Yesterday I made one of the most rewarding concert recordings I ever did. The opening concert of the 'Traiettorie' festival here in Parma, with violinist Hae-Sun Kang and five of her twenty-something students of the chamber music class in Paris. One of the pieces they played was Arnold Schoenberg's 'Verklaerte Nacht', the original version for string sextet. I've known it for at least thirty years and recorded it many times. It's IMHO one of the most beautiful pieces of music ever written. It's also quite a difficult one to get right - a string quartet already requires a lot of very intimate coordination, and with six players this only gets much more complex. I'd been present at the rehearsals the days before the concert, and seen those young musicians work on it - passionately and without compromise. The recording has all the defects of a live one - background noises of all sorts - but I think they played wonderfully. Equipment used was two Neumann KM184 mics, an RME Micstasy and Ardour3. I can't make it available publicly, but if the rare birds who like this type of music give me a hint there may be some chance. Not that I want to show off my work, which is insignificant, but just to share what some talented and motivated young musicians are capable of. Ciao, -- FA A world of exhaustive, reliable metadata would be an utopia. It's also a pipe-dream, founded on self-delusion, nerd hubris and hysterically inflated market opportunities. (Cory Doctorow) _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
