The Clarinet BBoard

The Clarinet BBoard The C4 standard

New Topic | Go to Top | Go to Topic | Search | Help/Rules | Smileys/Notes | Log In

Previous Message | Next Message

Candidate for Best Performance/Worst Recording

Author: rgames
Date: 2006-08-07 02:49

While recently updating my collection of clarinet recordings I came across the following recording of the John Williams concerto for clarinet:

http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/jwmz

I gave the audio samples a listen and thought that there must have been some poor-quality .MP3's on the site and went ahead and ordered the disc anyway.

Beware! That's how the CD actually sounds! It sounds as though the recording was made underwater in a nearby pool. I have never even come across an amateur recording that was of such poor quality. Given modern recording equipment, I can't think of how the recording engineer managed to make it sound so bad...

Mind you that I'm speaking of the recording quality - Zukovsky's performance sounds as though it was probably very good, but it's hard to tell because of the terrible audio quality!

If you were thinking of picking this one up, I strongly recommend against it!

rgames

____________________________
Richard G. Ames
Composer - Arranger - Producer
www.rgamesmusic.com

Reply To Message | Avail. Forums | Flat View

Newer Topic | Older Topic

Topics