chung wrote in message

I'm sure there are lots of recommendations on well-recorded CD's from
ths group. Now, when you say live concert experience, I think that gets
a little hard to agree on, since we may have different live concert
experiences. Often I find the recording sounds better than the live
record experience, due to many technical reasons. Certainly the
excitement of being there, and being in the same hall as the performers
are important benefits of the live concert that are hard to reproduce in
the CD or in any media.


Interesting that you presented this controversial viewpoint. Glenn
Gould, who is legendary in his iconoclasm, (he decided to quit concert
performance in favor of producing music in a recording studio), had
this lively discussion with Yehudi Menuhin during a historic CBC TV
series on music. He asserted that "the recording, surely, is now the
standard against which the concert must be judged."

http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~mwatts/glenn/ym.html

In my view Gould is too deliberate in being controversial, but he is
always a good read, especially with Menuhin.