Hello, all of you... I guess I've got a nice surprise for you, since I believe it is rare and unknown... In fact untill I discovered it few years ago, I didn't know that such experiments were made as early as that, since Brahms died in 1897 from a liver cancer... so, it had to be recorded before that date, and, probably during his last tour in England... I have no idea where it comes from, but I do believe it is not a fake... for the voice, I never heard him, but for what the playing is concerned, I can assure you that it is not only a great musician playing, but also one from that period... and let me tell ya that it has nothin' to do with the scratches on the recording (I removed quite a lot of them with filters!)... but it has much to do with the way to play that music... in fact, two waltzes (one of them is THE Waltze from Brahms!).
After all that, I hope the post will accept the two files Brahms_talks.mp3
Some press talk about it, and some years ago an English newspaper "Classic CD" spread a recording of socalled "Valse minute" played by Chopin in Nohant, apparently in 1848. The recording was bring to Pierre Boulez's IRCAM center in Paris from Jean-Michel Baillat, and here they discover it's a fake.
Instead you can hear the audio of Brahms also on You Tube.
Brahms voice & playing
in Classical
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Some press talk about it, and some years ago an English newspaper "Classic CD" spread a recording of socalled "Valse minute" played by Chopin in Nohant, apparently in 1848. The recording was bring to Pierre Boulez's IRCAM center in Paris from Jean-Michel Baillat, and here they discover it's a fake.
Instead you can hear the audio of Brahms also on You Tube.
And you can also see this wonderful site: http://www-ccrma.stanford.edu/~brg/brahms2.html
After all the first seems to me autentic, but not the second one.
Best regards,
Ben