At 12:42 02/04/2012, Robert Greene wrote:
Incidentally you do not need to build a concert hall to record at one point. Try the WaterLily/St Petersburg/ Mahler 5 recording--pure Blumlein, sounds wonderful (conflict of interest statement: I did the surround sound part of this myself. But the stereo alone sounds great--and one can definitely hear the violas).
Much as I am an adherent of pure Blumlein (and dislike the sound of ORTF), and have made several CDs using a single figure of eight pair, I cannot enjoy this recording. One can hear indeed the violas, but I can hear them on most recordings: Mahler is a great orchestrator. But I hear on this recording the timpani and brass frequently drowning out the violins. The accompanying booklet ("A note on the recording") has three pages which shed little light on how the recording was made and there is a long list of playback equipment, which would seem irrelevant to the listener at home, unless the implication is that I need identical gear to hear the recording properly. If only two Pearl ELM 30 microphones were used, how were the rear channels, which seem to me to add little to the experience, derived? Should I in fact be listening to the 5.1 output of the SACD or the stereo output?
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