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Superb tone!I saw and listened to Maestro Rostropovich two times, both in my town... cello/piano on Beethoven, a fantastic performance, but cannot remember who the pianist was and once with Solisti Veneti (chamber orchestra) playing Boccherini and ot...
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You wrote (in a Beethoven thread): "If you for a first time came across to a 'better performances' then you might imagine how different might be experiences if you catch a 'better performances' live".I caught a London Philharmonic guest appearance in...
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Well, Nicanor, I very much disagree that room acoustic being basically invisible to us. People who deal with sound more or less intelligent always not only pay attention to room acoustic but recognize sound ONLY in context of room acoustics. Take for...
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Too hot to expect the best sound today, and besides I have gotten my morbid curiousity worked up about the recording/playback curves, so I fished out a few LPs mostly to hear/see how they sound with respect to the "shape" of their sound, aspects of w...
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I would like your opinion if you are familiar with this PC1 and may learn something by what you would have to say.As far as Algerich and Chopin are concerned, I can not get into her International Frederick Chopin Piano Competition: 1st prize (196...
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a very good take on ones 'motivation' of musical likes and dislikes. In fairness I have listened to some rendition of Brahms’s 2nd piano concerto and it has something more for me, yet it might just simply be more 'accessible'? Maybe it has some sort ...
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The Wolf at Our Heels
The centuries-old struggle to play in tune.
By Jan Swafford
Y...
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After introduction of Omega last year Cessaro looks like come up with a new model Beethoven that they promise demo at the Munich show in May of this year.
Leaving aside the idiotic tendency to call audio products after the name o...
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GARY GRAFFMAN PLAYS BEETHOVEN & CHOPINGraffman puts in stellar performances with these two concerto's.Both recordings are very rare, both (I believe) have never been released by RCA on CD, the Beethoven is Conducted by Walter Hendl who was a repl...
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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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so, since I so, since I could not as yet, get myself fired from this thread, and what was actually meant by my comment (…fired!), let’s see if we can get back into the subject. I obviously also listen to music, and I also deal with the mechanics/...
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Opening nights, opening minds
Innovative new conductors in LA, NY challenge the BSO to do more
By Jeremy Eichler, Globe Staff | October 18, 2009
Opening night concerts at the most esteemed orchestras are usually a bit of a ...
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One sees this question often posed, and I think rightly so. I've been introduced to some fine music and performance by my friends and associates. In fact, they're better than reviewers!
So I was dismayed when I started off a post with...
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[quote user="rowuk"]EUREKA - The Magico is a creative tool for new experimental music - not a reproducer of old! Even Miles Davis is on record as calling Beethovens music "Dead Shit"............[/quote]Presumably the music that Magico (or other vendo...
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Yes, the Kleiber-son did my favorite 5th. It’s widely available along with the 7th – both are absolutely remarkable performances. The link that you sent: I do not know which Toscanini's Beethoven on it - the 1937-38 or 1952-53. I think his 1938 versi...
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I had to take a look at this thread... I've played the few Beethoven symphonies that I have today. one 5 and two 7.After 1 LP side of Böhm/Berlin I couldn't stand anymore and actually thought "what a stupid symphony!".I decided to give Carlos Kleiber...
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That's interesting Romy - I had not seen that website before.250 recorded albums - I had no idea! I have a lot of his work on CD, but nowhere near that many.I have his Dvorak 8th symphony - very good, but perhaps a little fast. I am...
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Yes, Jerry, thanks,I would like to pick some Anton Nanut CDs, not everything from you list but juts some of them. What I would be interesting if the Japanese folks ever pressed Nanut CD/LPs. In SOME cases the Japanese CD mastering is much more intere...
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I must confess that I don't have a lot of time for Heifetz's recordings - I find him too cool and aloof (even in the Sibelius where such attributes might be expected to be virtues) - to me he sounds indifferent and unresponsive to the emoti...
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I've not heard Cliburn's recording - I will look out for it.I think my favorite is by Gyorgy Sandor. The playing of the Baden Baden orchestra under Rolf Reinhardt is frankly 3rd rate, but Sandor is simply fantastic - there's a fluid inevitabilit...
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Here is another provider for digital files: the Unipheye Music from Philadelphia sunbirds.
http://www.unipheyemusic.com/SMRD.cfm
I was considering ordering the Beethoven quartets disk but they have no PayPal checkout option and I do not fill those ...
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Isn't the bulk of the "digital" classical music currently available originally recorded, and/or transferred, and/or archived in 16/44? It has been my understanding that most of the current "upsampled" stuff is actually scrambled from what was (at o...
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I found many reports on SHM-CD sound on Japanese blog sites. Most of them comment very favorably on SHM-CD, clear, better resolution, livelier, etc. Some mentions different balance compared to the CD version, many comments SHM-CD sou...
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Ok Romy thanks for advice. I will see about the loading for my shelter, and my cable to the step-up is nothing special. I am going to listen to mono only for next few weeks and see if i find the "same character of sound everywhere" syndrome! I do h...
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One Japanese classical music reviewer, Naoya Hirabayashi, who seems to be very keen on recording issues, blames heavy use of noise reduction and editing (combining rehersal takes, adding reverb, digitally correcting mis-notes, etc.) as two ...
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Decoud, in order to say anything useful I would like to know to the following: 1) Where the tweeter will be installed? 2) What the size of the room? 3) What are you planning to install the speaker in your room? 4) What LF solution do you consider...
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..."jaw dropping" as the audio moron (TM) would say.Admittedly, a totally new musical experience -- and unexpected, despite Romy's descriptions.Despite the less than ideal surroundings (3yr old playing in the room, average spl level, etc) I was ...
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Thanks Romy, I'm getting one of those renditions by Carlos. Any better sounding, or most remarcable edition?You should post some day your preferences/obsessions about conductors making great works of specific composers. I mean something like "I gener...
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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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Does anyone else here share my passion for Anton Nanut? Long-term conductor of the Ljubliana SO. Now deceased.His Beethoven is superb. Nanut's is my fave version of the 7th. I've only ever found 1 to 8, never seen a 9th ...
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