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RE: I will give it another go

"Did you ever take a listen to the Yuja Wang Rach III Prok II recording to check for pitch control?"

I hope you're not referring to the recording with Gustavo Dudamel and the (now defunct) Simon Bolivar Youth Symphony Orchestra...... The problem isn't pitch correction (Auto-Tune).... The problem is the performances with that orchestra were "fabricated" in a lot of ways...... Namely taking "time-stretched" or "time compressed" recordings of performances of other orchestras. (The performance of the Beethoven 7 on Deutsche Grammophon CD, three of the four movements were taken from the Szell/Cleveland performance. See this AA post.)

I personally think the Simon Bolivar Youth Symphony Orchestra was the "Joyce Hatto" of symphony orchestras. (I later came to the realization that Dudamel was the real deal.... But not the youth orchestra that he once conducted.)

I would not trust any recording engineer or producer who put out anything by the Simon Bolivar Youth Symphony Orchestra..... Regardless of who conducted it or who performed with it. (I'm sure Yuja Wang has performed and recorded these concertos with other symphony orchestras, I'd rather listen to those performances.)

It is a tragedy that the orchestra (and "El Sistema") completely collapsed when leader Nicolas Maduro and his socialist party assumed absolute power in Venezuela..... (Some of the musicians may have been killed or incarcerated..... ) We can only talk about it in the "past tense."

Saying that, there is *one* genuine, un-doctored performance by the Simon Bolivar Youth Symphony Orchestra on YouTube.... A former conductor has a channel, and uploaded the video (link to final movement of Mendelssohn Four) of him conducting it..... (The name of the channel was changed. Most of the uploads are of Samuel Boruszko conducting various orchestras.) Kind of shocked that it was never taken down..... Only because it reveals how the Simon Bolivar Youth Symphony Orchestra *really* sounded like.

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