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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Why I do not love Mahler? by Romy the Cat on 2004-11-24 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Why I do not love Mahler? in Musical Discussions  15 Replies 
It is not that I do not like Mahler:  I like him but I do not love him. I listen Mahler for a while and am quite familiar with most of recorded performances, heard “live” in a number of occasions the Mahler’s symphonies and songs, read a lot abo...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Stunning Resurrection in Boston! by Romy the Cat on 2010-07-09 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Stunning Resurrection in Boston! in Musical Discussions  1 Replies 
Holly cow, who could even expect that it will be so! BSO opened today the summer season with Mahler second. Levine is at his, look to be permanent recovery, and Michael Tilson Thomas stood at the podium. Tanglewood Festival Chorus, soprano Layla Clai...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #14: Fighting the insensitive Mahler with Midbass Horn. by Romy the Cat on 2011-12-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Impulse response, short notes and midbass horns. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  14 Replies 
As some of your might know I am not huge in Mahler. It is not that I hate Mahler and his music but I do not like how Mahler music is customary being played. They play Mahler like it is some kind of scared porcupine, sticking out his needles; I do not...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #14: Fighting the insensitive Mahler with Midbass Horn. by Romy the Cat on 2011-12-27 
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As some of your might know I am not huge in Mahler. It is not that I hate Mahler and his music but I do not like how Mahler music is customary being played. They play Mahler like it is some kind of scared porcupine, sticking out his needles; I do not...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #424: Mahler sound by mats on 2012-03-11 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s Midbass Project – the grown up time. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  455 Replies 
I am not laughing.  Just the other day I had the upper bass a little extra prominent, and midrange was gently tapering off into the highs.  Some would say it was rolled off and flat, but when I played two Mahler 1's and the 9th, I enjoyed him like ne...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #32: The Belgium Mahler Collection by Romy the Cat on 2007-10-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A great conductor - but almost unknown - Anton Nanut in Musical Discussions  52 Replies 
[quote user="JANDL100"] Re: the Mahler "Nanut set" - I think you might find that symphonies 2, 3, 7, 8 & 9 are not by Nanut after all.   But please let me know if I am wrong about that![/quote]I got the CD SET yesterday. Here is what it...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: Gustavo Dudamel with Los Angeles and Mahler First. by Romy the Cat on 2009-10-26 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: National Youth Orchestra of Venezuela in Boston!!! in Musical Discussions  8 Replies 
There was so much publicity around this performance last weeks.  I heard the whole recording on NPR http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=113551695 …and really did not like it. Today the WENH - the New Hampshire PB...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #9: The other Resurrection? by Romy the Cat on 2011-03-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Why I do not love Mahler? in Musical Discussions  15 Replies 
[quote user="cv"]Did you find that instead of resurrecting your interest it finished it off and its now Bruckner all the way? Or did recent changes in the Macondo bass config reveal something new?[/quote]Somebody once asked me what I like in Bruckner...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #9: Mahler has plenty of vulgarity in my view by Romy the Cat on 2022-01-16 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Prokofiev in Musical Discussions  14 Replies 
[quote user="steverino"] The subject of vulgarity in art gets confused with bad taste and satire, so I am not sure which exactly you mean.[/quote]I meant what Brahms did not have....

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Mahler 3 and BPO. by Romy the Cat on 2022-04-04 
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https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gxyathTUW5YbHu7Bx1joHM5AnFSsRkF0/view Amy is playing with BPO and Zander Mahler 3 this week and here is the introduction to the symphony by Benjamin Zander. ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: Probobly it will not be Mahler however.... by Romy the Cat on 2011-06-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Paradoxes of my Racism. in Site Support Forum  10 Replies 
[quote user="zako"]What would I do if I lost every thing in a fire ??  I reflect back, when I was a youngster...care free with no possessions,,,I,m much older than you,,Life was much simpler,,  What would i do different ??....I would not rebuild any ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #35: Nanut Mahler set by JANDL100 on 2007-10-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A great conductor - but almost unknown - Anton Nanut in Musical Discussions  52 Replies 
Wow - Romy, that's quite a find.Nanut in Mahler 7  8 9 10 ?! - I MUST get them!  I have the other Nanut Mahler recordings already. Sadly, I can't find the set in the UK.  It's useful to know it exists though.And Romy, have you lis...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #42: Nanut, Mahler, Barbirolli and Brahms by Romy the Cat on 2008-02-06 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A great conductor - but almost unknown - Anton Nanut in Musical Discussions  52 Replies 
[quote user="JANDL100"] The Barbirolli / VPO Brahms 4 is waaaay too slow for me though - I just cannot get into the music when it's played that way.   I do like some "slow" classics though - I love the way Celibidace slows a lot of music do...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Mahler 1 by Ronnie on 2008-02-24 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: What, no Mahler? in Musical Discussions  2 Replies 
Hey Paul,I like the #1 a lot. I have a recording with Leonard Bernstein and the Concertgebouw orchestra. I hope I got that right..It starts off so light and cheerful. Building up, up, up and then there's this phenomenal depth and weight to it. Makes ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: How to play Mahler 8 at home! by JJ Triode on 2015-09-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: How to play Mahler 7 at home… in Horn-Loaded Speakers  12 Replies 
