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RE: Doremi Classics: Recording quality and restoration/remastering quality

Posted by tlyyra (A) on August 16, 2007 at 13:59:50

In Reply to: RE: Doremi Classics: Recording quality and restoration/remastering quality posted by Tom B. on August 15, 2007 at 15:58:57:

Thanks for the input. What I find unique in Richter is that almost anything you hear him play, you quickly forget to pay any attention to the sound quality as you become completely drawn into the music itself that jumps out of the recording and turns into a living organism of which you in your person are now an integral part, an element - or the other way around. (Just like it should be, every time!) So sound quality isn't always a premium consideration in his case, at least not for me.

Yet, I love it when one can actually really hear that inimitable singing tone of his and the subtlety of all the dynamic gradations in his touch. It's really stunning when you can actually fully sense the attack in some of his monster fff's just a microsecond before the sound waves hit your ear canal. Conversely, the richness of his ppp's is astonishing when the recording is felicitous enough to allow you to hear them. And I'm not eager to duplicate much of what I already have in better sound, unless it's a significantly different and at least equally valid interpretation. (Yet, surprisinly many of those pretty ancient tapes of dubious provenance are actually quite listenable - or so I've discovered after acquiring highly accurate new loudspeakers.)

Here only, with this Doremi issue, there are some Mozart concertos new to my own personal Richter discography and I think possibly to his currently available one, too, that really piqued my interest, bringing as that would two of my main sources of enjoyment and pleasure together. The conductor's good, too (Barshai).

TL

Edits: 08/16/07

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