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In Reply to: I have to differ as well; I used to be just as ignorant posted by jdaniel on April 3, 2007 at 21:59:01:
So I'm not totally ignorant of mono, right?My point would be that there are today sufficient very fine performances that are wonderfully recorded, that there is little reason for deny oneself good sound for performance' sake.
To hear some people talk you would suppose that current conductors and performers are, in general, inferior to those of the 'fifties and before. This is humbug. Perhaps for this or that specific piece of music, a performace from the era is still the greatest, (in the subjective judgement of many), but not by much I'd submit, and it is not true in general.
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so I'm not totally ignorant of stereo, right?There's good and bad from every era. With regard to conductors, and even imprinting on Brahms and Beethoven with the usual '80's suspects: Karajan, Abaddo, Rattle, Barenboim, etc. I can tell you that in most cases Furtwangler and Walter--to name two from a distant era--blow the rest away.
That said, I wouldn't give up Dutoit's "modern" Ravel cycle for just about anyone from the past.
Why watch black & white movies? The remakes are in color!
> > My point would be that there are today sufficient very fine performances that are wonderfully recorded, that there is little reason for deny oneself good sound for performance' sake. < <The converse of this is that one is deliberately avoiding what are arguably the best performances to get a modest improvement in sound quality.
> > To hear some people talk you would suppose that current conductors and performers are, in general, inferior to those of the 'fifties and before. This is humbug. Perhaps for this or that specific piece of music, a performace from the era is still the greatest, (in the subjective judgement of many), but not by much I'd submit, and it is not true in general. < <
Nobody said it was true in general.
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