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In Reply to: RE: Bizarre twist in musical taste (long) posted by Emsquare on July 2, 2012 at 14:58:01:
"IMHO, classical requires the player to serve the score rather than the score to be a guideline for improvisation."more than Jazz yes, but there's a whole lot good musicians can do with it.
You may have to listen bit more, but soon you hear the difference between a great perfomrance and an average one.The average one has the notes, but you're still bored---the great ones draw you in tremendously.
In audio people talk about how they get turned off by their system, the music sounds "flat" or "digital".(I think I know now---until I got a power conditioner, I was bored playing music in the day and loved it at midnight, now it sounds the same and great all the time).
Maybe the OP is actually just getting pickier about the quality of the performances?
I now subscribe to MOG which is great for being able to make quick selections among many different recordings of the same thing. You appreciate performance differences & audio quality quite a bit more (and often they don't go together in the slightest).
I've done this and not to infrequently it really happens---the scratchiest/oldest mono recordings have a crazy/crazy-good electricity that the dozens of good-sounding modern ones don't. The audiophile cringes, but the music is awesome.
No I don't think that in classical music "it ain't like the good old days" (except in opera), but I do feel that modern performances have gotten too similar. Among older recordings from greats I hear more individual/idiosyncratic interpretations. They're different, high risk, and possibly stunningly beautiful/scary or lovely. I'm not in the slightest any sort of pedantic originalist. I was once completely entranced by a Beethoven 9th from 1928.
And along those lines (awful sound/smoking performance), click the URL.
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- RE: Bizarre twist in musical taste (long) - DrChaos 17:41:34 07/02/12 (5)
- Too many things here I agree with! - josh358 17:54:46 07/03/12 (0)
- RE: Bizarre twist in musical taste (long) - Emsquare 06:33:00 07/03/12 (1)
- RE: Bizarre twist in musical taste (long) - Raymond Leggs 08:29:27 07/03/12 (0)
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- Bringing ancient music to life - MichaelV8 18:59:20 07/02/12 (0)
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