Schubert's Trio No.1: Cortot-Thibaud-Casals Trio (1926)

[beaumonde]

Here's a fresh transfer I've done from an early Orthophonic album set (so early the set is not numbered and has thin, flexible front and back covers), a 1926 recording of the first Schubert Trio, D. 898 by this reknowned piano trio.

Franz Schubert: Trio No. 1 in B Flat Major for piano, violin, and 'cello
Alfred Cortot-Jacques Thibaud-Pablo Casals (recorded in Queen's Hall, 5-6 July, 1926)

I. Allegro moderato
II. Andante un poco mosso
III. Scherzo. Allegro
IV. Rondo. Allegro vivace

Comments welcome. Enjoy!

[barnettrp21122]

Thanks, Adam, for posting these! Your transfers are always so well done. I like the close-miking this recording seems to have. Some of the early orchestra recordings seem a bit too-distant, maybe in an attempt to recreate too much hall ambience. Of course it is just a quartet!
Are these USA pressings, and are the surfaces as pristine as they sound here?
Thanks too for not using Youtube for these. I doubt that they'd sound as good!
Bob

[beaumonde]

Thanks, Bob. These are US scroll pressings, in about E- condition. They are a bit noisier without the use of ClickRepair and DeNoise, but have smoothed out pretty well, leaving most of the music frequencies intact. I use Audacity for the side joins (which is remarkably easy to use, once one gets the hang of it).

I've recently also transferred their Haydn G Major Trio (with the "Gypsy Rondo" finale), as well as Mendelssohn performed by Jesus Maria Sanroma and Arthur Fiedler (Piano Concerto in G Minor) and Felix Weingartner ("Scottish" Symphony), so might post some of these as well, if there's interest.

I know others like to post transfers on YouTube, but that would greatly distort and compress the sound on these wonderful recordings, and I couldn't do side-joins, and everyone would get pretty bored by the end of the first movement from looking at my Credenza!