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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: Barbirolli, Barbirolli, Barbirolli…. by Romy the Cat on 2008-11-24 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Film about Jacqueline du Pre. in Musical Discussions  5 Replies 
[quote user="twogoodears"] ...  some credits also to Sir Barbirolli's direction, of course. [/quote] Last night a local audio guy visited me and it happened that I played for him the Du Prè Elgar. As many times I played the pices as many times ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: The Brahms’ PC 2 in Barbirolli style but by Haitink by Romy the Cat on 2008-06-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Brahms [piano] Concerto #2, CSO/Reiner/Van Cliburn in Musical Discussions  6 Replies 
A couple hours ago WGBH in their “BSO on Record” program span a recording of Brahms’ Piano Concerto B-flat that was made in Boston in November 95: http://www.wgbh.org/playlists/playlist?program_id=3368365&episode_id=3981909&airing_id=3845593...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #42: Nanut, Mahler, Barbirolli and Brahms by Romy the Cat on 2008-02-06 
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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...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Mahler VI - Barbirolli with Berlin by Romy the Cat on 2004-06-20 
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My local “Borders” in Downtown Crossing always has some interesting music. I have no idea why but they have it all but if I stop by in their small classical section I always fish something “kinky”. Today I pulled of from there a few CDs and among th...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #157: Yep, Barbirolli would do it... by Romy the Cat on 2019-01-22 
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When I was making a sarcastic joke about you begin to enjoy slow interpretations (something that any VERY good playback should do to a system owner) and referred you to the Barbirolli’s Mahler of cause I mean the exquisite  performance of 1967 of S...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #156: Barbirolli Mahler by anthony on 2019-01-22 
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]If you like very slow interpretation, like I do, then you might start to listen some Barbirolli Mahler…  [/quote]I've found Barbirolli Mahler 6 & 9 by New Philharmonia Orchestra and Berlin Philharmonic respectively.  I...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: Barbirolli, Barbirolli, Barbirolli…. by Romy the Cat on 2008-11-24 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Film about Jacqueline du Pre. in Musical Discussions  5 Replies 
[quote user="twogoodears"] ...  some credits also to Sir Barbirolli's direction, of course. [/quote] Last night a local audio guy visited me and it happened that I played for him the Du Prè Elgar. As many times I played the pices as many times ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Conductors and Audio Sound by Romy the Cat on 2010-05-07 
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I always felt that my demands for quality of Audio Sound might be to degree be moderated by conducting efforts. The true enigma for me is this aspect is John Barbirolli. Barbirolli is one of my the most admired conductors of mine and he is one ve...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #76: The tales of two Bruckners. by Romy the Cat on 2011-11-29 
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Got two recordings from Tokyo and from London yesterday. The first one is Wand’s live recording with Berlin in 1999. It was Bruckner Seventh. I heard a few Wand’s Bruckner Seventh and I do not like any of them. This one from 1999 is the best Wand wit...

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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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Mentioned in the list above is a composer that I particularly enjoy is John Barbirolli, as the French, Italian and English influences on his upbringing reminds me of the cultural mix of my own family. There is a perceptive article published last moon...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #157: Yep, Barbirolli would do it... by Romy the Cat on 2019-01-22 
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When I was making a sarcastic joke about you begin to enjoy slow interpretations (something that any VERY good playback should do to a system owner) and referred you to the Barbirolli’s Mahler of cause I mean the exquisite  performance of 1967 of S...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #156: Barbirolli Mahler by anthony on 2019-01-22 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Planning my DSET in Melquiades Amplifier  186 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]If you like very slow interpretation, like I do, then you might start to listen some Barbirolli Mahler…  [/quote]I've found Barbirolli Mahler 6 & 9 by New Philharmonia Orchestra and Berlin Philharmonic respectively.  I...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #42: Nanut, Mahler, Barbirolli and Brahms by Romy the Cat on 2008-02-06 
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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...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Mahler VI - Barbirolli with Berlin by Romy the Cat on 2004-06-20 
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My local “Borders” in Downtown Crossing always has some interesting music. I have no idea why but they have it all but if I stop by in their small classical section I always fish something “kinky”. Today I pulled of from there a few CDs and among th...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Looking for different Sound of Schubert 9 by Romy the Cat on 2011-02-10 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Looking for different Sound of Schubert 9 in Musical Discussions  3 Replies 
I was playing today my beloved Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment Schubert 9 symphony under of Charles Mackerras.  It is not absolutely “right” Schubert. It has good phasing attempt and it has very good verbalization of Schubert’s metaphors but it...

