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personal site dedicated to advanced audio and evolved music reproduction
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Actually it was not only the best worst amplifier at CES but it was the best worst amplifier I even heard in my life.
So what happen between the WAVAC 833 and Sound? A lot of quite unique things…
A spoke at the show with a friend of my who presumab...
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I decided today to try more files from Linn. My rational was that if they were less lucky with Scottish Chamber Orchestra and their recording avenues them I might be luckier with Duisburg Philharmonic or I Barocchisti. So, I bought a 3 more of L...
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Ewa Podles in Boston this week in Rossini’s opera “Tancredi.’’ To celebrate Ms. Podles arrival in Boston I bought last week a couple of her live CDs with Russian and Chopin repertoire. Love her voice, even some of Garrick Ohlsson’s accompaniments we...
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Below is the text from Slovens Website that presumably knows Anton Nanut. According to them Mr. Nanut did record the Beethoven Nineth. Interesting is that Nanut also record Dvorak’s last symphonies, Jerry, are they interesting in Slovenian rendering?...
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Got from a site visitor today:
I thought that you and site goers your would be interested in this special film event at Arlington's historic Regent Theatre one week from today (Sunday, April 10 at 7pm). Here are links to the event page on the ...
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Paul,
20th C classical music wasn't that popular when it was new except in vocal works. The few exceptions either had some rhythmic or melodically memorable aspect. What I mean is that people can accept something more novel and complicated wh...
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Lovro von Matacic was one of the great conductors who preserved the authentic late-Romantic tradition into the late-Romantic age.
He was a member of the Vienna Boys' Choir, then studied at the Vienna Hochschule für Musik. There he studied piano, org...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Honestly, steverino, I do not think that the situation is as
tragic as you believe it might be. For sure it always would be here and there
some idiots-bureaucrats who would try to impose some ridicules rules including the...
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It is imposable entering the holiday season to walk across Boston’s Beacon Hill neighborhood and do not be “abused” by sound of Nutcracker coming from each open window. I just returned from my 15 minuets walk across Beacon Hill to my favorite Antonio...
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Sure you heard about the National Youth Orchestra of Venezuela’s conductor: the Gustavo Dudamel - the “hottest and youngest conducting properties around”, the next music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Here is good clip I found where last m...
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This is from BSO web site. I do not post link as they move it around. Go to BSO web site and find Digital Music link, or tab, or whatever... Here is from BSO web site:
The BSO Digital Music Service allows patrons to purchase and download from the BS...
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Romy, I would be delighted to hear some of these recordings from your
FM receiver. Unfortunately, here in the San Francisco Bay Area, we have
no good classical radio station. There is one classical station, highly
commercial and apparently with th...
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For Starters of Classical Music.By David King (Amphissa)
SuggestionPick up a copy of a good introductory overview book, like Goulding's Classical Music: The 50 Greatest Composers and Their 1,000 Greatest Works which discusses many (not all) of the...
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[quote user="Johan Dreyer"]I call this the "pulsating room effect" Here there is a sensation of the air in the room actually pulsating to the sound.This is not boom but a sense of sheer energy being transmitted.Unlike music simply being played way to...
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Well, I found Janacek strange and unfathomable. I was brought up on
Haydn-Beethoven-Schubert-Brahms-(Mahler)-Schoenberg route... so I had no
entering point for Janacek. I also loved Dvorák and Smetana... but this
was no help either.. (its only now...
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Category 95:
Best Engineered Album, Classical
(An Engineer's Award. (Artist names appear in parentheses.))Britten: Billy BuddNeil Hutchinson and Jonathan Stokes, engineers (Daniel Harding, Nathan Gunn...
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"When I moved my system
and was just learning the new room and making changes, I was also
listening to more Bach than usual. I mostly wanted to play Partitas,
Inventions, Preludes, and Goldberg Variations. I was tu...
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Classical station has new business model: support of donors
By Johnny Diaz, Globe Staff | November 18, 2009
Boston is following a trend in radio that’s taking place in other cities across the nation: Its only 24-hour classical m...
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Sunday evenings at 8 pm during the summer:
LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO (through July) and other live-by-recording performances
June 14: Massenet: Manon; Natalie Dessay, Jonas Kaufmann, Christop...
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[quote user="op.9"]Well, I found Janacek strange and unfathomable. I was brought up on Haydn-Beethoven-Schubert-Brahms-(Mahler)-Schoenberg route... so I had no entering point for Janacek. I also loved Dvorák and Smetana... but this was no help ei...
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They offer 24/88 downloadable and thanks God they do not record the Audiophile Blues or the similar crap. This is a good part. The bad part is that they record at 4X and then outsource the file to vireos industry cretins to “master” them, pushing...
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WGMS Ditches Its Old Format But Helps Orchestrate Its Revival On WETA
By Paul FarhiWashington Post Staff WriterTuesday, January 23, 2007; C01
Washington radio station WGMS dropped the music of Mozart and Tchaikovsky yesterday after nearly six decad...
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Here is a VERY interesting paper http://www.anstendig.org/Stereo.htmlSTEREO: A MISUNDERSTANDINGTHE THEORY, SOUND-SYSTEMS, AND PROBLEMS OF HEARINGThere is a common misconception that the addition of stereophonic sound-reproduction was the necessary, c...
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Hi Romy and JJTriode:
I wish I could take credit for all of the very pertinent commentary by Rosalyn Tureck, extracted below but I will not. I do agree with the sentiment though and the reasoning behind her expressed...
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Joe, I think I would battle it.
I would not be so certain. Mostly the SUV sized bass horns are notoriously bad sounding despite of the assurances of the system owners overwhelmed with so common in audio endowment effect. Not to mention that the Stag...
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I asked John F. Berky if the Bamberg cycle was released.
He said that his has B5 from July 22, 2017:
DISC # COR-2487: BRUCKNER: Symphony # 5 / Blomstedt /
2017
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ANTON BRUCKNE...
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In Praise of Infidelity
by BYRON JANIS (!!!)
Wall Street Journal, todayhttp://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703580904574638380890512334.html
In an interview last April, before his performance of Wagner's "Lohengr...
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Opening nights, opening minds
Innovative new conductors in LA, NY challenge the BSO to do more
By Jeremy Eichler, Globe Staff | October 18, 2009
Opening night concerts at the most esteemed orchestras are usually a bit of a ...
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It was an excellent article in today New York Times:
Remembering Rostropovich, the Master Teacher By MICHAEL WHITEMANCHESTER, England
IT is a truth upheld by many in the music world if not universally acknowledged that pianists are neurotic, violin...
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This edition, 26 CDs box-set, compiled and commented in detail by Juergen Kesting, presents recordings from Maria Callas in glory days, the first decade of her career from 1947 to 1956. This collection is structured on themes and roles. Mar...
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