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Sergei Rachmaninoff
plays "Liebesleid"
Rachmaninoff recorded his arrangement of Kreisler's Liebesleid
for the Victor Company twice in October 1921. These were acoustic recordings
for 78 rpm records, made before the era of electric microphones. He rejected
the version he recorded on October 12 (that is, he smashed the master disc
with a hammer).
Here, you hear the issued version, made October 25, 1921.
Sony Masterworks recorded Zenph's new re-performance on April 13, 2009 at a fine
recital hall at Peace College in Raleigh, North Carolina.
In this clip, you're hearing
Rachmaninoff's playing on a 1909 Steinway D SE
concert grand piano.
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Art Tatum
plays "I Know That You Know"
Here jazz great Art Tatum plays in a live concert at L.A.'s Shrine
Auditorium, on April 2, 1949. Our source is the first record of
this Norman Granz
concert, a monaural ten-inch LP: Columbia GL 101.
Sony Masterworks recorded Zenph's re-performance on September 23, 2007, again
before a live audience at the Shrine Auditorium.
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Sony's new recordings are intended to capture an immersive sound, one
that gives unparalleled insights into the original performance. The sound
has been neither equalized nor filtered. However, to speed download times, we
have reduced the recordings to 320 kbps MP3 files.
Many variables affect a listener's sense of touch and sound color:
the instrument used, acoustics, tuning, voicing, recording
equipment, microphone placement, playback equipment, and so
on. We consider these multi-dimensional variables from
various viewpoints.
Thus, our work involves different specialists:
computer scientists, musicians, piano technicians, and recording
engineers.
Our new high-resolution
re-performance files can be re-performed identically
by comparably-outfitted
instruments, and can be re-recorded in a myriad of venues.
Click here
for a comprehensive article about the
re-performance
process.
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