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Thinking of this discussion I just revisited a "time-related" post I made years ago:http://www.goodsoundclub.com/Forums/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=9884Great work from Fritz Reiner, directing the RSO through Brahms' 4th Symphony, and perhaps worth a close l...
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I also have problems with Prokofiev, like having noisy, intrusive neighbors' sounds flying around while I'm trying to do something else. I do have what I think is a good version of his VC2, but I forget which dead Russian violinist was lead. I'll try...
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now THAT is the kind of instruction in critical listening that gives you some real guideposts for making your system sound right! romy, i believe you have honestly set a new standard... i have a 2 way system, so i can't use the exact instr...
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I've had lots of down time for a while now, and I just saw the old IEM (in-ear monitor/earbud) post while mining the site. I already posted that I got a Crane CC2E radio, mostly to listen to nighttime re-broadcasts of the local symphony orchestra. I ...
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Hi!The cuts are from a bonus disc that came with EMIs "Centenary Edition - 100 Years of Great Music", a 10 CD set issued in 1997. Each CD was dedicated to a decade long span, beginning with 1897-1907.I bought the set when it came out, and I...
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A few months ago, I played the last movement of Shostakovich's Fifth symphony and went to cast my vote against our current dirt in White House. Nowdays, a celebrated cellist Matt Haimovitz released his new album. In there, he introduces his cello ver...
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I was truing to figure out what was my most impressive musical experience in just past year. After a little consideration and without naming the nominees I'm declaring the winner: Brahms Symphony #4 by Sir John Barbirolli and Wiener Philharmoniker du...
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I had to take a look at this thread... I've played the few Beethoven symphonies that I have today. one 5 and two 7.After 1 LP side of Böhm/Berlin I couldn't stand anymore and actually thought "what a stupid symphony!".I decided to give Carlos Kleiber...
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That's interesting Romy - I had not seen that website before.250 recorded albums - I had no idea! I have a lot of his work on CD, but nowhere near that many.I have his Dvorak 8th symphony - very good, but perhaps a little fast. I am...
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Christoph Eschenbach led last night BSO with the Bruckner symphony and it was somewhere between “boring” and “waste of time”. I hope the Saturday performance will be better. We had tickets for Saturday but we will be out of town, so we went for Thurs...
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This is apparently a "good week" for Bruckner fans, according to The Guardian:https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/oct/31/classical-home-listening-bruckner-vienna-philharmonic-choir-of-kings-college-cambridge-cleobury-bruckner-collegium-vocale-gent...
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Sadly not a blissful evening at Symphony Center.To my ears the orchestra sounded unrefined, and the intonation of the horn section way off.Occasionally in the quiet passages some magic was communicated, but overall they seemed unable to come to harmo...
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[quote user="rowuk"]The orchestra played B7 last year and I can testify the first trumpeter (regardless of "quality") cannot just play without abandon from beginning to end. Bruckner did not compose with earthly bounds in mind. It is not a case of ha...
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Unfortunately Lenny Bernstein did nothing to advance Bruckner here and the critic Harold Schonberg kept up the verbal abuse against him for 30 years or so. Romy is correct that Bruckner requires performance familiarity. A few rehearsals won't cut it....
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Partly too, if not largely, this blandness results from the recording process and its expectations wherein performers strive for perfection at the cost of expressiveness. Even orchestras that have not recorded for ages fall prey to it. A band like th...
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Yep, the TU-X1 is just wonderful. Find someone to align it, have a good antenna, good attenuator (it is hard to use it without one) and headphones to set the attenuator right – it is all that might ever need from FM. BTW, are you planning to record a...
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Ok Romy thanks for advice. I will see about the loading for my shelter, and my cable to the step-up is nothing special. I am going to listen to mono only for next few weeks and see if i find the "same character of sound everywhere" syndrome! I do h...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"] To assess how far audio imaging from sound of a ”live” musical presentation we need to subtract visual experiences from perception, including the long-lasting visual experiences.[/quote] OK, Soundstage is a BS category and...
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[quote user="rowuk"]EUREKA - The Magico is a creative tool for new experimental music - not a reproducer of old! Even Miles Davis is on record as calling Beethovens music "Dead Shit"............[/quote]Presumably the music that Magico (or other vendo...
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For a casual observer it might appear that I am constantly fought with my ULF, finding and loosing better and worse configurations. It might be so but I have a very strong sense of objective of what I would like to accomplish. I want to reinstat...
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For decades I've declared him the Greatest Living American Composer.I was privileged to know him and visit him back in the Eighties and early Nineties. A true gentleman. His two sons followed him in classical music, one as a violinist, the other as a...
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Just this morning Boston's classical music station WGBH just featured The Red Violin Concerto by John Corigliano. Joshua Bell performing with the Boston Symphony. A wonderfully colorful and dynamic presentation. Since being introduced to the g...
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Last year I am in obsessive and compulsive quest for most interesting Third Movement of the Mahler first symphony. I happen with me from time to time. I love that French funeral march into which Mahler stick so much twist but I am under a neurotic f...
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It is a tradition in Boston to close the Tanglewood season with Beethoven IX symphony and it is almost a tradition to pay it very badly. Today was not an exception. Michael Tilson Thomas led BSO with Tanglewood Festival Chorus with the celebrated wo...
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In a few days Simon Bolivar’s National Youth Orchestra of Venezuela will be paling in Boston and I am kind of debating if I need to do. They have a program that I do not particularly care: Bartok’s Concerto for Orchestra, Bernstein’s Symphonic Dances...
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I can't remember how long it's been since I sat through this concerto. Today I sat through it twice.First version was Marlboro Festival Orchestra/Alexander Schneider; Rudolf Serkin, piano; Jaime Laredo, violin; Leslie Parnas, Cello; Columb...
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What an amusing little peace! I had it for a while along with the rest of my Munch recordings but I never paid attention to this César Franck’s work until recently heard it on radio. It is 1962 recording and Boston lead by Charles Munch. It was 3 yea...
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Last night as I lay down in bed I checked what was on the local PBS FM, using my headphones. Beethoven's 7th Symphony was near the end of the first movement, and it was being played well enough that I continued listening through to the end.I was try...
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I do not like Gershwin and I do not like Rhapsody in Blue. I call it all the “elevator music”. I also very much do not like how they shot the whole performing event – this is new fashionable CNN style of camera work is very amusical and more suitab...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Amy the Kitten is amazing. [/quote]Well, those two events had happened today for a first time. Today I for a first time committed adultery to my wife by sleeping not with her but with a box set of records. I just woke up hu...
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