Post by Fugue February 17, 2013 (1 of 4)
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Has anyone heard this set yet? If so, how is it?
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I'll be posting a slightly(!) fuller review in the next day or two but briefly: good piano playing, not quite as good violin playing, very dry recording.
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Post by Fugue February 17, 2013 (3 of 4)
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Polly Nomial said:
I'll be posting a slightly(!) fuller review in the next day or two but briefly: good piano playing, not quite as good violin playing, very dry recording.
Well, that's disappointing.
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I don't think the violin playing is poor so much as let down by a wrong headed recording balance between the instruments. Galoustov takes note of Beethoven's title page markings of "with violin" or "with violin accompaniment" but the engineers haven't taken notice of the fortepiano injunction for op. 12 and weighted the instruments accordingly. And they've taken no notice of Sageman's full (and attractive) piano tone and amplitude and adjusted the violin's balance and volume accordingly. I refuse to believe that the instrumentalists, especially Galoustov, sounded this unbalanced in concert.
If you use balance controls, a boost in left channel volume might help. All in all a missed opportunity.
By the way, its great to hear Sageman again after her excellent Liszt disc (for Lyrinx) of a few years ago.
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