Ian Crisp <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>Often the record-collectors here will argue over a detail of
>interpretation of some particular piece in different recordings, and I
>just want to shout at them "You can't possibly judge one of these as
>'better' than the other- you weren't *there*!"

Wait!  There is no "there" there, unless you have a recording which
is a seamless take from a live concert (which happens very rarely).
A recording, produced according to the common practice, is something
very different from a performance; it is more like a mosaic edited from
different (probably incomplete) "takes" (kind of like the way I often
listen to (and play) music).

Ulvi
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