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Post Subject: <HummmPosted by Paul S on: 5/30/2007
Well, I'm pleased to own the vinyl set in question, and if I ever listen to the Mustard set it will be out of curiosity.
I bet I'll even miss Gould's much-hated-by-me humming...
Or do their computers add that "perfectly", too?
Remember, we are not taliking about a "recording" that includes pedal, inflection, etc., but Mustard instead claims it will TOTALLY "reconstruct" the music itself, including a perfect 20's Steinway by a souped-up Yamaha. At least the artist actually played the music on the Vorsetzer as it was recorded, and then the +/- same piano was used for playback...
While I will be happy to enjoy any music according to its own merits, I am loathe, perhaps for quasi-moral reasons, to to accept a putative "clone".
And Romy, I like your take on the Everest/Vorsetzer recordings versus the original performances and performers they represent. I used to be SO jealous of the Sony big-wig, Joseph Tushinsky, who bought up almost all the Vorsetzer pianos and rolls.
But I maybe never before or since got more happiness from records than I did with those.
Hofmann's solo transcription/Vorsetzer performance of Chopin's Piano Concerto will always live in my mind as the single greatest performance I have heard in my life.
Youth...
Best regards,
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