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In the Forum: Didital Things
In the Thread: Metaxas-Wolfson ADC with Sound Devices SD744T
Post Subject: Misery or misunderstanding ? Posted by deemon on: 2/12/2007
 Romy the Cat wrote:
I would live aside the technical aspect of the Kostas’s demo above and would like to point out other thing. I find this classical trio playing their rendition of Led Zeppelin’s “Stairway to Heaven” was very illustrative. Sure, I do not like how they played it. The piano guy was in particularly off the wall with his almost-jazzy phraseology. However, the biggest thing that came to me was my view how primitive this music is when it striped down to its core. I would anchorage everyone listening the last 16-bit track (it is not heavy for your traffic). Pay attention how primitive the composition is musically. It the peace was composed as a classical short classical trio peace then it would be completely about NOTHING.

Ha-ha , Roma , I cannot agree with you here . You see - Led Zeppelin played the music that isn't "classical" at all ! So you ( or anyone ) cannot demand this piece to sound good being played by any "classical trio" , it's out of the question ! 90% of musical information that was "packed" in this piece of music cannot be described in the terms of musical notes , intervals , etc . And it of course cannot be performed on piano , even on Steinway ;-) - it needs electric guitars , drums , Robert Plant's voice , of course .....  So your example looks like this old familiar anecdote from Odessa , when "Rabinovich sang Caruso" :-)  I think that your example can show only those musicians misunderstanding , but not the misery of the music itself !

By the way , it's not the only one example of "misinterpretation" of music . Another , much more well-known one - "Jack Loussier trio plays Bach" . I listened it only one time - it was terrible .

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