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As a dedicated concert goer I can tell you that the difference between a recording and a live performance is enormous. There is a sense of excitement and dange
by RiderOfGiraffes 17y ago
As a dedicated concert goer I can tell you that the difference between a recording and a live performance is enormous. There is a sense of excitement and danger about a liver performance, a rough edge that never appears in a recording.
It's the difference between television and the cinema, or a driving game and driving for real.
Perhaps it's less true for orchestras, but I have exquisite recordings of chamber music, and I will still pay to go to live performances.
It's different.
- joubert 17y agoAgreed. Have you seen the Berlin Philharmonic's Digital Concert Hall? http://dch.berliner-philharmoniker.de/ http://dch.berliner-philharmoniker.de/
- RiderOfGiraffes 17y agoBookmarked - thank you.
- lanstein 17y agoThere really are only a few great conductors in the world. There is a very real danger that people (like me, presently) would rather stay home and listen to Carlos Kleiber conduct Beethoven 7 rather than head to Avery Fisher to watch an uninspired performance of Maazel conducting the New York Philharmonic. There is no danger that a significant number of people would rather stay home than attend a performance of Firebird with Gergiev and the Vienna Philharmonic.