The Voice of Brahms

[susanwen]

Here is a site where you can here Tennyson recite his own poem "Charge of the Light Brigade." I find it chilling.

[Sorrano]

Here is a site where you can here Tennyson recite his own poem "Charge of the Light Brigade." I find it chilling.

Do you still have the link?

[Quijote]

I remember hearing this a good many years ago. The sound quality is horrendous but it's amazing that it exists at all [...]

If it's really Brahms, this is fascinating. I suspect it is, as the voice does seem to be that of an elderly man. What I find fascinating is that we can hear (we believe) the voice of Brahms, who knew Liszt, who met Beethoven when he was ten (Franz, that is), and so on down through history. Absolutely fascinating, thank you Michael. Can we hear other voices (I know, not LvB, damn it), such as Bruckner, Mahler and so on? Please do post the internet links if you can.

[Michael]

Susanwen,
do you still have the Tennyson link? I'd like to hear that.
Nineteenth-century poetry has rather gone out of fashion these days. There are people who think "The Charge of the Light Brigade" is an electricity bill.

[Quijote]

So, are there any YouTube links to other compsers' voices or not? I mean, composers around -1900? Do tell.

[susanwen]

Did the link for Tennyson not attach? I'll try again.

http://www.poetryarchive.org/poetrya...2E?poemId=1570

[Michael]

Did the link for Tennyson not attach? I'll try again.

http://www.poetryarchive.org/poetrya...2E?poemId=1570

Thanks, Susan. It certainly is weird. With all the background noise he really sounds as if he was in the middle of the battle of Balaclava.

[Michael]

Listen to what happened to one poor presenter when she played a tape of the very first recorded human voice - she said it sounded like a fly in a bottle and could barely read the next few news items:



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFSjx...layer_embedded

There are some other choice giggles on the right-hand side of the same page.