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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: The new releases from "Music and Arts" by Romy the Cat on 2005-12-06 
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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...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Re: One of the Best Mozart Requiems! by clarkjohnsen on 2006-03-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: One of the Best Mozart Requiems! in Musical Discussions  14 Replies 
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 ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Mozart: "Cosi Fun Tutte" by Romy the Cat on 2004-06-19 
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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...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Mozart: "Cosi Fun Tutte" on CD by Romy the Cat on 2004-06-20 
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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...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #15: My personal favorite Mozart Requiem by JANDL100 on 2008-06-11 
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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...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Re: Mozart: "Cosi Fun Tutte" by RonyWeissman on 2004-06-20 
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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...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: The Levin’s Mozart in Tanglewood. by Romy the Cat on 2009-03-05 
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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 ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Mozart and tone colours. by Romy the Cat on 2009-10-31 
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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...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: One of the Best Mozart Requiems! by Romy the Cat on 2006-02-28 
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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&...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: The Best Mozart Requiems on CD by Romy the Cat on 2006-03-08 
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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...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #18: Foo-foo Mozart PC 20 & 25 (Angel 35215) by Paul S on 2008-07-13 
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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 "...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #62: "Too many notes, Mozart" by N-set on 2013-03-18 
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 “They have to many violins in the symphony”...at least he is in a good company ;)...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: Saturday Mozart by clarkjohnsen on 2009-03-03 
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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 ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: The Mozart Fifth Concerto is very good! by Romy the Cat on 2009-11-18 
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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...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Mozart Sym. 35 and Bruckner's Sym. 5 is complete by easternlethal on 2011-10-15 
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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 ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: Re: The Best Mozart Requiems on CD by clarkjohnsen on 2006-03-09 
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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 ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Mozart, Piano Concerto in C maj., Alfred Brendel, Vox PL12.110, 1963 by Paul S on 2008-02-01 
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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"...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #10: Gieseking’s Mozart and Beethoven by Romy the Cat on 2008-06-30 
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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...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Mozart Concertos; Clarinet K 622 and Bassoon K 191 by Paul S on 2008-07-13 
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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...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Mozart Concertos; Clarinet K 622 and Bassoon K 191 by Paul S on 2008-07-13 
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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...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: The Linn recordings: listening by Romy the Cat on 2009-10-02 
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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...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Tanglewood's 75th anniversary season by Romy the Cat on 2012-06-20 
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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...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: James Levine takes a great assault on Mozart’s symphonies. by Romy the Cat on 2009-01-28 
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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...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #7: If you are in Boston this weekend then by Romy the Cat on 2009-07-19 
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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...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: Re: Mozart's Requiems by Romy the Cat on 2006-03-11 
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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...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: You have some room to go... by Romy the Cat on 2007-05-22 
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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...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Mozart and tone colours. by Romy the Cat on 2009-10-31 
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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...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Tanglewood 2010 by Romy the Cat on 2010-07-06 
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Well, sadly James Levin is out the summer season and will be substituted but it is what it is. ******************************************************* Tuesday, July 06, 2010 - 8:00 PM - Emerson String Quartet performing all Mozart program a...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #12: The Baffling Case of Anton Bruckner by Romy the Cat on 2012-04-17 
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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, ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: The lost “perfect Saturday” on gambling by Romy the Cat on 2009-02-22 
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]The Levine’s Mozart was not exiting, the last week and this week… I hope today on Saturday, the last convert of the series with the most famed Mozart symphony the BSO will show off something more interesting. However, toda...
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