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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #20: Phenolic diaphragms, Debussy and Ormandy by Romy the Cat on 2008-02-01 
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I never had that Selenium 405 driver. Generally the phenolic diaphragms are very tricky and might have some excessive softness and some luck of transients. Selenium also had a habit to load gap with ferrofluid – it also might slightly detransientize ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #11: Debussy; Angel 35065 by Paul S on 2008-07-04 
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A while back, during a discussion about music, a friend sat down and played for me a "Romantic" rendition of Debussy that literally had me in tears.  Afterward, she +/- dismissed it as a "parlor trick", saying that to play Debussy "correctly" is...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #12: If you are developing affinity to Debussy by Romy the Cat on 2008-07-04 
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Then you shell try also Alfred Cortot and Michelangeli. They are different then Gieseking and it is exactly why they are interesting. Michelangeli is particularly special… The Cat ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #19: Debussy - to Gieseking or not .... ? by JANDL100 on 2008-08-14 
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I've just spent a happy couple of hours listening to some Debussy solo piano - started off with Gieseking but after a while became a little impatient with the rather thin sound quality.   I switched to my complete set of Debussy piano by Go...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Boulez' LF-Injected Version of Debussy by Paul S on 2008-12-27 
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Claude Debussy, Three Nocturnes (Triptych); Printemps; 1st Rhapsodie for Orchestra with Solo Clarinet;Pierre Boulez conducting the New Philharmonia Orchestra, with the John Aldis Choir, and Gervase de Peyer, clarinet; Columbia (stereo) M30483So ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #20: Fresh Debussy by Paul S on 2009-01-18 
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Etudes D'un Cahier d'Esquisse; Angel 35250 (mono)G changes up here from the mostly-chromatic approach he used in the Images, mentioned above.  In this case, he also manages incredibly organic timing and dynamics to play these "exercises" as...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #11: Debussy; Angel 35065 by Paul S on 2008-07-04 
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A while back, during a discussion about music, a friend sat down and played for me a "Romantic" rendition of Debussy that literally had me in tears.  Afterward, she +/- dismissed it as a "parlor trick", saying that to play Debussy "correctly" is...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: Oh la la (the joys of france) by RonyWeissman on 2008-06-27 
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I have his ravel and debussy, amongst other treasures on LP. The debussy is a 5LP mono collection on EMI that is one of the few discs I keep at all times in my listening room (otherwise my LP collection is in another room as I share the lis...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #8: Many shadows of Gieseking… by Romy the Cat on 2008-06-30 
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Well, Jerry, I can pitch you some CDs. They would be from US resellers but I am sure you can found your local UK equivalent. Be advised that I have none of the Gieseking’s CD only LPs, so I have no idea how good sound transfer was made to CD.  G...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #10: Sum of Differences by Paul S on 2014-06-28 
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If we think of "all differences" that might be said to "define" a particular Musical performance as making a full circle, then "dynamics" as we struggle to think of "them" might be said to be only "part of that circle". I think Steve mentioned Debuss...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #11: Orchestral music hard to capture by steverino on 2014-06-28 
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Debussy or any good composer not using loud dynamic shifts to generate tension has to compose so that the music works without it. Also they have to score  it differently. But Debussy is not notating microdynamics just to be clear. And Gieseking's mic...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #19: Debussy - to Gieseking or not .... ? by JANDL100 on 2008-08-14 
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I've just spent a happy couple of hours listening to some Debussy solo piano - started off with Gieseking but after a while became a little impatient with the rather thin sound quality.   I switched to my complete set of Debussy piano by Go...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Rubinstein at Carnegie Hall, 1961 by Paul S on 2008-07-04 
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RCA LSC 2605; stereo.A very nice recording taken from "the best" of Rubinstein's much-ballyhood 10-recital series, as noted.  Some Debussy is included, which is why I remembered it at this time.  In this case, Rubinstein seem...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: The new releases from "Music and Arts" by Romy the Cat on 2005-12-06 
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Music and Arts Programs of America, Inc. www.musicandarts.com info@musicandarts.com Tel 510-525-4583 or Fax 510-524-2111CD-1063(2) IN MEMORIAM HANS HOTTER (1909-2003). A selection of Lieder from the Raucheisen project of the German Radio Sy...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #13: Finding something unique in the composition by Paul S on 2008-07-04 
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I have some Cortot and some Michelangeli - somewhere -  but I am not sure if it includes Debussy, because I have not been able to stay in the room with most of the "Images"-type of Debussy rendered by most artists, most of the time, so I ha...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #10: Gieseking’s Mozart and Beethoven by Romy the Cat on 2008-06-30 
