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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: Shostakovich vs. Shostakovich by Romy the Cat on 2007-10-24 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The "new" Shostakovich 10th symphony in Musical Discussions  22 Replies 
Hmmmmmmm, Jerry I do know Shostakovich very well, and it is not that I do not “get” him. I do “get “him unfortunately. I just I do not like many of his “thighs”, that might have4 to do with many things – my personal heritage and my “admiration” of ma...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: Shostakovich vs. Shostakovich by Romy the Cat on 2007-10-24 
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Hmmmmmmm, Jerry I do know Shostakovich very well, and it is not that I do not “get” him. I do “get “him unfortunately. I just I do not like many of his “thighs”, that might have4 to do with many things – my personal heritage and my “admiration” of ma...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: You have some room to go... by Romy the Cat on 2007-05-22 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Ah Mravinsky ! in Musical Discussions  8 Replies 
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...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: The "new" Shostakovich 10th symphony by Romy the Cat on 2007-10-21 
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I never was a big fan of this symphony, as I am not a big fan of Shostakovich generally, but this time it was truly remarkable performing event. My local FM WGBH 89.7 stated the new fiscal year funding campaign and compile a CD recorded “live” locall...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #9: The “wrapped” Shostakovich as a commodity. by Romy the Cat on 2007-10-25 
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[quote user="JANDL100"] I hadn't realised it was a contentious issue. [/quote] O, yes. There are lot controversies about Shostakovich and the infamies “Testimony” – did not help as lot but rather spill oil into the fire. I do not tend to accuse Solo...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #9: The “wrapped” Shostakovich as a commodity. by Romy the Cat on 2007-10-25 
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[quote user="JANDL100"] I hadn't realised it was a contentious issue. [/quote] O, yes. There are lot controversies about Shostakovich and the infamies “Testimony” – did not help as lot but rather spill oil into the fire. I do not tend to accuse Solo...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: Shostakovich preludes - what a hell of crap! by Romy the Cat on 2015-05-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The "mystery" of Shostakovich in Musical Discussions  4 Replies 
I think 20 years back I bought a good rendition of Shostakovich preludes by Tatiana Nikolayeva. I remember how it was and where I was. I was not a huge fun of the preludes but I was hypnotized by a stunning illustration on the CD box: the chasing...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: That bad boy Shostakovich... by Romy the Cat on 2004-06-24 
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As I told, I’m generally not a fan of the Shostakovich’s orchestral music. There is in Shostakovich’s “large music” a constant sense of vulgarity, peasant intellectualism, humiliation and a sense of blown-up meaningless artificial musicality that ver...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: The "mystery" of Shostakovich by Romy the Cat on 2006-01-19 
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The lucky Bostonians have a privilege to enjoy the WHRB Orgies. Who do not know that WHRB Orgies are continues FM broadcast of musical programs devoted to a single composer, player, singer, genre, or even a subject. This moth we have  Robert Schu...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Re: The "mystery" of Shostakovich by Ronnie on 2006-01-30 
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I ordered the Bartok piano concertos 1,2 & 3 with Bronfman / Salonen and loved itGot their Rachmaninov piano concertos 2 & 3 recording today and loving it.Now, what's left in Salonen / Bronfman recordings seems to be Shostakovich pi...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Shostakovich piano concertos by Romy the Cat on 2006-01-30 
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[quote user="Ronnie"]Just curious: what do you think of the Shostakovich piano concertos?[/quote]If you are interested about the Shostakovich concertos then you might try Bernstein playing it and conducting in at the same time, the Shostakovich playe...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: The "new" Shostakovich 10th symphony by Romy the Cat on 2007-10-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The "new" Shostakovich 10th symphony in Musical Discussions  22 Replies 
I never was a big fan of this symphony, as I am not a big fan of Shostakovich generally, but this time it was truly remarkable performing event. My local FM WGBH 89.7 stated the new fiscal year funding campaign and compile a CD recorded “live” locall...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #7: Pease, leave all that politically-sentimental sensationalism alone. by Romy the Cat on 2007-10-24 
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[quote user="JANDL100"]Yes, of course, there is much submission to the powers that were in many DSCH orchestral works - his life, and the lives of his family were literally at stake, after all. Stalin was not a nice or forgiving man.[/quote] Jerry, t...

