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It's all about the music, dude! Sit down, relax and listen to some tunes.

RE: Also, please tell us how Bryce Morrison

Didn't her husband manipulate recordings of all those performances, altering speeds and changing equalization and such, to try to conceal his ploy? I've never compared the recordings myself. Have you? Do you think you would have been able to listen to Hatto's recording before the fraud was revealed and detect that it was actually someone else's recording that had been manipulated?

I don't think I would be able to do something like that. For example, I've got every commercial recording I can find (and some broadcast recordings as well) of Rachmaninoff's 1st piano sonata. I have a few that I've listened to quite a lot of times over the years. If someone were to introduce a recording that was attributed to a performer, but was in fact a digitally manipulated version of a recording I had already heard many times, would I know it? I just don't know that I would. Especially if the new performer was getting rave reviews for other recordings.

I stopped reading magazine reviews some years before this scandal broke. I have no soft spot in particular for Morrison as a reviewer. But I think I'll give him some slack on this issue, since I might have made the same sort of mistake myself.

"Life without music is a mistake" (Nietzsche)


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