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About Tippet Rise
As the fine pianist Svetlana Smolina said:
Something one can only imagine in dreams—it was here in reality! The sound production and the touch of this Hamburg Steinway was the closest thing to divinity for a pianist. It was pure bliss to experience the gorgeous, powerful, distinctively elegant, overwhelmingly sensitive, feminine and
at same time deeply masculine sound this Steinway could produce—it was an infinite cosmos of colors, expressions and emo- tions—all in one instrument. I felt it expressed the ideas of Scriabin; his leitmotifs and
his philosophy.
The legendary pianist Stephen Hough has said:
To play at Tippet Rise is to be reminded that the earth was making music before human beings learned their scales. The performer shares the wings with singing birds; the soundproofing, like the roof, is only required to exclude a storm; and beyond the stage, through the sky-lit eye of a vast window, the landscape dances in more complex rhythms than could be imagined by even the most sophisticated artist.
In the Olivier Hall we tried to design an ideal record- ing facility, with state-of-the-art equipment for both audio and video. It offers seven 4K ultra-resolution video cameras, eighteen channels of mics, and both Pro Tools/ Avid 12 and Merging Technologies’ Pyramix and Horus Virtual Studio 32/374 (DXD), which is 100 times CD-quality sound, with CEDAR plug-ins, and 3D immersive audio, used by the studios around the world we most admire (such
as the New World Symphony in Miami, the Dallas Symphony, the Pure Audio 3D Blu-ray makers, NHK