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Classical Court From Perotin to Prokofiev (and beyond), performed by Caruso to Khatia, it's all here. |
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Quite a little surprise tonight. Listening to Emmmy Destinn's Victor recordings (Rom-o-phone cd) and reading the notes saying some have raised an eyebrow about her, hmmm, how to put this... her judgment regarding pitch. The liner note author (the irreplaceable John Steane) says we simply do not understand enough about the limitations of the recording process during that time, and her voice, specifically what she is doing with it, simply might have "not worked" with the tech.Here is the fun part. I googled "Emmy Destinn pitch." Scroll down a few, a journal article is there. It is in google books. I read a snippet of it. It sounds like a detailed exposition of how Emmy Destinn "attacked" or "released" notes was peculiar because she always hit first with "the low attack" always being the "predominant tone."
I'll be damned. The harmonics. She always constrained her harmonics. This leads to an apparent low tone, a wrong pitch, in recording technology that notoriously catches the resonances and swamps the harmonics.
Maybe!
/ optimally proportioned triangles are our friends
Edits: 07/08/20
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Topic - Emmy Destinn! - farfetched 23:53:48 07/08/20 (1)
- Very interesting - I don't know her singing at all [nt] - Chris from Lafayette 00:22:31 07/09/20 (0)
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