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[quote user="Wojtek"]Following some "must have" isn't moronic just naive but not a bad way for starters (or just plain guys with interest in classical music but without ambition i.e ability and discipline, to become refined classical buff-snob) There...
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Was watching today the new DVD “Yevgeny Mravinsky: Soviet Conductor, Russian Aristocrat”. It is OK film, despite of very pore translation and sometime the commentaries of the wall but there is in there something absolutely phenomenal. Among many film...
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Today, at Mravinsky's birthday I publish a good article by Rob Barnett: the Classical Editor of the UK-based http://www.musicweb.uk.net. Rob gives a brief observation of the 20 CDs Melodia's box-set with Mravinsky's recordings.
MRAVINSKY Edition ...
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... 304 pages and 28CDs (juts kidding)http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0810854279/102-3443698-2772169?redirect=true
The price is slightly too stiff and I wonder if anyone heard about this book. Mravinsky during his artistic life dealt with quit...
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I picked up the DVD along with his Tokyo Live CDs when I was in Japan last month. I was most impressed by the scene of him listening to a playback at a recording studio. The agonized expression on his face is almost disturbing. ...
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I do not know any Mravinsky’s mono sets. I have individual mono records of him doing 4, 5 and 6 symphonies. He did the Pathétique in 1949 and 1956, both were certainly mono. The performance from 1956 I consider the ultimate Pathétique. The “qui...
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Was watching today the new DVD “Yevgeny Mravinsky: Soviet Conductor, Russian Aristocrat”. It is OK film, despite of very pore translation and sometime the commentaries of the wall but there is in there something absolutely phenomenal. Among many film...
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The Mravinsky’s and his orchestra trip to Austria in 1960 and this recording of the last 3 Tchaikovsky’s Symphonies are well known. I am sure any of us have a number of Italian pressed box-sets with 3 records of this performance. Yes, the Mravinsky’s...
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I have to note that I do not like the play at THIS performance but still it does a good video documentary (with incredibly stupid camera work though).
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I would agree with you that Lamm's system of naming his products wouldn't appear to be helpful to anyone. They are all too alike. When I was involved in that side of the business, I would always have preferred to use names rather than numbers, ...
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[quote user="guy sergeant"]I found the DG Privilege (70's reissue) gatefold double LP of the 1961 Mravinsky 4-5 & 6 yesterday. How many LP's were in the box set you mentioned? Presumably these symphonies were also available individually?
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That Italian set was notable too for having been pressed with vacuum-tube technology, nor did it exhibit the usual DGG over-miking and mixing. In short, the good sound reinforced the good performances.
Any comments on the earlier mono Mravinsky set?...
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Yoshi,
it is well known that Japanese collecting-recording culture is well more developed and very frequently the quality of this CD pressing is way more interesting then we have in States. I quite regularly buy at HMV Japan CDs. Some of them never ...
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One of the paragraphs in my initial posts mentioned the Mravinsky’ own version of the Nutcracker suits. A few days ago I discovered a performance of it that I did not head. It was on 12 October 1977 by Mravinsky with his Leningrad Philharmonic, live ...
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Searching trough the local vinyl store I spoted Deutche Gramophone Tchaikovsky's booklet with Mravinsky conducting Lenningrad Orchestra .(Knowing my luck it is probably not the one to have ;0) What a beautiful music ! I don't have many Tchaikovsky re...
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[quote user="guy sergeant"]I found the DG Privilege (70's reissue) gatefold double LP of the 1961 Mravinsky 4-5 & 6 yesterday. How many LP's were in the box set you mentioned? Presumably these symphonies were also available individually?
Anyway,...
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[quote user="Ronnie"]I have been enjoying the "Euroclassic Notturno" (BBC?) program on swedish radio tonight. As a happy rookie in the world of classical music, I seek advice on Tchaikovsky based on what I just heard; His Symphony No. 5.I though...
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One of the paragraphs in my initial posts mentioned the Mravinsky’ own version of the Nutcracker suits. A few days ago I discovered a performance of it that I did not head. It was on 12 October 1977 by Mravinsky with his Leningrad Philharmonic, live ...
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"A few days ago Clark Johnson visited me and I played to him the Third movement of Mravinsky 1961 performance of Tchaikovsky IV. I love what Mravinsky did with this movement and I pretty much calibrate the bass balance of my playback using this Mravi...
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Searching trough the local vinyl store I spoted Deutche Gramophone Tchaikovsky's booklet with Mravinsky conducting Lenningrad Orchestra .(Knowing my luck it is probably not the one to have ;0) What a beautiful music ! I don't have many Tchaikovsky re...
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That's really a great story, Romy. I'd love to see his face then.I have an opposit one, also from Midori's book. One day, Mravinsky's wife put on an LP of Stravinsky's "Apollon Musagete". Mravinsky screamed, "Oh, my god! ...
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[quote user="Wojtek"]Select 10 "must have ";0) and I'll take it from there. [/quote] Wojtek, I am not build my version of the stupid “HP’s Super Recommended Lists”. I doubt that people should buy music for any other reasons then their own interests a...
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As I told before: screw the after war recordings of the Bruckner 9! I think it is not about the performances itself but the way in witch they are recorded. For whatever reasons Bruckner sound very strangely recorded if it is not live and if the poly-...
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It is imposable entering the holiday season to walk across Boston’s Beacon Hill neighborhood and do not be “abused” by sound of Nutcracker coming from each open window. I just returned from my 15 minuets walk across Beacon Hill to my favorite Antonio...
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The regular visitors of my site know about my recent frustrations with my new Ortofon SPU cartridge for my “mono tonearm”: Is it all that Ortofon SPU can do? Today I made some alternations that more or less cured the audio problem and I decided ...
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[quote user="Ronnie"]I noticed that my turntables make a piece of nothing out of the third movement. The PC / DAC plays with vibrating deep bass and the whole room is creaking, while the turntables play very weak LF (but beautiful flutes).[/quote]Ron...
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yes the nutcracker, I should have put that on my x-mas list as I only have two versions : markevitch philharmonia and rozhdestvensky highlights with bolshoi. I'll order the mravinsky if I can find it on GEMM.R Weissman...
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The Mravinsky’s and his orchestra trip to Austria in 1960 and this recording of the last 3 Tchaikovsky’s Symphonies are well known. I am sure any of us have a number of Italian pressed box-sets with 3 records of this performance. Yes, the Mravinsky’s...
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Truckloads of ecstasy tonight!Two LF boxes are finished, and it makes me giggle to think that you have twelve. :DOut of a billion mp3:s and ripped CD:s, the first movement of Tchaikovskys (Mravinsky) 5th and the fourth of Beethovens 9th have jus...
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