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Music Lane It's all about the music, dude! Sit down, relax and listen to some tunes. |
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In Reply to: The trouble with Edo. . . posted by Chris from Lafayette on April 20, 2014 at 00:33:38:
Of course I was talking about the performances and not necessarily the sound quality of the recordings, which were variable at best. I remember being elated to read of the SFS's new recording contract with Philips and then being disappointed to hear that the recordings were to be done using the then-new digital process. Analog was at its height then (ca. 1980) and the first digital recordings weren't impressive at all except in their total absence of background noise (and probably other stuff as well!). I definitely remember noting that the Mahler 4th LP sounded flat and squashed (soundstage-wise) compared with the analog stuff that Philips was doing just before then. (I'm sure Davies Hall didn't help, either.) But I thought Edo's and the orchestra's performance was top-notch.
Interesting tidbit about the Mahler 4: Margaret Price, the soprano soloist, was in town for a run of 'Aida' performances at the SFO, and caught a bad cold. She had to cancel at least one Aida performance, during which another Price--Leontyne--gloriously substituted. There was some doubt as to whether she'd be able to do the Mahler, but she miraculously got better--in time for the international telecast of Aida as well as the recording of the Mahler.
Russell
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