Product Description
Listeners have enjoyed classical music recordings for more than a century, yet important issues about recorded performances have been little explored. What is the relationship between performance and recording? How are modern audiences affected by the trends set in motion by the recording era? What is the impact of recordings on the lives of musicians? In this wide-ranging book, Robert Philip extends the scope of his earlier pioneering book, Early Recordings and Mus… More >>
Performing Music in the Age of Recording
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#1 by Shalom Freedman on March 24, 2010 - 12:25 am
Charles Rosen in ‘The New York Review of Books’ considers this book to be a masterly description of the effect recording music has had on the playing of it. He mentions one major effect and that is the substitution of great precision in performance at the expense of a certain spontaneity and warmth.
Rosen then in his review goes on to discuss certain technical features of playing music( especially piano) and how they have been effected by recording.
This work is one especially suited for those who have real knowledge of classical music.
Rating: 5 / 5