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In the Thread: The dynamic range of our playback
Post Subject: Sum of DifferencesPosted by Paul S on: 6/28/2014
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If we think of "all differences" that might be said to "define" a particular Musical performance as making a full circle, then "dynamics" as we struggle to think of "them" might be said to be only "part of that circle". I think Steve mentioned Debussy as being [relatively] "less dynamic" than, say, Beethoven. So my mind immediately conjures Gieseking playing Debussy (even the Etudes), and I am thinking how understanding/playing that music requires a certain semi-elusive iteration" of dynamics, fine gradations that somehow exist "inside" and thereby illuminate what might otherwise be considered "dynamically limited" music. On a similar but "grander" scale, I am reminded of the Solti/VPO performance of Bruckner 7. Here is a piece where the outright "volume" might be considered "loud", yet the musically significant "dynamics", in order for the piece to "work out", must somehow be rendered "like the Gieseking Debussy", but on a "grander scale". Different-but-similar to the B7 idea might be Debussy's own "La Mer".
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