Once mere "records" of musical events, recordings were now something much more exotic and autonomous, painstakingly layered confections.
Still, if asked to select a mere handful of recordings to take with me into the great unknown, three discs of theater songs recorded by the operatic soprano Dawn Upshaw would certainly be near the top of the list.
Whereas Artur Schnabel had in the 1930's refused the opportunity to redo suspect takes, seeing recordings as mere anecdotes, Lipatti seems to have sensed the permanence of these enterprises, their irreversibility and their status as monuments.
We might feel awe at hearing these voices, but very likely the recordings would be mere artifacts, overwhelmed by legend, deed and word.
Classical recordings last year accounted for a mere 2.8% of $12.2 billion in total music sales in America, the world's largest market, down from 3.7% in 1994.
West made several last-minute alterations to Yeezus, enlisting the co-founder of Def Jam Recordings, Rick Rubin, as an executive producer for additional recording mere days before its release; changes included re-recording whole songs and rewriting entire verses.
Consequent electric recordings in porcine livers after transplantation and after mere laparotomy were evaluated in relation to biochemical parameters and histological results of liver biopsies.
The Orlando Consort has made an art of thematic programming, particularly in its recordings, which often come with lavishly illustrated books (not mere booklets) that add literary and artistic elements to the music at hand.
It went past mere surveillance the F.B.I. planted bugs in King's hotel rooms, then sent audio recordings of his extramarital trysts to his wife, Coretta, in an attempt to derail his efforts.
It went past mere surveillance — the F.B.I. planted bugs in King's hotel rooms, then sent audio recordings of his extramarital trysts to his wife, Coretta, in an attempt to derail his efforts.
