Beethoven "Kreutzer Sonata" Zimbalist-Bauer Rec.1926

[danpincus]

Please...the Martinelli!-Bauer...

[nnamffohsaile]

incredible post. thank you so much!

[tomjlowe]

Having recently performed the Kreutzer, this was a real joy. I just wish they hadn't taken the cuts and eliminated the repeats, but I guess that the technology was the main limitation with respect to the total time. Also, I note that Bauer was not reading from the music and apparently neither was Zimbalist. Very impressive.

I first became aware of Bauer when I studied his edition of the Schumann Violin & Piano sonatas. Bauer completely rewrote them to make them compatible with the modern piano.

[plateaupiano]

I just love this piece! This recording is awesome too!

[naymelful]

Thanks for this video. Unmatched!! How can Beethoven be appreciated until he is heard in perfectiion!  Trying IS enjoyable, though, for everyone.

[PolkRidgeAesthete]

What a thrilling, telling artifact! Seeing Bauer should enrich any pianist's relationship with the instrument. THIS is playing as it should be...

[xper2xper]

Getting too much excited about Bauer, I ignored Zimbalist..

I feel, he's a bit luckier than Bauer, in terms of being known as of today...

Interestingly, violin fans are far better loyal to the history of the performers than the piano fans...

Whatever.. You did a great job!

[xper2xper]

This is amazing... Exquisite post!!!

Bauer on film, howcome I've not seen this... Thank you so much for that, it's wonderful!

What a pity that, after 1.5 years, it has less than 4000 views... What a pity that no body is even aware of a name like Bauer...

His book should be read by everybody, he simply witnessed a lovely period of the piano history; and you've provided the opportunity that we see him on YT after 80 over years.. Amazing...

Thank you once again!

Cheers!

[laresoldo39]

5 Star

Recomend for every musicians around the world!!!

[Dogaradodia]

Certified Intergalactic! At last, I've heard Efrem Zimbalist! Great violin virtuoso!

[atheismius]

Beautiful. good old 1920s recording... this isn't close to some of the best memory for 1920s but even this piece of recording could tell you how developed was the classical music back then. That was a time of modernism, not postwar post-modernism that produces low quality violin players that plays overly emotionally.

[snaaptaker]

According to Gregor Benko, " The 1926 Vitaphone sound film of Harold Bauer performing Chopin's A flat Polonaise is being restored by the Vitaphone Project, the soundtrack on a separate disc combined with the image from film, then transferred to digital format." It's being done at UCLA, "and a single copy of the restored version (wil be) deposited at the UCLA film library, where presumably it can be viewed soon."

Warner Brothers owns the Vitaphone rights and, so far, won't issue it on DVD. Pity.

[Beckmesser2]

Thank you for this information.

[beautman1]

@snaaptaker There is a DVD listed in the Berkshire Record Exchange catalog that contains this film, Elman's vitaphone and others. I don't know the source, quality, or legitimacy of it.

[paulostroff99]

Thrilling rendition! One of the most enjoyable that I've heard. Bravo! TY.

[powerofalto]

This is extraordinary! I had no idea that Zimbalist was captured on film--what an incredible document. Absolutely incredible playing! It's remarkable how much color is audible in Bauer's playing, despite the primitive technology. Thank you, thank you, thank you!

[vstasov]

Thank you!!!!!

[saltburner2]

I had previously heard Bauer only on piano rolls, which gave no hint that he was such a fine pianist! Many thanks for this - were the other movements of the Kreutzer recorded?

[lovesGenet]

So wonderful to see theer us a film of Bauer as well as the great Zimbalist who lived until his late nineties and wasa big  name. My teacher thought highly of two pianists cortot his tweacher and Bauer . Wish we had mor of him his Brahms f min sonata is really "it" .

[wildejag]

They are very comfortable together in their music making. It's a great benefit that Harold Bauer understood the violin and could play this piece on either instrument very well. I am stunned by his expression and how gracefully he plays. I'd really like to see the Polonaise. Nice annotation Beckmesser2. Thank you very much.

[artvirtue]

My dearest thanks. So beautiful, poetic, and great!

[themfromspace]

wow amazing!! You don't perchance happen to have any technical specs on the recording?

[GetMeThere1]

Tolstoi wrote a short story based on the supposed "prurient" effect of this sonata inciting a husband to spousal homicide.

He demonstrated a rather inflammed sense of piety, at times, throughout his life ;)

[chad410]

thanx oh how pure is the sense of unspoiled music making.

[snaaptaker]

Oops--son-of-a-gun!! The other posting is still up! I just stumbled across it. My apologies to Apomethe (the other poster).

But, still, my thanks to both of you for this historical gem.

[snaaptaker]

This wonderful clip was on YouTube a few months ago, but it disappeared rather quickly.

Thanks so much for returning it to us.