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If you followed, a few days ago in the conversation with “Michaelz” I was spinning my usual plot, bitching that most of the today’s pianists play, unintelligent as senseless, almost like with the "rubber fingers”:
http://www.GoodSoundClub.com/...
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A few weeks ago Amphissa sent me a collection of recordings of Myaskovsky. I knew Myaskovsky, head his Sixth Symphon, “something else” and his cello concerto but to have a pile of selected CDs by a great aficionado of the Myaskovsky's music really he...
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Never heard it before but what the work it is!!!
I have to admit that the Corigliano’s work is not something that usually goes into my definition of beautiful concerto. It is a typical Shostakovich-like “vulgar” and brutal music but even with ...
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The subject of vulgarity in art gets confused with bad taste and satire, so I am not sure which exactly you mean. For example Mahler seems to me to have many instances of bad taste and satire but seldom any significant vulgarity. Tchaikovsky not ...
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Well, it took almost two month and much more money then I thought but I was eventually able to get very decent sound out of monitors. The SL600 sitting on my “fundamental channel’s” tripods did not do well as I told before and I was forced to s...
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“…stop by and bring some of your music….” – how many times we hear when we invited to listen someone’s playback. I am sure all of us have a selected favorite recording to assess playbacks and I would like to share some of mine that I have been ...
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I forward you post to Amy and here is what she responsed:
“hmmm, bruckner is not the most snow-evocative composer. opening of 7? 4? personally, i like mahler 4 in a blizzard - something about the sleighbells. lieutenant kije suite, sibelius 3,...
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For almost a year I am in frustrated mental search for a properly performed “Andante e Rondo Ungarese”. This is a Carl Maria Von Weber’s Op.35, two parts little composition that in my view absolutely brilliant. It is collaboration with bassoon ...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Melodia released Complete Myaskovsky Symphonic Works by Evgeni Svetlanov. It contains beside “other” symphonic works the Symphonies #7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 14, 19, 25, 4, 5, 12, 15, 17, 20, 22, 26, 6, 21 [/quote]
David,
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[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...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"] Two hours after the end of the glorious Götterdämmerung from MET, I was sitting at the D row, center sit of Jordan Hall right in front of conducting podium of Boston Philiharmonic and Natalia Gutman. What can I say? I ...
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Vasily Petrenko, the conductor the makes a lot of waves in Europe will lead BSO with all Russian program: Stravinsky's Scherzo fantastique, Rachmaninoff's The Isle of the Dead, Shostakovich's Symphony No. 10
http://en.wikipedia.org/wi...
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[quote user="JANDL100"] Have you got around to the Nanut Bruckner 8 yet, Romy? Love it or hate it, I'm sure you'll have a strong opinion! [/quote]
I have listened it a few times and I still do not know. I like the performance but it did ...
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A film director Alexander Sokurov, the Andrei Tarkovsky’s pupil, will direct the Bolshoi's new production of "Boris Godunov. In April 27". I hope it will be proporly filmed and made available.
By Raymond StultsPublished: April 20, 2007
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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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Guys,
You really misunderstood this CD. This is just a compilation of GOOD MUSIC well performed and interpreted and it has nothing to do with audio. For instance now of my compilations CDs I ever played on my playback. Those CDs are good enough for ...
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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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Zander has recorded the 5th with Philarmonia Orchestra and it's to be released soon:
Bruckner: Symphony No. 5
Benjamin Zander & Philharmonia Orchestra
RELEASE DATE: 24 FEB 2009
http://www.concordmusicgroup.com/albums/80706/
Zander had orig...
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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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STOKOWSKI - Members' Special Sale(through September 30, 2006)
CD-1190(1) STOKOWSKI and KUBELIK conduct: experimental stereo recordings from 1952. JACOB AVSHALOMOV (b. 1919): The Taking of T’ung Kuan (7:53); TCHAIKOVSKY: Symphony No. 5 in E Min...
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[quote user="JANDL100"]
Romy the Cat wrote:
JANDL100 wrote:
Yes, please - I would very much like copies of Nanut conducting Mahler 7 8 9 & 10 - that would be wonderful! (I will put...
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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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I do not care about the Bruno Walter’s or the Mahler’s himself comments. I care about myself and in the way how I want it to play not one plays, and I am disappointed.
I am not a huge fun of Mahler First Symphony; in fact I am not a huge fun ...
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A few months ago, in May of last year in the thread about Listening Rooms and Composers and How to play Bruckner Sound on Audio I have complained that my room is not what I was looking for as I was hoping to have Bruckner Room but I need up with...
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A few days ago somebody mentioned to me that Roger Waters, the former Pink Floyd man come up with an opera about French revolution. A brief research confirmed the rumors and it turned out that it was quite awhile back:
http://en.wikipedi...
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I think the true definition of good enough is not located in
sonic domains, certainly not in audio domain and not even not in musical
domain. I know a few guys in past who here very high caliber technical interpreters,
high-level directors, CTO an...
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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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A new WCRB, and a shrinking classical dialBy Jeremy Eichler, Boston Globe Staff December 18, 2009
In a city passionate about classical music, a lot of listeners get their fill by catching the Boston Symphony Orchestra and other progr...
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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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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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