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Thank you for the input guys. Paul, I hate those audiopedofile(tm) talks about connectors, but unfortunately I must go through it: there is possibly one non-kosher element in my planned Ag path: Au-on-Cu Vampire, connectors soldered to silver cables...
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Clark, if you insist, look at "Foo-foo Mozart" under the More Gieseking header, Music Discussions.I would love for someone to explain to me that in fact it's good... but then, I suppose, he'd better also explain WHY it's good...BTW, and germane...
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Those performances of the last three symphonies were OUTSTANDING! I too had heard (some of) the Friday's and hardly paid attention. For Saturday I put down whatever I was reading and listened.The BSO has never been much of a Mozart band... not under ...
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It is immensely popular and has many great recordings. However, l if your looks for another immensely popular and well–recorded work, let say Mozart 40 symphony, then you will not find among tones of recordings a lot of truly good recordings. With Er...
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Well I spoke too soon; from the second I posted word that I'd found an internet station with a fantastic play list they started playing all sorts of militaryesque crap (marches and the like, which I hate! Lots of Mozart...), and they're still at it. ...
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Nope is it now what extraterrestrials would love but rather we would be able to offer to them to demonstrate what our Earth Classical Music (let say Western music) is all about.
When in 1977 Voyager was sent into deep space then the golden phonograp...
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Romy,Well, in the course of a weekend I typically listen to a lot of music, but there are a few favorite CDs that I like to use when trying to evaluate things:Piano Music of Chopin, Brahms & Prokofiev, Lincoln Mayorga, Sheffield Lab SL505The Lein...
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Thanks for the recommendation, Romy, I've just ordered the Bohm disc from Amazon Market Place - less than £3 delivered!A Mozart clarinet concerto recording that is unusual and worth looking out for is by the Managing Director (CEO) of the Musical Fid...
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Violinists: If Leonia's violin and bow were up for auction, which would you want the most?Here is LK playing Mozart's Violin Concerto #3 in G maj., K.216; Philharmonia Orchestra, Otto Ackermann conducting.Also, Prokofiev, Violin Concerto #2 in G...
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Tonight I listened in my truck to the "local" classical station playing a Mozart piano concerto I did not recognize ibefore I lost it. As I got closer to home, there was the familiar ghosting and then adjacent station override. The reason...
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Your request reminded me I had a recording of this music that I had not listened to for several years. It is an old London Blueback lp of the London Wind Soloist. I only intended listening to a couple of tracks to refamiliarize myself with the musi...
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Romy wrote: "what is interesting the he proposes Scherchen as some kind of cult or some kind of off-mainstream?" No, not at all! He wrote: "Who on earth was Scherchen? I soon found out, and Beecham and Walter soon became history. And thus began a per...
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Nothing wrong with those wine-swirling devices, although they do strike me as being an elaborate solution to a simple problem. That said, they do the job, and people like their wine gadgetry. PS If you're getting burning rubber on the nose - and you ...
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My and Romy's posts above from a few months ago indicated this would happen so there shouldn't be any surprise. Again, Eschenbach excels mainly in choral works for some reason. Many US orchestras have far more difficulty with Bruckner than with Mahle...
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Wow, two concerts on a row and both are phenomenal. On Friday
NY Philharmonic showed off some very serious Bruckner and last night Boston Philharmonic
delivered an absolute thrill with Rachmaninoff second symphony. The first part
they did Mozart's...
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[quote user="clarkjohnsen"]Yes, the 1953 Scherchen. For over twenty-five years I have hailed it as the best ever committed to disc. So let them laugh at me, I don't care.But the sonics were not good, and it was never remastered, because alo...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Yesterday WGBH-FM broadcasted their own live-to-tape recording of Handel & Haydn Society’s Mozart K. 626, the Requiem. John Nelson conducted with Christine Brandes, soprano; Paula Murrihy, mezzo-soprano; Charles Reid, t...
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My original post asked: "Do you love Bartók?" - maybe you'd missed that?It was eluding to the famous novel's title by F. Sagan. Bartók's concert was just one of his compositions I'd listened too when writing the OP.Your response indicated to me that ...
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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....
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This is a great question, Romy! Who knows, really, since music has gone more and more "pop" for the last 50 years and the "average American" is probably stuck with the notion that this stuff is the music of the 20th century. Well, never mind th...
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Hi Scooter,
First of all, thank you for the Mac check list. Very helpful!About this Mac>More info>USB Device Tree: I appear to be able to select a dedicated port.My Revox B-260 S tuner seems immune to the Lavry at this point. I have a ferri...
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Sunday evening operas - 8 pm each week: LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO followed by opera performances from Los Angeles.June 3: Offenbach: The Tales of Hoffman; Matthew Polenzani, Anna Christy, Erin Wall, Alyson Cambridge, James Morris, Emily Fons; Emmanuel V...
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I just returned home from an evening of Russian music in Seattle - Pletnev and RNO performing Rachmaninoff and Tchaikovsky. The program began with Rachmaninoff Vocalise, then Piano Concerto #3 (Alexander Mogilevsky on piano) and ...
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Since the last week BSO phenomenal live broadcast form BSO Tanglewood I really wonder what they would show today. Today our removed James Levine leads BSO with Tanglewood Festival Chorus with All-Mozart program including the Requiem. If you lucky to ...
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It is hard to stress how much “right tone” an orchestra need to play the adagio from Bruckner 7. It might be a good orchestra but it might still be “the-Adagio-incompatible” and I have seen very few of them that are compatible.
I am playing now a v...
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Interesting.
When I moved my system and was just learning the new room and making changes, I was also listening to more Bach than usual. I mostly wanted to play Partitas, Inventions, Preludes, and Goldberg Variations. I was turned off by any cell...
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OK, and that relates to your observation of 'not enjoying the music for the tuning' of the system, and not being able to listen to one piece of music at the time --- I think it is also called "Audio-Nervosa".As far as the venue is concerned, it i...
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I think the main idea, like you say, is to enjoy. For someone to take the time every day or even every week to sit down and relax a couple of hours and just listen to music, and close thier eyes and concentrate on Mozart or even Patricia Barber is ...
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[quote user="op.9"]…. I had to throw out all sorts of preconceived ideas about how music actually works. Since then I've gradually tried to re-rationalise some of it... not always very successfully. To me, Janacek is like a compilation of all those '...
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Frankly, I do not understand your reply. Greatness did not stop with Beethoven and late Mozart but it is not the point. There is an abstract definition of greatness and there is a specific definition of interest. All that I said that despite the Bart...
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