[78-L] R: Moreschi G&T [FWD]

[David Lennick]

So Ambisonic might have been good for something after all?

dl

On 9/1/2010 8:04 PM, Michael Biel wrote:
>    On 9/1/2010 1:15 PM, Erwin Kluwer wrote:
>>>  From Wikipedia but a view I totally agree with:
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>> " many of the seemingly
>> imperfect vocal attacks, for example, are in fact grace notes
>> launched from as much as a tenth below the note - in Moreschi's case, this
>> seems to have been a long-standing means of drawing on the particular
>> acoustics of the Sistine Chapel itself. The dated aesthetic of Moreschi's
>> singing, involving extreme passion and a perpetual type of sob, often sounds
>> bizarre to the modern listener, and can be misinterpreted as technical
>> weakness or symptomatic of an aging voice."
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> Some of you may know longtime ARSC member Joe Pengelly from Plymouth,
> England.  Joe was himself a high tenor and Counter-Tenor and is a noted
> expert on the high male voices.  He had a long held theory about
> Moreschi and the Sistine Chapel acoustics being necessary to understand
> and hear what Moreschi really sounded like.  About 20 years ago he was
> able to do some re-recording via loudspeaker and microphone in a huge
> cathedral and the results proved his point.  The long delay and overlap
> definitely enhanced the Moreschi recordings.  I am not sure that Joe
> would really recommend that the records be reissued with added reverb
> and echo, but that this is the location where the records would best be
> heard.  Digital devices being what they now are,perhaps he would
> recommend it.  Joe is not on line, but maybe one of our English
> listmembers who might know him might give him a ring and ask.  I had
> hoped that he had included the recording on a wonderful CD he had made
> of his performing and technical work but he didn't include it  But he
> did include a portion of Caruso's The Lost Chord which he had engineered
> a live church organ accompaniment in 1992, perhaps at the same time he
> did the Moreschi playbacks.  It is quite good.
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> Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com
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