To get a transcript of what the friends had to say, you can read the transcript after the jump. 10am - 1pm, 'Pur ti miro' We thank you! Pyotr Tchaikovsky: This trill could be better. Claudio Monteverdi Block: Finally. [Whistles], Percussionist perfectly dodges a flying bass drum mallet, Orchestra starts playing the wrong concerto in piano, Here’s what Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture would sound like, Someone has made Instagram profiles for the great, Letters of the great composers: 14 moving, funny and, inspiring quotations from the documents they left behind, New Releases: 'Pavarotti: The People's Tenor' and, New releases: Isabelle Faust plays Mendelssohn & Antonio, Meneses plays Tchaikovsky, Schumann and Saint-Saens, New releases: 'Hope' by Libera & 'Grand Tour - Baroque. On the recording you can hear Tchaikovsky’s voice, alongside the voices of pianist Anton Rubinstein, Julius Block, pianist and conductor Vasily Safonov and opera singer Yelizaveta. Open Culture scours the web for the best educational media. In the very early days of recording, a businessman called Julius Block was trying to drum up support for a new-fangled device – Thomas Edison’s phonograph. ©2006-2020 Open Culture, LLC. You can find out more about Tchaikovsky and the house where he lived near Moscow here. if you like our Facebook fanpage, you'll receive more articles like the one you just read! Download ''Pur ti miro'' on iTunes, 2 August 2017, 14:55 | Updated: 2 August 2017, 15:01. We find the free courses and audio books you need, the language lessons & educational videos you want, and plenty of enlightenment in between. To get a transcript of what the friends had to say, you can read the transcript after the jump. Bill Turnbull Here you can listen to Pyotr Tchaikovsky (The Nutcracker, the 1812 Overture, etc.) Vasily Safonov: [Sings a scale incorrectly]. P. Tchaikovsky: This trill could be better. E. Lawrowskaja: (sings). W. Safonov : (Sings a scale incorrectly). A. Rubinstein: What a wonderful thing [the phonograph]. Tchaikovsky: Who just spoke? On the recording you can hear Tchaikovsky’s voice, alongside the voices of pianist Anton Rubinstein, Julius Block, pianist and conductor Vasily Safonov and opera singer Yelizaveta. P. Tchaikovsky: Block is good, but Edison is even better. in Music | November 14th, 2009 2 Comments, Take a quick trip back in time, to 1890. All rights reserved. Unsubscribe at any time. We’re hoping to rely on our loyal readers rather than erratic ads. James Joyce is out there too. Take a quick trip back in time, to 1890. We never spam. (via BoingBoing). Very few recordings exist from the 19th century partly because the early equipment used to record sound was so delicate. To support Open Culture’s continued operation, please consider making a donation. It seems like Safonov. and other eminent musicians having some fun, recording their voices on a then new-fangled technology, the phonograph cylinder, invented by Thomas Edison in 1877. So he gathered a group of his friends, including the great composer Tchaikovsky, and showed them what it could do. As is Walt Whitman! Thanks Maggie for this tip. Tchaikovsky’s Voice Captured on an Edison Cylinder (1890). Voices from the 19th Century: Tennyson, Gladstone, Whitman & Tchaikovsky. W. Safonow: (In German) Peter Jurgenson in Moskau. J. and other eminent musicians having some fun, recording their voices on a then new-fangled technology, the phonograph cylinder, invented by Thomas Edison in 1877. “Peter” rather than “Pyotr” is the LOC transliteration for his given name. The conversation’s in Russian, so here’s part of it translated by YouTuber Transforming Art : Here you can listen to Pyotr Tchaikovsky (The Nutcracker, the 1812 Overture, etc.) The conversation’s in Russian, so here’s part of it translated by YouTuber Transforming Art: Yelizaveta Lavrovskaya: Disgusting. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Get the best cultural and educational resources on the web curated for you in a daily email. This short clip was recorded onto a wax cylinder and is now help at the Tchaikovsky Museum in Moscow. Tchaikovsky: Block is good, but Edison is even better. E. Lawrowskaja: (sings) A-o, a-o. E. Lawrowskaja: A disgusting…how he dares slyly to name me. P. Tchaikovsky: Who just spoke? How dare you call me crafty?