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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Bruckner 3 & 8 by jessie.dazzle on 2011-03-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Bruckner 3rd in Musical Discussions  5 Replies 
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...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #35: There is a new 7th out there.... by Romy the Cat on 2010-01-07 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Bruckner, me and the Seventh in Musical Discussions  81 Replies 
Carlo Maria Giulini and Berliner Philharmoniker from 1985. http://www.prestoclassical.co.uk/r/Testament/SBT1437The Cat...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #9: And some Bruckner over the air.... by Romy the Cat on 2014-01-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Boston and Bruckner in Musical Discussions  13 Replies 
Well, unfortunately, or fortunately, Giulini with Vienna during this live 1988 performance have closed any imaginable interpretation of Bruckner 9. At least it is the way how I feel…. In Feb 13, 8PM, Herbert Blomstedt will be leading San Francisco Sy...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Maria Callas’s Glory Days: Available in Europe by Romy the Cat on 2007-08-26 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Maria Callas’s Glory Days: Available in Europe in Musical Discussions  3 Replies 
This edition, 26 CDs box-set, compiled and commented in detail by Juergen Kesting, presents recordings from Maria Callas in glory days, the first decade of her career from 1947 to 1956. This collection is structured on themes and roles. Mar...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #7: Hmmmmmmmmmm.... by Romy the Cat on 2020-07-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Stay home with Bruckner in Musical Discussions  9 Replies 
God, Mats, thank you for reminding me about the Clark’s favorite recordings. I went over just one box and I have so many more! I wish I had time to do it, I had some time luxury a couple month ago as but not now. I do need to run that project through...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: A stunning Beethoven’s “Emperor” Concerto. by Romy the Cat on 2004-09-26 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A stunning Beethoven’s “Emperor” Concerto. in Musical Discussions  15 Replies 
As anyone else I have developed my own ways to buy music. Beside any of my current interests, I, for instance, have some conductors who’s recording I buy no mater what: Scherchen, Golovanov, Barbirolli, Bohm.... Among pianists it would be probably th...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: Beethoven’s symphonies... by Romy the Cat on 2005-03-18 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Ludwig van Beethoven "9 Symphonien" in Musical Discussions  22 Replies 
I do not know, Antonio. The Beethoven’s symphonies are divert it would be difficult to point out a specific performance but rather an array performances: 3 - Toscanini, Schmidt-Isserstedt, Weingartner5 - Carlos Kleiber6 - Walter, Erich Kleiber, Boeh...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #66: Another Wand’s Bruckner 8 by Romy the Cat on 2011-01-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Performance of a week. in Musical Discussions  87 Replies 
I got today two new recordings, Bruckner 2 with Giulini and Wiener and Bruckner 8 with Gunter Wand. The Bruckner 2 was very much not what I expected, not to mention that sound on this Testament CD was horrible, but the Bruckner 8 was a truly somethin...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: I for quite a while listen Bruckner daily. by Romy the Cat on 2011-11-13 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: There is Bruckner and there is all the rest music. in Musical Discussions  5 Replies 
It is hard to explain but it is different. When I sit in my chair and play something then there is a very distinct deference between the events when I play Bruckner and non Bruckner. In fact I think I listen differently Bruckner and non-Bruckner musi...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #72: What a play!!! by Romy the Cat on 2013-09-15 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Kitties go to London in Audio Discussions  92 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Please, please, please, the British folks, make sure that you have download, record or whatever you do the last night Bruckner 8 performance. Leave the hornblende Bach plaing in the first part alone and preserve that Brucke...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #7: Bruckner and conductors/versions by Romy the Cat on 2014-04-12 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: If you are in Bruckner: Lovro von Matacic in Musical Discussions  18 Replies 
Hm…. Listening Bruckner more than I am willing to admit publicly without fear of incriminating myself I need to say that have slightly different approach to Bruckner.  First of all I do not differentiate different revision of Bruckner symphonies. I k...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: The Best Of Wiener Philharmoniker by Romy the Cat on 2006-05-12 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The Best Of Wiener Philharmoniker in Musical Discussions  2 Replies 
Nope, I am not going to threaten you with one of those threads “what would be the best…?” Still, the Wiener Philharmoniker has a CD of the “Best Of Wiener Philharmoniker”… witch is… surprise, surprise IS the best they play. Well, I would say that the...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #300: Absolutely beautiful! by Romy the Cat on 2009-05-16 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Single-stage Melquiades vs. DHT amps in Melquiades Amplifier  397 Replies 
I started this thread on November 22 last year, or about 6 month ago. 3 years back I went for single stage amps and 6 month ago I begin to conceptualize a move for a higher gain for MF and consequentially the DHT in output stage. Today the new MF...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #25: The new channel: first disappointment. by Romy the Cat on 2006-08-15 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Adding one more spherical to Macondo. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  92 Replies 
Well, I loved, loved it loved it… but today I decided to experiment with integration the new horn into the system and learned that it would be far much complicated and take more efforts. Below are 3 sweeps form listening position, Firs is the new hor...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: The orchestra’s and conductors’ “in-house sound”. by Romy the Cat on 2007-04-16 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Instrumental music vs. orchestrated counterpart in Musical Discussions  5 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] Nowadays, however, (because multiple reasons) orchestras sound with no expressive, tonal or harmonic consistency …[/quote] [quote user="Michaelz"] Could you please expand on this?  I am very much interested. [/quote]...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: A CD off tune? The Big CD Conspiracy theory? by Romy the Cat on 2009-08-25 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A CD off tune? The Big CD Conspiracy theory? in Didital Things  9 Replies 
I came across a mystery today that I have absolutely no explanation. Like many others I like the Brahms #4 symphony. I have my favorite: my beloved Barbirolli with Vienna during the Musikvereinssaal 1967 . I also a big admirer of Carlo Maria G...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #9: The Tonmeisters, 48 channels and the under-table DG by Romy the Cat on 2009-08-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A CD off tune? The Big CD Conspiracy theory? in Didital Things  9 Replies 
Scooter, I was thinking myself if it was a pirated CD and I very carefully inspected it, I did not found any signs of not authenticity but I am not expect in it. To me it looks like a legitimate DG album. Though I admit that with contemporary mea...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Beware of the Arkive Music idiocy. by Romy the Cat on 2011-07-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Beware of the Arkive Music idiocy. in Didital Things  0 Replies 
Like with anything else in music industry there are general negative or positive tendencies and there are the very specific and very barbaric efforts of selected individuals who are far out of margins. The case to point my recent events with Penn...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #93: "Wagner and Bruckner have been a passion of my life." by Romy the Cat on 2014-07-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Kitties go to London in Audio Discussions  92 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]  Romy the Cat wrote: Please, please, please, the Brit...

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...
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