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Thanks for the suggestions, I'll check them. I've always found Tchaikovsky kind of "soft-popular-easy-listening" music, but I was very wrong, it's just I didn't find good performances. The 6th is a great symphony despite that "ballet-like" third move...
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JP,Try the 1990 performance by the Vienna Philharmonic with Bernard Haitink conducting. Its still available new on CD. Sound quality is excellent; interpretation very much to my liking, but that is subjective.The same performance was later offered al...
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Thats interesting... When Slatkin was music director and conductor,,The St Louis Symphony was voted No#1,, i dont know how that standing came about..Some politicle shananigons i presume.. Most of the Slatkin recordings were produced for RCA at that t...
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Hey, what do you know: I have found that the “donation” CD that was broadcasted by my NPR is also available from Boston Symphony local Gift Shop. I do not think that it is possible to buy it anywhere else. Thankfully the symphony Hall is just a few b...
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I know well and like the Koussevitzky’s Sibelius’ small pieces but I never was attracted to Sibelius’s Symphonies. But here it was a totally other story. The Firth and Seventh Symphony plated by Boston Symphony in 1975 under no other then Colin Davis...
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I learned The Trojans from its first stereo (and first complete too I recall) recording by Colin Davis. It was a rather cool affair, as studio recordings are wont to be, so I never realized how hot the music actually is until this year's Symphony Hal...
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Getting slightly off topic from stereo recordings,,, I was at a live concert,,sitting way up high and all the way back in the balcony in what i call POLOCK Heaven,,,The music i heard was full bodied and without the stereo localization,,,i was amazed ...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]
Symphony No.3 has the “sorrows that Jews well faced in death camps” but reading about the 3rg Symphony I see no mentioning of the death camps in the program:
The Cat[/quote]Reading my prev post you can see its not ...
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I had today so much fan that I did not expected. The Gergiev’s Prokofiev with London Symphony turned out to be a truly devilish ride - a phenomenal performance. Mind you that not everything perfect and Gergiev play his own anti-romantic, hard-code, a...
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I did not mean to go but last night at 6.30PM I looked again at the program and realized that they substituted the “selections of music from Latin America” to Beethoven 7 Symphony. That brought the concert into very different legion, making it very a...
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Part One (on Saturday) was especially fine, even better than the Symphony Hall broadcast I heard. The Tanglewood Festival Chorus is incomparable!...
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Koussevitzky 1924-1949
Beethoven 2, 3, 5, EgmontAll BrahmsMendelssohn 4 All Mozart All ScriabinAll ShostakovichAll ProkofievAll SibeliusAll RachmaninoffTchaikovsky 4Haydn # 94Strauss Don JuanLiszt Mephisto
Munch 1949-1973
Schubert ...
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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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This post requires a dual preamble.
First preamble relates to me smiling when some people trying to push a point that there are not great performances nowadays and whatever was great have gone with the era of Furtwänglers, Klemperers, Toscaninis, Ce...
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[quote user="Stringreen"] The New Jersey Symphony purchased a number of high priced instruments - Strads, Guanaris, etc. in what they called "The Golden Collection". They paid way too much money for the collection, but thought that the better s...
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Last night the Moscow State Radio Symphony Orchestra under Alexei Kornienko played the “All Tchaikovsky Program” in Worcester. It was Hamlet Fantasy, Violin Concerto and the Pathetique. The Moscow State Radio Symphony is fifth grade band and I n...
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[quote user="steverino"]We are talking about subjective reactions so there is no way to dispute either of our responses. [/quote] Of cause we do talk about subjective reactions. I do not see that we “dispute” reactions but we rather exchange reaction...
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Well, as I do play trumpets professionally and own much more than 6 instruments, I thought that I would chime in.First of all, Romy, this is one of the most lucid descriptions of pitch that I have ever read! It also raises a point for discussion:If I...
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Yes, a good documentary but made by and for the “academic intelligencia”.
The reality is that the acoustics in Boston Symphony Hall not as great as the scholar
book love to portray. For sure there are more horrible sounding halls but there
are als...
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Recordings are listed by year of release:
"The Lord's Prayer" and "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star." Emile Berliner. (ca. 1888)
Emile Berliner, the inventor of the microphone and founder of the first disc record company, lived and worked in Washi...
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Jerry,
I might intellectually understand what you are saying but my personal experiences protest. The Nanut's Bruckner 8 is kind of “overly articulate without course”. When I hear Nanut I feel like a short-hair Abyssinian Cat is trying to fuzz hers...
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I was sitting in the pub a few years ago and overheard a conversation between two audio engineers. They had been drinking for a few hours and had reached the point of grand challenges & wagers."I can assemble a music reproduction&n...
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I believe a year or so was announced that Riccardo Muti will lead the CSO. I have no specific love of hate to Riccardo Muti but as long he is not Daniel Barenboim who in my view destroyed CSO I very enthusiastic about Riccardo Muti. Today WGBH broadc...
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[quote user="zako"]Yes we now can digitally replace the violin section and cello section,,and horn and bass,,and wind and tymponyss of an orchestra....I will now orchestrate a new Mahler Ressurection,,,,replacing Micheal Tilson Thomas with my version...
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If not for my own personal experience I would never have believed FM radio broadcast could be taken seriously. Recently I had the opportunity to hear a very highly developed audio system with outstanding phono and CD playback. After listening to mu...
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I just returned home from an evening of Russian music in Seattle - Pletnev and RNO performing Rachmaninoff and Tchaikovsky. The program began with Rachmaninoff Vocalise, then Piano Concerto #3 (Alexander Mogilevsky on piano) and ...
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I do not like Prokoviev and I need a lot of meditations to do :-) in order to “force” myself to listen him. Although I appreciate his clean and child-like expressionism but I rely do not LIKE whatever he does… unit the last night.The last night I com...
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Ive attended a half dozen performances this year and I find the acoustics of this hall quite terrible. Apart from some of the orchestra's lackluster and sloppy performance at times, the sound generally doesnt seem to carry well in this hall. It sou...
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The 4th movement of Beethoven's was playing on the radio the other day and my ears perked up. I almost didn't recognize it at all. I was quite surprised to find out that it was performed by my humble local Orchestre Symphonique de Montreal and the ch...
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The last movement of the B7 is something that put the symphony as a symphony together and it is not a good idea in my view to look at the last movement as a self-contained piece of music. The fist movement might be self-contained – it is a wonderful ...
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