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Very interesting point about Gergiev. I do not dispute it. I just know that at present time some of the work released by him is very pleasing to me. That does not limit me to only listening to what Gergiev is doing. For example...
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If the HT opera idea involves "immersion", then what is it that facilitates this immersion? I think image quality can be exploited with HT, just like any other quality. As for "Fantasia", it is a great example of a film that simply exceeded everyon...
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[quote user="op.9"]Well, I found Janacek strange and unfathomable. I was brought up on Haydn-Beethoven-Schubert-Brahms-(Mahler)-Schoenberg route... so I had no entering point for Janacek. I also loved Dvorák and Smetana... but this was no help ei...
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I took today Ça Ira at work and gave to is a second listening, hoping that I will warm up to the opera. I have a phenomenally good headphone listening system at my work.
Listening the Ça Ira again I understand deeper what I did not like in his...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]This is a whole point with the screens. I spoke with the guys who practice HT and the gave a whole lot of information about screens p I kind of find it ridicules that they are expensive and I find it not true that they are ...
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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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Below is the text from Slovens Website that presumably knows Anton Nanut. According to them Mr. Nanut did record the Beethoven Nineth. Interesting is that Nanut also record Dvorak’s last symphonies, Jerry, are they interesting in Slovenian rendering?...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"] I will be waiting for the February 24 with my tail trammeling…[/quote]Well, I went last Saturday to see the long-expected MET Broadcast. It was generally positive experience but it had own “apocalyptical” tones… “I do not ...
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Sunday evenings at 8 pm during the summer:
LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO (through July) and other live-by-recording performances
June 14: Massenet: Manon; Natalie Dessay, Jonas Kaufmann, Christop...
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Yes, Gergiev’s version of Queen of Spades probably in the top of the list but only as there is nothing else available. Gergiev is in my view a very good opera conductor but he has no good singers in his disposal. Do not get me wrong, the singer with...
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I recently become expectedly infatuated with a great contemporary conductor: Myung-Whun Chung. Myung-Whun Chung was born in 50s and he is a well-accomplished pianist. He started his conducting under Giulini’s wing and as a guest conductor have l...
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[quote user="clarkjohnsen"]. . . because I haven't
seen the setup. All in the same room? (No opera room?) Why can't the main
system be used? Etc. etc.
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Yep, they are in the same room. No opera room anymore. The
reason why I would like ...
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Conchita Supervia (1895-1936)By Professor Stanley Henig
“A magnetic personality, as well as a great singer…. the kind of artist around whose name legends gather”(Desmond Shawe-Taylor)
“Her gaiety, good temper, sympathy, and charm cloaked a k...
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Hello, gentlemen.Has Anton Nanut a recording of Marij Kogoj's opera "Crne maske" (Black masks)?...
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In no particular order, just typing them in as I think of them ...Vaughan Williams (I am a Brit, after all! Much excellent music, some of it not very well known at all - the symphonies are well known of course (the 5th ranks high among 20...
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Interesting discussion, guys. My own view on HT opera is simple: While the productions can often be extraordinary (the Barcelona Ring for instance) the singing can truly suck. For Wagner one must go back to the brilliant Keilberth and Krauss Bayreuth...
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Well, rowuk, I still do not think that when you are talking about what you are taking about then you are talking about standing wave. The standing waves are nothing more than persistent room gain. I think when you are talking about what you are talki...
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In fact I posted a question to Wolf and he replied that he can produce the coil of any voltage the customer would like to have. That is good. The below is data by Wolf von Langa:
MI-1428 - original version of the RCA 1428 - especially made for...
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Ric, I have love/hate relationship with Queen of Spades, it is complicated…. Unfortunately Queen of Spades, even it is a popular and well performed and recorded opera, never had in my view, a definitive committed to recording event. I think I have mo...
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I agree, with you both..I have a soft spot for Bartok, especially piano concertos, and piano+percussion.Sibelius might feel more significant, but the works I really know and like are from the 19th century.I have still heard very little by Richard Str...
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I have to admit that I do not like the trip to Tanglewood – sitting for hours at the damn turnpike exit is not my definition of fun. The few times I was in Tanglewood I never was able to get the sits where I appreciate sound a strange place for to li...
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I believe that those "allien sounds" are an enhancement of the frequencies comprised in what is called the singer's formant, which is the area of the third formant when opera singers sing vowels. That area is in the range of 3.5 to 5.5 KHz and is a s...
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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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Recordings are listed by year of release:
"The Lord's Prayer" and "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star." Emile Berliner. (ca. 1888)
Emile Berliner, the inventor of the microphone and founder of the first disc record company, lived and worked in Washi...
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Category 95:
Best Engineered Album, Classical
(An Engineer's Award. (Artist names appear in parentheses.))Britten: Billy BuddNeil Hutchinson and Jonathan Stokes, engineers (Daniel Harding, Nathan Gunn...
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Last week I hit I my local music store a DVD of Eugene Onegin that was recorded live last year at Salzburg Festival. It was expensive, $35 but I bought it. Hell I thought that I know all committed to recording media Onegin production and I took this ...
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[quote user="mats"]Sorry Romy, the broadcast was early in March, and I missed it too.Tonight I am going to the live performance. I think FMT struggled a bit with the sound this first year.Did you hear any of the Lyric broadcasts?
I have been playing...
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[quote user="jeff1225"]Roomy,I have read the posts from two years ago on your multi-cell horns. What was the final verdict? I don't see them for sale so I assume you've kept them. I'm curious where you stand on using 18 cell horns as the main midrang...
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A local audio friend of my lent me his new OPPO player, I do not know the numbers, whatever is the latest one. The idea was to put it in my Opera room, replacing my consumer-level Sony Blue Ray player, my consumer level preamp and anything else I hav...
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[quote user="DonM"] Romy, I have also noticed a difference in the response of my Altec 416A's with various amplifiers. My best rated amplifier the Bryston B60 was the worst and I could not listen to the speakers. I have been using a cheap Panasonic c...
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