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Last night I was returning from local production of Tchaikovsky’s Iolanta. It was mean rain here in Boston and fragile Bostonians were hiding in their homes, it was 10PM and the roads were free. I was in mood for some kind of offensive drive – a ...
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the Bach suites topic was not a teaser.
Just plain interest.I have lived with the Suites my whole life and could probably talk about and listen to different interpretations for the rest of my life.I love the barok cello versions of Pieter Wispelway...
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What a beautiful liberating alternative – to practice audio living with LIVE FM. There are no barbarian cretins who “master” Sound of performances, no editors, no worsening sound by stupid media formats. Just good people play good music and LIVE broa...
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A lovely afternoon yesterday with Hilary Hahn in Chicago's Symphony Center.
Playing Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms, with over a dozen of her new encore pieces interspersed,Ms Hahn created a very enjoyable recital. I'll leave it to the experts to revi...
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Got today a shipment from Tokyo with the OS-106 record. It is the same Ormandy’s Bach with Philadelphia but pressed but Japan. It sounds even better. To hear it today is even more fun than ever. We have very windy but very warm day today and the New ...
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I'm learning a lot on this Forum: lotta quoting and tips about the Great Masters - Beethoven, Mahler, Rachmaninov, Prokofiev, Mussorgsky and the Great Conductors Legacy: Toscanini, Walter, Furtwangler, Barbirolli, Boult...... the musical topics - alw...
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I will certainly look for the Heifetz you mention, Romy. I gave away the later "vanity" issue!Digging through my still largely un-racked LPs I did find another Bach "Double Violin" with Perlman and Stern "under" Mehta, with the New York Philhar...
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Gentleman, it's great having musicians as part of this audio forum; when they participate they add a lot that is not available from other sources. Before you go away confused and/or angry, please read the site. You will see that A LOT of thought has...
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The Y0-186 is still pleasing me with it’s spicy marinated sound. I woke up this morning, it is snowing again and I started my day with ritual Sunday morning Bach. This time the turn for Christophe Rousset and The Academy of Ancient Music conducted by...
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David O. and his son, Igor, open with JS Bach's Concierto in D minor for 2 violins and orchestra, with violinist Rudolf Barshai doing a bang-up job conducting "the orchestra". Of course the Oistrakhs are wonderful, but the "orchestra...
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but I sometimes wonder just what sort of collaboration it takes to produce them. It almost seems like good intentions and great (minimalist) engineering must be bolstered with plenty of plain old luck.For one thing, even people who claim t...
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CD-1124(2) J.S. BACH: THE FRENCH SUITES. BWV 812-817, selected Preludes, BWV 923, 999, 815a, and three Preludes from the Well-Tempered Clavier, performed by David Cates, harpsichord. CD1 49:38; CD2 45:22. DDD UPC #0-17685-112...
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Romy,Well, in the course of a weekend I typically listen to a lot of music, but there are a few favorite CDs that I like to use when trying to evaluate things:Piano Music of Chopin, Brahms & Prokofiev, Lincoln Mayorga, Sheffield Lab SL505The Lein...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"] Oh, good, why did not you tall it before. How the hell can
you listen if it you DAC outputs 1V?! No wonder you have no volume. Also if you
have no voluble you do not “get” one of the most advanced feature of multi-amp ...
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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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It is by Eduardo Eguez and it is transcendently good. I still miss that Glen Gould psychedelic “nervousness” but I do not think that Lute or Guitar can play like a percussion instilment. Still, for whomever it is the Eguez’s Bach is just phenomenal. ...
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My friend who has two daughters told me that he is stealing every moment to be with them. He learns the names of trees , flowers, weeds on the meadows and the bugs just to be able to have a conversation with the girls. He said that he turns his head...
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Romy,A while a go a clever friend let slip that in secret musicology circles the D minor JS bach concerto might actually be by his son CPE.....Which lead me to the amazing 22 volume cycle on BIS by Mr Spanyi.... some of which is truly spectacular...a...
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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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As the year coming to the end I would like to nominate the best 3 live musical events from 2010. Here they are and without any particular order: 1) Martinu Double Concerto for Two String Orchestras, Piano and Timpani by Discovery Ensemble last n...
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I would say Bach or baroque is a better choice for young kids. I know when I was a kid (under 10) the only classical music I liked was Baroque. Everything else seemed unpleasant....
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[quote user="manisandher"]I know it's JSB, but just wanted to know which version and/or who's playing.[/quote]Nope, it is not Bach. This is Spanish Baroque composer Antonio Soler who died in the end of 17th century. I like him as his music is very “c...
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No matter what you say but Karajan sometimes did played German classic very wonderfully. However, I never heard any interesting Bach recording made by Karajan. Is it intentionally or accidental? ...
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Uni,There is a Bruckner Motet in that stained glass I posted. You will have to turn off the amplifiers to hear it. Listen to the space with that glass in it. Don't you hear the Bruckner's contrapuntal modes loading the room? You don't need a sound to...
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Thanks for comment, decoud. If you live with Melquiades for a while then you might discover that it will moderate your listening interests with time. I do not know what you are listening now but be if you spend substantial amount of time with Milq th...
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My ultimate wet audio dream was to have Bruckner Room. But so far it turning out that I got another big B room. Since 3 days back I stopped the intellectual masturbation with my room my playback up for the whole week and listening what I am listening...
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Others have noted an analogy between some of Bach's music and the art of M. C. Escher, the originator of the "tri-prong" and other visual paradoxes. It's a certain "strangeness" that they have in common.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gödel,_Escher,_Ba...
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I suppose WTC is properly in the first group, but I was playing my beloved Richter 1970 performance. The gorgeous, aqueous, lucid, somehow Mozartian playing just did not work on a inferior setup. I think that Bosendorfers may always have at least o...
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[quote user="Max Shatsky"]... however my current favorite is by Masaaki Suzuki.[/quote]I find it wonderful how the Bach-Kollegium Japan is playing: With love and fire, but without sacrificing the necessary precision....
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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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