Josef Hofmann: The Brunswick Recordings (1922-23) Vol. 1

Josef Hoffman
The Brunswick Recordings Vol. I

1. Beethoven-Rubinstein: Turkish March (0:08)
2. Chopin: Waltz in C-Sharp minor, Op. 64 No.2 (2:27)
3. Rachmaninov: Prelude in G minor Op. 23, No. 5 (5:42)

Josef Hoffman's recording career ended in 1923, the era of acoustic recordings. One of the most unhappy realities of listening to records from that period is that acoustic recordings originally sounded nothing like what we hear today.

Translation to electric recording not only requires re-recording, but the acoustic format is not compatible with the amplification we use today. Not only is the acoustic format non-mono, it also did not reproduce with the annoying surface noise we hear now. Acoustic recordings blended in with the air in the room it was being played back in, and the noise disappeared in the acoustic background of the listener.

The objective here is to re-capture, as closely as possible, the actual way in which these recordings were originally intended to reproduce.

Source Mastering (1993): Ward Marston
Field Acoustic Restoration (2022): Paul Howard

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