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I never had that Selenium 405 driver. Generally the phenolic diaphragms are very tricky and might have some excessive softness and some luck of transients. Selenium also had a habit to load gap with ferrofluid – it also might slightly detransientize ...
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A while back, during a discussion about music, a friend sat down and played for me a "Romantic" rendition of Debussy that literally had me in tears. Afterward, she +/- dismissed it as a "parlor trick", saying that to play Debussy "correctly" is...
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Then you shell try also Alfred Cortot and Michelangeli. They are different then Gieseking and it is exactly why they are interesting. Michelangeli is particularly special… The Cat ...
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I've just spent a happy couple of hours listening to some Debussy solo piano - started off with Gieseking but after a while became a little impatient with the rather thin sound quality. I switched to my complete set of Debussy piano by Go...
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Claude Debussy, Three Nocturnes (Triptych); Printemps; 1st Rhapsodie for Orchestra with Solo Clarinet;Pierre Boulez conducting the New Philharmonia Orchestra, with the John Aldis Choir, and Gervase de Peyer, clarinet; Columbia (stereo) M30483So ...
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Etudes D'un Cahier d'Esquisse; Angel 35250 (mono)G changes up here from the mostly-chromatic approach he used in the Images, mentioned above. In this case, he also manages incredibly organic timing and dynamics to play these "exercises" as...
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A while back, during a discussion about music, a friend sat down and played for me a "Romantic" rendition of Debussy that literally had me in tears. Afterward, she +/- dismissed it as a "parlor trick", saying that to play Debussy "correctly" is...
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I have his ravel and debussy, amongst other treasures on LP. The debussy is a 5LP mono collection on EMI that is one of the few discs I keep at all times in my listening room (otherwise my LP collection is in another room as I share the lis...
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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...
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If we think of "all differences" that might be said to "define" a particular Musical performance as making a full circle, then "dynamics" as we struggle to think of "them" might be said to be only "part of that circle". I think Steve mentioned Debuss...
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Debussy or any good composer not using loud dynamic shifts to generate tension has to compose so that the music works without it. Also they have to score it differently. But Debussy is not notating microdynamics just to be clear. And Gieseking's mic...
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I've just spent a happy couple of hours listening to some Debussy solo piano - started off with Gieseking but after a while became a little impatient with the rather thin sound quality. I switched to my complete set of Debussy piano by Go...
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RCA LSC 2605; stereo.A very nice recording taken from "the best" of Rubinstein's much-ballyhood 10-recital series, as noted. Some Debussy is included, which is why I remembered it at this time. In this case, Rubinstein seem...
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Music and Arts Programs of America, Inc. www.musicandarts.com info@musicandarts.com Tel 510-525-4583 or Fax 510-524-2111CD-1063(2) IN MEMORIAM HANS HOTTER (1909-2003). A selection of Lieder from the Raucheisen project of the German Radio Sy...
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I have some Cortot and some Michelangeli - somewhere - but I am not sure if it includes Debussy, because I have not been able to stay in the room with most of the "Images"-type of Debussy rendered by most artists, most of the time, so I ha...
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[quote user="JANDL100"]I'm not that 'into' Debussy or Ravel, so I thought some Beethoven sonatas might give me a better idea of his playing to start off with. [/quote]
That is kind of funny as I am not 'into' the Gieseking’s Beethoven– I...
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Adrian, one might go further with your music/liqueur/country notion; after all, what could be more archetypally Russian than to swallow a bottle of Stoli or two, followed by the vague contemplation of suicide to Tchaikovsky's No.6 "Pathetique"? For t...
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Thanks for the recommendations, Romy. And for the warning about the Mengelberg Rach3 - several of those are available cheap!One composer you have not mentioned is Beethoven ..... so I have bought 1 CD of early sonatas and 1 CD of late sonatas.&...
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I am surprised not to hear mention some of my favorites: Karol Syzmanowski, Leos Janacek, Gustav Mahler, Claude Debussy, Jean Sibelius, Charles Ives, Arnold Schoenberg, Edgard Varese, Anton Webern, Kurt Weill, George Gershwin, Alfred Schnit...
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A couple hours ago WHRB stage own 4 days long, day and night Mstislav Rostropovich’s Orgy. The Broadcast is available on line – a phenomenal work listening… The program is more then exiting:
Saint-Saëns: Cello Concerto No. 1 in a; Sargent, Philharmo...
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Ye, Walter Gieseking was one of the greatest pianists of his time. It is too sad that the stupid American propaganda machine screwed up the Gieseking’s reputation. Have you already heard his Debussy and Ravel? It is like nothing else.
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Robert Witrak, the owner of High Definition Tape Transfers (HDTT)
http://www.highdeftapetransfers.com/
does CD transfers form older analog tapes. The transfers generally better then commercially available CD, and despite of the restricted and in a ...
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MRAVINSKY'S RECORDINGS (1938-1984) IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDERThe data courtesy to Kenzo Amoh from Tokio
1938/03/27-4/3 Leningrad R M Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5 OMel 06820/33 unknown
1938-1939 Leningrad R M Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5 BMG(J) BVCX 80...
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A DOCUMENTARY HISTORY OF EMI CLASSICS Narrated by THOMAS HAMPSON
1 MENDELSSOHN: Spring Song/Adolf Umbach (clarinet) 2'17" 2 TCHAIKOVSKY: Forgive me (The Queen of Spades)/Nikolai Figner (tenor) 2'54" &n...
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Some people say the BSO is the most "European" sounding US orchestra. Well, when listening to the recordings of the orchestra under the baton of Charles Münch it sounds truly wonderful and... indeed like a fine European orchestra. The Deutsche Grammo...
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Etudes D'un Cahier d'Esquisse; Angel 35250 (mono)G changes up here from the mostly-chromatic approach he used in the Images, mentioned above. In this case, he also manages incredibly organic timing and dynamics to play these "exercises" as...
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Someone would have to be at least 80 years old to have heard Gieseking in concert at an age when they could assess such things. I think he was always known for his delicacy and softer playing. The recording sonics of live concerts in those times were...
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Having listened a few times now, I still like the piece enough that I ordered the CD (Letters For The Future). I'll get back about how it comes across on my main system. Meanwhile, I often detect a sort of "buzz" exuded by artists who seem to be supe...
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The CD got here in maybe 2 days, "Letters For The Future", Time For Three, DG label. It is structured and played as a concerto. I just played it via my Accustic Arts Drive 1 transport/iDAT 44++ DAC, etc. I am glad I got the CD, as it makes the Music ...
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We are so overly familiar with the music of the Romantic era (and to a lesser extent with some 20th century orchestral music) that we tend to overestimate the importance of dynamics overall in music and in listening. Obviously, abrupt and frequent dy...
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