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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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