Scratchy audio brings a 66-year-old Johannes Brahms briefly back to life
John Terauds
Here, for a few brief seconds is Johannes Brahms sitting at the piano for a recording on Edison cylinders in 1889. There’s so little of the sound left that it’s pretty much meaningless, but I can’t help but be moved by this ghostly link to the 19th century. British pianist Jack Gibbons has done a great job of putting the static into context:
