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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: Wagner Conditions Wagner Performances by Paul S on 2013-02-23 
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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 -...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Matacic's non-complete discography. by Romy the Cat on 2006-12-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: If you are in Bruckner: Lovro von Matacic in Musical Discussions  18 Replies 
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...

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 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Ah Mravinsky ! in Musical Discussions  8 Replies 
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 #1: Richard Wagner. Something has changed by Romy the Cat on 2008-09-27 
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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...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Richard Wagner. Something has changed by Romy the Cat on 2008-09-27 
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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...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: What is better then Wagner? by Romy the Cat on 2008-09-13 
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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...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: Using the tube shield to study Wagner? by Romy the Cat on 2011-07-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: 6E6P-DR in triode mode in Melquiades Amplifier  3 Replies 
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...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #93: "Wagner and Bruckner have been a passion of my life." by Romy the Cat on 2014-07-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Kitties go to London in Audio Discussions  92 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]  Romy the Cat wrote: Please, please, please, the Brit...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: The weekend with Wagner by Romy the Cat on 2019-07-27 
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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...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Perhaps Wagner hated Cats, beside hating everyone else. by Romy the Cat on 2006-09-11 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Seven hours of live music Sunday in Musical Discussions  1 Replies 
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...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: The Wagner effect. by Romy the Cat on 2017-12-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A “pocket version” of Bruckner. in Musical Discussions  6 Replies 
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...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Wagner sound level by Goetz on 2013-02-21 
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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...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Wagner and loudness. by Romy the Cat on 2013-02-20 
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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...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: In search of Wagner Sound. by Romy the Cat on 2013-02-23 
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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 ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #16: Wagner Meets Dickens; The Ring of Great Expectations by Paul S on 2009-03-24 
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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...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #235: Wagner AND Family, at 7 am?!? by Paul S on 2017-10-22 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A listening room for a domesticated Cat? in Audio Discussions  283 Replies 
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...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: Modern Wagner by decoud on 2013-02-24 
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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...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Perhaps Wagner hated Cats, beside hating everyone else. by Romy the Cat on 2006-09-11 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Seven hours of live music Sunday in Musical Discussions  1 Replies 
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...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #13: Wagners Opinion by zako on 2011-03-29 
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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.....

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: In search of Wagner Sound. by Romy the Cat on 2013-02-23 
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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 ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Wagner and loudness. by Romy the Cat on 2013-02-20 
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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...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: Compromise Bayreuth by Goetz on 2013-02-24 
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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...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #16: On "typewriter music". by tuga on 2010-06-06 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Listening rooms and composers. in Playback Listening  15 Replies 
[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...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #29: The Bayreuther 1966. by Romy the Cat on 2009-01-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Performance of a week. in Musical Discussions  87 Replies 
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...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #191: Foam color by jessie.dazzle on 2010-08-15 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Romy The Cat's new Listening Room in Audio Discussions  478 Replies 
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...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #16: Irritation and convalescence…. by Romy the Cat on 2011-03-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Why I do not love Mahler? in Musical Discussions  15 Replies 
[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...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: What is better then Wagner? by Romy the Cat on 2008-09-13 
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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...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Re: Stage Music: get clew. by behhl on 2006-05-31 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Stage Music: get clew. in Musical Discussions  4 Replies 
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...

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 #4: Wagner Conditions Wagner Performances by Paul S on 2013-02-23 
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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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