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Re: [ARSCLIST] early CD bashing
Isn't that like two stories high of 78s?
Hey, I like the Shostakovich 7th. Especially Steinberg's performance
(yup, on Musicrap 78s).
dl
phillip holmes wrote:
Have you ever heard the Shostakovitch 7th done by Bernstein and
Chicado on DG? It's a live recording (as opposed to dead). It's a
much maligned piece, but Bernstein really makes something of the 4th
movement. I think they were overloading the microphone preamps or
the console. At one point, the sound goes from really loud, to sinus
clearing level, to Saturn V taking off, and it gets hard and glassy
sounding. I've played it back on $2k super high end DACs and it
always sounds bad, but the performance, because Bernstein was a
showoff, actually makes the piece fun. Most other recordings, he
gets on my nerves. He's a take it or leave it kind of guy. I do
like the Ormandy performance of Hindemith's Symphonic Metamorphosis,
but the sound is so mushy. Phillip
David Lennick wrote: