As for the worlds of sounds, noises, voices, tonalities, they are already ours. We evoke them when and where we please. Formerly we could not enjoy music at our own time, according to our own mood. We were dependent for our enjoyment on an occasion, a place, a date, and a program. How many coincidences were needed! Today, we are liberated from a servitude so contrary to pleasure and, by that same token, to the most sensitive appreciation of works of music. To be able to choose the moment of enjoyment, to savor the pleasure when not only our mind desires it, but our soul and whole being craves and as it were anticipates it, is to give fullest scope to the composer's intention, for it permits his creatures to live again in a vibrat milieu not very different from that in which they were created. In recorded music the work of composer or performer finds the condition essential to the most perfect aesthetic returns.
Paul Valery