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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #7: The Bruckner Celibidaches I like by clarkjohnsen on 2013-10-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Celibidache / bruckner in Musical Discussions  12 Replies 
#3 -- SDR#5 -- Munich#6 -- (confused here... 1961? 1965? 1991?)#7 -- SDR? VPO?Guess I'll have to check my list, and even maybe relisten to these before finalizing choices with this august company.c...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #75: Haven't heard it for over three decades, so... by clarkjohnsen on 2013-10-22 
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...who knows? Is it the Friday or the Saturday? Most people back then thought the former was better.I was at the Saturday so I'm prejudiced.c...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #73: Cohabits and Cohibas by clarkjohnsen on 2013-10-20 
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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 #69: "My misspending" by clarkjohnsen on 2013-10-14 
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That's a good one too! But glad you liked the image... it's magnificent.Site Visitor...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #71: What steverino says, yeah! by clarkjohnsen on 2013-10-01 
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Partly too, if not largely, this blandness results from the recording process and its expectations wherein performers strive for perfection at the cost of expressiveness. Even orchestras that have not recorded for ages fall prey to it. A band like th...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #66: Frankly, Romy... by clarkjohnsen on 2013-09-30 
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...I'd have deleted it too. The essay was way more about you than the music, and the sideswipes at BMI were entirely gratuitous.Their review of the M2 was however the most frivolous piece of writing about serious music I've read since, oh, 1958.The p...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #64: Romy & Amy's opera room... by clarkjohnsen on 2013-09-26 
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...is one of the greatest rooms to listen in, and even just to be in, that I have ever seen. And I haven't even been there for the latest redecoration and the opening-up of the bay windows.c...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1205: Try this. by clarkjohnsen on 2013-09-25 
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Switch the AC plug around.c...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1202: You are of course reading... by clarkjohnsen on 2013-09-25 
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...the dubbed-into-English version, right?As to movies, the dubbed Wild Strawberries far surpasses the sub-titled -- with the proviso that Criterion editions always have new, superior sub-titles and I've not seen that one.clark...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1200: Have you checked... by clarkjohnsen on 2013-09-25 
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...the AC polarities? These can often get a system in trouble....

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #19: Punctum saliens by clarkjohnsen on 2013-08-31 
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She's reached it! c...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #16: Well said, Romy! by clarkjohnsen on 2013-08-26 
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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #11: Great Saint-Exupery quote. NT by clarkjohnsen on 2013-08-24 
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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: Beg to differ, Steverino by clarkjohnsen on 2013-08-23 
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Here's a performance recording that's just amazingly fine with an orchestra barely familiar with the material, and performed after only the standard rehearsal time. From 1935, it's the Seventh with the NY Phils under... Toscanini. c...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #8: Another great thread here by clarkjohnsen on 2013-08-23 
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Hey Romy, does Amy read this? That would be a nice way of communicating the problem.Hmmm.... RoAmy?Roamy?Ramy?Anyway... I have a friend who's arranged a signal for his wife to leave him the f. alone -- a hat or cap on while in the house. She had some...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #71: "The Assassin in the Vineyard" by clarkjohnsen on 2013-08-16 
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Finally found an article down in my files that I had recalled would be highly appropriate to this discussion. And so it is. Besides a story of intrigue it contains an excellent backgrounder on Romanee. And best of all... it's now online!http://www.va...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: Yeah, "filled". by clarkjohnsen on 2013-08-12 
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Maybe 15K LPs, 30K 78s and hundreds of tapes and even CDs. Music in every room!Romy's got a considerable collection too.c...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: B7 BSO by clarkjohnsen on 2013-08-12 
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Just recently I listened on an OTA tape of the B7 with the BSO under Simon Rattle. It was gorgeous! Unfortunately I forgot to note the date, nor can I locate any record of the concert. I'll do my best to get a CD masterdub of it from my usual source,...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #58: Paul S, You have a most excellent son, sir! by clarkjohnsen on 2013-08-10 
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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #53: Regarding Raveneau by clarkjohnsen on 2013-08-09 
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The 1er Cru Montée de Tonnerre, yes, you have me intrigued. I see vintages 2005-2009 in the US, but perhaps only the '09 locally. What say ye?Interestingly, Massachusetts adds no purchase tax to the three essentials: Food, clothing, and alcoholic bev...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #46: Virginity and sublimity by clarkjohnsen on 2013-08-08 
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"I suggest that you lose your DRC virginity at the first opportunity; life really is much better when suffused with such sublimity."That line might be taken as patronising except, you are correct, sir! (Only, what if virginity is itself sublime?)I ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #43: The '47 Lafite by clarkjohnsen on 2013-08-08 
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A friend of mine once showed me a book on wine written in IIRC 1951, in which a memorable line appeared:Unfortunately this beautiful 1947 Ch. Lafite is already, at $5, priced beyond the ability of most people's budgets to afford.c...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #42: "Terroir-less Parkerized liquids." by clarkjohnsen on 2013-08-08 
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Oooh! Right in the gut.I must thank you all again for this educational and vastly amusing discussion. While I know whereof you speak, still I've never had one of those great DRCs. Perhaps I can talk Romy into investing in one for immediate consumptio...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #29: Vinturi by clarkjohnsen on 2013-08-07 
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What do people here think of those pour-through devices that swirl the wine?And while I'm at it, how about those magnets?I've even heard of static electricity discharge.c...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #28: Sweet on sweet is a bit too much. by clarkjohnsen on 2013-08-07 
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Excellent point. Adrian. And as you mention Penderecki, even better might be his Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima.c...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #15: And did a vertical tasting a few years back of every significant vinta... by clarkjohnsen on 2013-08-06 
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I hate you. c ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #10: Enjoyed this discussion... by clarkjohnsen on 2013-08-06 
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...of wines and power conditioners and Bruckner and cigars. That said, I don't do cigars; I really, really do do Bruckner; power conditioners vary in their effect from place to place, day to day, and hour to hour (not only that, but most of them need...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #24: But the question is... by clarkjohnsen on 2013-06-27 
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...what do you do with them?...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1165: All this certainly makes me glad I've waited. ;-) NT by clarkjohnsen on 2013-06-14 
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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1116: A contest! by clarkjohnsen on 2013-04-17 
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