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In the Thread: Engineering over Art

Post Subject: One CD - two recordingsPosted by el`Ol on: 3/17/2010

Paul, I agree, I don't have read enough in the music forum to do such a never-ever-statement. Did I expect an extra-thread about recording techniques?

Yesterday again I made such an experience.
I listened to this CD
http://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/krzysztof_penderecki/matrix_17__emanationen__partita__cello_concerto__symphony__felicja_blumental__harpsichord__siegfried_palm__cello__polish_radio_symphony_orchestra__london_symphony_orchestra_krzysztof_penderecki_/
which, BTW, is also in the Zeit listing of the records for the new millenium.
http://www.zeit.de/1998/01/111_Platten_fuer_das_naechste_Jahrtausend
After the first three tracks (phantastic recordings with real spacial information done in Katovice) there are three miserable ones done in London. The "Symphony" is really not less interesting as the other pieces, but I stopped the CD because I was tired. It was late, but I am sure I would have continued if the recording quality had kept constant. There was also performing an other orchestra (London Symphonic Orchestra instead of the Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra), but I think it was the engineering, not the art.