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[quote user="drdna"]For some reason your description made me immediately think of Alfred Schnittke's Gogol Suite. What do you think?[/quote]
The Gogol Suite is very different Music. The Suite has that scorny spiral development where the second shoe ...
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I think 20 years back I bought a good rendition of Shostakovich preludes by Tatiana Nikolayeva. I remember how it was and where I was. I was not a huge fun of the preludes but I was hypnotized by a stunning illustration on the CD box: the chasing...
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… and now I have already just a few minutes into the Orff (boring so far) but have already two calles about how good the Prokofiev Classical Symphony was. BTW, the WCRB looks like dropped compression a bit now I have very ugly reception…. Watch tomo...
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This Sunday is was devastating. It was 85F in my town with 1000000% humidity. I did not sleep the whole high before and felt not god. The center air-conditioned in my house did not work as I expected and since I tolerate heat very badly I felt li...
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Nice video: Soft tones are easy, even for horns, the minuteness, the clear detail, the low distortion of horns playing softly is what kept me into them. Then Vengerov cries out: "Still this is more important", when music calls for character and pu...
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There is a lot that might say about the subject but I won’t. Returning today after the performance of Vladimir Spivakov’s new orchestra: National Philharmonic of Russia and Olga Kern as piano player I will say very short:
Today is March 16 and...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]
BTW, let me to expand a littlie on my last comment. I always personally with some suspicion and difficulty “get” what German high-end audio does. They frequently target some very “bicepsy” sound but they kid of very libe...
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Romy, fortunately I live nearby Amsterdam (the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra's home), so I'm quite familiair with the Concertgebouw's acoustics. The Philips recordings made in the late 60's and during the 70's with Bernard Haitink and Colin Davis sou...
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Thanks for the compliment Romy - nice forum site you have here !!Yes, you really must hear the Tintner 7th - a very special performance, not just the opening. If I could only keep two 7ths I think it would be the Matacic 1967 & the Tintner....
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[quote user="JANDL100"] I have read Testimony, and it seems to me that Volkov clearly has a heavy anti-Soviet agenda that he wants to put over.[/quote]
Yes, but do not forget that Volkov has also a heavy agenda of creating of own popularity by selli...
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Although I am violently oppose the “dancing around the room “idea but I would pay a lot of money to see those audiophilism-wiped people dancing around their listening rooms inspired by the tunes of Shostakovich string quarters. Truly a girlfriend of ...
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Yes, it is the purest Shostakovich - full of nervosa, mental itchiness, spontaneous and involuntary repetitions, stuttering. I would certainly do not deny the Shostakovich’s 9th appeal, not to mention the orchestration. I have my favorite performance...
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I think Jerry talked about the super slow Shostakovich Violin Concerto No.1, Michael Erxleben violin, Berliner Sinfonie-Orchester, Claus Peter Flor conducting on Berlin Classics 0013732BC. Fantastic performance and sound.Mats...
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Yes, I love Shosty's 9th - I think it is great fun and quite moving, in equal measure .... & such wonderful orchestral colours, presented with great purity. It could easily be excerpts from a superb film score! &...
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OK! - I will listen to the Barbi/Brahms 4 some more![quote user="Romy the Cat"]
JANDL100 wrote:
By the way - have you had a chance to listen yet to the Shostakovich Piano Quintet played by the Trio di Torino that I sent.&nbs...
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OK, now I recognize my S2 driver, thank God.
I was give to my new PS for MF channel one more change today to show itself off. I relayed the Hartmann ‘s first movement of the Shostakovich First Violin Concerto. As I said above the progress was very n...
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[quote user="JANDL100"]I will send you a recording Asahina made of the 5th in 1960. I think you will enjoy it very much as well. .... dare I say it is even better than Masur ! ;-) For me, anyway. Absolu...
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Hi RomyHeifetz as sex with a marble woman - yes, exactly! Everything is perfect but without any emotional response. I am sure that the recorded sound he was usually given does not help - thin, scrawny & screechy - while rep...
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I do not do the idiotic quizzes “who is the best” and who would be the top 5 or 10 in some bogus lists but a few days ago I did asked myself who is among 20 century composers I feel was the most interesting and the most appreciated by me. While...
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Well, glad to hear you are starting to 'get' Shostakovich, Romy. He has been one of my very favourite composers for many years. The 10th is my fave DSCH symphony - I have 10 recordings in my collection. I don't hav...
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Shostakovich string quartets have long been favorites of mine as well. For years I listened to them and the Bach cello suites more than any other serious music. I tried to get into the symphonic works but it never seemed as profound...
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"FM is a public domain"I'd imagine if some less than scrupulous individual took to recording live broadcasts and then produced extremely high quality audio CD's from them for general sale, the performers and the radio station might have something to ...
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I would like to follow up with my initial post. The last nigh I went to NY’s Avery Fisher Hall in Lincoln Center to hear the Spivakov NPoR. I have great sit (Orchestra RowM, center, 3 sits on the left – perfect for piano concertos). Funny: ahead of m...
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Well, Romy, it took me a while but I finally got the cobwebs cleared out of the phono stage, and the Shostakovich 10th was totally engaging as music (via the TAP). The recording is the (late 60s) Melodiya (stereo) with Yevgeny Svetlanov/USSR Syp...
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Keith,
Thanks, I do not see any needs to discuss anything with Ralph – I am not a prospective buyer and what I had interest personally about Gammas I have already understood. It does look like those Cessaros people took horns eventually seriou...
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Fortuitously did not attend work today due to illness. Fortuitous in that I was able to hear the entire live broadcast of BSO led by the 33 year old conductor Vasliy Petrenko. I enjoyed the entire program. The Rachmaninoff "Isle of the dead" was m...
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I downloaded and the listen the Shostakovich's Fifteenth Symphony at 192K. It is digital forum, so I will talk juts about sound. I did not see any advantage over what I described above. However the Shostakovich and Mozart’s Haffner Symphony has absol...
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Here is a good opportunity trying to debug a playback system. A site’s visitor sent email asking what is wrong with his playback if: “The reedinest or wooden sound of the clarinet is missing. The edge and bite to brass instruments that give drama ...
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I must admit that in general Britten is one of my least favourite Brit composers - I really just do not usually get on with his musical language.But the violin concerto is a very honourable exception - I guess because it has so many similarities with...
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Today WGBH broadcasted Antonio Pappano leading Chicago Symphony Orchestra with Shostakovich’s Cello Concerto No. 2 with a Korean cellist Han-Na Chang. I never head this girl and I had no idea what to expect. Anyhow, it was superb performance. Han-Na ...
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