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2023-12-14 04:30:00
Is It Time for New Classic Recordings?
[…] the list goes on and on, and for those folks, even bad recordings are better than no recordings at all. But for most of us most of the time, those recorded sounds are just too ancient: not only monophonic, but compressed, distorted, with too much tape hiss to be passable. But hey, those RCAs from the '50s, those Mercury Living Presence disks, the remasterings and repressings of analog recordings: sure, bring them on! Vladimir HorowitzBut lately I'm noticing more and more that…I'm spoiled. That analog sound that seemed so wonderful in the 1970s, maybe even into the 2000's, is starting to wear thin. When I listen to digital recordings from the last couple of decades through to the present, I notice that there are things missing: noise and hiss, the tiny speed variations of analog tape that let the pitch waver*, dynamic compression and even distortion, and so on. […]
2023-10-26 03:30:00
Rachmaninoff: The Piano Concertos and Paganini Rhapsody (CD Review)
[…] passages, they harbor a certain metronomical core. It’s as if someone coached her on how to be expressive, and she’s imitating their example more than really exemplifying it. This is less of a problem in the more ostentatious works and moments; her First and ThirdConcerti are better than the rest. Her other performances here aren’t even really bad. It’s just that in such a saturated field, nothing quite measures up. When one can choose rapt, heartrending interpretations by Pennario, Richter, Horowitz, Ashkenazy, Graffman (her teacher!), and others (not to mention the composer’s own), why should one shell out full price for hers? Maybe she equals or outdoes most of them in terms of sheer technique, but if the tears, tenderness, colors, and beauty of this repertoire are important, the buyer has many better options. Much as I am cool on Wang’s pianism beyond technique, she gets little help here from Dudamel and the LA Phil. I […]
2023-09-18 18:38:24
Vladimir Horowitz, born September 18 [Old Style], 1903, in Berdichev, Russia [now in Ukraine], is th
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2023-09-17 21:28:26
By Joseph Horowitz Shostakovich in South Dakota A manifesto for the future of American classical music(Link to whole article) By Joseph Horowitz | September 7, 2023 The South Dakota Symphony, under music director Delta David Gier, links communities across the state through innovative programming. (Courtesy of the South Dakota Symphony) A performance last March of Anton Bruckner’s Eighth […]
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