[CAUT] Too tall!!??

[Susan Kline]

That's the group -- but this CD at Amazon has them playing 
Tschaikovsky and conducted by Constantine Orbelian, as they were when 
they visited Newport.

The clips give only a pale memory of what the sound in person was 
like, though. When I heard them rehearsing a couple of hours before 
the concert I just stopped dead in my tracks, and my jaw dropped.

http://www.amazon.com/Tchaikovsky-Serenade-Strings-Seasons-Orbelian/dp/B00004RDW6/ref=sr_1_10?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1270704901&sr=1-10

At 09:54 PM 4/7/2010, you wrote:
>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrajmLCP9Wo
>
>They sound good to me...if that is the same group?
>
>David Ilvedson, RPT
>Pacifica, CA  94044
>
>----- Original message ----------------------------------------
>From: "Susan Kline" <skline at peak.org>
>To: caut at ptg.org
>Received: 4/7/2010 8:58:31 PM
>Subject: Re: [CAUT] Too tall!!??
>
>
>
> >>Imagine if a string section was absolutely playing the same pitches
> >>(not likely... '-])...IMHO.
>
> >Hi, David
>
> >If you've ever heard the Moscow Chamber Orchestra, I think you can
> >agree that when a group of string players play absolutely together
> >and as on pitch with each other as is humanly possible, the effect is
> >ravishing!
>
> >Any two pianos will have enough variation in voice and scaling that
> >there will be plenty of richness and variety in the sound, without
> >the out-of-focus malocclusion of having differences in temperament
> >and pitch between them.
>
> >If you ever tune two pianos so closely together that the unisons
> >between them are as good as we usually seek on one piano, I don't
> >think you or the pianists will feel the effect is boring. It's quite
> >magical, IMO.
>
> >Susan