I'm still old school enough to think that sound matters in an album. Yes, there are great albums that sound like crap (yeah, I'm talking to you,"Then Play On"), but sometimes the stars line up and you get a compelling performance matched to stellar material with the sound of a REAL PERSON IN A REAL ROOM. Ahh, can't beat it. Perlemuter's playing was praised by Ravel, and while he's not the most precise player, like Walter Gieseking performing Debussy, he is in touch with the inner soul of the music. Nimbus preferred a resonant, some may say reverberant, recording ambience that really captures for me the plummy incandescence of this wonderful piano music. And this is Volume 2, with lesser known pieces -- and even better in my book than Volume 1.
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