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Music Lane It's all about the music, dude! Sit down, relax and listen to some tunes. |
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Music Lane It's all about the music, dude! Sit down, relax and listen to some tunes. |
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In Reply to: Recording preference posted by Neil E. on March 11, 2000 at 12:38:08:
A live performance is always different from a recording, because the enormous amount of sound when an orchestra plays a tutti just can't be caught on a recording, it's always a depiction of what actually was happening in the hall, like it's a reproduction of Rembrandt's Nachtwacht: you'll see the colours but not the complete structure and the change of colours when you have it in front of you and wander about with your head, investigating it so to speak.Every performance is unique, but usually live performances have more little mistakes than studio recordings, because making a mistake is human, so the attaque can be not completely balanced or together with other sections for instance which will attract some angry looks by the conductor, but most important and that's why most people who like music prefer live-recordings because it's a uique event recorded for eternity, we hope and especially when such a performance was great, it's a kick to be able to play it at home. Most studiorecordings are a little cold, because some excerpts are mixed in later to have a better oboe or something and this kills the carefully built up atmosphere a conductor wants to creat and for instance with Gergiev, a recording will never be as passionate and overwhelming as a live performance which can be heard in the recordings of the live Tchai 5 and the studio Tchai 6, which both are great recordings in the audiophile sense of the word, but they remain a depiction of what was really happening. With this state of mind, it's possible to listen to old mono-recordings where you have to fill in more, exptrapolate what you're hearing to what it might have been.
For popular music idem dito, live-singing is usually not very much audiophile pleasure but the music and total performance is much more impressive if they're not dullards who exactly replay a record like Dire Straits.
For popular I like added solos or extension or the sudden shout from good entertainers like Robbie Williams, so I guess I prefer live-recordings when available, plus it gives you an idea about the actual qualities of an artist since most nowadays music is overproduced. Spice Girls can't sing but each of them has $50 3-K on their bankaccounts.
That deserves some bashing,
Rob
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