, 2009 Not, perhaps, what you'd expect: Also heard: Safonov, Lavrovskaya, Anton Rubinstein (speaking only, despite Lavrovskaya's pleas for "just a few chords, for posterity" ), recorded in Moscow, January 1890, by Julius H. Block. Details about that and other similar recordings are here: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/26/arts/mus...6waki.html?_r=2 It would be even better to hear this (and some of the others linked by YouTube [including one of Brahms both speaking and playing] and in the Times' article) cleaned up, without the pops, clicks and other noises. Digital audio technology should make this pretty easy. It's been done for other early recordings. Link to comment
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