A beautiful piano beautifully recorded

[Guest]

I was offered a trawl through a collection of LPs and found one that particularly engaged my attention so I have put it on my site. It is the last item on

http://www.cliveheathmusic.co.uk/vinyl.php

A beautifully sonorous piano is beautifully recorded in works which I had never heard or heard of. Boarders with wider musical knowledge than mine ( not difficult! ) may know these pieces but it would be nice if you could keep mum for a while to give the "innocent ear / blindfold test" experience a little time to develop. Checking these out on headphones was disappointing because the noise floor, virtually inaudible in the front-room amp-speaker set-up was a little intrusive.

[french frank]

Bump - and don't let on yet!!! :-)

[Pianorak]

As if! :-)

[clive heath]

Clearly I made some grotesque error in presenting Peter Rösel's performances of Brahms' first two Piano Sonatas in such a devious way. However the full details are up on the page

http://www.cliveheathmusic.co.uk/vinyl.php

and it is interesting that my own quibble about the low frequency audible on headphones (but not in normal room listening) has found an echo in Dave2002's recent post (Recording standards and CD remastering)!