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