Search - Ludwig van Beethoven, Franz [Vienna] Schubert, Artur Rubinstein :: Rubinstein Collection, Vol. 12

Great stuff, but allow for the age of the recordings

Robert J. Cruce | Muskogee, OK United States | 03/29/2002

(5 out of 5 stars)

"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."

Great recommendations from books you read

Nathaniel Neohetan | Spain | 10/22/2009

(5 out of 5 stars)

"I am very happy with this CD!



This recording came to my attention when reading Haruki Murakami's book "Kafka on the Shore" and what little I could hear on the net of the pieces described sounded good. I looked around and found several similar recording available from different places but decided on this one mostly because I was ordering something else in the same shipment.



The music sounds full and rich and it is a pleasure to be seated in front of three masters of their art and have them play today as they did back in 1941."