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In the Forum: Playback Listening
In the Thread: About Timbre and Audio.
Post Subject: The proverbial chicken ...Posted by Romy the Cat on: 12/9/2019
It begs in interesting question. How much in the tendency of
today musicians to “homogenize” sound and to play with a genetic color might be
attributed that nowadays a recording media is a main avenue how music is consumed
but recording playbacks are notoriously indifferent to tonal satellites. Charlie
Schlueter reportedly did not go for “dangers to play” chromic expression during
his Mahler recordings. Josef Hofmann reportedly reduced his dynamic accents in
Rachmaninoff recording as he felt that records are not transparent for proper
music timing. Celibidache famously
refused to consider his recordings as anything that has any connectivity to the
actual performing event. Is it the media itself that has to be blamed of badly
implemented media? I do not take side in posting this question, I just point
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