020 CD / Evocación – Widerklänge

Duo Favori Series Vol. I

Evocación – Widerklänge

2 Gitarren in 6 Räumen / 2 guitars in 6 rooms
aufgenommen in akustisch abgestimmten Räumen / recorded under a variety of acoustic conditions
Werke von / works by Albéniz, Granados, de Falla
Duo Favori

EAN/barcode: 4009850002000

Description

2 guitars in 6 rooms. Recorded under a variety of acoustic conditions Two guitars in six rooms. "Lovely! This is a Spanish CD you should be all agog about." (Gitarre und Laute)

1 review for 020 CD / Evocación – Widerklänge

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    20-bit processing, 4-D, gold edition, or “auditorily applied corrections of travel time needed for the sound event to reach the main microphone”: the record industry comes up with all sorts of tricks to tempt us into discarding recordings that were just hailed as unsurpassable. Yet, measured against the effort, the real advances are increasingly marginal… – The small Stuttgart-based label TACET takes a different approach than the competition. A prime example is Evocacion, the new album by Duo Favori with guitar music that could become a landmark for chamber music. Recording engineers have long searched for suitable acoustic spaces beyond the large concert hall atmosphere. To bring out the distinctive character of the short Spanish guitar pieces, Duo Favori avoids playing with hall effects or manipulative post-production mixing. Instead, for each piece, a suitable acoustic space is created through altered microphone placement. Sometimes the two guitars sound like a single instrument, sometimes extremely stereo. By suspending the microphones above and swinging them back and forth in front of the musicians, the sound, for example, is detached from the floor. Delicate intimacy is achieved just as effectively as commanding extroversion… For producer Andreas Spreer, the recording was an experiment in applying technical innovations common in pop music and experimental compositions to the service of classical performance. The attempt to reclaim the domestic living room—long transformed into a concert hall by ever more powerful speakers—for chamber music intimacy has succeeded.

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