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I'm sharing this link:
Beethoven, Coriolan Op. 62, Torino Philharmonic Orchestra, Federico Maria Sardelli
Don't you think that Coriolan wanted to overdo it? Granted, it is a very well-known opera and it's difficult to say anything new, but even the ff are close to being noise.
Is it just my impression?
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It's ugly... what do you mean...
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I hear several distortions, I think it depends on who made the recording, so I find it difficult to judge the ff... listen here instead...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=km5BWuolJPY
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I tracked down this video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3TE0s1CtW4
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Carlos wrote:It's bad... what do you mean...
I don't like it; aside from the recording being actually pitiful, the fortissimos are raucous and what I like least is the lack of "ferocity" in the string attacks.
... it doesn't satisfy me
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...nothing to be done, I write the "è" and during the saving phase it transforms into è ... oh well"
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With all due respect, it is quite difficult to believe that the problem should be attributed to the miking. I agree with Dino; it seems to me that the timpani are being used as "war drums," and it is not due to the actually rougher (and more percussive) sound of period timpani, but rather to "pop-rock" derivations... I would say an awkward use of percussion in "ancient" contexts.
The timpano here plays a normal harmonic part; it is certainly not the rhythmic support for those accents and at that tempo, with those staccatos, it is natural that the timpanist is led to give a heavy blow to their instrument: moreover, one can almost see the conductor making the usual "rip" along with an accompanying leap on the podium.
