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I have to confess a sin - I was listening today the Myaskovsky’s cello concerto 5 times. It is not that I got hooked on Myaskovsky but Amphissa was right - Myaskovsky does have his own unique voice.
Myaskovsky is kind of a mix between Prokofi...
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Yesterday we with whole family were trying to reorganize our
CD collection. The lover did move the CD alphabetically but we did not check if
they know the alphabet. Anyhow, it was mess now and we decided to sort it out.
I think it take take a few ...
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STOKOWSKI - Members' Special Sale(through September 30, 2006)
CD-1190(1) STOKOWSKI and KUBELIK conduct: experimental stereo recordings from 1952. JACOB AVSHALOMOV (b. 1919): The Taking of T’ung Kuan (7:53); TCHAIKOVSKY: Symphony No. 5 in E Min...
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"I wonder what cultural/musical heritage the psychotic white-trashes that conquested our Wight House nowadays would be able to leave?""Our Wight house nowadays" has Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice, pianist extraordinaire, who just l...
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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...
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Thanks Romy, I'm getting one of those renditions by Carlos. Any better sounding, or most remarcable edition?You should post some day your preferences/obsessions about conductors making great works of specific composers. I mean something like "I gener...
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I agree with the notion that with age our tastes change, I also listen to and perform a lot of classical to baroque music, mostly with historically correct instruments and with attention to different temper.I do not consider Bach or Vivaldi any less ...
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Steve, it certainly gets down to what one listens to/for, as well as system capabilities. My own current experiments have to do with "presentation", broadly speaking, of big works including Bruckner, Brahms and "similar" music that - to my ears - re...
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[quote user="steverino"]
The subject of vulgarity in art gets confused with bad taste and satire, so I am not sure which exactly you mean.[/quote]I meant what Brahms did not have....
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Steve, thanks for the scholarly perspective. I am happy to have recordings, including multiple iterations of some works, so I can listen to and even compare various performances, since it seems there is always room for variations. Regarding early mus...
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Or: Buy a new hammer and - for a while, anyway - everywhere you look, there's something that calls for a hammer.The electricity today was shite (thanks, Smart Grid!), but I none the less enjoyed some of the music I played. While playing Brahms' PC2...
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I don't know where you are Chris but get a decent aerial for it mounted on the roof if you can manage it. There was some great stuff on R3 today including a comparison of many of the best versions of the Brahms clarinet trio and some tremendous live ...
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[quote user="noviygera"]… but do not mount those woofers behind your listening position. I tried that and it's tonally good but it's confusing as hell to the brain even if crossed over 80-100hz, still confusing. Put them in front or on sides, where t...
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Yup, Kegel is an excellent and under-appreciated conductor. I have his complete Beethoven symphony set which are all very fine "middle of the road" performances. I also have him in Bruckner 5th and 8th (both with the Leipzig Radio Or...
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Günter Wand:born: 1912 in Elberfeld Germany, died 14th Feb. 2002 in Switzerland, age 90.Was a German orchestra conductor and composer.KölnerOper 1939Intermezzo in Salzburg Austria, due to World War II issuesback in Köln in 1945, Generalmusikdirek...
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I am still waiting for a (single stage) tube that can make full range Music via speakers. I mean, this is the real issue, isn't it? Sure a good tube will pass a "full range signal" through the right transformer; but where is the tube that will do t...
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Let's face it, the best paid orchestras too often avoid mistakes, and they don't really give themselves over to the Music ensemble often enough, IMO. Also it seems there are not so many conductors at any time who can really get the most from an orch...
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I understand this is a "popular" piece of music (popular for classical music, anyway), but I never really got into it the way I did Brahms' PC 2 and a couple of others. But this piece came on my clock radio on a Sunday night, and I later learned it w...
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A DOCUMENTARY HISTORY OF EMI CLASSICS Narrated by THOMAS HAMPSON
1 MENDELSSOHN: Spring Song/Adolf Umbach (clarinet) 2'17" 2 TCHAIKOVSKY: Forgive me (The Queen of Spades)/Nikolai Figner (tenor) 2'54" &n...
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The BSO give us the concerts with sliced AIFF files. I wonder how can I make the program to run as a continue file? I was trying to glue the AIFF file back into one file but the Brahms Requiem for instance makes 2.117G of combined file and 32 bit Win...
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I also thought London should have more and better classical stations than Madrid. In Spain we have only two or three sindicated broadcast nets and but for the Radio Clasica channel and RNE3, all the others are always programming crappy music and "tal...
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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...
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I also have problems with Prokofiev, like having noisy, intrusive neighbors' sounds flying around while I'm trying to do something else. I do have what I think is a good version of his VC2, but I forget which dead Russian violinist was lead. I'll try...
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I hate when I'm listening to think of the composers, or performers themselves, in cases where their personal lives or politics were (are) vulgar, or even abhorant. Plenty of examples, unfortunately. As for Brahms, we have discussed here that not all...
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New Releases All releases are on CD or 24/96 DVD (Playable on all DVD players)
HOLST - THE PLANETSSir Adrian Boult · Vienna Academy Chorus · Vienna State Opera OrchestraA forgotten Westminster re...
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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...
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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...
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As some of you have seen in my little run across Cello concertos:
http://www.goodsoundclub.com/TreeItem.aspx?PostID=2630
where I suggested that Rostropovich and Svetlanov with Russian State did the best Miaskovsky Cello Concerto that I’ve heard. We...
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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?...
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Well, as I said – you never know. I was listing the live Friday WGBH broadcast over internet from my work (very bad quality) and when I got home I listen my recording. The Brahms Double Concerto I did not like, but the Bruckner 7 was very-very good. ...
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