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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 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The new releases from "Music and Arts" in Musical Discussions  2 Replies 
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 #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...

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Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: If you are in Bruckner: Lovro von Matacic in Musical Discussions  18 Replies 
As far as I know the Matacic discography never was made available. A few weeks ago a fellow at other (more amorphous) forum – Mr.  Makopolus - published his list that I find worth to be preserved and publicized. So he is it: the Matacic discogra...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #35: The Myaskovsky Orgy by Romy the Cat on 2009-12-01 
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David, are you around. A day after tomorrow my Local WHRB broadcast Myaskovsky Orgy. The have internet feedhttp://www.whrb.org/Thursday, December 3 1:00 pm MYASKOVSKY AND THE SOVIET SYMPHONY Born in 1881, Nikolai Myaskovsky witnessed and re...

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 
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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 #1: 2011 Brucknerathon by Romy the Cat on 2011-08-12 
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Since the September 3, the Bruckner birthday is coming California and Connecticut have announced their annual Bruckner Marathons: West Coast Brucknerathon: Overture in G minor: Asahina / New Japan Philharmonic (live, JVC, 1980) Sy...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #65: BPO will play B7!!! by Romy the Cat on 2013-06-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Bruckner, me and the Seventh in Musical Discussions  81 Replies 
BOSTON PHILHARMONIC just announced the 2013-14 Season and they will be playing Bruckner Symphony No. 7 on Friday, February 28, Symphony Hall, 8pm.   Special BPO Concert (rescheduled from April, 2013)Beethoven, Coriolan OvertureBeethoven, Symphony No....

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #42: 12th annual Bruckner Marathon, California by Romy the Cat on 2010-08-05 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Bruckner, me and the Seventh in Musical Discussions  81 Replies 
Join us on Saturday, September 4, 2010, to celebrate Bruckner's 186th birthday in Carlsbad, California.  This year marks our 12th annual Bruckner Marathon and we'd like to share some good music with Bruckner lovers. As in previous years, we'll pl...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Tanglewood 2010 by Romy the Cat on 2010-07-06 
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Well, sadly James Levin is out the summer season and will be substituted but it is what it is. ******************************************************* Tuesday, July 06, 2010 - 8:00 PM - Emerson String Quartet performing all Mozart program a...

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 #1: Getting Started with Myaskovsky by Romy the Cat on 2006-09-18 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Getting Started with Myaskovsky in Musical Discussions  35 Replies 
A few weeks ago Amphissa sent me a collection of recordings of Myaskovsky. I knew Myaskovsky, head his Sixth Symphon, “something else” and his cello concerto but to have a pile of selected CDs by a great aficionado of the Myaskovsky's music really he...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Classical Grammy Awards Winners by Romy the Cat on 2010-01-31 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: 2010 Classical Grammy Nominees in Musical Discussions  1 Replies 
Best Classical Album Award to the Artist(s) and to the Album Producer(s) if other than the Artist. Mahler: Symphony No. 8; Adagio From Symphony No. 10 Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor; Ragnar Bohlin, Kevin Fox & Susan McMane, choir directors;...

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: The WHRB’s Rimsky-Korsakov’s Orgy by Romy the Cat on 2008-05-01 
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My WHRB’s starts the spring Orgy period, the podcast available on-line. http://www.whrb.org/ On May 5th 6MP, WHRB starts to broadcast 3–days long Rimsky-Korsakov’s Orgy with the following program:1865 (rev. 1884): Symphony No. 1 in e, Op. 1; ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #12: The Baffling Case of Anton Bruckner by Romy the Cat on 2012-04-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: How to play Bruckner Sound in Audio. in Playback Listening  16 Replies 
...by H. Robbins Landon  From "High Fidelity" (mid 1960s) A couple of years ago, Vienna's famous concert organization, the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde, sent out to its subscribers a questionnaire asking them what kind of music they wanted to hear, ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #39: Record at Boston Symphony Orchestra by Kunashirsky on 2011-07-05 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: An unexplored way to deal with the sound/music perception in Playback Listening  39 Replies 
[quote user="zako"]Is any of this field theory connected with STRING theory,,But on a larger scale???[/quote]I would become a felt boot! -Strings!? - Yes, there's a string - this orchestra.While writing this somewhat dull in artistic terms. But as a ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #9: The Absolute Tone Impotency and New Jersey Symphony by Romy the Cat on 2007-04-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Low output MC? in Analog Playback  22 Replies 
[quote user="Stringreen"] The New Jersey Symphony purchased a number of high priced instruments - Strads, Guanaris, etc. in what they called "The Golden Collection".  They paid way too much money for the collection, but thought that the better s...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: My Boston Symphony Hall sucks by Romy the Cat on 2008-02-05 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The sound of Concert Halls in Audio Discussions  7 Replies 
I really do not know why there is so mach publicity and so much noise around Boston Symphony Hall as some kind of acoustic wonder of the world. I am unfortunately frequently in the Boston Symphony Hall and I do not like the sound of this Hall. It is ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: The New sound of London Symphony Orchestra by Romy the Cat on 2009-12-31 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The New sound of London Symphony Orchestra in Musical Discussions  1 Replies 
After a few deliberations I picked the Prokofiev’s Complete Symphonies box with Valery Gergiev conducting his new London Symphony Orchestra. It looks like London sound got much warmer and friendlier under Gergiev. I also heard a lot of positive b...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Gorecki and Symphony No.3 by unicon on 2010-11-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: RIP Henryk Mikolaj Górecki in Musical Discussions  10 Replies 
I heard he briefly mentioned somewhere the Symphony No.3 could be not just for sorrows that Jews well faced in death camps... but it is for all of our sorrows .I never liked his personal views and never liked jews but we just humans ...unicon ....

