Klarinet Archive - Posting 000415.txt from 1997/10

From: Karl Krelove <kkrelove@-----.com>
Subj: One-take Recordings
Date: Sun, 12 Oct 1997 01:51:13 -0400

At 08:50 PM 10/10/97 -0400, HatNYC62 wrote:
>That said, the digital splicing of the last 15 years has allowed any bozo to
>make a note perfect recording, with loss of continuity resulting. When there
>are 3+ splices per minute, nothing is ever played straight through. I guess
>that's one reason I have always been interested in old recordings. What I
>hear seems more "honest."
>

Splicing is much older than that - I sang in the chorus for a couple of
Philadelphia Orchestra recordings in the late sixties that I can tell you
first hand are not in any way straight through performances. One section of
one of the recordings alone reached over twenty takes. True, however, they
had to make the splices at pauses - it didn't take much of a silence, but
they were still working with analog signals that couldn't be located on the
tape with nearly the precision digital data can. Do you know firsthand of
old clarinet recordings that you know were one-take (at least for entire
movements)? I've always been curious about some of the old records I used
to worship like Wright's Shepherd On the Rock or Marcellus's Mozart Concerto.

Karl

   
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