I'm not criticizing Joe !
His performance it's really very good.
I supose I previously forgot to point that I was mainly refering about piano sound and not performance skills.
I'm only pointing that something in this new mp3, perhaps mic postition, bass sensibity curves, hammer hardness, playing style etc... is different, and resulted in a less spring sound.
The old Rhapsody in Blue have moments that I call a "metal spring gladiators", if you listen in a very sound critical way, in terms of sound naturality, in some moments. Listen the last secondsof both.
About the performance itself, the new one, despite sounding more natural, closer to a real piano, it's a bit weird, sounding frenetic or paranoic at times.
Well, who am I to judge performances or interpetations... ?
Now take the Bumble Bee, sound very different than any version I heard beore. It's like a "rebel drunk-bee". I'm not saying that sounds bad, cause makes sence to that purpose, like fit in a weirder bee-flight, let's say.
Quite interesting performance. The dynamics variations are surprising, giving "feelings changes", I can't describe in words.
May I ask if the e-competion open doors not just to usual quality performances, but to outrageous/defiant/creative new interpretations too?
skip wrote:Beto-Music wrote:I don't know why.... Curious... Last time I heard Rhapsody in Blue on pianoteq was from pianoteq site, a demo, but was very metalic noise for all FFF moments.
Is this the older one you are referring to:
http://www.pianoteq.com/audio/Gershwin-...ice-K1.mp3
(it's still in the main list of demos: Listen | Listen By Instrument....)
FWIW, I can't hear anything untoward in Joe's recording - no unusually metallic sounding forte passages yet.....
Greg.
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