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I only listen to Wagner when I have the house to myself, and the electricity is perfect! The slightest sense of hesitation or choking from the system can ruin it for me.Much of Wagner is very "self-important" music; yet - somehow - he pulls it off -...
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As far as I know the Matacic discography never was made available. A few weeks ago a fellow at other (more amorphous) forum – Mr. Makopolus - published his list that I find worth to be preserved and publicized. So he is it: the Matacic discogra...
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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...
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I always had a strange thing with Wagner – I appreciate and deeply respect his music but I never liked it. It is not that do “not like it” but rather I just do not feel that Wagner’s things are the part of my sonic realization of world. As I wrote be...
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I have to say there is hardly a production of Wagner these days that is not fucked up in some way, as if the only people who dare stage him are so narcissistic they will not let him compete with them, and need to try to handicap his power. Covent Ga...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]
Romy the Cat wrote:
Please, please, please, the Brit...
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You are living the Dream, all right! I think the only time I ever pulled this off was on a family ski trip, blasting "Ride of the Valkyries" on our way to the lifts. But that was a captive audience, and your family came to you! You must be doing s...
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I need to add to what I said above that there is some exceptions
if music is chosen to be played VERY slow.
I personally very much love any slower than usually interpretations. Unfortunately
not a lot of them nowadays, not a lot of conductors hav...
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Kitty and I are attending this weekend a Wagner Weekend event in Tanglewood. It is Die Walküre dedicated 3 days ceremony with TMCO opera rehearsal and performance, numerous meetings, dinners, lectures, talks with good Wagnerians, inching Christine Go...
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Interesting that at the same day I had dissuasion with a friend in mine (big Wagner fan) trying to formalize for him why I do not “get” Wagner. The best that I was able to come up was that in Wagner the prolog foreplay and rarity of the orgasms is so...
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The answer is: the beautiful Kirsten Flagstad singes Wagner. I have to admit that I am not completely in peace with complete Wagner operas but I have dozens of Flagstad records and I LOVE to listen her. Sometime I do it for days. Those Wagnerian sopr...
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I always had a strange thing with Wagner – I appreciate and deeply respect his music but I never liked it. It is not that do “not like it” but rather I just do not feel that Wagner’s things are the part of my sonic realization of world. As I wrote be...
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It has been said before that big speakers have big problems, and I have always found this to be the case. At the least, I think it is fair to say that no big speakers are going to "work" up to their potential without some se...
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Johann, in any case I would not leave lifted. You do not want to have inside tube anything that has no referent to anything, it is like a transformer – you do not want to have in it any coils that are not connected to anything. I would say the to gro...
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This is kind of strange but I am developing a habit to play my Wagner mostly on LP. You think I do it because it sounds better? Well, this is not really a reason. The true reason is that playing records I have more gain in the whole playback and cons...
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This might show your average sound level at your typical listening time during a typical Wagner Opera... :)(if so, take a rest every 45 minutes for 15 minutes to avoid damaging your ears: This is an institutional recommendation here i...
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Wagner subject is very interesting. I never was inBayreuth. Amy kind nagging me that we need to go to inBayreuth but if we got o that part of the world then there is so much wonderful places in there that I would love to visit… we would need to take ...
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Interesting that at the same day I had dissuasion with a friend in mine (big Wagner fan) trying to formalize for him why I do not “get” Wagner. The best that I was able to come up was that in Wagner the prolog foreplay and rarity of the orgasms is so...
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I just finished a long article,,called orchestra power,,by Anthony Quin,,,Where Wagner met Bruchner,,Wagner considered Bruchner an idiot.....
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Wagner subject is very interesting. I never was inBayreuth. Amy kind nagging me that we need to go to inBayreuth but if we got o that part of the world then there is so much wonderful places in there that I would love to visit… we would need to take ...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Wagner subject is very interesting. I never was inBayreuth. Amy kind nagging me that we need to go to inBayreuth but if we got o that part of the world then there is so much wonderful places in there that I would love to vi...
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This is kind of strange but I am developing a habit to play my Wagner mostly on LP. You think I do it because it sounds better? Well, this is not really a reason. The true reason is that playing records I have more gain in the whole playback and cons...
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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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Matt, if you have the Tristan with Birgit Nilsson and Christa Ludwig from Bayreuther 1966 then you might be all set. I am not a Wagner expert but the friend of my who is Wagner-infatuated gave me that brand new sealed 5LPs album and I am “working” on...
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Romy wrote:"...Yep, this Foam Factory look good and the prices are very good, thanks. They do not have the right light colors that I would like to have..."No problem; this foam can very easily be painted using a device like a Wagner Power Painter (yo...
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[quote user="zako"]I just finished a long article,,called orchestra power,,by Anthony Quin,,,Where Wagner met Bruchner,,Wagner considered Bruchner an idiot..[/quote] Zako, it is not exactly accurate, the event is well described elsewhere. Still, I le...
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The answer is: the beautiful Kirsten Flagstad singes Wagner. I have to admit that I am not completely in peace with complete Wagner operas but I have dozens of Flagstad records and I LOVE to listen her. Sometime I do it for days. Those Wagnerian sopr...
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In my situation far away from the places
of Good Live Opera, we can only listen to the audio or watch the video ...
its a poor removed experience to be sure! To date I have a problem to
listen to most Opera as music, especially to Stravinsky high...
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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...
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I only listen to Wagner when I have the house to myself, and the electricity is perfect! The slightest sense of hesitation or choking from the system can ruin it for me.Much of Wagner is very "self-important" music; yet - somehow - he pulls it off -...
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