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I haven't played Du Pre in a while, so I too will be absorbing her genius tomorrow, followed by a donation to the National MS Society. Her performances of Haydn, Boccerini, Schumann, and (of course) Elgar's Cello Concerti inspired me to as...
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Wow, I mean really, really, really, really, really WOW!
A week ago I converted one of the Super Milqs to 5:1 loading and yesterday I converted another one. I loved what the last week converted amp did. It was very nice but today I put the entire sys...
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Hi Romy,Yes great minds think alike! I made a note of a viola version of the suites I heard on the radio just a few weeks ago! It was a modern recording by patricia something and the first time I heard them played on viola and loved it, though i was...
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Yo-yo Ma will be playing Bach solo cello suites for 2.5 hours starting in a few minutes (noon Pacific Daylight Time in North America.) He has a YouTube channel and it is also carried on the website kusc.org and maybe elsewhere. I don't know what the ...
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As I told, I’m generally not a fan of the Shostakovich’s orchestral music. There is in Shostakovich’s “large music” a constant sense of vulgarity, peasant intellectualism, humiliation and a sense of blown-up meaningless artificial musicality that ver...
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Last week I listened to some small back loaded speakers using Fostex drivers where the cabinets had deliberately been made to replicate some of the qualities of a double bass or cello. Apparently very thin cabinet walls etc.While I have some reservat...
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It is the bass cello wine rack I am after of course.Romy, seriously, I shouldn't have charged you for that 2 cases of Has Christian Glaciovinum, I don't know why I did, and now after this fresh future offense of stealing your gloriously kitchy wine r...
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Ligeti´s Cello concerto / Siegfried PalmThis CD is not only for specialists, also fits very well into a small "contemporary music for dummies" collection:http://www.amazon.com/Siegfried-Palm-Violoncello/dp/B000005W98/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=music&am...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]I have to admit that I have written a few pieces of writing about my experiences with YO186 but I withhold to post it as I do not know if it might valuable for anybody. It looks like no one use YO186 on West. There are ...
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Yes, of course, there is much submission to the powers that were in many DSCH orchestral works - his life, and the lives of his family were literally at stake, after all. Stalin was not a nice or forgiving man. But I don't hear ...
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A few weeks ago Amphissa sent me a collection of recordings of Myaskovsky. I knew Myaskovsky, head his Sixth Symphon, “something else” and his cello concerto but to have a pile of selected CDs by a great aficionado of the Myaskovsky's music really he...
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First off, I forgot to mention an interesting observation: Before running the sweeps (previous post), since the drivers in the upper-bass horns are new, I decided to verify/optimize rear chamber volume (they are easily adjustable)... I wasn't expecti...
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But I wouldn't rule out playing rock on a system that offer fidelity to the music in classical repertory. However, back to the reproduction "system".The expression Romy used of "musical content" is interesting. I use the expression musical ...
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I have my issuers with American music of Copland/Gershwin level do not particularly like it. I do understand the concept of the “idealized American collective consciousness” but this American music too much reminds me the “harmonies” of Frank Zap...
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[quote user="twogoodears"] I remember Bach's unaccompanied Cello sonatas seen like numbers of different colours and size in space... oooops: loving maths through music? [/quote]
Interning, I do not Bach's Cello sonatas but it I would then I see them...
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[quote user="jessie.dazzle"] Romy wrote:"...Let pretend that you play a normal some kind of horn with a lot of air in it. The air drives the driver impedance down..."I'd like to understand this; correct me if I'm wrong:As soon as the membrane of a ho...
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I think the sorry state of the music industry (s/ware, sound) is primarily due to:a) the trend toward audioVISUAL and the ensuing market for productsb) how people listen to musicA) I believe this is self-explanatory; the bulk of the market invests in...
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Beethoven: Sonatas for Piano & Cello Op. 5, Nos. 1 & 2
Patrick Cohen, Christophe Coin
Label: Harmonia Mundi Fr. ASIN: B0000007NA
This is intensely moving. Both players are consistently inspired from beginning to end. This is real chamber music...
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This morning, while driving to work, the Classical station was playing the first movement of Gerald Finzi's Cello Concerto (14 July 1901 - 27 September 1956):
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaThe Cello Concerto in A minor, Op 40, was compo...
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Unquestionably to me, piano concertos are the very much The Concertos for an instrument and orchestras. My second favorite is Cello Concertos. The violin concertos are popular and they great but I frequently find that they might be annoying, particul...
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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...
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I guess if a musical performance was conceived to be listened from a seat in a room, close-micing makes as much sense as looking at a painting from the paintbrush's point of view...
I have just arrived home from an evening with Lawrence Foster and...
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The best-sounding drivers I've heard will amplify a wide range of sounds from scratching or tapping differently at different points on the cone, or even from tapping or rubbing the driver frame. And never mind OB, some throw amazing tonal range and ...
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Wow, what a concert! Incontestably the very best live broadcast in 2008-09 seasons and the most impressive Götterdämmerung I heard, at least orchestral play. Did you pay attention how Levine cooked up the pressure and how smart he built up drama? So,...
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Try as I might, I can't get my sme3012/shelter 901 combo to do tubas . My ortofon309/vintage mono cartridge does it magnificently the tuba down low makes me goosevumps all over just likenthe cello. I think my stepup for shelter is incorrect choice, t...
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Just wanted to add my enthusiasm for Lillian Fuchs' transcription and performance of the Bach Cello Suites! Even via CD, the viola is rendered well enough by my system, and Fuchs' playing, including her tempo, is sublime. The lines are well articu...
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I never hear Ophelie Gaillard but am always am open for new takes on Bach. If you would like to try something different then you might try what I have been listening for the last few months – viola rendition of the suites. Viola is kind of shadowy in...
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Yes... Jacqueline Du Prè really "is" Elgar's Op. 85 Cello Concert... just listened to "Allegro Molto" and now enjoying "Adagio"... she's just right, raw and passionate and free and easy.I was thinking few minutes ago: isn't something so... so... GREA...
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Tears theory: interesting... BUT, most important, and this REALLY find me fully agreeing, you named my very "King of the Orchestra": Its Majesty the Double-Bass!I own about eighty records of double-bass music: orchestra, solo, solo & piano, conte...
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[quote user="Amphissa"] Mats, I agree with you. The recording of the cello concerto by Natalia Gutman with Svetlanov conducting is the best overall performance of this beautiful concerto. It is unfortunate that she never toured in the West. She is re...
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