Norman Lebrecht <[log in to unmask]> writes:

>I don't deny the value of recording as a point of reference.  But I do not
>consider listening to a record to be a genuine musical experience.  Music
>must posses the ability to surprise and shock.  A recording, once heard,
>remains the same for all time.

The term's cliched, I know, but the _interaction_ between an attender,
at least this attender,and an orchestra is quite different, live from
electronic.  I have some Celibidache recordings of performances (and of
one rehearsal) that I attended, and they're two worlds to me.  Whatever
it is that causes it, it sure does cause it.

Denis Fodor