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 #2: Re: The "mystery" of Shostakovich by Ronnie on 2006-01-30 
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I ordered the Bartok piano concertos 1,2 & 3 with Bronfman / Salonen and loved itGot their Rachmaninov piano concertos 2 & 3 recording today and loving it.Now, what's left in Salonen / Bronfman recordings seems to be Shostakovich pi...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Shostakovich piano concertos by Romy the Cat on 2006-01-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The "mystery" of Shostakovich in Musical Discussions  4 Replies 
[quote user="Ronnie"]Just curious: what do you think of the Shostakovich piano concertos?[/quote]If you are interested about the Shostakovich concertos then you might try Bernstein playing it and conducting in at the same time, the Shostakovich playe...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #7: Me too... by Romy the Cat on 2022-01-15 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Prokofiev in Musical Discussions  14 Replies 
[quote user="steverino"]People are not required to like or dislike anything. I guess the question you raise would require some additional info to answer. Some people have Austro German music as their reference and therefore don't really like styles w...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #15: I begin to hate Asahina by Romy the Cat on 2007-12-03 
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[quote user="JANDL100"] I have just listened to it - you are right - very very good.  I will send you a recording Asahina made of the 5th in 1960.   I think you will enjoy it very much as well.  .... dare I say it is even better t...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: That bad boy Shostakovich... by Romy the Cat on 2004-06-24 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Chostakovich: Concerto pour violoncelle et orchestre n°... in Musical Discussions  3 Replies 
As I told, I’m generally not a fan of the Shostakovich’s orchestral music. There is in Shostakovich’s “large music” a constant sense of vulgarity, peasant intellectualism, humiliation and a sense of blown-up meaningless artificial musicality that ver...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Yep, it was a very good concert by Romy the Cat on 2009-10-09 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Vasily Petrenko in Boston. in Musical Discussions  2 Replies 
Yep, it was a very good concert.  The Stravinsky's Scherzo was pretty good. The BSO sounded very nice and Petrenko left a good impressions. The Petrenko’s interview the Ron Della Chiesa’s introduction of Shostakovich was very interesting.  If it was ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: The "mystery" of Shostakovich by Romy the Cat on 2006-01-19 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The "mystery" of Shostakovich in Musical Discussions  4 Replies 
The lucky Bostonians have a privilege to enjoy the WHRB Orgies. Who do not know that WHRB Orgies are continues FM broadcast of musical programs devoted to a single composer, player, singer, genre, or even a subject. This moth we have  Robert Schu...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: The most ridicules symphony ever. by Romy the Cat on 2006-12-17 
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It was Shostakovich Ninth, it played a couple days back; it was the FM broadcast by the estimable MTT and San Francisco. I hardly call it as a symphony. Rather it is a compilation of musical irrationality, though written amazingly smart and rational....

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: 2010 Classical Grammy Nominees by Romy the Cat on 2009-12-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: 2010 Classical Grammy Nominees in Musical Discussions  1 Replies 
Category 95: Best Engineered Album, Classical (An Engineer's Award. (Artist names appear in parentheses.))Britten: Billy BuddNeil Hutchinson and Jonathan Stokes, engineers (Daniel Harding, Nathan Gunn...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #18: Ah ... by Amphissa on 2008-03-25 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Getting Started with Myaskovsky in Musical Discussions  35 Replies 
This is the first time I have heard of her performing in the U.S. I knew that she had occasionally played in Europe, and was involved with some project with Abbado in Berlin. But I thought that she only rarely toured outside Russia. I'm not sure wher...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Shostakovich’s 100th birthday... by Romy the Cat on 2006-09-24 
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Nowadays, during the week of Shostakovich’s anniversary of 100th birthday, it has been a lot of Shostakovich’s music played here in there. With all my “issues” with Mahlerism-Shostakovich I still listen their music, what whatever reasons…. Today ther...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Jerry's short list .... by JANDL100 on 2007-12-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Surprising: the most interesting composer of 20 century. in Musical Discussions  14 Replies 
In no particular order, just typing them in as I think of them ...Vaughan Williams (I am a Brit, after all!   Much excellent music, some of it not very well known at all - the symphonies are well known of course (the 5th ranks high among 20...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: .... an alien concept to me... by Romy the Cat on 2007-05-23 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Ah Mravinsky ! in Musical Discussions  8 Replies 
[quote user="Wojtek"]Following some "must have" isn't moronic just naive but not a bad way for starters (or just plain guys with interest in classical music but without ambition i.e ability and discipline, to become refined classical buff-snob) There...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #8: The Mravinsky's birthday: 20 Melodia's CDs by Romy the Cat on 2007-06-04 
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Today, at Mravinsky's birthday I publish a good article by Rob Barnett: the Classical Editor of the UK-based http://www.musicweb.uk.net. Rob gives a brief observation of the 20 CDs Melodia's box-set with Mravinsky's recordings. MRAVINSKY Edition ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Re: Chostakovich: Concerto pour violoncelle et orchestre n°2 op.... by Romy the Cat on 2004-06-23 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Chostakovich: Concerto pour violoncelle et orchestre n°... in Musical Discussions  3 Replies 
Rony,   Shostakovich all-together is not a composer that I particularly care (beside his string quartets). Shostakovich did have a number of accidentally successful works but very few (as far as I concern).  I really do not remember the wo...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #10: It would be more demanding… by Romy the Cat on 2007-03-13 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Another light for the LS tunnel: transformer-attenuators? in Audio Discussions  26 Replies 
Well, I do not know what this conversation is all about. Anyhow, one point I would like to make – try to plug it into the context of the thread. It is very simple to run Sheffield’s Leinsdorf "Valkerie" and to “like” bass and dynamics. The REAL reall...
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