Tonight, after playing some files from my laptop and USB DAC into my main system, I decided to browse the BSO site for some possible new downloads.  While I was there, I saw a button to listen to a webcast of Tanglewood's Aug. 8 performance of M8, so...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #28: Mahler VI and the “new” Macondo. by Romy the Cat on 2007-04-29 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo Frame modification. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  46 Replies 
I spent today couple hours starting to search the DPoLS for Macondo. So far I am far from target but the experience was quite amassing. The “new”, properly aligned Macondo, with the bells and Water Drop and whistles does quite well. I have some “test...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #156: Barbirolli Mahler by anthony on 2019-01-22 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Planning my DSET in Melquiades Amplifier  186 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]If you like very slow interpretation, like I do, then you might start to listen some Barbirolli Mahler…  [/quote]I've found Barbirolli Mahler 6 & 9 by New Philharmonia Orchestra and Berlin Philharmonic respectively.  I...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Mahler: Symphony No. 2 in C Minor ("Resurrection") by Romy the Cat on 2004-10-24 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Mahler: Symphony No. 2 in C Minor ("Resurrection") in Musical Discussions  0 Replies 
There are some “unlucky” compositions for “audio people”. For instance the Mozart’s Requiem: still there is no good performance of this work committed to a recording media. Yes, there are more or less OK performances of the Requiem but the comple...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: I wonder if Myaskovsky loved Mahler… by Romy the Cat on 2006-12-12 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Getting Started with Myaskovsky in Musical Discussions  35 Replies 
Well, let call it Slav music. All Russian composers of 20 century were in one way of other took the torch from Rimsky-Korsakov. Ironically I’m not a big fun of Rimsky-Korsakov’ symphonic music because it is too Slav, overwhelmingly and insultingly Sl...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Why I do not love Mahler? by Romy the Cat on 2004-11-24 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Why I do not love Mahler? in Musical Discussions  15 Replies 
It is not that I do not like Mahler:  I like him but I do not love him. I listen Mahler for a while and am quite familiar with most of recorded performances, heard “live” in a number of occasions the Mahler’s symphonies and songs, read a lot abo...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Mahler VI - Barbirolli with Berlin by Romy the Cat on 2004-06-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Mahler VI - Barbirolli with Berlin in Musical Discussions  0 Replies 
My local “Borders” in Downtown Crossing always has some interesting music. I have no idea why but they have it all but if I stop by in their small classical section I always fish something “kinky”. Today I pulled of from there a few CDs and among th...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Mahler 6th by Anton Nanut? by Romy the Cat on 2007-09-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A great conductor - but almost unknown - Anton Nanut in Musical Discussions  52 Replies 
A good new Mahler 6? You should not tell me any longer. Is it the recording from “Zyx Records”? http://www.amazon.com/Mahler-Symphony-No-6-Tragical/dp/B000025Y52/ Yep, the small budget labels can be a pain in ass but they also can care some really ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #23: If you like the Nanut’s Mahler 6…. by Romy the Cat on 2008-10-12 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: I hate, hate, hate, hate Boston Symphony! in Musical Discussions  72 Replies 
 If you like the Nanut’s Mahler 6 then you must hear what BSO did last night. Levin lead BSO Boston Symphony over 3 days Mahler 6 concert. I am going to the last one that will be on Tuesday but yesterday I decided to listen and to record a live ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: Mahler himself comments... by Paul S on 2009-08-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The best Third Movement from “Der Titan” in Musical Discussions  9 Replies 
Apparently, this was one of those works that the artist just can't leave alone.  I think it was rather late in the "ongoing development" of this piece that Mahler finally decided to drop the discursive programs and play it straight.I like B. Walter, ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: MTT’s Mahler at 180 ghram or 180 degree? by Romy the Cat on 2011-10-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: MTT’s Mahler at 180 ghram or 180 degree? in Analog Playback  1 Replies 
I do not read printed audio publications. The last one I held in hands it was a year ago or more. Today I stop by in my local Burlington Barnes and Noble and since I was there already I took 3 Stereophile and 2 issues of TAS from newsstand, bough...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: Playback: Bruckner vs. Mahler. by Romy the Cat on 2012-01-10 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: How to play Bruckner Sound in Audio. in Playback Listening  16 Replies 
Interesting. This weekend a local guy visited and and he had a conversation about my playback. He said that my playback has very distinct my type of sound and it makes Bruckner to sound like Mahler. I was surprised with this assessment as I always th...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: I do not care about Mahler 8 by Romy the Cat on 2015-09-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: How to play Mahler 7 at home… in Horn-Loaded Speakers  12 Replies 
Yes, JJ, went recently in many new multimedia ventures. They do upload their concerts to web site and they have one location (not so easy to find) where they have everything in 192K. The M8 you mentioned they broadcast live video to downtown Bosto...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #8: Unnecessary Giantomania with Mahler 8 by Romy the Cat on 2015-09-16 
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Well, I know that there are a lot of people out there who very much worship the “size” of Mahler 8. I do admits that the size of the thing does matter and to attends show when zillion people screaming and playing has own special value. However, I ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: You need to cut on Mahler becose it is bad for you. by Romy the Cat on 2011-06-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: "O Vitavox, Vitavox! Wherefore art thou Vitavox?" in Horn-Loaded Speakers  22 Replies 
[quote user="oxric"] I know you use words in a very random fashion but in my opinion, there is something repellent in qualifying my interest in Vitavox drivers as 'autistic.' The predicament of people who suffer from these sometimes debilitating ...

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