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Ric, I thought about this before writing the "report", and I have to say that transients are a good deal "sharper" now, so the "edges" seem sharper, in a way, but still without "going over the edge". If to surmise with respect to the recent mod, per...
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OK, and that relates to your observation of 'not enjoying the music for the tuning' of the system, and not being able to listen to one piece of music at the time --- I think it is also called "Audio-Nervosa".As far as the venue is concerned, it i...
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Thomas for sure have some interesting to music or probably
to sounds. He sits for quite a while listening his mommy playing. We are convinced
if he is attracted the sound of Beethoven quartets or he is fascinated with bows
moving but as they say “...
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We are happy to announce we have a new release on our catalogue:"Conversations" by Enrique Bernaldo de Quirós, piano.
This album contains works by Beethoven, Schubert and Liszt.
I hope you do find it enjoyable....
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Hi Romy,When you visited our room, you played 3 pieces of music on our 1000 dollar speakers.All were nice recordings, one was Saint Saens 3, one was a very contemporary sounding piece of 17C Harpsichord? and I can't remember the third although I did ...
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For Beethoven, piano concerto's try Martha Argerich with Claudio Abaddo.
Consider Prokofiev's symphonies conducted by Gergiev with the LSO, if you like Russian music ... of course pretty much all of V. Gergiev's material is top notch.
Also worth yo...
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I've been searching the net looking for some music cataloguing software that allows as much as possible of the following features:- It can look for CD data online avoiding extensive typing of information. I know, there's no such thing for L...
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A couple of days ago, I attended a concert with the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra conducted by Herbert Blomstedt. They played Death and Transfiguration by Richard Strauss and Beethoven Eroica Symphony.
These young adults (17-...
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[quote user="Antonio J."]Do you know of other renditions of this work worth the purchase?[/quote] This concerto is “lucky”, it well-performed and there are many good recordings. Some of my “honorable mentions” would be: Michelangeli with anybody else...
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Guy, I do not know well Barenboim’s sonatas. I believe I heard one sonata on some kind of compilation disk, it was good - really good, but I do not remember anything further. I do not know if “Barenboim recordings generally not liked”. I can tell onl...
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A lovely afternoon yesterday with Hilary Hahn in Chicago's Symphony Center.
Playing Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms, with over a dozen of her new encore pieces interspersed,Ms Hahn created a very enjoyable recital. I'll leave it to the experts to revi...
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I want to share with you that the CD that Romy found with the Michelangeli's performance of the Emperor with the Paris Orchestra and Celibidache is available at Music and Arts (scroll down to find the 2 Michelangeli CDs they have) with reference:CD-4...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"] Interesting that if to leave aside the “tragic” context of the Tchaikovsky’s Six then I would say that I like the Tchaikovsky’s Fifth more then any other his symphonies. Sure it too much Slavic but it was kind of first Tc...
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for me, in answer to your first question.His violin-concerto, I have with Rainer, and various piano concertos do not give this notion of going nowhere. It is the 1st movement of the 4th symphony with C. Kleiber (I can’t listen past it, I get so a...
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Interesting that if to leave aside the “tragic” context of the Tchaikovsky’s Six then I would say that I like the Tchaikovsky’s Fifth more then any other his symphonies. Sure it too much Slavic but it was kind of first Tchaikovsky’s “real” symp...
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Thanks Steve for your insightful answer. I feel mixed feelings with classical music. I have some composers that can grab my attention whatever version of their music I listen to, but are very few, probably just Bach, Beethoven and Mendelsso...
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Pandora's Magic BoxRestoration of the music's dynamic range in historical recordings by: Pierre A. Paquin
We are now able to enjoy great recording of the distant past, thanks to the efforts of several successful and dedicated engineers who have had...
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Thanks, Clark, for posting these observations. My personal favorites…
http://www.goodsoundclub.com/TreeItem.aspx?PostID=238#238
did not cover some of your pianist and the CDs are in order. BTW, might I ask you about your take on the mid and late qu...
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I never was a big fan of this symphony, as I am not a big fan of Shostakovich generally, but this time it was truly remarkable performing event. My local FM WGBH 89.7 stated the new fiscal year funding campaign and compile a CD recorded “live” locall...
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but I sometimes wonder just what sort of collaboration it takes to produce them. It almost seems like good intentions and great (minimalist) engineering must be bolstered with plenty of plain old luck.For one thing, even people who claim t...
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And here I've been thinking that this was one of your fixed tenets all along. It makes perfect sense to me, anyway.Can there be any doubt that "difficult" music is mostly unbearable "reproduced" electronically?My daughter used to love...
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I think that any line level tube stage can be every much of an expressive tool as any other device in the chain. I am also not sure that the biggest difference between digital and analog is the sampling process.How "transparent" is a cutting lathe or...
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Robin, I also hope it's obvious by now to everyone with evolved aesthetics that all the hyperbolic chatter about things is just that. While I do have some old "Direct to Disc" recordings that have decent sound, I have none with performances worth rev...
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What fascinates me is the whole idea of room acoustic being basically invisible to us - despite measuring differently, we don't really notice the effects of room acoustics in the rooms we aren't actively listening in. Your friend's voice in an audito...
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Once I've assumed my speakers system into this house won't ever be able to deliver what I wish to accomplish, I have kind of downgraded my exigences and I'm more and more listening to headphones. For the last few months I've been trying different hea...
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Wojtek, this is the whole astonishment of the story. There are no space flying technologies, no 30 years of research and investigation in a secretive lab which specialize on a submarine sonars, there's no capacitors made from unobtainium deelectr...
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Guy,
I do not know. In my past I made an adapter to my Micro motor to play 78s and used contemporary 78 cartridge and 282 arm and off the shelf phonocorector. I would not call this setup as something that was good but it gave me some opportuni...
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OK, maybe it needs a bit more detail ,or say perspective as regards to this audio-cooking effort. NO QUESTION, we first have to look after the object before we joy-ride, or joye-feast, oh yes! I mentioned quality and caring somewhere just a short...
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I did today my first recording with Model 2. The configuration-wise it was very cool. The Pacific now in single-wire mode while it does A/B to 88/24 and the clock also outputs 88K. The single-wire mode is the reason why I moved from the Model One...
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For many years my favourite performer for the Sibelius has been Christian Ferras. He has a DG recording with Karajan, and also there is a DVD-Video performance with Mehta. In both, his interpretation is very similar - if you want to experience icy ...
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