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I know… now people (and particularly Western people) do not know operettas. In the best-case scenarios they know opera and the Broadway musicals. Literally meaning a 'little opera', the term has become associated with a form of light opera, with spok...
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Romy says "what does make you to scare: the sound that orchestra produces of the meaning and Bruckner’s expressions?"
I don't think there is "meaning" in the sense of particular ideas in music. It can suggest different images or emo...
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It is funny that as I bought the house I did not have any use for this room, in fact I did not even liked this room but with recent event I truly developed appreciation of the room. I totally rebuilt the decor of the room, converting it to the ve...
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The MET is launching a new initiative with movie theaters across the world. This season, six of the Met's live broadcasts will be aired via satellite in selected movie theaters. The first big screen broadcast will be this Saturday - an English versio...
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[quote user="steverino"]I should think that video data is easier to process than audio data. [/quote] That is an interesting observation. I do not think that video data is easier to process but I rather think that we do not force as much demands to v...
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Hm.... I generally late to technology innovations in audio and I am OK with it. As many of you know many of "innovations" in audio are very much shooting to a wrong target and in most of the instances with a wrong dun and wrong ammunition. The new o...
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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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Robert Witrak, the owner of High Definition Tape Transfers (HDTT)
http://www.highdeftapetransfers.com/
does CD transfers form older analog tapes. The transfers generally better then commercially available CD, and despite of the restricted and in a ...
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In my situation far away from the places
of Good Live Opera, we can only listen to the audio or watch the video ...
its a poor removed experience to be sure! To date I have a problem to
listen to most Opera as music, especially to Stravinsky high...
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Golovanov Musical Portraitby Olga Fyodorova
…In 1948 the Bolshoi Opera was rehearsing Modest Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov with Nikolai Golovanov steering the orchestra through the difficult score of this operatic evergreen…
“Louder! Lou...
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Thanks, Rony, the same good holidays wishings to you. It was ironic that you mentioned the “Samson et Dracica” in your late email. I have a friend of mine, a local French guy – Jerome, who gave me the Chung’s performance of this opera a few months ag...
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has no lyrics, so no one sings along when it's played. They've raised a contest to find some lyrics for it, so in the Olympics the sportists would sing, but it's a tough call. This is a polarized country and what some people finds dandy others believ...
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I always had a strange thing with Wagner – I appreciate and deeply respect his music but I never liked it. It is not that do “not like it” but rather I just do not feel that Wagner’s things are the part of my sonic realization of world. As I wrote be...
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Today on the way home from work I heard (again in the truck) the "Grand March" from Aida. It was James Levine conducting and I don't remember which orchestra or chorus, except I bet eye teeth it was not an opera company.Every one knows the context o...
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Let's face it, the best paid orchestras too often avoid mistakes, and they don't really give themselves over to the Music ensemble often enough, IMO. Also it seems there are not so many conductors at any time who can really get the most from an orch...
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People are not required to like or dislike anything. I guess the question you raise would require some additional info to answer. Some people have Austro German music as their reference and therefore don't really like styles which are at variance, fo...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]
Ric, you are losing the point – this is a wonderful opportunity to blame the Mother-in law…[/quote]My wife and I both had a good laugh at that.[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Ric, you are losing the point – this is a wonderf...
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Tuga, in terms of logistics, I think this is just perfect for the Music Arts and for the Music Arts "Consumer", both.Now, let's see/hear how/if they can/will pull it off in terms of Sound that makes the Music available.For me, if this model works out...
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I picked recently a newly-premastered version of “I Puritani” from 1973 (Universal MCAD3-80356) . Julius Rudel leads London Philharmonic with Ambrosian Opera Chorus. The lead singers are, Ricardo Cassinelli, Nicolai Gedda and of course Beverly Sills....
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Let's face it, guys, most recordings are mixed down from multiple microphones and tracks, whether 5-channel or so-called 2-channel stereo. It is the exception rather than the rule if there is a direct correspondence between microphones, placement, e...
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Romy, I'd agree that it is not really exciting to have the 5.1 for watching classical music videos in the Opera room. It is hard to obtain good sound from 2 speakers, 5 or more is then ridiculous. The downmix to 2.0 option is a bit of an enigma to me...
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There was a good article about this very subject in 2004. You have to pay to use the NYT's archives, but one of Michael Green's disciples quoted it on their website, and they didn't get sued for copyright, so I guess it is OK to post it here:
If ...
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Angelo,I don't think there are different recordings (to please different tastes) of the same performance. What we gonna do about that?If somebody likes "opera audio" (I've never heard about this company) can be just a symptom. Many other well correla...
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IMHO one of these drivers that make you listen to the music at first, but something isn't quite "right". Put it on a - big - open baffle and cut at 200 and use maybe up to 2500Hz. Problematic with female voices, like opera and so on. It distorts quit...
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Spent almost a day to set up one of my CD racks. The rack covers one of the wall the need to be treated – I think this type CD rack it is a good diffuser. The wall is not in the line of the first reflection, in fact in no in the reflective path anyho...
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I made the 543rd remodeling on the Opera room and move the video playback equipment to the new, I hope the last location. As I connected everything into PP2000 as it use to be (not PP2000+) but older not “Plus” version than I have some light MF buzzi...
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[quote user="coops"]Stitch I spent the week in Munich and was fortunate enough to spend quite a biy of time in rooms that interested me, did your friends compare hi-fi to other hi-fi or do they compare hi-fi to real music? Romy are you familiar wit...
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I noticed exactly the perceptual discontinuities you mention when visiting my brother, and I wound up with pretty much the same list of gripes. And I also noticed that opera is very close to being an exception.Perhaps you actually hope someone will ...
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Rony, you do not specifically say that you use horns to reproduce violins, but if you do then you have your work cut out for you. Moving upstream, massed violins are T-O-U-G-H to get right, under any circumstances. Very few front ends make good on ...
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Well, if you look opportunely to build, buy or educate yourself about Multicell Horns then you might get in touch with UK guy at pixelthree@hotmail.co.uk. He builds any type of custom Multicell horns by order. I spoke with him a multiple times and ev...
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