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Lisa Rull's avatar

I have loved reading your music selections - absolutely genre eclectic, brilliantly world-covering, and largely unknown to me until your posts. Thank you!!!

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Holly A.J.'s avatar

I am very familiar with Byrd's The Bells on period instrumentation. Hearing it on modern piano was like listening to an entirely different piece of music - it works, but it is not the same sound. Many of the albums in this list depended on effective sound engineering, whether a set well placed microphone and a good sound mixer or on an entire electronically generated wall of sound. The Bells on piano seems stripped in comparison, less three dimensional in sound than the original lute. Bach's Well Tempered Clavier wasn't intended for piano either, and there is a similar flattening effect when playing Bach on piano.

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