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- From: dbarker@spang.Camosun.BC.CA (Deryk Barker)
- Subject: Re: Bernstein's "Live" Mahler
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.202851.26341@spang.Camosun.BC.CA>
- Organization: Camosun College, Victoria B.C, Canada
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- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 20:28:51 GMT
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- Mike_Quigley@mindlink.bc.ca (Mike Quigley) writes:
- : I just got the DGG Mahler 3rd and 7th by Bernstein from the library, both of
- : which are allegedly "live" recordings. I wonder -- how do they eliminate the
- : sound of applause from the end of these recordings? Surely, the audience must
- : have responded enthusiastically! By the way, I have to say this 3rd is really
- : outstanding. If I didn't have the Horenstein already, I would probably buy it
- : myself (come to think of it, my favorite CD store is having a 20% off sale
- : which ends tomorrow...).
-
- Yeah - tell me about it, I just blew $200 in their Victoria branch.
-
- I strongly suspect that the programme must contain a request to the
- audience to wait a few seconds before beginning to applaud. Unless -
- and I have the 7th and don't think this is the case - the ambience is
- faded abruptly down at the end. You can sometimes here this on
- historical live recordings - and it irritates the hell out of me.
-
- I guess it probably depends on whether the intention is to use the
- concert as the basis for a recordings, as with much of Bernstein's
- later work, or whether the decision is made afterwards. Two examples
- of - I suspect - the latter are EMI prom recordings: the
- Donohoe/Busoni concerto and the Welser-Most Bruckner 7. ON both of the
- the applause is unavoidable.
-
- --
- Real: Deryk Barker, Computer Science Dept., Camosun College, Victoria B.C.
- Email: (dbarker@spang.camosun.bc.ca)
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