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One of my five German Beatles albums. MMT is out of this world....demo quality!
Let's focus on sound for this week. (We'll zero-in on the music next week.) When you want to hear how good a recording can sound, what do you go for? Forget musical merit. What is the best-sounding disc you have in your collection?
I'm going to cheat. Here are three: 1) Wagner: Siegfried Idyll, Conductor Glenn Gould (co-produced with Kevin Doyle). Fabulous, dry, the rosin is as loud as the strings. A wonderful indictment of the modern tendency towards too much reverb (something Gould railed against); ) Star Of Wonder by the San Francisco Choral Artists - Keith O. Johnson. Listen to track two, Rutter's Nativity Carol, and tell me Johnson isn't an artist in his own right. 3) Rickie Lee Jones: Pop Pop, produced by David Was. When the production world was enamored with the AMS reverb sound, Was gave us an artful combination of Rickie, nylon string guitar, and upright bass, sounding uncannily like Rickie, nylon string guitar, and upright bass.