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... other salad of dairies during the “Lost Saturday”…. Morning…
Clark Johnson pitched a few days ago the Dino Ciani’s Beethoven sonatas…
http://www.goodsoundclub.com/TreeItem.aspx?postID=1468
The Ciani’s Beethoven is unquestionably wonderful but...
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A DOCUMENTARY HISTORY OF EMI CLASSICS Narrated by THOMAS HAMPSON
1 MENDELSSOHN: Spring Song/Adolf Umbach (clarinet) 2'17" 2 TCHAIKOVSKY: Forgive me (The Queen of Spades)/Nikolai Figner (tenor) 2'54" &n...
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Reading Paul’s reply I came across to asking myself of what we call painting. Let get for instance any famous works, let I be the early Dali’s portrait of his sister “Figure at Window”. What we call as the “Figure at Window”?
When we mention the “...
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Thanks, I have some Serkin sonatas but none of the #5 by him. I like Beethoven very much, he is one of my favourite composers but I think it's not easy finding versions that bring up all the beauty and character he put into his music. What about...
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Gilles is "fine". I always feel that his playing (whatever he played, not only Beethoven) was “too kept” or too straight, deSalted for my taste. I remember I heard him playing a few sonatas a couple years back end although it was obviously a pl...
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I understand this is a "popular" piece of music (popular for classical music, anyway), but I never really got into it the way I did Brahms' PC 2 and a couple of others. But this piece came on my clock radio on a Sunday night, and I later learned it w...
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[quote user="noviygera"]… but do not mount those woofers behind your listening position. I tried that and it's tonally good but it's confusing as hell to the brain even if crossed over 80-100hz, still confusing. Put them in front or on sides, where t...
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Very freaking interesting, Romy.Way back when acid was still legal, I was "peaking" on some of Sandos' finest just as Beethoven 9 chorus came on the crappy KLH portable record player/hi-fi, while I was studying, trying to figure out differential calc...
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It was very interesting event last night. Amy and I were visiting Living Voice Company. We did some listening and Kevin, the company owner, who very devoted to chamber mystic, played his favorite selections of Beethoven quarters. Amy mostly did n...
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Hello,I'm just registered here.I'm looking around for more detailed specs about Cessaro 'Gamma II' and 'Omega I' but I barely found something. Since I'm not a prospective buyer just a curious I won't contact Cessaro asking for informations.The 'Gamma...
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Hi Romy, Just a couple comments on recorded quality and dvds. If you have a chance try to find the DVD called Eroica put out by the BBC a couple of years ago. It is a quasi-reinactment of Beethoven's unveiling of his new masterpiece...
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"Highlights include complete Beethoven Symphony Cycle, Strauss's Four Last Songs with Renée Fleming, Mendelsshohn's "Elihah," Mahler's Fourth and Seventh Symphonies, and Premieres by Carter, Harbison, Lieverson and John Williams.
BSO Music Director ...
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Philips (stereo) PHS900-120Another example of how sentimental I am, I suppose, but I just love these pieces that showcase Beethoven's utter mastery of earlier forms, which he seemingly tosses around nonchalantly, but with the utmost affection and res...
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Yup, Kegel is an excellent and under-appreciated conductor. I have his complete Beethoven symphony set which are all very fine "middle of the road" performances. I also have him in Bruckner 5th and 8th (both with the Leipzig Radio Or...
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That's interesting Romy - I had not seen that website before.250 recorded albums - I had no idea! I have a lot of his work on CD, but nowhere near that many.I have his Dvorak 8th symphony - very good, but perhaps a little fast. I am...
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Yes, Jerry, thanks,I would like to pick some Anton Nanut CDs, not everything from you list but juts some of them. What I would be interesting if the Japanese folks ever pressed Nanut CD/LPs. In SOME cases the Japanese CD mastering is much more intere...
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I had to take a look at this thread... I've played the few Beethoven symphonies that I have today. one 5 and two 7.After 1 LP side of Böhm/Berlin I couldn't stand anymore and actually thought "what a stupid symphony!".I decided to give Carlos Kleiber...
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I must confess that I don't have a lot of time for Heifetz's recordings - I find him too cool and aloof (even in the Sibelius where such attributes might be expected to be virtues) - to me he sounds indifferent and unresponsive to the emoti...
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I've not heard Cliburn's recording - I will look out for it.I think my favorite is by Gyorgy Sandor. The playing of the Baden Baden orchestra under Rolf Reinhardt is frankly 3rd rate, but Sandor is simply fantastic - there's a fluid inevitabilit...
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We would not use Mahler’s orchestra to play Haydn’s symptoms and we would not use Palestrina’s orchestra to play Brahms. It is not even the deferent time period but rather a different set of expressive tools the symphonic and chamber orchestras u...
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Recordings are listed by year of release:
"The Lord's Prayer" and "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star." Emile Berliner. (ca. 1888)
Emile Berliner, the inventor of the microphone and founder of the first disc record company, lived and worked in Washi...
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I was re-reading with interest a post by Roman with interesting and stimulating posts by Amir... http://www.goodsoundclub.com/Forums/ShowPost.aspx?postID=254#254I MUST agree that when talking or thinking about message, "coherence", deepnees, moving ...
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The 4th movement of Beethoven's was playing on the radio the other day and my ears perked up. I almost didn't recognize it at all. I was quite surprised to find out that it was performed by my humble local Orchestre Symphonique de Montreal and the ch...
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Frankly, I do not understand your reply. Greatness did not stop with Beethoven and late Mozart but it is not the point. There is an abstract definition of greatness and there is a specific definition of interest. All that I said that despite the Bart...
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I have a 10KVA Isolation transformer that feeds on two separate 8 ga cables running direct from the house meters into an breaker into de transformer. This breaker is the one I use to turn my system on and off. The Isolation transformer recieves two ...
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Well, I thought there might be an audio solution, but it sort of turned into a musing about how much of the money we spend benefits us, whether the expensive music deliver system (fancy hall with bad acoustics? 400 lb krell space heaters?) enhances t...
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[quote user="Paul S"] As for Brahms, we have discussed here that not all performers or performances make the most of the compositions. And this might apply to any number of composers, that one seldom hears their compositions rendered at their best. B...
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[quote user="tuga"]...of manufacturers claims. They have to make a living out of selling their gear. From what I gather, the "select top 5%" are just that: no physical diferences, just tighter quality control. [/quote]That's what I suspected.[quote u...
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Maybe I'm not following novygera but isn't that what electrostatic speakers already do? I mean the full range ones. I thought some of Magnepan's smaller models only had quasi ribbon drivers also. I agree that it is not likely that one type of speaker...
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If we think of "all differences" that might be said to "define" a particular Musical performance as making a full circle, then "dynamics" as we struggle to think of "them" might be said to be only "part of that circle". I think Steve mentioned Debuss...
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