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After a few deliberations I picked the Prokofiev’s Complete Symphonies box with Valery Gergiev conducting his new London Symphony Orchestra. It looks like London sound got much warmer and friendlier under Gergiev. I also heard a lot of positive b...
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Can anyone help me understand why I find this music so utterly 'directionless'?It is a digital recording from 1981 by DG (Stereo 2532 003)I experience this Brahms recording in particular, as 'going nowhere' , directionless, as if put together by some...
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I do not like the Jews who feel that word genocide was invented for them. In fact most of the Jews do not feel this way but there is huge machinery that makes huge money by selling the Jewish genocide – he need it as a propulsion of their entire ente...
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I really do not know why there is so mach publicity and so much noise around Boston Symphony Hall as some kind of acoustic wonder of the world. I am unfortunately frequently in the Boston Symphony Hall and I do not like the sound of this Hall. It is ...
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Symphony No.3 has nothing with the death camps, middle part refer to II war. It say about sorrow of a single man in Polish mouintans. This opinion about death camps in Gorecki Symphony No.3 comes from Staalhoj and Palmer movies where is pla...
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With an orchestra that I play with we had a concert series at a public sauna. We had to wear tuxedos like penguins and had a tent set up outside to entertain the sauna members between their time in the cabin. We played populist stuff like Ravel Boler...
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Last week in a different thread I posted:"I've been reading about
the acoustic characteristics of the world's great symphony halls, like
Boston and the Concertgebouw. Did you know that Sabine, Berenak, and
Cyril Harris mathematically defined t...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"] Levine gave to BSO deliberate full body ...[/quote]
On Wednesday, March 25, 8pm, London Symphony Orchestra and Valery Gergiev play in symphony hall. It would be good opportunity to hear “another” orchestra. The program in...
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Although I am a Brit and have been an avid fan of classical including British music (RVW is my fave) for several decades, I just haven't been able to appreciate what the hell Elgar was on about in his 2 symphonies. (I've loved his '3rd' as completed...
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Sergei Prokofiev is one of my favorite composers. I like all of his music. His Classical Symphony No.1 was composed to emulate Joseph Haydn's composing style, although there is nothing in the music that would lead me to connect it with Haydn. Toni...
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Posted on Tue, Jul. 19, 2005
Baltimore Symphony appoints AlsopFOSTER KLUGAssociated Press
BALTIMORE - Marin Alsop was appointed music director of the Baltimore Symphony on Tuesday, overcoming vigorous dissent by ...
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There are some “unlucky” compositions for “audio people”. For instance the Mozart’s Requiem: still there is no good performance of this work committed to a recording media. Yes, there are more or less OK performances of the Requiem but the comple...
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I picked this up a few weeks ago and it has become one of those CDs that I keep returning to often. I don't know what it is about the Russians, but they seem to perform music with such passion. Maybe it is all of the suffering they, as a ...
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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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I few months back I picked up in my local used CD store a used CD of “The Queen Symphony ” for $5. To my surprise (and I am not a big fan of the Queen rock-and-roll band and do not particularly know their music … the 5-movement symphony is derivation...
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I do not even know where to start. I my comfortably warm and presold to myself world there is only one way to play Bruckner 8 symphony. I have quite a few recordings of the work that I like and I have “The Supper Recording” that makes all there r...
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This Sunday is was devastating. It was 85F in my town with 1000000% humidity. I did not sleep the whole high before and felt not god. The center air-conditioned in my house did not work as I expected and since I tolerate heat very badly I felt li...
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It is immensely popular and has many great recordings. However, l if your looks for another immensely popular and well–recorded work, let say Mozart 40 symphony, then you will not find among tones of recordings a lot of truly good recordings. With Er...
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I never was a big fan of this symphony, as I am not a big fan of Shostakovich generally, but this time it was truly remarkable performing event. My local FM WGBH 89.7 stated the new fiscal year funding campaign and compile a CD recorded “live” locall...
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Thank, Okan.
I will be there. Any good concert in Mechanics Hall worth to attend even under a penalty of two hours of driving.
This might be very much an interesting consent. The State Symphony of Russia use to be the main state sponsored symphony ...
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"Highlights include complete Beethoven Symphony Cycle, Strauss's Four Last Songs with Renée Fleming, Mendelsshohn's "Elihah," Mahler's Fourth and Seventh Symphonies, and Premieres by Carter, Harbison, Lieverson and John Williams.
BSO Music Director ...
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The local, mostly whoreish publications, are drooling over themselves about the Beethoven’s Third symphony BSO played this week. I sat on Saturday and listed it (and recorded of cause). God, listening the concert I realized that it was epiphany why I...
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Last few weeks Amy was playing with BPO, and it was surprisingly
good. Zander’s Boston Philharmonic is very strange orchestra. Sometime Zanders’
interpretations are just “survival” and sometime BPO do sound like semi-professional
orchestra. But so...
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Romy, thanks for the link, it is very educating. Anyhow without knowing who they are and how they are good, I bought the ticket yesterday, which is a good catch for me. I know 2hrs driving from Boston at the rush hour is a torture, but afte...
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If you are interested in “better” BSO recordings then here is a wonderful site that that list BSO recordings. The wonderful about this site that it has the catalog of the Transcription Trust’s broadcasts as well as the know “live” off-the-air r...
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Truckloads of ecstasy tonight!Two LF boxes are finished, and it makes me giggle to think that you have twelve. :DOut of a billion mp3:s and ripped CD:s, the first movement of Tchaikovskys (Mravinsky) 5th and the fourth of Beethovens 9th have jus...
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It was Shostakovich Ninth, it played a couple days back; it was the FM broadcast by the estimable MTT and San Francisco. I hardly call it as a symphony. Rather it is a compilation of musical irrationality, though written amazingly smart and rational....
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[quote user="zako"]Hans Vonk is also my favorite... It was Slatkin that built up the St Louis Symphony orchestra,,and passed the batton on to Vonk when he left,, VONK and the STL.,,,did a special concert for PBS TV of Carmina Burana,,,The chorus and...
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"Under Young’s button the 8th sound like it is a light, concert version of the symphony, some kind of almost operetta-style phrasing. Then I presume that this style is not Ms. Young version but Bruckner own original vision."
I don't think Bruckner...
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Interesting history!https://vimeo.com/179471456...
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