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[quote user="JANDL100"]I'm not that 'into' Debussy or Ravel, so I thought some Beethoven sonatas might give me a better idea of his playing to start off with.   [/quote] That is kind of funny as I am not 'into' the Gieseking’s Beethoven– I...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #43: Music & liqueurs by de charlus on 2013-07-29 
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Adrian, one might go further with your music/liqueur/country notion; after all, what could be more archetypally Russian than to swallow a bottle of Stoli or two, followed by the vague contemplation of suicide to Tchaikovsky's No.6 "Pathetique"? For t...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #9: OK - 2 Gieseking CDs purchased ... by JANDL100 on 2008-06-30 
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Thanks for the recommendations, Romy.  And for the warning about the Mengelberg Rach3 - several of those are available cheap!One composer you have not mentioned is Beethoven ..... so I have bought 1 CD of early sonatas and 1 CD of late sonatas.&...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: Modern Composers by drdna on 2008-01-01 
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I am surprised not to hear mention some of my favorites: Karol Syzmanowski, Leos Janacek, Gustav Mahler, Claude Debussy, Jean Sibelius, Charles Ives, Arnold Schoenberg, Edgard Varese, Anton Webern, Kurt Weill, George Gershwin, Alfred Schnit...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: The Mstislav Rostropovich’s Orgy. by Romy the Cat on 2008-05-14 
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A couple hours ago WHRB stage own 4 days long, day and night Mstislav Rostropovich’s Orgy. The Broadcast is available on line – a phenomenal work listening… The program is more then exiting: Saint-Saëns: Cello Concerto No. 1 in a; Sargent, Philharmo...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: The great Gieseking by Romy the Cat on 2008-06-22 
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Ye, Walter Gieseking was one of the greatest pianists of his time. It is too sad that the stupid American propaganda machine screwed up the Gieseking’s reputation. Have you already heard his Debussy and Ravel? It is like nothing else. ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: High Definition Tape Transfers by Romy the Cat on 2006-07-24 
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Robert Witrak, the owner of High Definition Tape Transfers (HDTT) http://www.highdeftapetransfers.com/ does CD transfers form older analog tapes. The transfers generally better then commercially available CD, and despite of the restricted and in a ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: You have some room to go... by Romy the Cat on 2007-05-22 
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MRAVINSKY'S RECORDINGS (1938-1984) IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDERThe data courtesy to Kenzo Amoh from Tokio 1938/03/27-4/3 Leningrad R M Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5 OMel 06820/33 unknown 1938-1939 Leningrad R M Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5 BMG(J) BVCX 80...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: A Documentary History Of EMI Classics by Romy the Cat on 2005-06-28 
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A DOCUMENTARY HISTORY OF EMI CLASSICS Narrated by THOMAS HAMPSON  1    MENDELSSOHN: Spring Song/Adolf Umbach (clarinet)  2'17"  2  TCHAIKOVSKY: Forgive me (The Queen of Spades)/Nikolai Figner (tenor)  2'54" &n...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Quality of BSO by dazzdax on 2007-08-05 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: I hate, hate, hate, hate Boston Symphony! in Musical Discussions  72 Replies 
Some people say the BSO is the most "European" sounding US orchestra. Well, when listening to the recordings of the orchestra under the baton of Charles Münch it sounds truly wonderful and... indeed like a fine European orchestra. The Deutsche Grammo...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #20: Fresh Debussy by Paul S on 2009-01-18 
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Etudes D'un Cahier d'Esquisse; Angel 35250 (mono)G changes up here from the mostly-chromatic approach he used in the Images, mentioned above.  In this case, he also manages incredibly organic timing and dynamics to play these "exercises" as...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #13: Hard to know by steverino on 2014-06-28 
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Someone would have to be at least 80 years old to have heard Gieseking in concert at an age when they could assess such things. I think he was always known for his delicacy and softer playing. The recording sonics of live concerts in those times were...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Excitement by Paul S on 2024-02-06 
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Having listened a few times now, I still like the piece enough that I ordered the CD (Letters For The Future). I'll get back about how it comes across on my main system. Meanwhile, I often detect a sort of "buzz" exuded by artists who seem to be supe...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: Via CD/Main System by Paul S on 2024-02-09 
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The CD got here in maybe 2 days, "Letters For The Future", Time For Three, DG label. It is structured and played as a concerto. I just played it via my Accustic Arts Drive 1 transport/iDAT 44++ DAC, etc. I am glad I got the CD, as it makes the Music ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: Most music avoids large dynamic swings by steverino on 2014-06-28 
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We are so overly familiar with the music of the Romantic era (and to a lesser extent with some 20th century orchestral music) that we tend to overestimate the importance of dynamics overall in music and in listening. Obviously, abrupt and frequent dy...
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