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RE: Big investment for those sets

Posted by steveassante@comcast.net (A) on November 1, 2011 at 07:27:36

In Reply to: Big investment for those sets posted by Chris from Lafayette on October 31, 2011 at 22:12:29:

Yes Chris ,I suppose a lot of the reluctance to invest in fairly large sets is the variety of conductors & the inevitable question "how was (condutor's name here) performance compared to his/her recording of the works with (orchestra name here) on (label name here)! My mentioning a paticular performance that stood out for was'nt intended to infer that I did'nt think that all the recordings I've listened to were'nt terrific also, only that I enjoy certain pieces of music more than others. If they had slapped a "Stereo SACD" label on this box set I think many listeners would have been hard pressed to to dispute that claim. As to the Tennstedt work on EMI I'm not familiar with his work on vinyl & I'm not sure that I've ever heard an EMI digital reissue or even new digital release that I've enjoyed due to the sound. I don't think I've ever listened to an EMI CD for longer than 45sec to a minute & a half before ejecting it from whatever player I happened to be using at the time. Through the years I've tried I don't know how many well reviewed EMI releases,only to throw my hands up & wonder if the reviewer had a different copy or they are able to accept the sound. I guess my issues w/ recording/production values interfere with my enjoyment of the performance value. Live recordings for all their little flubs & occassional "clams" are much more "holistic" sounding to me.I'm not looking for the perfect performance (there is no such thing,unless you piece together parts of different performances. Now you've interrupted the "immediacy" of the live music making.) This music to me is not about the musicians it about the music. I do realize that even with live recording, edits are made,but hopefully the producer has enough artistic sensitivty to respect the music over the pursuit of a perfect performance even if he has to ruffle the feathers of some of the participants(&reviewers).(I know that my last sentence is complete fantasy thinking, but I'm an optomist I guess)

Edits: 11/01/11

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