Re: Beethoven's Late Quartets - Colorado SQ.

Lionel Tacchini wrote:
On 25 Dez., 22:33, Dontaitchic...@xxxxxxx wrote:
On Dec 25, 3:25 pm, A N Other <another12...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:





On 25 Dec, 19:16, Dontaitchic...@xxxxxxx wrote:

Ms. Bayly has had reviews in probably the last three issues of
Fanfare. In the first, she reviewed the recent Pristine Audio
remastering of Mengelberg's live performance of Mahler's Fourth
Symphony. She began by stating that although she'd heard about
the performance and recording for years, the Pristine Audio CD
was the first time she had ever heard it. She then wrote at
great length, stating that she found the performance
marvellous. All well and good. Then -- at the end of her review
-- she went into ecstasies about the sound of the Pristine
Audio transfer, stating that all previous incarnations had been
inferior and even listing a couple of ways in which they were.
(I no longer have the issue, so I regret being unable to quote
her directly.)

Don Tait

I imagine she had heard the earlier incarnations after the latest
one. Otherwise, she would surely not have written what she wrote.
Fanfare needs to clarify.

I imagine that if she had heard the earlier incarnations after the
latest one, she would surely not have written that the latest one
was the only one she had ever heard when she wrote and submitted the
review. It is she who needs to clarify.

As a reviewer of a new issue of a historical recording, one is
expected to comment both on the performance and transfer.
It is possible to start reviewing the performance, because the CD is
present and can be heard, then get hold of a set of older
transfers somewhere for comparison if one has access to an archive -
does Fanfare keep such a thing ? - and add a paragraph
answering the question of sound quality. It is also possible to re-
read the whole review and amend the beginning before it is sent out. I
suppose one of the things above hasn't happened.


I suppose so too.
For _what reason_ should somebody write that "that all previous incarnations had
been inferior" while knowing that (s)he did not hear any?


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