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CD / Studio vs. Live Recordings / Concerts

A lot could be said about the pros and cons of concerts or live recordings vs. listening to CDs / studio recordings. I remember endless discussions many years ago with friends, around the quality of audio reproduction, stereo equipment, etc. — and I remember one friend who would typically kill any such discussion with the argument “You know, for me, nothing beats a live concert experience!”, at which point it made no sense to carry the discussion any further. However,…

Yulianna Avdeeva’s Playing: Observations

(…) concert performance reminded me of observations I made earlier on when watching Yulianna play the piano — particularly, I think, with music of the romantic period. It has to do with what Yulianna does with her arm & her body while playing — but to explain this properly, let me first go back to one of my early “piano heroes”, the late Friedrich Gulda…

On Applause

A Facebook friend just pointed me to an ongoing discussion about applause in concerts. It was interesting reading — sort of (see below), but because in general I hate the level of these discussions, I thought I’d just write my opinion in my little corner, a.k.a. my music blog…

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