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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #9: Furtwangler B8, 1944 by Romy the Cat on 2012-04-05 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: How to play Bruckner Sound in Audio. in Playback Listening  16 Replies 
I kind of deeper and deeper submersing into my version of Audio and for the last few months I completely naturally switch to explicit listening of Bruckner. I do have other music and I do attend concerts where non- Bruckner music is played but it...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #68: Today. by Romy the Cat on 2014-02-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Bruckner, me and the Seventh in Musical Discussions  81 Replies 
It is not frequent Bruckner 7 in Boston and today is the day. Ben Zander takes today Boston Philharmonic with one single concert of Bruckner 7 at the symphony whole. I kind of feel almost responsible as I was harassing him last year asking him to p...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #9: The other Resurrection? by Romy the Cat on 2011-03-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Why I do not love Mahler? in Musical Discussions  15 Replies 
[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...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: Zander and Bruckner's 5th by tuga on 2009-02-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Zander, BPO, George Li and Saint-Saens in Musical Discussions  6 Replies 
Zander has recorded the 5th with Philarmonia Orchestra and it's to be released soon: Bruckner: Symphony No. 5 Benjamin Zander & Philharmonia Orchestra RELEASE DATE: 24 FEB 2009 http://www.concordmusicgroup.com/albums/80706/ Zander had orig...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #8: The Bruckner Connection by Paul S on 2023-06-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The Loudspeaker (Troels Gravesen project); Finally! in Audio Discussions  36 Replies 
Weird, I realize, but this speaker project included a mental exercise about “proper” playback for Bruckner 7”, how to facilitate hearing and figuring out what is going on with that Music. As ever, I turned different speaker and amp ideas aroun...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Macondo: new horizons. A few thoughts in context Zander’s B5 by Romy the Cat on 2009-02-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo: new horizons. A few thoughts in context Zander’s B5 in Playback Listening  9 Replies 
I have to admit that the live Zander’s Bruckner Fifth from the end of 2007 made me to re-think how I would like Macondo to sound. It is not that I recognized new Macondo’s “Hi-Fi problems”, whatever it has I am very comfortable with it, but I rather ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: More like a good cognac by rowuk on 2014-09-24 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: First Bruckner listening for Neanderthals. in Musical Discussions  7 Replies 
It took me, even as a classical trumpet player a long time to warm up to Bruckner. I really didn't have a specific event that let me get it-it was more like a labor of love with the score and letting the music play in my head. If I were to pick an in...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #26: Bruckner 8, The Power and the Glory by Paul S on 2024-02-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The Loudspeaker (Troels Gravesen project); Finally! in Audio Discussions  36 Replies 
Today I listened again to a couple of Bruckner 8 performances on CDs, namely von Karajan/VPO, 1988, also Schuricht/Stuttgart, 1954.  The Music is amazing on both CDs, but the 1988 performance (which may well have been digitally recorded to begin ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: This is ridicules! by Romy the Cat on 2011-09-24 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: How to play Bruckner Sound in Audio. in Playback Listening  16 Replies 
I just realized that practically 85% of my non-FM listening is Bruckner music.  I found myself that sometime listing some other programs I feel a need to interrupt it and play some Bruckner, to rest. I hit the rock bottom and I have some of the conce...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #7: New B9 from Frankfurt by Romy the Cat on 2014-11-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Bruckner Ninth and the War. in Musical Discussions  20 Replies 
Just come in: Stanislaw Skrowaczewski and  Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestrahttp://concert.arte.tv/fr/stanislaw-skrowaczewski-bruckner ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #9: And some Bruckner over the air.... by Romy the Cat on 2014-01-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Boston and Bruckner in Musical Discussions  13 Replies 
Well, unfortunately, or fortunately, Giulini with Vienna during this live 1988 performance have closed any imaginable interpretation of Bruckner 9. At least it is the way how I feel…. In Feb 13, 8PM, Herbert Blomstedt will be leading San Francisco Sy...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #73: Cohabits and Cohibas by clarkjohnsen on 2013-10-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The Opera Room in Audio Discussions  77 Replies 
It's great that you two both have the Bruckner habit -- a Bruckner cohabit? Of the three recordings I know only the Eighth, but at the time it seemed to me and mine one of the greatest Eighth performances ever. How does it hold up? And where's it fro...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #87: Bruckner 5 from Holland by rogier on 2013-10-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Kitties go to London in Audio Discussions  92 Replies 
It seems every conductor has his/her own interpretation/feel of Bruckner.Here is one from last sunday, Bruckner 5.http://radio.omroep.nl/u/201446/?silverlight=The concert begins about 19 mins. into the program, don't be too much annoyed by the mp3-co...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #86: The same phenomenal Bruckner 8. by Romy the Cat on 2013-10-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Kitties go to London in Audio Discussions  92 Replies 
As almost a month passed but I still ca not go over some aspects of the Bruckner 8 that was played at the Proms. I would like to do something specials for you guys. Among all different versions of the Proms recording I picked the one that I feel woul...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Bruckner 8, WDR and Manfred Honeck by Romy the Cat on 2020-10-29 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Bruckner 8, WDR and Manfred Honeck in Musical Discussions  1 Replies 
