Re: [ARSCLIST] early CD bashing

[phillip holmes <insuranceman@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Isn't that like two stories high of 78s?
> Hey, I like the Shostakovich 7th. Especially Steinberg's performance 
> (yup, on Musicrap 78s).
>
> dl
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> 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: