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Following the recent thread about the Prokoviev’s “Hale to Stalin” I would like to pitch to the choral music lovers one more name. Russian Orthodox liturgy mostly sucks. There was a dozen of Russkis composers who composed Russian chants: Totov, Grech...
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[quote user="amperidian"] …in typical Gergiev fashion ... grave, dynamic impact with iron-like control, yet musical and subtle with finesse when called for. I think it is very hard to balance those elements and right now nobody does it better t...
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Here in Boston, we’re blessed with a number of very good classical FM radio stations. I had for a long time a Magnum Dynalab Etude tuner and quite regularly was listening “live” broadcasts and many other beauties of urban FM life. I had a few t...
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I received three Reference Recordings discs yesterday - 'Exotic Dances from the Opera', 'Rachmaninoff Symphonic Dances' and 'Dick Hyman Thinking of Bix'. I'm surprised that I actually like these (musically speaking) more than I thought I would.
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Baba,
I was thinking about you tonight. I was thinking to converts some of my tapes to digital but I do not want to play with the quality aspects of the transfers. So, I wander: what if I encourage you to do more interesting transfers then ha...
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As a weekend-only listener, it can take me eons to break in some of my most stubborn components. In the case of the K&K, things seem to have reached +/- tonic equalibrium.I may have have mentioned it in passing, but at some point ...
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Allo fellas,
Yes, it is strange. There are a number of decent venues for large scale classical, the Barbican, Royal Festival Hall, opera at the Coliseum etc, but as far as I can tell, on FM, it's Radio 3 and Classic FM, the latter playing cheesy sni...
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This is very interesting subject. As many times I went to live concerts with somebody I never remember that a person was listening problem. There were people who underdressed or over-dress, the people who over-used perfume, the damp people who read ...
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[quote user="Paul S"] I was simply amazed years ago by the little Sony "Pro Walkman" tape recorder, which could literally create and play back material that was sonically better than most records.[/quote] I also have used a professional DAT recorder ...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Dynamics and they mostly come from electric relationship between amplification and drivers. [/quote]I would certainly add to that the relationship between the driver and the enclosure. I know I am on the other side of the ...
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Back in 2019 I was converting the Altec Model 19 into myCetla 91 version
by introducing to it a custom new 18-section horn loading by Vitavox S2 driver.
It was a fan project and it was using in my Opera room for years. This morning
I was passing b...
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[quote user="stuck.wilson"]one of the most heinous- outside public opinion- is the current state of 'studio recording'- not scrupulous and thorough transparent use of good recording equipment, but the economics-derived aesthetic of ...
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This may not be the right place. I am always emotionally involved with the music I listen to. Sometimes there is a quality to it that makes tears stream down my face - not matter what gendre of music or whether it is sad or happy.This subject was d...
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Another conductor whose recordings I recently discover (Got bless the Japan) one after another and keep astonish myself that Kegel is relatively little know or popular."Known in the United States primarily as the conductor of a surefire recording of ...
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New Releases All releases are on CD or 24/96 DVD
1) BEETHOVEN - CHRIST ON THE MOUNT OF OLIVESHERMAN SCHERCHEN CONDUCTING THE VIENNA STATE OPERA ORCH.JAN PEERCE · MARIA STADER · OTTO WIENERVIENNA ACADEMY CHORUS
Transfered from ...
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I have written in past that for some mystery reasons my PP3000+, and I presume all other PP3000+, do adversely affected by switching power supplies in the feeding line. I have PP3000+ and older PP3000 and both of them works wonderfully, one on main l...
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With my resent discovery of Wagner:
http://www.romythecat.com/Forums/ShowPost.aspx?postID=8393#8393
…..I am listening some Wagner lately and I discovered a truly gem. In 1960 Frantz Konwitschny led Berlin’s Staatskapelle and State Opera Chorus with...
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Well, this basement is certainly not a basement with “sweaty
walls and floors”. It is perfectly finished and in addition to everything it
has its own (not just a zone but asset of completely dedicated and isolated
from the rest of the house...
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[quote user="el`Ol"] ….I loved eastern European recordings because of their far less damped concert halls…. [/quote]
el`Ol, you are most likely is a German or some kind of central European. If you so like the sound of eastern European under-da...
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I know, I know… It is light, it is pop, it is not serious, it is glitzy … but not when Hermann Scherchen does it! As many times I heard it I always was shocked how a magnificents of an interpretation could convert a peace into a totally new music. (A...
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[quote user="steverino"]We are talking about subjective reactions so there is no way to dispute either of our responses. [/quote] Of cause we do talk about subjective reactions. I do not see that we “dispute” reactions but we rather exchange reaction...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"] Lbjefferies7 wrote: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 Go...
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OK,
the Onegin’55 broadcast went through and was recorded. I asked Clark to figure out what they would be using as sources. He was not able to but he made me “happy” informing me that “the broadcast -- due to a temporary glitch -- will be compresse...
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Tomorrow MET will be broadcasting Barenboim leading MET with Tristan and Isolde. It has been run for 2 weeks I has generally a good reception.
http://www.operainfo.org/
I would certainly love to see James Leven in there but it is what it is. ...
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I was listening the Opera it last night and then returned back to the Prince Gremin aria – there was a true fascination HOW the Italian bass Ferruccio Furlanetto he did the celebrated Gremin’s story.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hF9MZ3nacrk
Princ...
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With my FM recordings and with my few other sources to get digital uncompressed files I come to the situation that I need to rearrange the data stoppage for my Digital Audio Workstation (hate the word DAW but it is what they use). I have currently ar...
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[quote user="steverino"]I always thought that Stokowski was very attuned to Mussorgsky. I think he was the first conductor of the original Boris Godunov version by Mussorgsky as opposed to the R-K orchestration. His Boris Suites are a good "synthesis...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]
oxric wrote:By analogy, an Item Audio equipped with an optional blu-ray drive would serve precisely this function. It would spin a disc, extract the data and code it so that it is available for the next stage in the cha...
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I added another 1T drive to my DAW (the 88/24 fills space fast) and I came to an interesting problem.
I have a few drives to store the recordings on my DAW: orchestral drive, chamber drive, instrumental drive, opera drive, recording drive. I store ...
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Mozart's Magic Flute. What else should be said? Many “simple people” consider it as one of the greatest opera… Well, I always find it… almost annoying.
A few days I watched a strange production of Magic Flute that I liked a lot and even more that on...
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