Anton Bruckner - Symphony No. 8 in C minor WDR Symphony Orchestra Video 02/08/2019 01:30:07 hrs. Available until 02/08/2024https://www1.wdr.de/orchester-und-chor/sinfonieorchester/werkeinfuehrungen/bruckner-achte-sinfonie-100.html...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #9: Georg Tintner's Bruckner VII by dazzdax on 2007-08-05 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Bruckner, me and the Seventh in Musical Discussions  81 Replies 
Hi Roman, what do you think of Georg Tintner's Bruckner VII (or the other Bruckner symphonies conducted by him)? And how is Barenboim's?Chris...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #45: Bruckner by zako on 2010-12-16 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Bruckner, me and the Seventh in Musical Discussions  81 Replies 
After listening to Bruckner many many times,,  And professionally recording his compositions,, I am compelled to make this auwfull statement,,, I feel that he is a second rate composer,,,He,s done a large body of work,,But his overall statement,,,TO ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #31: The Hans Graf and Boston Symphony by Romy the Cat on 2009-03-22 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: I hate, hate, hate, hate Boston Symphony! in Musical Discussions  72 Replies 
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. ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #93: "Wagner and Bruckner have been a passion of my life." by Romy the Cat on 2014-07-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Kitties go to London in Audio Discussions  92 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]  Romy the Cat wrote: Please, please, please, the Brit...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #272: The infrabass injection. by Romy the Cat on 2018-04-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A listening room for a domesticated Cat? in Audio Discussions  283 Replies 
I was listening a few days ago the first crescendo of the Bruckner 9 by Vienna and Giuliani. I was listening probably 20 times in row and was always feeling that I was missing something. The Bruckner crescendo are different then most of the cresce...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #331: Spring.... by Romy the Cat on 2012-03-12 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Romy The Cat's new Listening Room in Audio Discussions  478 Replies 
It is 75F in Boston, unseasonably warm. I got home today and it is 68F in my listening room and 75F outside, it is sign that spring came and you know what Cats do in march – you are right  - getting horny on open air Bruckner listening. So that what ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: The new Bruckner Third. by Romy the Cat on 2011-09-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Bruckner 3rd in Musical Discussions  5 Replies 
[quote user="jp"]I have been getting into Bruckner Third lately and Ive been trying to find some decent recordings.  Jochum Berlin version I have is a bit too hurried.  I would prefer something more articulate and with a bit more finesse.  Any sugges...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #72: The BSO night in Nirvana by Romy the Cat on 2013-10-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The Opera Room in Audio Discussions  77 Replies 
The Bessnow’s home turned tonight in absolute Nirvana, as far as I concerned.  We kind of have a slow evening (Amy is on calls) and we desired to convert into true quality time. Kitty decided to let me to smoke my Cuba’s Cohabits in house.  So, my 18...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #9: Buying In to Bruckner by Paul S on 2020-08-11 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Stay home with Bruckner in Musical Discussions  9 Replies 
JJ, for me, the issue with Bruckner is that it does not often sound coherent to me, in terms of themes, phrasing, and structure. Rather, it often sound discursive to me. I have a copy of the 4th (comments in the Music section thread) that mostly make...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Bruckner 8 Performances, CDs by Paul S on 2024-02-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: ... and some Bruckner buzz in Musical Discussions  4 Replies 
I think I have 3 versions of Bruckner 8, 2 performances on CD. 1 CD is Carl Schuricht/Stuttgart, 1954, and the other is Herbert von Karajan/Vienna, 1988. The Karajan CD sounds better through my system, and I also prefer it in terms of the performance...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Thanks. by Romy the Cat on 2020-06-12 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Berlin Philharmonic Direct to Disc Bruckner 7 with Bernard H... in Musical Discussions  2 Replies 
Yes, rowuk, thank you, I have seen it. The FB Bruker forum showed a video a few weeks ago how Mike Framer demonstrated his fetish of opening the box, smelling it and to glorifying it in all imaginable way. It is hard to say what it is. Bernard Haitin...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #76: I did not get why they need to play national anthems in beginning. by Romy the Cat on 2014-03-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Bruckner, me and the Seventh in Musical Discussions  81 Replies 
I think the third movement was the best. Mehta really took his time there and dropped the overly fast tempo of the whole work. Some moment were truly nice during that adagio.   I did  not hate the performance in the way how I hated some other Bruckne...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: Celibidache is a strange fruit. by Romy the Cat on 2013-10-25 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Celibidache / bruckner in Musical Discussions  12 Replies 
The Celibidache popularity is in my view is kind of inflated by his withholding his recordings during his life time. I personally have very bad experience with Celibidache. Long time ago I bought an expensive Celibidache box set with Celibidache reco...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: A way to start with Bruckner. by Romy the Cat on 2018-04-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Recommendation Bruckner performance/recording in Musical Discussions  2 Replies 
Arno, it is great that you express a curiosity about Bruckner music. I do not feel however a regular recommendation for choosing a good performance and recording is something that you might need not if you are not familiar with Bruckner at all. Yo...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #11: BPO back with… Bruckner 8 by Romy the Cat on 2021-10-15 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Boston and Bruckner in Musical Discussions  13 Replies 
Tonight Amy, after so many problems with work, kids, husbands, etc… will be playing Bruckner 8 in Symphony Hall  https://www.bostonphil.org/concerts/2021-2022/bpo1-brucknerIt looks like the event  will be available for live broadcast…...
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