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I only listen to Wagner when I have the house to myself, and the electricity is perfect! The slightest sense of hesitation or choking from the system can ruin it for me.Much of Wagner is very "self-important" music; yet - somehow - he pulls it off -...
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Since my B2 ULF power amp will be long time to fix then being a compulsive person fully suffering from Dostoevsky Complex I bought another B2 amp to keep the blood flooding in my playback. Surprisingly it was no my decision but I got advise from ...
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This might show your average sound level at your typical listening time during a typical Wagner Opera... :)(if so, take a rest every 45 minutes for 15 minutes to avoid damaging your ears: This is an institutional recommendation here i...
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BOSTON PHILHARMONIC just announced the 2013-14 Season and they will be playing Bruckner Symphony No. 7 on Friday, February 28, Symphony Hall, 8pm. Special BPO Concert (rescheduled from April, 2013)Beethoven, Coriolan OvertureBeethoven, Symphony No....
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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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...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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I think it was Wagner who first incorporated in his composition the concept of masking. He felt that during loud sounds people are losing ability to recognize the instrumental complexity. Later on during the stupid mp3 times or digital compression, o...
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As Wagner once said to his friend Nietzsche at the Festival Theatre in Bayreuth"remove your spectacles, music is only to be listened to"Cheers,Ric...
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Thanks for comment, decoud. If you live with Melquiades for a while then you might discover that it will moderate your listening interests with time. I do not know what you are listening now but be if you spend substantial amount of time with Milq th...
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It was the dismal failure of conventional playback to reproduce Wagner that first drew me in this direction; had I listened only to chamber music I might not have made the effort. Which is I suspect partly why other amplifiers are not like this: ther...
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I never understood the affinity that the Germans have for heavy metal. Whenever you going into any of their rooms at CES (especially MBL), Slayer is playing at 130 DB. Maybe it's the modern interpretation of Wagner....
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It is excellent that Timbre is described here as color. This is actually how musicians speak about it. The problem with the comparison to photography is that color with a musical instrument is a moving target. If we take my own instrument, the trumpe...
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This problem exists for the last 2-3 years; you can hear it more with Wagner because his operas have more long continues notes. Call to MET, ask the broadcast division and complain. ...
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Because opera libretti are quite outdated, intendants of opera houses are trying to modernize their stage plays. They reinvent symbolism and implement this new "insights" into their opera productions often in a grotesk way. This is especially true in...
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Almost one year passed since I first saw these pictures and quite frequently I've been thinking about the question. Some pieces were quite close, but not entirely like that. Some Bach... even Wagner, but not really. Finally today I've listened t...
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With my resent discovery of Wagner:
http://www.romythecat.com/Forums/ShowPost.aspx?postID=8393#8393
…..I am listening some Wagner lately and I discovered a truly gem. In 1960 Frantz Konwitschny led Berlin’s Staatskapelle and State Opera Chorus with...
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I have an EMI DVD of Jochum conducting Bruckner 7. Orchestre National de France, played in the Theatre de Champs Elysees, Paris, France, on 6th February 1980.The performance is very special. The opening especially is pretty much perfect!Y...
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I have to admit that I am not a huge fun of the Chibas’ Bruckner. Well, he might be OK but am very much do NOT like how the Orquesta Sinfónica Venezuela sounds. All the exuberant reviews about the recordings are juts a pile of reviewing crap. There a...
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Thanks, Romy!Does anyone know if there is a recording of the exact Wagner performance that opens and closes this documentary? I have heard it played like this before, but only in my mind, without apparent force from the musicians, and so slowly that...
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Kitty and I are attending this weekend a Wagner Weekend event in Tanglewood. It is Die Walküre dedicated 3 days ceremony with TMCO opera rehearsal and performance, numerous meetings, dinners, lectures, talks with good Wagnerians, inching Christine Go...
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Wagner considered Bruckner unintellectual and uninformed but he did Not have a low opinion of Bruckner as a composer. Two entirely different things. Many people thought Bruckner was extremely naive socially speaking and not conversant with the ideas ...
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ROMY,,,,,Its hard to duplicate the power of nature,,,,in music,,Even Wagner would have a hard time,,,much less Mahler.. I wold like to compose a symphony for a Hurricane,, Maron...
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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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There are two fragments of recordings: 3 weeks ago and today. The Wagner file was made from original Sansui and the Bizet’s file with that new Sansui with updated better parts. I think it is possible to see what I meant to say. Please do not download...
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Wow, what a concert! Incontestably the very best live broadcast in 2008-09 seasons and the most impressive Götterdämmerung I heard, at least orchestral play. Did you pay attention how Levine cooked up the pressure and how smart he built up drama? So,...
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Thank you for illustrating problems with the "approach". Now that your response has become part of the dialog, I remain hopeful to get some ideas for a "simple" phono stage that might not choke up on Bruckner or Wagner with battery power, and I do t...
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Bill, I disagree with you. I agree with all your assessments but I disagree with the reasons. All of the factors you mentioned I did wrong would not affect dynamic Dynamics but would affect only static Dynamics. I agree that both of them were comprom...
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Debussy or any good composer not using loud dynamic shifts to generate tension has to compose so that the music works without it. Also they have to score it differently. But Debussy is not notating microdynamics just to be clear. And Gieseking's mic...
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[quote user="Paul S"]I try every few years to home in on "leads" to Strauss's "men's chorale" works. I've heard only 2 examples, both while driving, and both times the usual "random selection" with "random explication" from "dee-jays" who hold forth ...
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I have to say there is hardly a production of Wagner these days that is not fucked up in some way, as if the only people who dare stage him are so narcissistic they will not let him compete with them, and need to try to handicap his power. Covent Ga...
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