The chance to post from 30,000 feet reminds me how much I like this song < http://bit.ly/HFoKS > by the M Shanghai String Band. (Thanks, in-flight Wifi!)
The really exciting part happens at 1:28. But if you go straight to that moment without listening to everything that comes before, the effect will be lost.
What comes after the exciting moment is slightly problematic. The violin solo here could have been played more in tune. You never hear this kind of thing anymore, because technology makes it so easy to fix.
Too easy, I’d say.
Nowadays it’s commonplace for classical recordings to contain an average of one edit per second, to cleanse any imperfections. That this recording was allowed into the world at all is almost an act of civil disobedience.
