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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 12 มี.ค. 2015
- These are the only audio recordings of Alexander Siloti. The quality is very poor because they were recorded on a home record cutter around 1940. The records subsequently deteriorated when the Smithsonian attempted to recover the recordings. These recordings were made directly from the Smithsonian recordings where others on TH-cam were from an audio cassette.
They are informal recordings of him improvising on the piano. I do not know what pieces he is playing. This video contains two versions of the recordings. The first version is without any filtering. The second version is with filtering. The unfiltered version has high level of noise. The filtered version has lower noise but some loss of the piano quality. Take your pick.
Unfiltered version (00:10 - 06:38)
Filtered version (06:38 - 13:06) - เพลง
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Divine!
Any tone is comparable. With an experienced ear for this kind of recording the tone is evident . Breathtaking.
Among other snippets he plays that beautiful lyrical theme from the waltz (2nd movement) of Rachmaninoff's suite for 2 pianos op 17
The complete recordings of Siloti (acetate, wax, and piano rolls) are held in the Siloti Archive at Stanford, as are all of his extant manuscripts in original or copy form.
2:46 theme of Valentin's aria "Avant de quiter ces lieux" from Gounod's Faust!!!
Un "Sospiro" qui mène à Chopin (Etude "Tristesse") et à Rachmaninoff! Merveilleux.
I don't think that anyone has mentioned the melody from Gounod's Faust that comes into this miraculous, beautifully played 'medley' from another era.
4:37 is liszt's 12th Hungarian Rhapsody.
Alexander Siloti is Franz Liszt’s student and a nephew of Rachmaninoff’s wife
He also studied under Nikolai Rubinstein and, after Nikolai's death, briefly with his brother Anton Rubinstein.
Alexander Siloti was the 1st cousin of Serge Rachmaninoff. He also taught piano to S. R.
What a wonderful recording! Thank you
Thanks for uploading this!
Ah! The piece here is 'Un Sospiro' from 3 Études de concert, S.144 by Franz Liszt. One of my favourite Liszt pieces, Jorge Bolet plays it well if you want a good modern recording.
Somehow the digitally filtered version is more distracting.
Whoever made that "filtered version" did an absolutely horrible job! Restoring audio is a highly specialized job for experts. This 'filtering' is completely pointless, but I do appreciate the quality of the original recording in the first 6 minutes. Thanks for posting that source!
A rude comment that serves no constructive purpose.
@@iianneill6013- I wasn't rude, I was just giving my honest opinion about an audio job gone wrong, but that wasn't even the main point of my comment. The whole point was to be appreciative of the uploader for helping to save our collective musical heritage, which is why I praised the uploader for the addition of the original audio source in his video. I thought that was a very responsible thing to do.
FWIW, over the past two decades, I have dedicated quite a lot of my own spare time to the preservation of the musical heritage of the pupils of Franz Liszt. I have (re-)discovered and published a number of manuscripts of lost compositions by Liszt's pupils, and I'm currently working on the publication of all of Moriz Rosenthal's unknown and unpublished musical manuscripts.
As an audio expert, I have collected and restored many historical recordings over the years with the sole intention of preserving them for posterity in the most pristine and authentic sound quality possible.
I have every right to criticize what I consider to be the destruction of historically significant recordings through careless audio processing by people who don't know what they are doing. Many unique recordings have been damaged and distorted beyond repair exactly because of this, especially since digital audio tools became affordable for amateurs and inexperienced audio engineers.
Sadly, many unprofessional or careless audio restoration attempts result in the permanent destruction and/or discarding of the original audio source, which is not only regrettable, but also totally unnecessary. People need to understand that most of the audio processing done in consumer based D.A.W.'s/sequencers is irreversible, unless the source is being preserved along with the processed audio files.
I left a complimentary comment under this video, because I care about our collective cultural heritage and I don't want to see it disappear from our history books, our libraries and our archives due to indifference, or as a result of inept handling of the source material.
Next time you feel the need to criticize someone on the basis of assumptions and emotions alone, just ask that person to clarify his comment or ask him to elaborate on it, so you can learn a little bit about his intentions and background. You don't have to rush to judgement. Nobody asked you to be the moral arbiter of TH-cam.
Fun fact: Alexander Soloti is actually my great×4 or great×3 grandfather. You probably wont believe but its true.
Considering how your Siloti claims have been called into question on other videos, there's no reason to believe you this time, either. No offense intended.
There is I think at least one other piece here but I can't identify it at the moment. Maybe Liszt too?
kingjosh1876 Either that or he is improvising on Un Sospiro?