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: The Symphony of Sorrowful Songs? by Romy the Cat on 2010-11-15 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: RIP Henryk Mikolaj Górecki in Musical Discussions  10 Replies 
I do not like the Jews who feel that word genocide was invented for them. In fact most of the Jews do not feel this way but there is huge machinery that makes huge money by selling the Jewish genocide – he need it as a propulsion of their entire ente...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Johannes Brahms - Symphony No.4, Carlos Kleiber, Wiener Philharmoniker by Axel on 2009-10-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Johannes Brahms - Symphony No.4, Carlos Kleiber, Wiener Phil... in Musical Discussions  8 Replies 
Can anyone help me understand why I find this music so utterly 'directionless'?It is a digital recording from 1981 by DG (Stereo 2532 003)I experience this Brahms recording in particular, as 'going nowhere' , directionless, as if put together by some...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: Victor Bendix Symphony 1 by steverino on 2024-07-31 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Richard Wetz and Martin Scherber, composers influenced by Br... in Musical Discussions  19 Replies 
One other symphony that I think fits in the general Bruckner style, albeit early Bruckner of Sym 3 and 4, is Victor Bendix' Symphony 1 in C Major. Bendix was a Danish composer who lived 1851-1926. The Bendix Sym 1 was written at the same time as ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony by Romy the Cat on 2005-10-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Tchaikovsky Symphony #4 in Musical Discussions  16 Replies 
[quote user="Ronnie"]I have been enjoying the "Euroclassic Notturno" (BBC?) program on swedish radio tonight. As a happy rookie in the world of classical music, I seek advice on Tchaikovsky based on what I just heard; His Symphony No. 5.I though...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Brahms 4th Symphony in its own time by Paul S on 2009-02-22 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Brahms 4th Symphony in its own time in Musical Discussions  2 Replies 
Royal Symphony Orchestra, Fritz Reiner conducting; Chesky CR6, 1988(originally recorded in London's Walthamstow Town Hall, October, 1962).This is an excellent dub and transfer of a lovely (stereo) recording done just before Fritz Reiner passed on.&nb...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #21: Sibelius symphony recordings .... by JANDL100 on 2008-12-16 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Performance of a week. in Musical Discussions  87 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] .... but I never was attracted to Sibelius’s Symphonies. But here it was a totally other story. The Firth and Seventh ISymphony plated by Boston Symphony in 1975 under no other then Colin Davis, with Firth probably be more...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: Re: Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony by dazzdax on 2005-10-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Tchaikovsky Symphony #4 in Musical Discussions  16 Replies 
Well Ronnie, welcome to the world of classical music! Tschaikovsky 4th is actually my favourite Tschaikovsky symphony (Mravinsky!), followed by the 6th symphony (also Mravinsky). The 4th is dramatic, dynamic and opera like, the 6th is tragic: when...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #8: Re: The Fifth Symphony by Ronnie on 2006-03-06 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Tchaikovsky Symphony #4 in Musical Discussions  16 Replies 
Yes! The first movement of the fourth certainly is wonderful.This is great music, and the images of furry hats marching to tragic war in -60C winter when I hear these symphonies have disappeared, leaving only the sense of greatness of spirit.The #6 i...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: I hate, hate, hate, hate Boston Symphony! 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 
I juts hate that band. I hate everything about them – their tone, their sound, their idiotic Tanglewood, did I mention the BSO brass! The BSO during 30s and 40s was the orchestra that not only was able to play but was able to play phenomenally. Nowad...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #9: Svetlanov's complete(?) Myaskovsky Symphony set by Romy the Cat on 2008-01-11 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Getting Started with Myaskovsky in Musical Discussions  35 Replies 
The rumors are that Warner has bought licenses of all Svetlanov's recordings and they are reissuing them now. So far the Myaskovsky set is available only in Europe http://www.amazon.fr/Int%C3%A9grale-Symphonies-Nikola%C3%AF-Miaskovsky/dp/B000XCTD5S/...
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