Classical Music for Aficionados

I have always liked the tech solid sound of this Polish artist that seems to have got little love here  when he was alive , or dead for that matter .

Milstein’s Bach exquisite!

‘He was one of those wonders of nature.

As he aged, lost very little if anything at all.

Szeryng, Very, very fine violinist.

One of the best!

Yes these older violinists could teach today's young violinists a few lessons if they were still here. As in pianists the older ones are just as good as the young ones of today

One word, globalization.  This has led to a certain standardization of approaches to playing as opposed to in the past when there was more emphasis (acceptance) on a more personal approach.  The same can be said of soloists on any instrument, not just violin and piano.  On a “larger” scale the result of this globalization can be clearly heard in the major orchestras whose previously very distinctive personalities have become somewhat homogenized due to the phenomenon of the prevalence of the traveling guest conductor and, even more recently, principal players from different parts of the world who are the product of different “schools” and their respective approaches.

Btw, on the wonderful Milstein/Horowitz Brahms clip, I think that rv’s astute observation re tuning is, more than anything, a result of pitch instability in the playback of the recording.  Obvious with the piano’s sound which doesn’t have the more forgiving “cushion” of the violin’s vibrato.