![]() ![]() ![]() Live performance is inevitably a pragmatic interpretation of the composer's intentions. Sometimes it's the other way round - the recording distils the musician's live performance development up to that point.ħ. The live performances may well improve on the recorded version. Sometimes a musician is asked to record a work not in their repertoire, then starts to include it in live performances. The more a musician plays a work, the more the performance develops. If the recording chain signature remained the same for all recordings It would became a constant and once we got used to it we would only hear the pianists signature.Ħ. Now, what I am trying to say is: if recordings were all made equal this would not happen at all. But unfortunately, it happens so many times that you have an idea of some one's playing thought their recordings and when you face them playing on a live situation you realize that the impression that you built by listening to their recordings are not near that of what they can produce on a live situation. It is really rewarding when you go to a live performance to find out that that particular pianist meets the expectations raised by his/her recordings. It seems to me that would be the only way to come out with a real understanding of what this artists can do. I wish I could attend every single concert. I wish I could buy the best seat in the house. What I am trying to say is: I wish my local auditorium would schedule the best pianists in the world. So are you saying that if you move a few seats over, or a few rows up or back, you won't be able to tell one pianist from another?No, no. So are you saying that if you move a few seats over, or a few rows up or back, you won't be able to tell one pianist from another? I don't think that would be much of a problem for me, which is why I answered your first question above with "yes." In some halls just about all the seats are good. That doesn't mean that any of the seats are bad seats. The seats in the center of row E sound considerably different that the seats on either end of row E. The seats in the front sound considerably different than the seats in the back. In fact, every seat in the concert hall sounds a little different from the seat next to it. That's like asking if every seat in the hall is going to sound the same. Sounding the same would require that different recording crews used the same equipment, with mics located exactly the same way in 3D space. That is, it's highly unlikely they would sound the same. To put it another way: If all those different recording crews simultaneously made their own recording of one single concert: Would all those recordings sound the same to you?No. To put it another way: If all those different recording crews simultaneously made their own recording of one single concert: Would all those recordings sound the same to you? Imagine we never attended those concerts and we only heard the recordings: Do you think you would have gotten to the same conclusions? Now, imagine every pianist brought his own crew to record his own concert. If you attended all the concerts you would end up having a well formed opining about each one of those pianists and how they compare to one another. So it would be safe to think that any difference on dynamic range (from pianissimo to forte), balance (left vs right hand and middle voices), color (with more or less harmonics), sound presence, etc would be a product of his/her technical ability to exploit the resources of the instrument. The only responsible agent for that difference in sound is the pianist himself. If you close you eyes to listen to the sound produced by these different pianists you will find that even though everything else remains constant every pianist is able to produce a unique sound different from the sound of the other pianists. Furthermore the public that attends the concert is always the same and you always seat at the same spot on the auditorium. ![]() Imagine that for every concert the pianists play the same pieces, on the same piano, tuned the exact same way and placed at the same position on the stage. Say you have tickets for a full season of piano concerts at you local auditorium. ![]()
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