Klarinet Archive - Posting 000209.txt from 1999/10

From: David Blumberg <reedman@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] re: un-live Recordings
Date: Sat, 9 Oct 1999 03:54:32 -0400

Leila wrote:
I read somewhere recently -- sorry I can't remember where -- that recording
soloist and orchestra separately is becoming increasingly common for
instrumental concertos. Is this the Brave New World of musical performance
standards, even for music written before the digital generation? What do
other people think of cutting and pasting together a virtual concert of
musicians who may never have met each other for all we know? Michael Murray
is a superb musician, IMHO. Some of his other recordings are among my
favorites. This one I can't stand. I've noticed, BTW, that Telarc seems to
be getting more traditional about microphone placement, because the more
recent recordings I've heard sound less peculiarly "creative" than some of
those from a decade ago. Maybe I'm not the only one who complained. Lelia

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I was pretty annoyed when I found out that a "certain accoMpaniment
CoMpanyO" does that on their current recordings. A player can record a
Concerto with the Stuttgart Festival Orchestra, and never leave his home
town - it does not say that on any of the liner notes that it is a "karoke
style" performance. Something about that seems very wrong to me. The
Artist looses all communication of his interpretation, and you end up with
a conductors version.
Then there are the Opera performances with midi.......

David Blumberg
playit@-----.com
http://www.mytempo.com

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