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Music and Arts Programs of America, Inc. www.musicandarts.com info@musicandarts.com Tel 510-525-4583 or Fax 510-524-2111CD-1063(2) IN MEMORIAM HANS HOTTER (1909-2003). A selection of Lieder from the Raucheisen project of the German Radio Sy...
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Following my yestoday’s post about the Cosi Fun Tutte I would like to pitch two of my absolutely favorite recordings of this work: 1962, Karl Böhm with Philharmonia Orchestra ( EMI SLS-5028 ) 1936, Fritz Busch with Glyndebourne Festival Orchestra&n...
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Those are my favorite versions as well, and it is hard to choose which to play! I imagine that the busch will be hard for people to find, but worth the effort. Switching the conversation to Cosi Fan Tutte available on CD, it is interesting to s...
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Rony, I do not read the Grammaphone. I buy it once in two years, for fun, to confirm that I still should not read it… :-) Yes, switching the conversation to Bohm’s “Cosi Fan Tutte” available on CD….there are number of versions. First of all Bohm rec...
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This miserable Japanese freaks did it again!
For years the Scherchen Mozart Requiem 1953 performance was available only on the Westminster LP and at few privet low quality CD transfers, The Universal/DG has the wonderful transfer (289 471 201-2) of&...
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Yes, the 1953 Scherchen. For over twenty-five years I have hailed it as the best ever committed to disc. So let them laugh at me, I don't care.But the sonics were not good, and it was never remastered, because along came stereo, dammit.Now ...
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[quote user="clarkjohnsen"]Yes, the 1953 Scherchen. For over twenty-five years I have hailed it as the best ever committed to disc. So let them laugh at me, I don't care.But the sonics were not good, and it was never remastered, because alo...
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Let me rephrase. The recent remasterings (on CD!) of early Westminsters have shown them to be gorgeous mono recordings, in every instance better far than the LP. That's why I said the Scherchen MR sounded poor -- I was anticipating its glorious ...
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Paul Angerer conducting the [Vienna] Pro Musica OrchestraIt's been a long time since I enjoyed Mozart this much (apart from CFT, of course...). Specifically, it has been since Geza Anda "conducted" as soloist the subsequently-ubiquitous "Theme"...
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I've not heard the Scherchen so I cannot comment on that.But of the many other recordings of this wonderful work that I have heard my favorite is definitely Karl Bohm and the VPO on DG. Available on CD and DVD in good quality stereo. (I h...
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[quote user="JANDL100"]I'm not that 'into' Debussy or Ravel, so I thought some Beethoven sonatas might give me a better idea of his playing to start off with. [/quote]
That is kind of funny as I am not 'into' the Gieseking’s Beethoven– I...
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Hans Rosbaud directing the Philharmonia Orchestra (more's the pity)Re, K 503: Rosbaud should be blindfolded and tied to a chair, forced to listen to Paul Angerer/Pro Musica (Vienna), with Alfred Brendel (qv).Here, R wants that over-the-top, fop-ish "...
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Well, there's "Mozart", and then there's Mozart...Leopold Emmer conducts the Vienna Pro Musica Orchestra; Vox PL 8870, 1954Rudolf Jettel plays the clarinet for the A Major Concerto. He has all the skill and control to get every note in every re...
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Those performances of the last three symphonies were OUTSTANDING! I too had heard (some of) the Friday's and hardly paid attention. For Saturday I put down whatever I was reading and listened.The BSO has never been much of a Mozart band... not under ...
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BSO just announced the Tanglewood schedule and it looks like Levin will take over the last Mozart symphonies against in July
http://www.bso.org/bso/mods/perf_detail.jsp?pid=prod2880020
Funny, but I think that the dry and in a way Mozart-boring BSO ...
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[quote user="montepilot"]Here is a thoughtful comment from the liner notes: Of all the great composers with the possible exception of Wagner, Mozart was the most interested and skillfull in the use of tone colour.[/quote] I disagree with them. No one...
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It is Vladimir Ashkenazy conducts BBC Proms with European Union Youth Orchestra It is very good, but… I do not think that this is THE WAY to play Mozart. I would get it as Brahms or Sibelius Concerto but not the Mozart. She is overly idealistic and s...
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I can hear the whole of Mozart's 35th and Bruckner's 5th and to me the Bruckner 5 performance is very good despite the awful compression. Good enough to go into your "Recording Of The Week" section.I also wish they would release non-compressed files ...
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“They have to many violins in the symphony”...at least he is in a good company ;)...
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Well, there's "Mozart", and then there's Mozart...Leopold Emmer conducts the Vienna Pro Musica Orchestra; Vox PL 8870, 1954Rudolf Jettel plays the clarinet for the A Major Concerto. He has all the skill and control to get every note in every re...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"] I bought a few Linn Records own recordings of Duisburg Philharmonic Orchestra, Scottish Chamber Orchestra and Dunedin Consort. They pushed them as “Studio Master” but they are WMA files – means the re-rendered compress...
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Ok, here is the link: http://www.bso.org/brands/tanglewood/press/press-releases/archived-press-releases/051231/tanglewood-75-downloads.aspxOffer to public free in MP3 128 kbps formats. Both 320 kbps MP3 and 24bit 44.1kHz FLAC versions will be availab...
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Because so few conductors look beyond the tried-and-true favorites among Mozart’s symphonies, it’s rare to encounter in the concert hall any of the composer’s symphonies that we haven’t already heard. For his final concerts of the BSO’s 2008-09 subsc...
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…do not miss today:
2:02pmMozart: Symphony No 36 in C major, K. 425, "Linz"Boston Symphony Orchestra/Serge Koussevitzky; Recorded at Tanglewood, August 16, 1949 (RCA 78 RPM DM-1354)
2:27pmMozart: Symphony No. 33: 3rd movementBoston Symphony...
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Hmmm, what is interesting the he proposes Scherchen as some kind of cult or some kind of off-mainstream? I would not agree with it. The both Scherchen’s Requiems are quite conventional and very much orthodox. Here is where we have a problem with publ...
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MRAVINSKY'S RECORDINGS (1938-1984) IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDERThe data courtesy to Kenzo Amoh from Tokio
1938/03/27-4/3 Leningrad R M Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5 OMel 06820/33 unknown
1938-1939 Leningrad R M Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5 BMG(J) BVCX 80...
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[quote user="montepilot"]Here is a thoughtful comment from the liner notes: Of all the great composers with the possible exception of Wagner, Mozart was the most interested and skillfull in the use of tone colour.[/quote] I disagree with them. No one...
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Well, sadly James Levin is out the summer season and will be substituted but it is what it is.
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Tuesday, July 06, 2010 - 8:00 PM - Emerson String Quartet performing all Mozart program a...
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...by H. Robbins Landon From "High Fidelity" (mid 1960s) A couple of years ago, Vienna's famous concert organization, the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde, sent out to its subscribers a questionnaire asking them what kind of music they wanted to hear, ...
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Nope, I am not going to threaten you with one of those threads “what would be the best…?” Still, the Wiener Philharmoniker has a CD of the “Best Of Wiener Philharmoniker”… witch is… surprise, surprise IS the best they play. Well, I would say that the...
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