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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Dvorak/"Dumky" Trio/Beaux Arts; Good Stuff! by Paul S on 2010-08-09 
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Pearl (Stereo) LP, SHE553Here is a "bagatelle" from Dvorak; rather, a sack full.  The work is done up in 6 short-ish "movements" that are +/- rounds based on the Ukranian "dumka", a sort of semi-hysterical peasant dance that typically features the al...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Dvorak Piano Quintet by Ronnie on 2006-10-12 
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I recorded a horribly beautiful piece (from Swiss Internet Radio) and would like to find the disc;Dvorak - Piano Quintet in A major Opus 81-02-Dumka, andante con motoDo you think you could identify the recording if I can transfer the 16Mb mp3 somehow...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #7: Elgar and Dvorak by tuga on 2008-11-16 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Great Cello Concertos in Musical Discussions  21 Replies 
This year I was lucky enough (for a guy with a young kid and a little baby) to be able to hear both these concerts live with one of the local orchestras, the Gulbenkian Orchestra (http://www.musica.gulbenkian.pt/orquestra/index.html.en). Dvorak's ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Dvorak Cello Concerto in B minor; Kubelik/VPO/Fournier by Paul S on 2010-12-24 
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London LL-1106; mono LP; 1954I feel so expansive listening to this, and I think a lot of it is because Fournier's playing is so perfect, in a very "modern", 20th century way.  He does not put finger or bow awry, and the double-string work has to be h...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #14: A wonderful Chicago Symphony “Beyond The Score” presentation on Dvorak... by Romy the Cat on 2010-06-11 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: My new favorite "New World" (Karel Ancerl/Czech Ph... in Musical Discussions  14 Replies 
Nine parts are  available. Here is the past one. Follow the links for he rest....

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: The new releases from "Music and Arts" by Romy the Cat on 2005-12-06 
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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...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Dvorak/"Dumky" Trio/Beaux Arts; Good Stuff! by Paul S on 2010-08-09 
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Pearl (Stereo) LP, SHE553Here is a "bagatelle" from Dvorak; rather, a sack full.  The work is done up in 6 short-ish "movements" that are +/- rounds based on the Ukranian "dumka", a sort of semi-hysterical peasant dance that typically features the al...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #11: 250 Albums! by JANDL100 on 2007-10-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A great conductor - but almost unknown - Anton Nanut in Musical Discussions  52 Replies 
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...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #21: Lynn Harrell playing Herbert's Concertos 1 & 2 by Paul S on 2012-09-11 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Great Cello Concertos in Musical Discussions  21 Replies 
Victor Herbert, Cello Concertos 1 & 2, and 5 Pieces for Cello and Strings; London CD, D-125316, with Neville Marriner conducting his Academy of St. Martin in the Fields orchestra; Lynn Harrell, Cello.Although I have never been a fan of Marriner's...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #12: Jerry's Anton Nanut CDs by JANDL100 on 2007-10-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A great conductor - but almost unknown - Anton Nanut in Musical Discussions  52 Replies 
Here's a list of my current holding of Anton Nanut CDs ....___Beethoven symphonies 1 to 8Beethoven overtures: Leonora III, Coriolan, Fidelio, King Stephen, Ruins of AthensBeethoven Mass in CBerlioz Harold in Italy & Roman Carnival ov.Brahms piano...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #61: Could soprano duet be ever better? by Romy the Cat on 2010-02-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Performance of a week. in Musical Discussions  87 Replies 
Spinning tonight the record of Dvorak’s Moravian Duets, Monteverdi and Carissimi with Elisabeth Schwarzkopf and Irmgard Seefried, Gerald Moore plays piano. It is EMI 1956 recording, I guess mono. A wonderful singing, particularly Dvorak. Insanely bea...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Lutoslawski Concerto on WCRB by Romy the Cat on 2010-02-13 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Lutoslawski’s Concerto for Orchestra and Boston Philharmonic in Musical Discussions  2 Replies 
This weekend on Sunday Febuary 14, at 3pm on 99.5FM will broadcast the Benjamin Zander’s take with Boston Philharmonic on the Lutoslawski Concerto for Orchestra.  I am very excited to hear it again. Te rest of the broadcast will be Brahms Violin Conc...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #387: When good is not good enough. by Romy the Cat on 2011-04-01 
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Last night I was listening  Zubin Mehta’s recording of Bruckner’s Symphony No.9. It was his first recoding from 1966 with Vienna. I am not a big fun of this performance all together but it has spectacular first movement...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: X-mas list by RonyWeissman on 2009-12-24 
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Wish list;A mid-bass horn for my Altec 515-8G drivers operating from 100-600hz (it seems only Santa can make this for me)a new CD-player as my STuder A730 is kapputa collection of bruckner LPs (i don't have any!)a new listening chair to replace my IK...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #14: Czechoslovakia, London, Russia … and 40 year ago. by Romy the Cat on 2008-11-25 
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In her autobiography  Galina Vishnevskay  (the Rostropovich’s wife) wrote (translation is mine): “In Moscow we spent only three weeks, and then by plane we returned to London to participate in the Festival of Soviet Art, just before 21 A...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Dvorak Piano Quintet by Ronnie on 2006-10-12 
