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Sakuma's idiosyncratic and esoteric way of thinking (he believes for example that tubes have a "soul") is not to everyone's liking. He is projecting his mind into a sort of tone control. At least for him this tone control brings him nearer to th...
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I must confess that I don't have a lot of time for Heifetz's recordings - I find him too cool and aloof (even in the Sibelius where such attributes might be expected to be virtues) - to me he sounds indifferent and unresponsive to the emoti...
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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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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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The last night there was a broadcast of Marek Janowski leading the San-Francisco Symphony with Sarah Chang playing Sibelius’ Violin Concerto. It was interesting performance and also I might not like it as whole but there was something in there. I do ...
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Music and Arts Programs of America, Inc. www.musicandarts.com info@musicandarts.com Tel 510-525-4583 or Fax 510-524-2111CD-1063(2) IN MEMORIAM HANS HOTTER (1909-2003). A selection of Lieder from the Raucheisen project of the German Radio Sy...
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Some people say the BSO is the most "European" sounding US orchestra. Well, when listening to the recordings of the orchestra under the baton of Charles Münch it sounds truly wonderful and... indeed like a fine European orchestra. The Deutsche Grammo...
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Symphonies 1 to 4 by Herman Koppel have come my way over the last week or so .... 20th C Scandinavian. Kind of a cross between Sibelius, Vaughan Williams & Hindemith .... with a touch of minimalism way ahead of its time. &nb...
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Korean-born and Zurich, Berlin, and Stockholm educated conductor Shi-Yeon Sung will lead tomorrow BSO with Grieg Piano Concerto, something by Sibelius and Copland, and the Miraculous Mandarin Suite by Bartók. I heard Shi-Yeon last year in Tanglewood ...
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I also thought London should have more and better classical stations than Madrid. In Spain we have only two or three sindicated broadcast nets and but for the Radio Clasica channel and RNE3, all the others are always programming crappy music and "tal...
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It is Vladimir Ashkenazy conducts BBC Proms with European Union Youth Orchestra It is very good, but… I do not think that this is THE WAY to play Mozart. I would get it as Brahms or Sibelius Concerto but not the Mozart. She is overly idealistic and s...
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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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We Bostonians can proudly extend a big middle finger to any other city in US, arguably because many reasons but defiantly because the Boston’s FM capacity.
The presence of only WHRB is enough to make a person to break all his tonearms and crazy-glue...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]
If you visited this site before 2004, when I conversed it to audio site then you remember that it was performances-centric site. It was structured by composers, and each (let say some) composition had a list of reported...
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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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Maybe I'm not following novygera but isn't that what electrostatic speakers already do? I mean the full range ones. I thought some of Magnepan's smaller models only had quasi ribbon drivers also. I agree that it is not likely that one type of speaker...
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Today, at Mravinsky's birthday I publish a good article by Rob Barnett: the Classical Editor of the UK-based http://www.musicweb.uk.net. Rob gives a brief observation of the 20 CDs Melodia's box-set with Mravinsky's recordings.
MRAVINSKY Edition ...
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...by H. Robbins Landon From "High Fidelity" (mid 1960s) A couple of years ago, Vienna's famous concert organization, the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde, sent out to its subscribers a questionnaire asking them what kind of music they wanted to hear, ...
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[quote user="dazzdax"] Sakuma's idiosyncratic and esoteric way of thinking (he believes for example that tubes have a "soul") is not to everyone's liking. He is projecting his mind into a sort of tone control. At least for him this tone control bring...
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[quote user="Wojtek"]Following some "must have" isn't moronic just naive but not a bad way for starters (or just plain guys with interest in classical music but without ambition i.e ability and discipline, to become refined classical buff-snob) There...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]
Yes, it is better to hear it once then to have 5244 times to hear about it. BTW, you might not need SACD all that you need is live FM.[/quote] Don't get me wrong: despite the hard time finding a no cost babysitter, I atte...
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Koussevitzky 1924-1949
Beethoven 2, 3, 5, EgmontAll BrahmsMendelssohn 4 All Mozart All ScriabinAll ShostakovichAll ProkofievAll SibeliusAll RachmaninoffTchaikovsky 4Haydn # 94Strauss Don JuanLiszt Mephisto
Munch 1949-1973
Schubert ...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]
Yep, I do not like the rest of the Nanut Mahler at all. That Mahler 6 I think was a big accident….
The caT[/quote]Hmmm ... nor do I.I don't think Nanut's superb Mahler 6 was an accident though. ...
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a very good take on ones 'motivation' of musical likes and dislikes. In fairness I have listened to some rendition of Brahms’s 2nd piano concerto and it has something more for me, yet it might just simply be more 'accessible'? Maybe it has some sort ...
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MRAVINSKY'S RECORDINGS (1938-1984) IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDERThe data courtesy to Kenzo Amoh from Tokio
1938/03/27-4/3 Leningrad R M Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5 OMel 06820/33 unknown
1938-1939 Leningrad R M Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5 BMG(J) BVCX 80...
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New Releases All releases are on CD or 24/96 DVD (Playable on all DVD players)
HOLST - THE PLANETSSir Adrian Boult · Vienna Academy Chorus · Vienna State Opera OrchestraA forgotten Westminster re...
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Romy,
from my understanding, this disc called HDAD, contains on one side a DVD-Video resolution, 96/24 and on the other side a DVD-A i.e 192/24 resolution. So the disc on one side can be played in your regular DVD player and the other in ...
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Well, sadly James Levin is out the summer season and will be substituted but it is what it is.
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Tuesday, July 06, 2010 - 8:00 PM - Emerson String Quartet performing all Mozart program a...
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This topic it is of upmost importance to me in this stage of personal development, if I understood you. After my obsession with timbre, when I finally got a bit of satisfaction with violins, after horns, I failed with tempo. Or with inner t...
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Hi Romy,
Thanks for the link (how silly of me not to have thought of that): I've found a few more VCs in that list that I wish to look into.
I hadn't been to a violin concerto since childhood (before all those years of pop) and I guess those more...
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