BaL 23.01.21 - Vaughan Williams: Songs of Travel

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  • Nick Armstrong
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    • Nov 2010
    • 26606
    #46
    Originally posted by gradus View Post
    Though my taste differs and I admire his vivid use of the text - the opening phrase of Youth and Love is extraordinarily beautiful - I find the recording has difficulty in coping with the dynamic range of the performance and to my ears needs a little more space around the voice; pretty tough call to confine such an instrument in a small recording studio although the piano is recorded (and played) very well indeed.
    I guess one man’s “lurid” is another man’s “vivid”
    "...the isle is full of noises,
    Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
    Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
    Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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    • Eine Alpensinfonie
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      • Nov 2010
      • 20582
      #47
      Originally posted by Nick Armstrong View Post
      I guess one man’s “lurid” is another man’s “vivid”
      "Vivid" often means the microphones were too close to the performers.

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      • Nick Armstrong
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        • Nov 2010
        • 26606
        #48
        Originally posted by Eine Alpensinfonie View Post
        "Vivid" often means the microphones were too close to the performers.
        True & that may also be the case with the Terfel recording.... but it’s also his interpretation which is vivid/lurid
        "...the isle is full of noises,
        Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
        Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
        Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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