The recording beautifully captures the intimacy of the venue and the delicacy of the instrument, and Mr Andsnes's playing catches the improvisatory fantasy of these sophisticated and delightful miniatures.
The recording, beautifully detailed, packs a solid punch in stereo and is even more strikingly visceral in surround mode, which puts the orchestra around you but preserves the listener-ensemble distance of the concert hall.
Presenter Andrew Hunter Murray sounds upbeat, his jokes come bouncing off-script, the interviews are recorded beautifully, and the show even has its own sting.
His final works radiate an enormous, ominous serenity: "Piano and String Quartet" (which Aki Takahashi has recorded beautifully with the Kronos Quartet, on Nonesuch), "Palais de Mari," for piano (played by Takahashi on her mesmerizing Mode CD of early and late piano music), and "Piano, Violin, Viola, Cello" (recorded with icy clarity by the Ives Ensemble, on Hat Art).
Radiohead, Bjork, tons of electronic music, some of the most amazing, articulate, three-dimensional soundscapes you're going to find, beautifully recorded, beautifully produced, and then they shoot out into the world on an MP3 and get played on a laptop or something, so there's this missed opportunity.
It's a state-of-the-art piano trio record, beautifully recorded, with a sense of soulful equilibrium.
(Chinen) ★ Gerald Clayton Trio (Thursday) With "Bond: The Paris Sessions" (Emarcy), his superior second album, the pianist Gerald Clayton delivers a state-of-the-art piano trio record, beautifully recorded, with a sense of soulful equilibrium.
The effect was so dire that I would have left at intermission if the program had not ended with a personal favorite never heard in live performance, Perotin's "Viderunt Omnes," which the ensemble recorded so beautifully.
It was after acquiring a mainstream audience with "My Favorite Things," a big radio hit in 1961, that he expanded his experiments with modal music, which he then interrupted to record some beautifully melodic ballads.
There is something kind of spontaneous sounding about it, and it's recorded so beautifully.
February 6 2012 April 9 201212 Atget (1857-1927) Parisgranded Paritsand its environs doggedly, exhaustively, and beautifully, recording façades, courtyards, shop windows, intersections, side streets, and the details of stone carvings and ironwork with the idea that the images might be useful as source material for artists.
