Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83 based; site hound.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!hound!rfg From: rfg@hound.UUCP (R.GRANTGES) Newsgroups: net.music.classical,net.audio Subject: Re: Beethoven quartets? Message-ID: <1341@hound.UUCP> Date: Tue, 3-Sep-85 23:08:35 EDT Article-I.D.: hound.1341 Posted: Tue Sep 3 23:08:35 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 5-Sep-85 00:48:22 EDT References: <4246@alice.UUCP> <656@ihu1m.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel NJ Lines: 14 Xref: watmath net.music.classical:1279 net.audio:5738 [] I have 3 CDs of the Smetana quartets. I'm no judge. They sound prety good to me .. except for one thing ... The first movement of Number nine: One microphone was misplaced too close to the schnozola of one of the players who forgot to take his allergy pill. The result is the sound is screwed up with randomly placed labored breaths. Now, if there had been real "committment" they could have redone the movement. Did they? Nope. They moved the mike and/or gave the player a pill. Cheaper that way. On CD's you can hear - darn it. -- "It's the thought, if any, that counts!" Dick Grantges hound!rfg