16 January 2022

Brahms 3 & 4 - Bruno Walter


 



Early studio recordings in great sound for the period.

BRAHMS

Symphony no. 3
Wiener Philharmoniker
May 18-19, 1936

Symphony no. 4
BBC Symphony Orchestra
May 21, 1934

BRUNO WALTER

FLAC + Scans



5 comments:

Guido said...

https://www.mediafire.com/file/1048gsqyj5ag00f/BRA34WAL.zip/file

lsl said...

Thank you for sharing this. It will be interesting to compare these with Walter's postwar recordings. Best, Louis

Scientist_Timpanist said...

Thanks again!

andrew said...

Wow, that Brahms 4th has a wonderful clarity of articulation. You are doing a great service to us all in sharing these Walter performances which are NOT his later Columbia recordings. Thank you Guido!

Anonymous said...

I already personally own this compact disk so won't DL; but you are indeed offering a great item!

I had the Victor 78 set of the B4 by Walter and the BBC, and transferred it as carefully as I could, but the Koch CD just blew it away! This is a Mark Obert-Thorn transfer, is it not? If so, this would be a pretty early commercial job of his, right after one or two Toscanini items he did for Music & Arts. In those days Mark was using comparatively rudimentary gear (before his $10,000 purchase of a CEDAR noise reduction system) and was doing the transfers AAD, copying to analogue tape for the momentary "overlap" of continuous sides; but the results were always VERY natural and musical!

8H Haggis