Bronislaw Huberman - Tchaikovsky Concerto (1928) - part 2

Due the loud cheering for more Huberman, I dug out the 1928 Columbia records of him playing the Tchaikovsky Concerto. And what a treat this is too ! Enjoy !

- Recorded in Berlin on 28 & 30 december 1928, Staatskapelle Berlin, conducted by William Steinberg.

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[petrof4056]

beautiful cadenza. That's amazing, his style more modern than Kulenkampff, yet Hubermann was born before Kulenkampff. Very interesting! you don't have the 2nd mvt?

[sobie99]

Hmm, no, I had assumed it was not recorded, as I found these records as a set of 2, but it turns out there`s more ! I`m dissapointed now, that the third record got either separated, or broke before I could grab them. There`s a small chance it might turn up in my collection one day though ;-)

[sobie99]

:o ... I found that third record ! And now I know why it was separated --> it was on a little stack of records that need repairs, because of a little piece broken off the edge. well anyways.. it's coming up soon, when I have some time, together with some other amazing novelties ;-)

[AulicExclusiva]

Wild, passionate, violently romantic: just what this concerto needs! Still the greatest performance.

[micheldvorsky]

I'm obsessed with this performance. The virtuosity and romanticism is just astonishing. It's easy to see why he and Ignaz Friedman got along.

[ipmoic]

Yes atheismius--could not agree more! This is a genuine, pure performance with Huberman's wonderful flotando bow--and what a spiccato!

He never scratches, the intonation is astonishing and he plays with no affectations--as if it were the very first performance of this piece. More than good, it's magical.

The building accelerando at the end is a marvel of Huberman and Steinberg working in perfect harmony.

[atheismius]

Bronislaw Huberman... so adore your violin performance! Totally impressed, having seen too much Itzhak Perlman's performance you know what I mean. Huberman wins!

[atheismius]

Superb violin performance! If this piece comes under most postwar so-called top players you would encounter unnecessary or misused vibrato too often. NOTE HOW POWERFUL and impressive WAS THE PERFORMANCE BACK THEN, and what we have nowadays, with post-modernist conductors and performers that commercialise the perfomance into amateur quality performance for 1920s. Thank you sobie99 for uploading this video. I am so impressed.

[atheismius]

So beautiful! Why most top orchestra back in 1920s has such a high quality performance, compared with nowadays over expressionism and commercialised quality? Imagine those recordings back then have todays' recording quality... no, even recording like these are enough to arouse my sentiment. Why our generation cannot produce better classical music than our ancestors did?

[OriginalMoonbeam]

Francescatti plays this same cadenza and I think he wrote it back in the early twenties--inspired by Auer, but will have to double check that. I think I have Francescatti's first recording of Tchaik. somewhere--Huberman is the only other artist I have heard to perform that cadenza and the very,very ornate ending right before the cadenza like Francescatti does--its the most beautiful rendering and probably the most complex I have ever heard. It's on Francescatti's early recordings and later

[mirorinaldov]

My teacher A. Vrtel was pupil of Huberman.He said He was strict for each detail