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A note on mastering Mar 24, 2010
I own three different releases of this wonderful music. The oldest one marked CBS 1975, The pair of Bach Lute music CDs V1,V2 compiled 1997 by Sony, remastered by Bejun Metha, and this latest remastering and release Sony 2006.
Each of them has a different sound. The oldest one has a thin and sometimes metalic sound. Detailed yes, but does not sound like a real guitar. This one is labeled "re-mastered, mixed and edited by MikeRoss Treavor & John Williams. The newest one is an improvement, detailed, clear, and not as metalic sounding in the bass registers, but still a litle "hot." The one here is simply remastered using Sony Direct Stream Digital.
The best mastering is the middle set of two CDs. The instrument sounds like a real guitar, easy to listen to, non fatiguing, and at least to these ears, right. In addition you get considerably more music on the two CDs.
For sure the digital technology has changed over the 30 years, but the handling of the digital material, or perhaps in the tape transfer stage, there is a significant spread in the results.
My most favorite Bach album; wonderful listening! Mar 14, 2010
Friends who have heard this album all love it -- even those who are not classical music fans. . . . .Product was in perfect condition. Shipping was fast and efficient.
Like Listening to Heaven Sing Mar 02, 2010
Andre Segovia was the first classical, accoustic guitarist I ever heard. In my ignorance and innocence, I did not know Segovia saw the young John as being one of the "chosen." The first time I heard this album, there was a freak ice storm in Wilmington, NC. The house had an old sun porch--three sides of glass facing into the woods, near Bradley Creek Sound. It was a perfect day as the sun streamed through iced down trees creating rainbows and shimmers -- every colour your eye could capture; ice sparkles like the sun on an early morning ocean rolling. A slight breeze would take your breath. It was a Spirit Day, 1982 maybe.
I had an old record player with a major mechanical error. It stopped and replayed anything you put on it. The John Williams record had a big fat scratch at the end, that kicked that record arm back to start over and over and over again -- working beautifully with the mechanical malfunction. It was my first experience listening hard to classical guitar. It played over and over and over. It was one of those times of tuly hearing all the way down in your bones and deep inside your heart. My striped kitten, Ernie, lay on my chest all afternoon and tears fell down my cheeks the whole day from the exquisite magnitude of overwhelming beauty. Everything ever seen, felt, thought, heard the total mix was coming from fingertip to string to soul. This recording for someone brand new or someone with an old ear is perfection. I've bought it and given it away too many times to count. I will continue to do just that, but for now, it's my copy and I'm wearing it out. Priceless sound.
Perfection! May 21, 2009
I have been listening to this recording since the late 80s and I am still blown away. If any recording deserves the five star treatment on Amazon, it's this one. The sound of his guitar, the flawless execution, the emotive quality- all add up to probably the finest Bach recording ever made, and certainly the best recording of the four Lute Suites available.
All Bach lovers, music lovers, and guitarists need to have a copy of this in their music collection.
A masterpiece Dec 31, 2008
The playing is absolute genius, a tour de force of subtle shaping, phrasing, articulation and architecture. Williams must have been possessed when he made this, because its his best work, and almost otherworldly in perfection and grace. It has an inner pulse, a 'drive' if you will, that floats and dances, that has totally surrendered to the inner pulse of Bach. I can almost hear echoes of the best of Gould here in the boney, strident tone (but still warm in a strange way), rhythmic drive, and the total control over each voice.
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