112 Romantic Piano Trios. Frédéric Chopin, Niels W. Gade

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“(…) The recording technique is also aimed at sensitive souls; it has captured the noble sound of the Guarnieri violin and the Gofriller cello excellently. In Tacet Real Surround Sound the company boss and Tonmeister Andreas Spreer lets the listener sit with their back to the piano, while the violin and cello can be heard from front left and right respectively, thus providing a really three-dimensional listening experience (…) Kulturspiegel

“(…) Tacet’s spatial experimentation continues apace with this hi-res [production]. They refer to it as attempting to use the whole acoustic space for the musical experience, and they are certainly doing that. The violin here is on the left front, the cello on the right front, and the piano behind the listener. Producer Andreas Spreer says that most trio recordings group the two string instruments very close to the grand piano and the result is too little spatial presence and too similar information coming to the listener from the same direction. By placing the Bosendorfer Imperial Grand at the rear by itself, the full grandeur of its magnificent tone can come thru without competition from the two strings. (…)”

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