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[quote user="jessie.dazzle"] Also, I'm convinced that a too-big space is horrible for audio as well as being non-conducive to good mental concentration (some of the best ideas are born on the toilet!) [/quote]
The subject of playback in very...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]The Levine’s Mozart was not exiting, the last week and this week… I hope today on Saturday, the last convert of the series with the most famed Mozart symphony the BSO will show off something more interesting.
However, toda...
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Antonio, nether Glazunov nor Myaskovsky were composers about whom I ever cared a lot, perhaps mistakably. Also, and maybe regrettably, not a lot of Interesting” performers play Glazunov’s and Myaskovsky’s works.
Myaskovsky has violin and cello conce...
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[quote user="Antonio J."]Would you recommend some of their works different than the most popular ones? Also knowing which is your favourite rendition of the Rachma's 3rd piano concerto would be interesting ;-)[/quote]Without any particular order:
Gi...
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Yes, I know now you feel. I visited Japans twice. Although audio was not my main objective but I spent some time for audio. Even I was at that time less critical and less demanding then I would be today still I was not pleased what I heard. Also...
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[quote user="JJ Triode"]Romy,You refer to the D minor concerto as a "piano concerto," but wasn't it originally composed for harpsichord, like all his other keyboard works? (Except organ of course.) Anyway, I have a harpsichord recording of the D...
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I am sorry that it took me so long to respond to yours and many other questions here but unlike most of the people who have the time to post here because they are unemployed, I have a DAY JOB and have to WORK for a living. This is not a value judgmen...
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Recordings are listed by year of release:
"The Lord's Prayer" and "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star." Emile Berliner. (ca. 1888)
Emile Berliner, the inventor of the microphone and founder of the first disc record company, lived and worked in Washi...
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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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[quote user="Michaelz"]Make sure that the painist does not think that you are a stalker of hers!![/quote]
Well, I did not mean to sound like this but can not resist replying: I said I was a lucky Pussy, not the pianist was.
Anyhow it was truly plea...
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It begs in interesting question. How much in the tendency of
today musicians to “homogenize” sound and to play with a genetic color might be
attributed that nowadays a recording media is a main avenue how music is consumed
but recording playbacks ...
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[quote user="serenechaos"]A great match for Asian culture/music? Makoto Tanaka (Builder of the Nessie cabinet) was at the controls, playing bamboo flutes, bells & such. [/quote]
And I am not kidding. Each time someone invite me and try to ...
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Where to get time for everything?
Amy the Kitten is playing this week with Boston Philharmonic
Rachmaninoff Second Symphony. It might be interesting. The Second Symphony is
"strange" work and you never know what to expect. I will be attuning
ju...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]
Jordi wrote:
Let us take the example of piano. When speaking of virtuosity, many classical-only listeners who listen to Sviatoslav Richter, Josef Hofman, Busoni or Paderewski for ...
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Ok, here is the link: http://www.bso.org/brands/tanglewood/press/press-releases/archived-press-releases/051231/tanglewood-75-downloads.aspxOffer to public free in MP3 128 kbps formats. Both 320 kbps MP3 and 24bit 44.1kHz FLAC versions will be availab...
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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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You know, last September is, there was listening event in my listening room,
which completely transformed my vision about audio. It was as profound as it
was for humankind the evolving from Ernestine’s partials to Niels Bohr quantum mechanics.
Lis...
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For Starters of Classical Music.By David King (Amphissa)
SuggestionPick up a copy of a good introductory overview book, like Goulding's Classical Music: The 50 Greatest Composers and Their 1,000 Greatest Works which discusses many (not all) of the...
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[quote
user="Daniel"]This is a bit of a childish "I'm right! - No, I'm
right! - No, I'm right!" 'discussion'. I know that there are differences
between acouctic live, amplified live and playback of a recording and never
stated there wasn't or one...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]
Gieseking with Barbirolli in 1939 is a phenomenal performance.
Gavrilov with Lazarev recording from 1977 is superb performance as well.
Horowitz with Reiner in 1951 did a very good job, but it is kind of th...
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My friends, considering my heritage, frequently ask me about my suggestions regarding “Boris Godunov” and I decided to compile a little and highly opinioned (no surprised here!) “surviving guide” about this opera.
It is well-known and well-told stor...
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Viktor Venglovskiy - Trombone
A side:
Sergei Rachmaninoff - Elegie op.3 No.1
V. Angelov - Skertsino (aka Scherzino)
Balys Dvarionas - Theme with variations
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Thank, Okan.
I will be there. Any good concert in Mechanics Hall worth to attend even under a penalty of two hours of driving.
This might be very much an interesting consent. The State Symphony of Russia use to be the main state sponsored symphony ...
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