Rubinstein Collection, Vol. 12 | Emanuel Feuermann, Ludwig van Beethoven, ...

Rubinstein Collection, Vol. 12 | Emanuel Feuermann, Ludwig van Beethoven, ... | The Wife is Happy

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Great stuff, but allow for the age of the recordings

I'm glad I never encountered this Archduke trio recording in an LP transfer. A couple of generations of listeners were probably frightened away from pre-stereo recordings by inadequate transfer technology. I read somewhere this performance is "justly famous" but "miserably recorded". We are indeed fortunate in the digital era that the best restorer and transfer expert of recordings of the pre-tape era, Ward Marston, has had a hand in the Artur Rubinstein series. What you have in the Beethoven is a decent recording from 1941, after Mr. Marston's transfer. One should perhaps mute the upper frequencies more than usual, as this will eliminate anything remaining that might distract from the music. So you have before you an Archduke trio of legend and a most satisfying musical experience. The Schubert is not the Opus 100 that is perhaps more famous, but the Opus 99 trio. The recording seems to find the original masters perhaps less worn and therefore clearer and warmer. But this is all "essential" stuff for admirers of these artists. I plan to keep this recording of the Archduke trio as my primary one.

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