The recording was made in a small, 450 year old church.
It was quite challenging for Brendon to get both instruments in balance.
The piano overpowered the cello most of the time.
The end result: this version 'Fratres' is one of the most touching pieces I know.
Brendon recorded more albums with Maya Fridman.
One of them get a very special mention in the Absolute Sound ("best recording from the last decades").
Johan Coorg asked him: "DSD or PCM?"
"Great question, difficult answer".
"Recordings in DSD-256 sound truly magnificent - cf. Channel Records - but you can't change anything about them or you have to make the conversion to PCM again. All those conversions don't improve things of course. I feel naked when I can't do any mastering and I don't like to be naked!"
Next piece came from this album:
'Luiza' from Antonio Carlos Jobim.
Goose bumps!
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