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...I'd sent the Feline an email thanking him for the disc but hadn't seen this thread... I'd wondered why the posts count on the site was creeping upwards with no new mentions of kit, gear, componentry, Melquiades or the like.Well, DUH ...
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Chirag, First off all you have to define what do you want from them. If at this moment you’re looking for something within $700 then very next year, when you finish you medical school you will be searching in very different price range… :-) Now a lit...
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One of my first favourite classical pieces was Beethoven's fifth symphony. It was a recording by da great Von K. (Karajan) for Deutsche Grammophon. After all these years, it is still one of my favourite pieces. It is strange isn't it, a piece of musi...
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As anyone else I have developed my own ways to buy music. Beside any of my current interests, I, for instance, have some conductors who’s recording I buy no mater what: Scherchen, Golovanov, Barbirolli, Bohm.... Among pianists it would be probably th...
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I'm learning a lot on this Forum: lotta quoting and tips about the Great Masters - Beethoven, Mahler, Rachmaninov, Prokofiev, Mussorgsky and the Great Conductors Legacy: Toscanini, Walter, Furtwangler, Barbirolli, Boult...... the musical topics - alw...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Without any particular order: Gieseking with Barbirolli in 1939 is a phenomenal performance. Mistakably did not listen it for a long time as I was confusing it with the horrible Mengelberg–Gieseking performance of the same ...
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There are some “unlucky” compositions for “audio people”. For instance the Mozart’s Requiem: still there is no good performance of this work committed to a recording media. Yes, there are more or less OK performances of the Requiem but the comple...
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...to call in if you ever did get to Aus. There is plenty to see and experience here, and the weather is great just about all the time. A critical ear applied to my efforts would be most welcome.
[quote user="Romy the...
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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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I got the CD least night. Wow! The obscure Slovakian orchestra and THAT play of Mahler 6th?! Jerry, how did you even find it!!!
It was truly wonderful, I was listening it and was wondering when they “slip” but they did not. Playing Mahler 6th orches...
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[quote user="clarkjohnsen"]I was privileged to hear Munch do it there in '66 and I remember even still the viscerality and excitement of it, although the band was not as competent in those days.[/quote]I know the Munch’s recording very well. It is no...
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I never was a big fun of Pletnev. Even his Rachmaninoff’s Third Concerto (he plays piano), which many promoted as an “ultimate Rach 3” I found was unspeakably bad. Still, the “live” is live at it defiantly ads a lot of kink.
In regards of the recor...
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I spent today couple hours starting to search the DPoLS for Macondo. So far I am far from target but the experience was quite amassing. The “new”, properly aligned Macondo, with the bells and Water Drop and whistles does quite well. I have some “test...
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It is shame that audio people mostly do not listen FM. If fact if I had a feeling that they do and if I know that they record live broadcasts then it might be possible to facilitate some kind of recording exchange service when “interesting” recording...
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Will I be listening to all my sources via the inverse RIAA?
Well, the question was sarcastic but it has some rational grains. If the signal passing via the 834PTF-Air does receive some positive attributes despite of the presumed nastiness of t...
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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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The Mozart's latest Piano Concertos are cool and everlasting thing; it is interesting that with all Mozart's Piano Concertos simplicity the capable pianists could really play them well only in the end of their carries. The Mozart's conc...
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[quote user="Antonio J."]Would you recommend some of their works different than the most popular ones? Also knowing which is your favourite rendition of the Rachma's 3rd piano concerto would be interesting ;-)[/quote]Without any particular order:
Gi...
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Since the 2007-2008 alchemic music season and consequentially live FM season was over (the event I marked with my “End of the live Phonostage”) I have been spinning a lot of vinyl lately. So, I spent some time with different phono cables with my diff...
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It is interesting how my audio interests enter something that I call "design mode". The Design Mode is not really a state of being but rather a state or interaction between sound reproduction and me.
As I said before I seldom think in term of...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]It played well, though I question if it makes sense to use that caliber music for audio evaluations. [/quote]
Let just for sake of illustration to presume that any expressed opinion (a review) about audio element/component...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"] Nowadays, however, (because multiple reasons) orchestras sound with no expressive, tonal or harmonic consistency …[/quote]
[quote user="Michaelz"] Could you please expand on this? I am very much interested. [/quote]...
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I have been running my new Ortofon SPU Mono cartridge and can’t figure out why SPU has such a strong positive reputation and why some SPU users when I ask them about Sound of those cartridge they roll up their eyes. Yes, it is all around fine cartrid...
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Scooter, I was thinking myself if it was a pirated CD and I very carefully inspected it, I did not found any signs of not authenticity but I am not expect in it. To me it looks like a legitimate DG album. Though I admit that with contemporary mea...
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I came across a mystery today that I have absolutely no explanation.
Like many others I like the Brahms #4 symphony. I have my favorite: my beloved Barbirolli with Vienna during the Musikvereinssaal 1967 . I also a big admirer of Carlo Maria G...
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Last week I spent a few hours at the scene of NY’s Stereophile Show – HE 2004: a half-day on Thursday and 2 hours on Friday. As many other audio-shows it had many semi-ugly colorations, however as any audio shows this zoo trip brought it’s own “inter...
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[quote user="JANDL100"]
Romy the Cat wrote:
JANDL100 wrote:
Yes, please - I would very much like copies of Nanut conducting Mahler 7 8 9 & 10 - that would be wonderful! (I will put...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]
Gieseking with Barbirolli in 1939 is a phenomenal performance.
Gavrilov with Lazarev recording from 1977 is superb performance as well.
Horowitz with Reiner in 1951 did a very good job, but it is kind of th...
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A few days ago somebody mentioned to me that Roger Waters, the former Pink Floyd man come up with an opera about French revolution. A brief research confirmed the rumors and it turned out that it was quite awhile back:
http://en.wikipedi...
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I have a long listening session yesterday and was thinking a
lot about one interesting subject. Different playback systems differently
present intentional “inconsistency” or better to say “unexpectancy” of timing.
If you listen some truly masters ...
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