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I very recently after a long hard search was able to acquire the set The Romantic Rachmaninoff 1s pressings on Readers Digest which includes the complete piano concertos The Isle of The Dead and other selections. He plays with the Royal Philharmonic ...
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Richter and Karajan playing the Tchaikovsky PC1 are well celebrated performance. Some years back I had a fool fixation to get one moment from that play to sound in a certain way – I have perhaps 15 different pressings of the thing. Unfortunately I a...
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Any good recordings of Rachmaninoff playing or conducting his own works?The last time I heard R play his own 3rd PC I did not listen through.Seems like there would have to be some nice examples...Best regards,Paul S....
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It would be interesting to hear the Rachmaninoff’s own take on the Second Symphony. Unfortunately he did not leave this recording. As a conductor, Rachmaninoff recorded only Third Symphony, Isle of the Dead, and Vocalise.The Cat...
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A friend of mine is playing Rachmaninoff 3rd at Alice Tully Hall in Phila this week. For reference I listened to a CD by Argerich (Phillips label) and it wasnt very much to my liking. Anyone care to share their experience on some good performances?...
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Too hot to expect the best sound today, and besides I have gotten my morbid curiousity worked up about the recording/playback curves, so I fished out a few LPs mostly to hear/see how they sound with respect to the "shape" of their sound, aspects of w...
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Yes and No... Yes, I saw/heard some exhibitors with music on servers, that I felt was limited in scope, and insufficiant quality to show what I wanted to hear (dynamics, range, complexity, whatever). It can be used as a convienient "reason" not...
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I could think of a list of these sorts of programs that seemingly every aspiring musician must prove him/herself with. Also, there is a very tough, resiliant layer of suck-up "critics" that gush in chorus whenever "big name" or "future big-name" art...
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Fortuitously did not attend work today due to illness. Fortuitous in that I was able to hear the entire live broadcast of BSO led by the 33 year old conductor Vasliy Petrenko. I enjoyed the entire program. The Rachmaninoff "Isle of the dead" was m...
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PCA LM 2355 (2-channel mono)I don't listen to a lot of Rachmaninoff, buut I would if more of it was done like this.Here is a young Van Cliburn, just back from his USSR tour, playing at Carnigie hall with Kiril Kondrashin directing the Symphony o...
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As a few weeks back NYT published an article about 10 greatest composers that made any forum on web to come up with own list. I do not want to propose my own version of the List; I am interested in a different aspect. I post sometimes at Google C...
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Amy is going at some kind of conference in San Francisco
during the February-March spilt and she wants me to go with her. She loves to
have her House Boy Coco with her to get her foot massages and back rubs… So, I
am trying to figure out what I wi...
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"They have even more warmth and ambiance than MP3" Even more!?!?!?
On related note, I saw the BSO tonight (Sibelius, Rachmaninoff and Ives); the evening had its ups and downs although I enjoyed Steven Hough. While at the Symphony Hall I picked up...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]The point that I made was that this “public” sex with that boy was the most exciting thing Pletnev did during the last good 15-20 years. Even reading about it was more impressionable then Pletnev conducting. [/quote]hahaha,...
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I am not so wild about Stravinsky as piano composer. His is OK, but no Liszt and no Rachmaninoff. His sonatas and etudes are not so exiting in my view, Concerto for Piano and Wind Instruments is boring and his piano version of Petrushka is “not ...
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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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Denis Matsuev plays the Russian Premiere of Rachmaninoff-Warenberg's Fifth Piano Concerto with National Philharmonic Orchestra of Russia under Spivakov....
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I am not a big fun of Gabriela Montero, she has too much pop semantic in her play, and this week she will be playing with Zander’s Boston Philharmonic the Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 3
http://bostonphil.org/BPO/
I still debate if to go even I...
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Myaskovsky always said that his music was grounded in the tradition of Rimsky-Korsakov, Rachmaninoff, and of course, Tchaikovsky, so that is where the beauty and lyrical portions of his music derived from. But he was part of the avant-garde movement ...
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Scott, I do not see which Vocalise it is. The LYS have managed to published a huge amount of Koussevitzky recordings before their ass got kicked and I think thsy have 3 versions Koussevitzky’s Vocalisess… Get any of them, it will do... This ...
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[quote user="Ronnie"]Just curious: what do you think of the Shostakovich piano concertos?[/quote]If you are interested about the Shostakovich concertos then you might try Bernstein playing it and conducting in at the same time, the Shostakovich playe...
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Well, to close the saga I need to inform that my visit of the NPoR concert in Purchase was a complete waste of time. I understand that NPoR rides across US and cashing in their sound among mostly ignorant US consumers. Sure, as in any professional ac...
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What the lucky Pussy I am! I’m finishing with my current Ray Brook's client on Friday an was thinking to take off back to Boston as I realized that NPoR has a performance on Friday in The Performing Arts Center of Purchase, NY. When I asked my cowork...
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I'll try to make some comments on Feastrex Sound in this post. It is always difficult for me to isolate the sound of the individual parts I want to analyze. Like in this thread, which has partly evolved into the effect of all pe...
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I received three Reference Recordings discs yesterday - 'Exotic Dances from the Opera', 'Rachmaninoff Symphonic Dances' and 'Dick Hyman Thinking of Bix'. I'm surprised that I actually like these (musically speaking) more than I thought I would.
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[quote user="manisandher"]I received three Reference Recordings discs yesterday - 'Exotic Dances from the Opera', 'Rachmaninoff Symphonic Dances' and 'Dick Hyman Thinking of Bix'. I'm surprised that I actually like these (musically speaking) more tha...
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[quote user="Jordi"] I am sorry that it took me so long to respond to yours and many other questions here but unlike most of the people who have the time to post here because they are unemployed, I have a DAY JOB and have to WORK for a living. This i...
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[quote user="JJ Triode"]Romy,You refer to the D minor concerto as a "piano concerto," but wasn't it originally composed for harpsichord, like all his other keyboard works? (Except organ of course.) Anyway, I have a harpsichord recording of the D...
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[quote user="jessie.dazzle"] Also, I'm convinced that a too-big space is horrible for audio as well as being non-conducive to good mental concentration (some of the best ideas are born on the toilet!) [/quote]
The subject of playback in very...
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Yes, I know now you feel. I visited Japans twice. Although audio was not my main objective but I spent some time for audio. Even I was at that time less critical and less demanding then I would be today still I was not pleased what I heard. Also...
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