Klarinet Archive - Posting 000561.txt from 1999/10

From: "Michael Whight" <michael@-----.uk>
Subj: Re: [kl] Funny Nielsen recording
Date: Tue, 19 Oct 1999 04:18:05 -0400

> >
> Au contraire! While risks may not be taken in recording, in order to
> insure a relatively "clean" performance, there is all the more incentive
to
> TAKE the risks in live, unrecorded performance. If it fails to come off,
> fine. It disappears in the ether and is gone. If it works, the audience
> will be thrilled.
>
I can see that this may be the case in some situations and I applaud risk
takers.
But again where recordings are seen as the standard, the pressure to
reproduce a likeness can sometimes be intense. It is the habit of holding on
to a performance and not moving on that can sometimes be counter productive.
I once read an article about Kissin where it was excited by the fact that
going to his concerts was as good as listening to a CD because he never
makes mistakes. This reviewer has lost the plot completely!

Michael

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