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NEW! CD-1180(4) Johann Sebastian Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier Evelyne Crochet, pianoCD 1 : Book 1 - Preludes and Fugues I to XV (Total time: 65:45) CD 2: Book 1 - Preludes and Fugues XVI to XXIV Book 2 - Preludes and Fugues...
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One sees this question often posed, and I think rightly so. I've been introduced to some fine music and performance by my friends and associates. In fact, they're better than reviewers!
So I was dismayed when I started off a post with...
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Romy the Cat wrote:
JANDL100 wrote:
Yes, please - I would very much like copies of Nanut conducting Mahler 7 8 9 & 10 - that would be wonderful! (I will put...
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Brahms: “Double” Concerto
(d) Zino Francescatti, Violin; Pierre Fournier, Cello; Columbia Symphony Orchestra
November 20, 1959; American Legion Hall
• LP: Columbia ML 5493; Stereo: Columbia MS 6158
• CD: CBS/...
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Amphissa wrote:Mats, I agree with you. The recording of the cello concerto by Natalia Gutman with Svetlanov conducting is the best overall performance of this beautiful concerto. It is unfortunate that she never toured i...
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Hi,
Having recently developed a deep interest in Violin Concertos (which might have been triggered by having recently attending a performance of Sibelius VC by Kavacos//Philadelphia/Eschenbach).
I have bought off the shelf performances of a few...
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Yes the first movement is killer in that Brahms.
For Tchaikovsky’s 4, 5 and 6th the Leningrad/Mravinsky is altogether fine, especially the latest Japanese release of “The Originals”. The mono releases from mid 50s are better, and especially the 6th...
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and thanks for one of my favorite audio/music websites.
Regarding Chung, he is also one of my current favorites and I am lucky enough to live in France where he is conducting quite often. He has conducted a Scherezade in 2003 with Orch Radio Fran...
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Since my last post to this thread I have listened to a few more versions of Ein deutsches Requiem, and I plan to share my thoughts about some of them, starting with the best so far. This is the 1940 live performance by the Concertgebouw Orchestra wi...
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Today BSO opens up the 2009-10 seaso with Boston’s standard Roman Carnival Overture and La Mer. It might be interesting word primer of Concerto for Harp by Williams. The key I the program in my view will be the Chopin the Second Concerto by play...
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Amy and I were listening last night Bruckner 8, the last one recorded in 1988. It is fine performance but very much vandalized by DG technicians with truly horrible sound. Amy does not knowledge all those audio sonic aspects. For the 1.5 years that w...
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Too hot to expect the best sound today, and besides I have gotten my morbid curiousity worked up about the recording/playback curves, so I fished out a few LPs mostly to hear/see how they sound with respect to the "shape" of their sound, aspects of w...
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It is excellent that Timbre is described here as color. This is actually how musicians speak about it. The problem with the comparison to photography is that color with a musical instrument is a moving target. If we take my own instrument, the trumpe...
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With all magnificence of the new 924++ DAC it have entered the second week of the Nichicon KZ playbook. It was completely predictable and highly expected and now the DAC sound very funny.
The bass is fully developed already. The DA924 always was phe...
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The Brahms is indeed a lovely 24/88 remaster. I also ordered and received the Wand Bruckner 1-9 box from the new Sony series, and there is no mastering information on the package as far as I can tell. Does anyone know if these are remastered or...
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[quote user="steverino"]Well, the circle is unbroken. Romy started his audio journey in a basement somewhere tinkering with this and that. He rose for a time into the light and now has descended once more. However this time it is called the Bunker. W...
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Miab, there are many solutions out there. Most of them from small companies. It is a niche market for sure. To try them all is almost impossible at least you want to expend a fortune. And end up with a bunch of useless gear as most I know do little t...
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OK, Romy, what about Pristine Audio? Their site looks like the usual "artificial modesty" advertising, the engineer with the "musical background" and all the fawning "support"...
Anyway, I sure like my Music and Arts Beethoven 9 CD (Furtwangler, 1...
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[quote user="mats"]Not sure how good it sounds. I get a strong signal from WFMT, but it seems compressed and with a narrow soundstage. Oh well.....[/quote] We have the WFMT programs in Boston on Sunday 3PM to 5MP. They are syndicated public broadca...
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In Praise of Infidelity
by BYRON JANIS (!!!)
Wall Street Journal, todayhttp://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703580904574638380890512334.html
In an interview last April, before his performance of Wagner's "Lohengr...
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It was an excellent article in today New York Times:
Remembering Rostropovich, the Master Teacher By MICHAEL WHITEMANCHESTER, England
IT is a truth upheld by many in the music world if not universally acknowledged that pianists are neurotic, violin...
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[quote user="clarkjohnsen"]One recording that you must become familiar with: Sigmund von Hausegger and the Munich Philharmonic (1938). It was the first, and followed (be a few years) that conductor's famous concert of two Bruckner Ninths -- Lowe's an...
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I have my issuers with American music of Copland/Gershwin level do not particularly like it. I do understand the concept of the “idealized American collective consciousness” but this American music too much reminds me the “harmonies” of Frank Zap...
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[quote user="cv"]Did you find that instead of resurrecting your interest it finished it off and its now Bruckner all the way? Or did recent changes in the Macondo bass config reveal something new?[/quote]Somebody once asked me what I like in Bruckner...
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Happy New Year, Clark.
Though I have not heard much of purely sonic interest from Blu-Ray, I have enjoyed the full Blu-Ray/home theater experience for opera, and even for a rock concert or two. It can be "fun" if I'm in the right frame of mind.
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Reggie, let to be clear that I use definition of kitsch in reference to audio installation. The Camerata as a cultural event is out of my criticism; in fact I applauded to what they did. The Camerata video did not bring me to the idea of perceivi...
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[quote user="Jordi"] 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 i...
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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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I am in minor scale mode toady and play mostly chamber music and only records. FM broadcasts with all their majesty are hardly objective tool to assess what doing on with audio. So, I play records and tapes. Besides everything I am trying to figu...
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I do feel that during the last 3-4 years there was a major shift in my perception of audio. If before the people who do not share my interests in audio just entertained me with own stupidity then a few years back I begin to feel that they starte...
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