In Reply to: The "ancients" would laugh at our idea of listening to recorded posted by tinear on November 10, 2011 at 15:18:31:
The editing on a recording really doesn't bother me - recordings are their own medium and I don't consider it cheating to use the resources of that medium. Even in the days of 78's, I understand that some artists would record each four-and-a-half minute side as many as 5 times.
But to answer your question, I believe the Audiofon label used to have a policy of single-take, non-edited releases. This was mainly piano solo repertoire. I have a number of their CD's recorded by Valentina Lisitsa which are pretty amazing, considering the technical difficulty of the repertoire and that they were single-take performances. In the Earl Wild memoirs I've just finished reading, he mentions that he made a couple of recordings for Audiofon, but that he considered their apporach to recording "too casual". A couple of the Audiofon booklet covers are shown below:
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Follow Ups
- Hey, who are you calling ancient? - Chris from Lafayette 16:27:12 11/10/11 (4)
- Chris, thanks for bringing up the Audiofon recordings! - steveassante@comcast.net 11:39:02 11/11/11 (3)
- And doubly insulting to jazz! nt - Travis 17:27:44 11/11/11 (2)
- Like I said it was one of those "bad" jokes/phrases I heard occassionally from some "piano professsionals" - steveassante@comcast.net 06:22:46 11/12/11 (1)
- RE: Like I said it was one of those "bad" jokes/phrases I heard occassionally from some "piano professsionals" - Travis 06:48:39 11/12/11 (0)