Movement V of Suite du Premier Ton (Suite in C major) from
Louis-Nicolas Clérambault's 1710 set of compositions, Livre d'Orgue, performed by
Ashtar Moïra.
A fine performance of a piece by a notable 18th-century organist.
I think both are very nice performances; if we really want to choose just one to feature, I prefer the first file, as the second sounds muddier (perhaps due to the characteristics of the room it was recorded in).
Kat Walsh(spill your mind?)02:31, 14 April 2011 (UTC)reply
Oppose Second The first is performed better than the second, which does have rather unfortunate pauses in between phrases and seems to be uncertain over some of its phrasing (eg 0:22-ish and 0:35-ish). However, I don't like the sound in the first, which if memory serves was done by the same person who did the now delisted Toccata and Fugue in D Minor. The key problem in the first one for me is that it sounds as though it has been done on an artificial organ on a computer with echo added later - the "Trumpet" noise which starts at around 0:28 sounds terribly artificial. There is no indication where it was recorded, which makes me suspicious. Weak oppose for the first tooMajor Bloodnok (
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14:30, 14 April 2011 (UTC)reply
Movement V of Suite du Premier Ton (Suite in C major) from
Louis-Nicolas Clérambault's 1710 set of compositions, Livre d'Orgue, performed by
Ashtar Moïra.
A fine performance of a piece by a notable 18th-century organist.
I think both are very nice performances; if we really want to choose just one to feature, I prefer the first file, as the second sounds muddier (perhaps due to the characteristics of the room it was recorded in).
Kat Walsh(spill your mind?)02:31, 14 April 2011 (UTC)reply
Oppose Second The first is performed better than the second, which does have rather unfortunate pauses in between phrases and seems to be uncertain over some of its phrasing (eg 0:22-ish and 0:35-ish). However, I don't like the sound in the first, which if memory serves was done by the same person who did the now delisted Toccata and Fugue in D Minor. The key problem in the first one for me is that it sounds as though it has been done on an artificial organ on a computer with echo added later - the "Trumpet" noise which starts at around 0:28 sounds terribly artificial. There is no indication where it was recorded, which makes me suspicious. Weak oppose for the first tooMajor Bloodnok (
talk)
14:30, 14 April 2011 (UTC)reply