19thC piano (and other stuff)

I'm indifferent to this performance. Although a lot of what I am stuggling might be the tone quality of the recording. I don't mean crackle-removal.... rather I just want a big boost to the lower treble in this to capture some of the bravura and scintillation. It just sounds dull at the moment an...

But the finale lapses into more evocations of period-style, with the references to Brahms a bit timid. And structurally perhaps not all that convincing or wide-ranging.

That's a rather good interpretation too! Wonderful - thanks.

Impressive. Tailoring the style of playing to the original composer well in this - it's very like Morton's playing here! Some of the ideas are from the recording with Johnny Dodds?

I think d'Albert's A flat waltz of Chopin is far more apposite here than the Beethoven rondo. There's a complete memory lapse in the second half.

I've altered the description. Ta!

I find his playing - well - a bit odd. As mentioned in the note, the playing is often lacking in a convincing communicative charm. I can't help but compare his rendition of the Fledermaus paraphrase with that of an utterly beguiling Moiseivitch or a Fiorentino. Saperton's polyphony is very clearl...

Pabst was fortunate to also attend Liszt's masterclasses as a pupil. Some early Edison cylinders of his own playing are on my channel.

Can you drop a mail to me with the link you mentioned please?

How wonderful to obtain such glimpses of Sophie Menter's playing! One of the earliest Liszt pupils to leave us any piano rolls, and a whole generation younger than the Sauer/d'Albert/Rosenthal/Lamond/etc generation. As others have noted, it sounds like she could drum a really magnificent concepti...

No, it doens't mean "as slow as possible". It means "The more than slow", and the reference is to the "valse lente" tradition in French music. Debussy was composing a work meant to either encapsulate or trump the "vale lente" genre. The "valse lente" is not, however, particularly slow in absolute...