Paul Pabst performs his paraphrase on Tchaikovsky’s Sleeping Beauty (rec. 1895 - enhanced audio)

Paul Pabst (1854-1897) was a child prodigy, first performing in public at age 11. He studied with Rubinstein and Liszt, and by 1878 he was appointed to the staff at the Moscow Conservatory, where he taught many famous pianists, including Rachmaninoff. This is a recording of him - dating from 1895 (!!) - where he performs an extract from his most famous paraphrase, on melodies from Tchaikowsky’s Sleeping Beauty. The recording was made by Julius Block onto an Edison phonograph cylinder, and I have taken the original recording and tried to enhance it with noise reduction and other tools. Not an easy task, but I think you can hear more of the details than on the original recording.