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Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: GoodSoundClub – one year later. in Site Support Forum  16 Replies 
The musical performances on the disc all seem excellent to me. I particularly liked the Kodaly cello piece which was new to me. The sound quality (when played on the ghetto blaster) seems pretty good as well. It certainly brings that machine to life....

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #18: Overcooked? by guy sergeant on 2010-02-24 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Analog Transfer: the first draft. in Didital Things  19 Replies 
It would be interesting to hear this recorded at a more sensible level. Enjoyable music & playing (I think)[IMG]http://i254.photobucket.com/albums/hh107/pure_sound/Solerscreengrab.jpg[/IMG]It has the quality of a ballet dancer wearing hobnail boo...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #37: Clemens Krauss’s Brahms Third. by Romy the Cat on 2009-05-25 
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It was on March 1930. Clemens Krauss lead Vienna Philharmonic. After Walter, Bernstein (with Vienna only),Toscanini, Barbirolli, Cantelli, Levine, Furtwangler and Got only knows who esle I finally “got” the Brahms Third! What a Sound Krauss thrown!Th...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Yes, Yes, Yes! by Romy the Cat on 2005-01-19 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Best recording I heard in 2004. in Musical Discussions  20 Replies 
Yes, it is. Grab is with inhumane speed.  BTW, on the jacket of this CD the recording venue is incorrect. Barbirolli never recorded there with this orchestra. The Cat ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #9: Ah, I am happy, happy, happy Cat! by Romy the Cat on 2005-02-16 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Best recording I heard in 2004. in Musical Discussions  20 Replies 
Eventually I was able to fish the LP of the Brahms #4 by Barbirolli and Wiener Philharmoniker during the Musikvereinssaal 1967. I got it in UK for somewhere around $50. I have a special ever-growing shelf in my room with the best performances ever we...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #45: I am very compulsive in musicians’ consumption by Romy the Cat on 2008-02-21 
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Jerry, Why you are so afraid of the notion of accidentally good performance – it always happens and I do not see in it any sign of negativism. Since your introduction, listening many of the Ljubliana recordings, I would  say  that  I ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: Gerald Finzi's Cello Concerto by tuga on 2010-07-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Overlooked Cello Repertoire. in Musical Discussions  4 Replies 
This morning, while driving to work, the Classical station was playing the first movement of Gerald Finzi's Cello Concerto (14 July 1901 - 27 September 1956): From Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaThe Cello Concerto in A minor, Op 40, was compo...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Great Cello Concertos by Romy the Cat on 2006-07-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Great Cello Concertos in Musical Discussions  21 Replies 
Unquestionably to me, piano concertos are the very much The Concertos for an instrument and orchestras. My second favorite is Cello Concertos. The violin concertos are popular and they great but I frequently find that they might be annoying, particul...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #8: Re: Carlos Kleiber and the 5th. by Antonio J. on 2005-03-19 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Ludwig van Beethoven "9 Symphonien" in Musical Discussions  22 Replies 
Thanks Romy, I'm getting one of those renditions by Carlos. Any better sounding, or most remarcable edition?You should post some day your preferences/obsessions about conductors making great works of specific composers. I mean something like "I gener...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Clibun and the Lhevinnes. by Romy the Cat on 2008-06-15 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Rachmaninoff, PC 3; Kondrashin/Van Cliburn in Musical Discussions  4 Replies 
I never was a big fun of Cliburn, if you like him then try to found Josef Lhevinne… much more interning. I do remember however that Cliburn’s Rach3 was OK. If I am not mistaken Cliburn played alternative slow cadenza in fist moment – a rarity at that...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #8: Many shadows of Gieseking… by Romy the Cat on 2008-06-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: More Gieseking! in Musical Discussions  19 Replies 
Well, Jerry, I can pitch you some CDs. They would be from US resellers but I am sure you can found your local UK equivalent. Be advised that I have none of the Gieseking’s CD only LPs, so I have no idea how good sound transfer was made to CD.  G...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: A weekend of treats by Bruno Walter. by Romy the Cat on 2006-01-22 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A weekend of treats by Bruno Walter. in Musical Discussions  1 Replies 
The Boston FM radio and my Sansui TU-X1 tuner gave another magnificent treat - a whole weekend of Bruno Walter music. I always liked Bruno Walter, although he never was my “buy on spot” conductor.  Performances of some conductor (for instance Sc...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Some kinky goodies from HMV Japan this week. by Romy the Cat on 2006-02-25 
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Japanese are very strange people and fortunately sometimes this strangeness manifest itself in very cool way. For years I fish in Japan for some interesting recordings. Sometimes the Japanese folks release something that is not available anywhere els...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: An evening to remember - Russian National Orchestra performs Rachmanin... by skushino on 2006-03-29 
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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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