In Reply to: Just the other day.......................... posted by Kal Rubinson on November 12, 2015 at 08:21:38:
Thank you Kal, for that information. I'm a big admirer of Mr. Chiu's playing, as I've said in other posts here, and I'll look into that CD.
To me, the problem you describe is not limited to piano recording. In recent years I've had at least three chances to hear the same musicians perform the same music, not featuring a piano, both live in a concert hall and in a commercial recording. (One featured a full symphony orchestra, another a string quartet, and a third a wind quintet.)
Though each had very different recorded sound qualities in many ways, all three exhibit the problem you discuss -- you could call it a lack of spatial realism or coherence -- to some degree. Oddly, this is one area where many of those 1950s mono LPs really excel, and some of the early stereo ones, too. I'm sure you look for it in the multi-channel recordings you write about.
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