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I can hear the whole of Mozart's 35th and Bruckner's 5th and to me the Bruckner 5 performance is very good despite the awful compression. Good enough to go into your "Recording Of The Week" section.I also wish they would release non-compressed files ...
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Congratulations on this happy occasion.Through music the gods do appear,and it seems to have happened to you.Funny, I just mailed you an audience recording of the 8th with Jarvi in Tokyo.Take in the blessings of Hawaii!Mats...
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your post has not merit sir...some of the most stupid people that have the ability to play musical instrument have no clueon how music sounds in an audience(fact) I know several people here in the chicagoland area that play for CSO they are cluelessa...
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What Romy has done up until now is very similar to what a conductor of an orchestra does:Search for music to performBuild the ensemble to play itDecide on the venue to perform inTrain all of the forces involved to play in accordIn real time, guide th...
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As I was not present during the magic moment of the Dunnoys (or Dannoys), I can not assume anything but considering the initial aftermath documented here, perhaps that "moment" had more to do with stars/sun/moon lining up, DPOLS for a week or a speci...
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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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It looked like they had "only" about 300-350 people on stage in Tanglewood. I think the original score called for about 750, at least that is how many Jascha Horenstein had on stage in the Royal Albert Hall in 1959. He also had about 6000 people in...
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WGMS Ditches Its Old Format But Helps Orchestrate Its Revival On WETA
By Paul FarhiWashington Post Staff WriterTuesday, January 23, 2007; C01
Washington radio station WGMS dropped the music of Mozart and Tchaikovsky yesterday after nearly six decad...
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Thanks for the reply. The story seems to imply that the orchestra played with an increased sense of despair or anxiety. But extraneous noises are just that. Not worth looking for unless they add something to the performance. M...
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I was referring to the audiences and music buyers who acquire the above artists recordings, not the reviewer's opinions. I assume the audience didn't walk out or fail to applaud. ...
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Cellist Natalia Gutman and the Boston Philharmonic: Prokofiev and Brahms at their Best
by Elizabeth Perten
Under the baton of Benjamin Zander, the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra presented two masterpieces: Prokofiev’s Symphony-Conce...
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[quote user="twogoodears"]I've been an avid original soundtracks and film music collector for most of my life, and still I didn't find the PERFECT music for a movie... the classic, Alfred Newman's, Rozsa's, Hermann's, Williams', Horner's... them all ...
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Of course the Young Prodigy has to play this stuff; everyone expects it; you can hear the delight from the audience.As for the Saint-Saens, I would certainly attend more local-orchestra concerts if there were any assurances that they would go as well...
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Sadly not a blissful evening at Symphony Center.To my ears the orchestra sounded unrefined, and the intonation of the horn section way off.Occasionally in the quiet passages some magic was communicated, but overall they seemed unable to come to harmo...
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My view of Gödels "incompleteness" has more to do with systems not being able to verify themselves from within. This certainly can apply to audio in that the playback specifications can be very "qualified" but the "quality" must be found outside of t...
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Romy said: "they do not listen played back music but they rather register the pointers to keys and intervals and then they reconstruct in their consciousness the fabric of the music in accordance with their perception."Do you mean that the musi...
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So, don't hold back... did you like it???I, too, love the great outdoor venues, like the Hollywood Bowl and the old Greek Theater, which probably do not have bad seats (or at least they did not before DSP...). I have also seen/heard ...
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Yes there is a spatial aspect in the live performance that is lost in recording. The players are typically a bit farther apart from each other than the left right placement of the speakers. Also, the audience is farther back so the sounds blend but a...
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The interesting thing about the Bottlehead people is that they are pretty good guys. "High and outside" is I think Paul Stubbelbine, who is an expert at mastering. He remastered my girlfriend's last album. I was very impressed. His ...
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Certainly the synergy users can only, at best, mask one coloration with another, but in the minds of their audience they encourage a belief that the errors somehow get cancelled; that is the "notion" I referred to.
These notions extend into the do...
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Of course they play sounds they think their speakers shine with, and they may actually have a better handle on their "audience" than we have given them credit for. Remember that much audio spending is about generating and countering envy. And remem...
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Actually it was sad to hear potentially nice horn system wasted on mediocre music (at least that's what I heard at three different times I visited the room so it must have been a norm ) and grey sounding D-amps with "pumping " bass tubas. At least th...
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To be more specific about the Audience units, I initially thought they worked better in the audio chain than others at clearing up and clarifying sonic textures without slowing or hardening sounds.. But I started to notice that low level harmonic inf...
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Continuing to harass the readers of my site and myself with the good news about the performance of my SA8535 driver I would like to post a very educational article about the subject. As I told before, being familiar with sound of ribbons then never i...
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Getting slightly off topic from stereo recordings,,, I was at a live concert,,sitting way up high and all the way back in the balcony in what i call POLOCK Heaven,,,The music i heard was full bodied and without the stereo localization,,,i was amazed ...
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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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I have found it useful to learn a little bit and also to remember what people have said about equipment they build. When I have had a chance to listen to the gear and compare what manufacturers have said with my impression of the...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"] twogoodears wrote:I've been an avid original soundtracks and film music collector for most of my life, and still I didn't find the PERFECT music for a movie... the classic, Alfred Newman's, Rozsa's, Hermann's, William...
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Ewa Podles in Boston this week in Rossini’s opera “Tancredi.’’ To celebrate Ms. Podles arrival in Boston I bought last week a couple of her live CDs with Russian and Chopin repertoire. Love her voice, even some of Garrick Ohlsson’s accompaniments we...
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I just returned home from an evening of Russian music in Seattle - Pletnev and RNO performing Rachmaninoff and Tchaikovsky. The program began with Rachmaninoff Vocalise, then Piano Concerto #3 (Alexander Mogilevsky on piano) and ...
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