David Runnion ([log in to unmask]) wrote:

>There are a few reasons for this.  First of all, a recording is not simply
>a concert performance, it must be *perfect*.

Well here I think we part company.  In fact I would go so far as to suggest
that "perfection" (i.e.  note perfection) on disc is actually undermining
concertgoing, as people discover that what happens in the concert hall
doesn't match up to what they know from CD.

Deryk Barker
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