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I recorded a horribly beautiful piece (from Swiss Internet Radio) and would like to find the disc;Dvorak - Piano Quintet in A major Opus 81-02-Dumka, andante con motoDo you think you could identify the recording if I can transfer the 16Mb mp3 somehow...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #14: It was not SHM-CD foramt but the people who produced the disk. by Romy the Cat on 2008-06-19 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Japanese Super High Material CD in Didital Things  16 Replies 
I got one SHM-CD disk a few months back, right after I post the initial article, and I hate it.  The SHM-CD technology might be worthy but unfortunately from that specific SHM-CD disk that I have purchased (Kubelik’s Dvorak) was absolutely impos...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: The Mstislav Rostropovich’s Orgy. by Romy the Cat on 2008-05-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Mstislav Rostropovich Dies at 80 in Musical Discussions  7 Replies 
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...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: Les francaises by RonyWeissman on 2013-10-25 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Celibidache / bruckner in Musical Discussions  12 Replies 
well we will see, I have never heard the celibidache munchen bruckner, it has very good press in french Diapason magazine, but sometimes the (we) french ar somewhat superficial in our classical tastes!  i am listening today to celibidache / du pre dv...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Second Chance by Paul S on 2012-07-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Dvorak Cello Concerto in B minor; Kubelik/VPO/Fournier in Musical Discussions  1 Replies 
It's been too long since I last heard this.  Today, with different amps, I heard it a little differently, with Kubelik "working it" a little harder, using his first chairs to put lovely, "subtle" shadings on Fournier's decisive phrases, with phenomen...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #16: The Anton Nanut CDs pressed by domestic Japanese labels? by Romy the Cat on 2007-10-04 
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Yes, Jerry, thanks,I would like to pick some Anton Nanut CDs, not everything from you list but juts some of them. What I would be interesting if the Japanese folks ever pressed Nanut CD/LPs. In SOME cases the Japanese CD mastering is much more intere...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #18: Is it all that Ortofon SPU can do? by Romy the Cat on 2005-04-25 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Tell me about more about Ortofone SPU Sound. in Analog Playback  54 Replies 
I have been running my new Ortofon SPU Mono cartridge and can’t figure out why SPU has such a strong positive reputation and why some SPU users when I ask them about Sound of those cartridge they roll up their eyes. Yes, it is all around fine cartrid...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #10: According to a Slovenian web site by Romy the Cat on 2007-10-04 
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Below is the text from Slovens Website that presumably knows Anton Nanut. According to them Mr. Nanut did record the Beethoven Nineth. Interesting is that Nanut also record Dvorak’s last symphonies, Jerry, are they interesting in Slovenian rendering?...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Translation of what they say by yoshi on 2008-01-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Japanese Super High Material CD in Didital Things  16 Replies 
There isn't much in Japanese page either.  I checked some other sites including Universal's own, but all what they say are;Material Characteristics-Uses a different polycarbonate plastic which has improved transparency and superior opt...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: Re: Why you hate the “Japanese Sound” by yoshi on 2006-01-22 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Truth stretched out via Feastrex prism. in Audio Discussions  26 Replies 
For us, Japanese, there're practically no noise in the nature.  I heard that, for Westerners, the sounds insects/animals make, cricket, cecada, frog, etc., are noises.  For Japanese, they are beautiful sounds that characterlize a ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: Rooms and Composers by Lbjefferies7 on 2010-05-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Listening rooms and composers. in Playback Listening  15 Replies 
Interesting. When I moved my system and was just learning the new room and making changes, I was also listening to more Bach than usual.  I mostly wanted to play Partitas, Inventions, Preludes, and Goldberg Variations.  I was turned off by any cell...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: More High Definition Tape Transfers.... by Romy the Cat on 2006-11-17 
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DVORAK NEW WORLD SYMPHONY Antal Dorati The New Philharmonia Orchestra transferred from a London Phase Four 4-track tape, Dorati gives a dynamic performance, also the recording has a much more natural sound then majority of the Phase Four releases whi...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #12: Mid-bass Deficiency? by Paul S on 2010-06-01 
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Well, that is a small room, all right.  Regardless, a "mid-bass deficiency" alone could literally evicerate big works.  I have written up the Kubelik/BPO/Dvorak 9, because I think so highly of that performance.  It should absoutely be loaded to the g...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: Chamber in Boston and everywhere else. by Romy the Cat on 2008-10-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Bliss in Musical Discussions  3 Replies 
[quote user="op.9"] I've no idea if the LP will be better. In my experience Mike Dutton really makes excellent transfers. I'd be fascinated though if you could do better... [/quote] I do not a lot about Dutton label but when what I was searching for...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: Better BSO performances committed to recordings. by Romy the Cat on 2007-08-05 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: I hate, hate, hate, hate Boston Symphony! in Musical Discussions  72 Replies 
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