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Originally written by David Hurwitz and posted at “Classics Today”: SEVEN PHASES IN THE LIFE OF A HARD-CORE COLLECTOR Do You Recognize Yourself Here? I’m sure that some of you have seen that famous little poster called “The Six Phases of a Proj...
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The recording of Beethoven IX with Fürtwängler is cosidered by many as the non plus ultra among the interpretations. The recording is bold and very impressive indeed, but the interpretation is of course outdated and is one of a required taste. Fürtwä...
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NEW! CD-1180(4) Johann Sebastian Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier Evelyne Crochet, pianoCD 1 : Book 1 - Preludes and Fugues I to XV (Total time: 65:45) CD 2: Book 1 - Preludes and Fugues XVI to XXIV Book 2 - Preludes and Fugues...
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I know zero about pressings, but the Kleiber DG has "signature series" written on it, not "Privilege". Same thing?Yes, I'd really like to catch something like that live.There will be a Beethoven Symphony #5 performed here in November. Conductor Andre...
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You mention ,,,What interesting GUEST ? ,,,RUDOLF SERKIN,, One guest concert ( St Louis Symphony) playing one of the Beethoven piano concertos...He asked me where he could audition a BOZAK Concert Grand speaker in St louis,,,, I set up an appointme...
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There's a bunch more filmed beethoven on youtube. The Karajan performances are really well presented, the 5th is really cool. Check it out even if you despise Karajan's earlier 5ths, the cinematography and drama of the filming is great. http://www.yo...
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I would like your opinion if you are familiar with this PC1 and may learn something by what you would have to say.As far as Algerich and Chopin are concerned, I can not get into her International Frederick Chopin Piano Competition: 1st prize (196...
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a very good take on ones 'motivation' of musical likes and dislikes. In fairness I have listened to some rendition of Brahms’s 2nd piano concerto and it has something more for me, yet it might just simply be more 'accessible'? Maybe it has some sort ...
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this is my homework so far. Soloist diploma from the Royal Academy of Music the Hague the Netherlands, Classical Double Bass.Played Mahler with Bernard Haitink,Beethoven with Jaap van ZwedenBach with Ton Koopman to name a few.should I go on`............
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Whatever biggest pressings names they do not throw I always feel defensive as any given record might be whatever it is.
There is however the “pressings” that keep amuse me with consistency of good quality. It might not be always good hi-fi jou...
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Well I think she is nordic, so maybe Sibelius is for her, and I agree about all the young performers with the tremendous technique...however she also has a beautiful tone with absolutely no fear in her playing. I find parts of her beethoven violin co...
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A few words on Eroica: I couldn't watch the damn thing. It was as fake as a movie ever gets. For one thing, while the musicians were supposed to be there playing in front of Beethoven, it was so obviously a slick studio recording on the soundtra...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]
BTW, let me to expand a littlie on my last comment. I always personally with some suspicion and difficulty “get” what German high-end audio does. They frequently target some very “bicepsy” sound but they kid of very libe...
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[quote]There are some evidence that Germans tried ”something: in mid of the 1930. RCA, Western Electric, and many others also tried to do “better” audio during that time[/quote]Apparently Siemens was making stereo recordings in the early '40s already...
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OK, who has not recently tried a good mono recording played from just one BIG speaker? It has been quite I while since I have done this. It may take a while to get to it, but at some point I will play the 1943 Furtwangler/BPO Beethoven 9 throug...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]
Yep, I do not like the rest of the Nanut Mahler at all. That Mahler 6 I think was a big accident….
The caT[/quote]Hmmm ... nor do I.I don't think Nanut's superb Mahler 6 was an accident though. ...
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Below is the text from Slovens Website that presumably knows Anton Nanut. According to them Mr. Nanut did record the Beethoven Nineth. Interesting is that Nanut also record Dvorak’s last symphonies, Jerry, are they interesting in Slovenian rendering?...
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Romy - well, I'm not a high tech sort of guy! - Much easier for me to burn a CDR of the Bruckner 8 (& some other Nanut stuff while I am at it! - e.g. Beethoven 7? - wonderful!!) and I will send it to you by airmail. Just let me know yo...
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Well, he had his moments; among them:Mahler 8 at T'wood (c. 1974)Mahler 3 at SH & T'wood (c. 2001)Bartok Concerto for Orch (c. 1971)I'm sure there were more!As for recordings, he has a really, really fine Mendelssohn's Midsummer, an excellent Bee...
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The 1962-62 recording cycle of Karajan’s Beethoven were probably the best among few others that Karajan undertook. The 62’s cycles are Ok but nothing extraordinary. There were many-many other more interesting attempts by the different conductors to p...
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I understand. I wish I could go to the States anytime soon, but I'm afraid I need more holidays. In any case maybe you could, from time to time, comment us about some of them, whenever you listen to them or whatever. Some Beethoven, Mendhelsson, Brah...
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I'll never forget... although it wasn't that long ago...Twenty years, maybe.Symphony Hall, the Leipzigers under Masur.And only an encore: The Egmont Overture.After it was over I turned to my buddy and said, "I think I've just heard Beethoven for the ...
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Just now I have received the confirmation about B7 with Blomstedt and Wiener at Salzburg. After B8 with Rattle and Berliner and B4 always with Blomstedt and Staadtskapelle at Dresda ( together Beethoven PC3 with Schiff ) I think I have to say thank...
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Wish list;A mid-bass horn for my Altec 515-8G drivers operating from 100-600hz (it seems only Santa can make this for me)a new CD-player as my STuder A730 is kapputa collection of bruckner LPs (i don't have any!)a new listening chair to replace my IK...
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Superb tone!I saw and listened to Maestro Rostropovich two times, both in my town... cello/piano on Beethoven, a fantastic performance, but cannot remember who the pianist was and once with Solisti Veneti (chamber orchestra) playing Boccherini and ot...
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Paul S,Cessaro use plate amplifiers in theirs "bass horns". I do not know if they are made by Hypex (I think I already saw "Made in Poland" in one of theirs amplifiers) but if you find someone around with a Cessaro you could experience it.EDIT: a bet...
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You wrote (in a Beethoven thread): "If you for a first time came across to a 'better performances' then you might imagine how different might be experiences if you catch a 'better performances' live".I caught a London Philharmonic guest appearance in...
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Well, Nicanor, I very much disagree that room acoustic being basically invisible to us. People who deal with sound more or less intelligent always not only pay attention to room acoustic but recognize sound ONLY in context of room acoustics. Take for...
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The Boston FM radio and my Sansui TU-X1 tuner gave another magnificent treat - a whole weekend of Bruno Walter music. I always liked Bruno Walter, although he never was my “buy on spot” conductor. Performances of some conductor (for instance Sc...
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and you?PS[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Googling her is looks like she composed some kind of chant music. [/quote]This is a bit like saying that Beethoven composed some kind of symphonies. ...
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