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Romy the Cat
Boston, MA
Posts 10,182
Joined on 05-28-2004
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The "problem" with David Hurwitz
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David Hurwitz is wonderful, but I have said in my video that
I have some very fundamental disagreements with him. It is not his selection, recommendations
or reasoning, this would be a normal agreement of disagreement that would be
perfectly fine between different people and there is nothing fundamental in
it. The fundamental disagreements between his and
my approach are in 2 following aspects:
1)
David uses his judgment to navigate and guide
his followers to buy the specific recording as “best buy”. This, my view compromises his recordation for the
best representation of a specific interpretation or the interpretation concept.
It feels like he does not want to appear as a “recordings pimp” but I very much
like him to act as the recording’s solicitor.
2)
In my view David too much gravitates to the “concert
style of opera”. What I mean is that he in my view accurately identifies purely
the musical value of specific recordings but the experience we, the listeners,
have with the recording does not necessarily have a direct correlation with purely
musical value, and here is where the “concert style of opera”. The experience of
opera is a complex multifaceted theatrical experience, Yes, music and singing are
a huge part of it but there are many other factors: specific stage production, the
charisma of the actors, and many others. In the end it the problem with David,
in my view, is that he undermines the process of listening to a recording as a sacred
transcendent event and converts it to a transactional hierarchical auditioning,
a sort of “concert style of opera”. One
of the greater benefits of perceiving musicality from a true High-End Audio
perspective is that the process of listening is meant to be a holy divine ceremony,
and the owner of the playback does not want to compromise it with either by weak
interpretation of the work nor by barbaric recording technics and certainly not
by ferocious efforts of playback chain to compromise the expressivity of a musical
interpretation.
If David took the above under consideration, he would be
much more impactful in his recommendations, including selling more CDs and I am
only welcome to it.
"I wish I could score everything for horns." - Richard Wagner. "Our writing equipment takes part in the forming of our thoughts." - Friedrich Nietzsche
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