The surprising thing is not that these recordings from the '30s sound so clean and clear. Mark Obert-Thorn has been digitally remastering and restoring ancient recordings with the skill of an engineer and the love of an enthusiast for decades and the extremely high quality of his work is well-known. No, the surprising thing about these recordings from the '30s is how contemporary the performances sound. Felix Weingartner may have been born while Wagner was still composing Tristan, but his style of conducting is anything but ...
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The surprising thing is not that these recordings from the '30s sound so clean and clear. Mark Obert-Thorn has been digitally remastering and restoring ancient recordings with the skill of an engineer and the love of an enthusiast for decades and the extremely high quality of his work is well-known. No, the surprising thing about these recordings from the '30s is how contemporary the performances sound. Felix Weingartner may have been born while Wagner was still composing Tristan, but his style of conducting is anything but nineteenth century German Romantic. In Weingartner's Beethoven, the music is lucid and direct with none of the interpretative flourishes that the nineteenth century was heir to. In Weingartner's June 1939 recording of the Piano Concerto in C minor, Op. 37, the music is dramatically powerful in the outer Allegros and deeply expressive in the central Largo, but the long line and the tight structure of the work is never bent or broken by tempo rubato or portamento. In Weingartner's...
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