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Korean-born and Zurich, Berlin, and Stockholm educated conductor Shi-Yeon Sung will lead tomorrow BSO with Grieg Piano Concerto, something by Sibelius and Copland, and the Miraculous Mandarin Suite by Bartók. I heard Shi-Yeon last year in Tanglewood ...
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[quote user="ArmAlex"]
This thread is becoming more and more similar to threads in Audiogon and other look like sites.
But I agree with below comments
Anyway my maxim is:
beware of hifi salesmen (or self-appointed '...
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Somehow I massacered the formatting of the last reply. The past days I was listening to the speakers in every imaginable configuration. Sometimes I based my changes on "accepted theory" of crossovers and math, other times I just made...
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[quote user="Paul S"]I happen to use almost exclusively LPs as source...[/quote]Paul, and how many of these LPs do you estimate have been recorded, mixed or been through some sort of digital processing?It seems to me that we are not aware of so much ...
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I understand this is a "popular" piece of music (popular for classical music, anyway), but I never really got into it the way I did Brahms' PC 2 and a couple of others. But this piece came on my clock radio on a Sunday night, and I later learned it w...
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The loss of life, the senseless destruction of cities and towns, breaking up of families is what bothers me. Very few countries truly have a working system of getting the best public servants - especially at the top - or getting rid of them. Orchestr...
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Yes, it would be wonderful to be able to separate pitch and speed with no loss or gain of quality........ Still, Vienna playing Bruckner at A=465 is exhilarating to me. Modern American orchestras at A=441 (practically a half step lower) do sound much...
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On this Saturday Boston Baroque performed in Jordan Hall Beethoven’s Symphony No.9. Boston Baroque is a very interesting group. It was a small perhaps 20 people chorus with truly phenomenal singer and it was a spectacular period-instrument band. You...
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[quote user="zako"]Is any of this field theory connected with STRING theory,,But on a larger scale???[/quote]I would become a felt boot! -Strings!? - Yes, there's a string - this orchestra.While writing this somewhat dull in artistic terms. But as a ...
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Thinking of this discussion I just revisited a "time-related" post I made years ago:http://www.goodsoundclub.com/Forums/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=9884Great work from Fritz Reiner, directing the RSO through Brahms' 4th Symphony, and perhaps worth a close l...
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A new WCRB, and a shrinking classical dialBy Jeremy Eichler, Boston Globe Staff December 18, 2009
In a city passionate about classical music, a lot of listeners get their fill by catching the Boston Symphony Orchestra and other progr...
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I have hundreds of photos taken at recording sessions,,,(thats another hobby of mine,,), The so called sound field is a real joke,,,In perticular one photo of the Berliner Symphony orchestra,,, The mics and mic stands are high up 15 ft or more,,Mics ...
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I wrote about it many many times but it keep shook me, primary because it very much violates all intellectual provision I can extend against what I am saying. Today FM again flew my socks off and it was not special FM but objectively crappy FM.
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What a concert and from whom you think it was? The Pittsburgh Symphony led by Marek Janowski! The Korean Chee-Yun played Saint-Saëns Violin Concerto #3. The Pittsburgh with Janowski demonstrated superb sound – not too sophisticated but very withhold ...
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Juts to give an idea of what is going o… Here is a fragment from today’s glorious performance of BSO… The fragment has slightly less brilliance and slightly more noise than the ordinal file and it was resaved in 32 bit WAV format (originally recorded...
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Günter Wand:born: 1912 in Elberfeld Germany, died 14th Feb. 2002 in Switzerland, age 90.Was a German orchestra conductor and composer.KölnerOper 1939Intermezzo in Salzburg Austria, due to World War II issuesback in Köln in 1945, Generalmusikdirek...
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After a few deliberations I picked the Prokofiev’s Complete Symphonies box with Valery Gergiev conducting his new London Symphony Orchestra. It looks like London sound got much warmer and friendlier under Gergiev. I also heard a lot of positive b...
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We are talking about subjective reactions so there is no way to dispute either of our responses. However, I do see a disconnect between your statements that I quoted and your subsequent post. In the first post you were talking about the Queen of Spad...
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Listening today Scharwenka Piano Concerto No1 by Earl Wild and BSO under Erich Leinsdorf. I am not so wild about the concerto, there is a reasons why all 4 Scharwenka’s concertos are on second and their tears of piano concertos repertoire. However, ...
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I would not even argue the fact that that non-classical repertoire is not-interesting crap. Please, do not debate it with me - go to another site and knock yourself out, not here. Still, tonight after listening twice (!!!) my Anton Bruckner's First S...
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Eventually I have found the Bruckner Second symphony that is played how I feel it need to be played. The recording is from 1973: Horst Stein lead the mighty Wiener Philharmoniker. I got my CD on Decca Eloquence. This is unspeakably wonderful and I h...
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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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Yes, I am not at ease with the first movement of Carlos Kleiber’s version from 1981 as well. To me it is mostly about the orchestra tuning… The third movement in there I truly Kleiber-like: in the first movement they are juts tuning in and rehearsali...
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that: "... this work, like the other symphonies of Mahler, has to be understood in no other sense than that of symphonic music and certainly not as a musical illustration of such emotions and imaginations as I have outlined. [as in the part of his ea...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Melodia released Complete Myaskovsky Symphonic Works by Evgeni Svetlanov. It contains beside “other” symphonic works the Symphonies #7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 14, 19, 25, 4, 5, 12, 15, 17, 20, 22, 26, 6, 21 [/quote]
David,
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This record I play a lot lately - insanely gorgeous music and very seriously played music. It is the Eugene Ormandy’s own transcriptions of Bach celebrated toccatas and the passacaglia, along with the Symphony for Double Orchestra. Generally I tend t...
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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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Mani, Pacific is freaky and it detects HDCD code only at the resolution that it was encoded. If it was coded at 16 bit then it will not read the HDCD at 20 Bit. There is an option in there that set the HDCD detection death… I did not play a lot ...
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Unfortunately Lenny Bernstein did nothing to advance Bruckner here and the critic Harold Schonberg kept up the verbal abuse against him for 30 years or so. Romy is correct that Bruckner requires performance familiarity. A few rehearsals won't cut it....
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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...
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