1926 Pablo CASALS Jacques THIBAUD Alfred CORTOT SCHUBERT Piano Trio B flat major
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A series of great Solo instrumentals - Piano Violin Cello Harp, Winds and Brass on 78 rpm records
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The original review of this recording from Gramophone, October 1926:
Schubert Piano Trio No 1 in B flat, D898
Jacques Thibaud vn Pablo Casals vc Alfred Cortot pf
( HMV Album Series of Complete Works No 20, 10/26. Recorded in Kingsway Hall, London, on July 5 & 6, 1926)
Complete Orig Issue HMV 4x 12" 78 rpm records (drop sequence) with orig album and notes
Condition:
Excellent close to PRISTINE faint scuffs, plays very quiet light hiss.
Album great, binding and sleeves sound, nicely done repair to spine
A GREAT COPY
When the astronomer perceives through his telescope a triple star he knows that he is looking at a supreme example of celestial harmony. The musician, on the other hand, when he sees three musical luminaries shining close together, confidently predicts a cataclysm; for the musical star seldom resembles the heavenly one in anything but brightness. It is therefore pecuIiarly gratifying to find three first-magnitude stars such as Thibaud, Casals and Cortot combining for chamber music with all the orderliness of a sidereal system. I heard them play this trio about a year ago, and it was Schubert that mattered to each of them, not Thibaud, nor Cortot, nor Casals, and the result was a performance I shall never forget.
The rendering I have just listened to on these four records was substantially the same. I think they take the slow movement a shade faster in order to get it in on a couple of sides, and there may be other differences in detail; but on the whole I believe that the interpretation they give on the records is the interpretation they gave at the concert. Casals’s playing of the first strain in the slow movement and Thibaud’s treatment of the opening tune of the finale are as expressive and as finished as ever, and the details of the ensemble stand out with wonderful clearness.
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