These are amazing transfers. Thank you.

For those that may not be aware of it, this is only the second recording of the Dvorak Concerto (Feuermann’s was the first) and the only recording made by a cellist who was born before the concerto was composed!

@topclassical

5 ай бұрын

It was actually the third commercial recording; there is also the recording with Cassado and Schmidt-Isserstedt on Telefunken from 1935

@solowcello

5 ай бұрын

@@topclassical News to me! - there’s always something to learn. And Cassado’ was born only one year after the concerto was written! (It’s also likely that Cassado’ studied the concerto with Casals when he was his student.)

@topclassical

5 ай бұрын

It is a very different recording, but wonderful in it's own way. Cassado was a truy great artist@@solowcello

@solowcello

5 ай бұрын

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@solowcello

5 ай бұрын

@@topclassical This 1932 live performance with Piatigorsky in Copenhagen (only the 1st.movement was preserved) was not a commercial studio recording but should be in the lineup of early Dvorak recordings: At that point in his career he must have only performed it a few times. (His son Joram determined that he was actually born in 1904, so he would have been just 28!)

Great recording. Please keep transferring other 78s like this gem. Wise decision to avoid filtering the surface noise.

@topclassical

5 ай бұрын

Thank you for listening! Will record more 78s in near future!

Very beautiful transfer of an immortal performance! Many thanks! The cello is such a soulful instrument.

@topclassical

5 ай бұрын

Thank you! The performance is immortal, indeed!

🕊 *Classical compositions soar on the wings of grace, whispering serenity to our souls.*

@topclassical

5 ай бұрын

Good music speaks to our souls directly and show the kindness and mercy of our creator

Very nice...your writing is also perfect...i don't like noise reduction...great rare upload

@topclassical

5 ай бұрын

Thanks a lot! Hope to upload more, when I find the time to do transfers

what a performance!!! thank you for posting it!

@topclassical

5 ай бұрын

Yes, it is great and sounds like a live performance!

Wonderful!

I for one prefer the recordings of the young Szell to those of the older martinet of Cleveland. Invariably I find a more spontaneous, singing quality in the orchestral playing of his earliest recordings, like this one, which is great not just because of the incomparable Casals but because of the committed playing of the Czech players. This performance has a freshness that I've never heard in any other recording of this piece. Other, subsequent cellists may have had a silkier tone than Casals, but he and the orchestra play as if they were composing the piece as they perform it, as if it were a great drama from moment to moment.

@topclassical

5 ай бұрын

I believe the freshness has to do with the fact that this was almost a live recording. Casals flew from Barcelona to Prague to perform the concerto on the first day and the second day, they recorded the whole thing. Szell was simply the best man for this job, keeping everything tightly together, allowing both Casals and the orchestra to shine. The spontaneity of for instance the woodwinds of the CPO is charming and captivating, lining up very well with the passion of Casals. Szell was always a literalist and it works very well here. I think some of his stuff with Cleveland is marvellous, Brahms 4 Andante moderato coming to mind as a special case

@claudewallet3287

5 ай бұрын

True. Although the Beethoven with Cleveland were globally magnificent !

@claudewallet3287

5 ай бұрын

Old martinet is a bit tough! Szell gave this mid-range, industrial, unappealing city, allegedly the best orchestra in the world !

@pianoredux7516

5 ай бұрын

@claudewallet3287 Certainly, agreed about the Beethoven with Fleisher and some others, but I also find many of his Cleveland recordings bloodless and finicky, the same way I usually react to that compulsive over-rehearser Celibidache.

@claudewallet3287

5 ай бұрын

@@pianoredux7516 Celidibache was not in the same league !

This is the best transfer I’ve ever heard.

@topclassical

5 ай бұрын

Thanks a lot! This is exactly how the 78s sound. No filtering applied

@liyue8772

5 ай бұрын

The first time I heard this recording was in 1981. It was a 33rpm Supraphon LP. The sound was muffled. When CDs came out, I purchased a few versions. Filters were applied to all of them. In these transfers, noise was removed together with the music. Do you have a higher bitrate file for sale? @@topclassical

@topclassical

5 ай бұрын

Hello, I recorded this at 96kbps@@liyue8772

Great

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