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I got a recroding of Sviatoslav Richeter's Scriabin etudes and sonata no 6 on Hall of Fame [HOFS531]. The sound of the recording is weird but you can hear the individuality of Richter just fine. It is mono rechaneled to stereo but if you play it in mono it is ok. One thing that comes through with incredible dynamics and nuance is the COUGHING. Incredible. It is not a perfect record regarding the pops and scratches but the coughs are SO distractive it is not funny.And there are several coughers. One up front with a dry cough and the others are further back. Damn them.
Follow Ups:
someone in the audience snoring during the adagio of one of the brandenburg concertos in an otherwise wonderful ~mid-60s recording of pablo casals conducting the brandenburgs at the marlboro festival. Ughh!!! I wish somebody would've reached over and smacked the guy. (Unless, of course, it was the labored breathing of an elderly Casals feeling his oats at the podium.)
Or Oscar Peterson? Those jazz cats are MOANIN' the blues at the piano.
"The torture never stops"
but you know what? he doesn't pull that shit when he started out with Loyd. He is great on the first few Charles Lloyd records.
of the donkey lip-smacking scene in Shrek 2: You know it's coming, you expect it, yet you cringe everytime it happens, which prevents you from enjoying the ride:-)It's unfortunate you have to associate that great performance with the unnamed coughers in the audience.
The annoying valetudinarians should stay the hell home and stop interfering with my enjoyment. That goes as well for candy wrapper crinklers, wristwatch beepers (they really shouldn't be at a concert anyhow if they're on such a tight schedule), habitual throat-clearers, and seatback-kickers. Oh, O'Malley, I had Glenn Gould in mind earlier, although Messrs. Peterson and Jarrett run close behind.
the coughers distract, yeah, but now that i've heard it i can probably filter it out ... just like those pops and clicks. ;-)
I hate “live” recordings. And I won't listen to performers ( a certain pianist in particular) who hum along as they play. I'll make an exception for certain jazz venues, but no humming.
that guy? ;-)
I bought a CD years ago, a piano recording of Percy Grainger's music. The pianist was sniffling and snorting the entire time making it impossible to enjoy the music.Extraneous noises are ok to a point but when a man seems more at home in an oxygen tent of a pulmonary ward than at a grand piano, the session should be postponed. Eric
Recorded live in, IIRC, Sofia, Bulgaria, apparently during some kind of tuberculosis epidemic. Fabulous performance, though.
I've raved about this before. Heard on the CBS reissue squeezed onto one LP side I wasn't that impressed. Heard on the original CBS mono on two sides, I was picking my jaw off the floor when it was over! WOW, what a performance!
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