In Reply to: RE: I always found it to be kinda funny at shows posted by Dan_ed on September 29, 2010 at 11:22:28:
as Paul said, Mahler plays on a pretty big scale, but also a lot of fine detail passages, plus percussion features.
I always listened for a few things, kinda from a musician's perspective - does the sound get 'congested' on dynamic transients? do the instruments have the correct tone, without colorations? are attacks and decays clean, even and undistorted?
if the speakers/system/recording could do all that, they could probably play anything well. my biggest issue was coloration, probably why I like the tractrix horn so well
my test CD was an early digital recording; Mahler 1 "Titan" Slatkin/St Louis; on - you could probably guess - Telarc
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- RE: I always found it to be kinda funny at shows - bean 09/29/1021:21:03 09/29/10 (3)
- Malher series - Vince S 00:10:43 09/30/10 (2)
- RE: thanks, I'll take a look at those - looks like they have been reissued as a cheap box set nt - bean 11:48:05 09/30/10 (1)
- RE: thanks, I'll take a look at those - looks like they have been reissued as a cheap box set nt - Vince S 20:27:56 09/30/10 (0)