Klarinet Archive - Posting 000480.txt from 2005/06

From: "Rien Stein" <rstein@-----.nl>
Subj: [kl] good in concert, bad in recording?
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 17:49:59 -0400

The discussion around Morales raised a question for me:

In football (for the American list members: soccer) a very strange
phenomenon occurs: it often happens that a player belongs to the worlds
absolute top, yet fails when he has to play in the national team (in the
Netherlands we have many examples of this).

Does this phenomenon also exist with musicians? i.e. they play so
beautifully the angels come down from heaven to hear him or her, but when
they make a recording they are at most mediocre? and if this phenomenon
exists, is it because they miss the audience in the studio (live recordings
might be a solution), or any other reason one can think of (microphones, the
need to rerecord passages where an error occurred, the need to be perfect,
...)?

Ciao

Rien

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