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...but Roy Gregory is one of those unfortunates who have no "constitutional rights".clark...
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You leave one concerto out which is very, very good -- I won't tell you what, but I'll play it some time.As to performances -- I could add a dozen!clark...
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A few years ago I suggested to a friend of mine who foolishly was looking an audio venture to build I the mid East Cost a permanent demo room. [/quote]Way ahead of you Romy! I started with that idea back in 1982, and expanded i...
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[And by the way, while I enjoy horn systems -- and they're some of the best -- I don't operate one myself.]Romy: "Absolutely, an average audio person has no opportunity to learn what is available out there." No quibble here! I've been saying thi...
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The ONLY reason why an audio review is writhen is because a person receives a unit to review. Did you ever seem any “reviewer” who refused to writhe his dummy doodles because a component did not perform up to the level wo...
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Yoshi wrote: It is like the church itself becomes the purpose instead of it being a tool to serve your faith. So when the church is criticized, they take it as if their faith is criticized.That's a very good point.One must at the same time real...
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"There have been many occasions where I've bitten my tongue when presented with someone's precious and expensive cacophony of noise." Very funny!I have made it a policy never, ever to critique anyone's system unless I have been presented with su...
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Porgy and Bess!The popular aria Summertime ("...and the livin' is easy...") is most often taken as a straight statement, but the fact was, the living was very, very difficult. The song is ironic! But sung out of context, you'd never know.clark...
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"Why would it be so interesting to have Clark's personal take on the matter?"That's easy!Because Clark's an interesting dude with a wideranging interest in music and a realistic eye turned towards politics. And when he sees a musician or a poli...
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I agreed with everything until it got to, "The Golovanov’s version is hardly Tchaikovsky’s symphony but rather Golovanov’s own re-composition…"Yet not a note was changed! (Was it?...)Therefore what Golovanov did was shuck decades of sentamentalism to...
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"I wonder what cultural/musical heritage the psychotic white-trashes that conquested our Wight House nowadays would be able to leave?""Our Wight house nowadays" has Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice, pianist extraordinaire, who just l...
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...Peter and the Wolf took place.
Thirteen years later Eleanor Roosevelt made her musical debut as the narrator in its premier recording with The Boston Symphony. ("My deaaahhh children!)
clark...
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All good, all good. Thank you!clark...
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"The agonized expression on his face is almost disturbing." Maybe the sound was detestable? ;-)clark ...
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Romy: BTW, I juts converted the Verdi from 24.88 to 16/44 and lost a huge amount of “sound”…Hmm... I've heard good conversions, and I've heard bad. I expect the digital gear/software has not been properly assessed for sonic quality.clark...
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While I had heard the original scoring before, it never made the impression on me that last night's broadcast did. Powerfully good!Wonder if anyone recorded it?...clark...
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"MET’s orchestra was more dramatic and less shallow then Boston." Well I'll give you that certainly! But the Lyric's was a truly Verdian sound, not easy to achieve. "Would you like to have the entire few gigs of raw file or do you want me to dow...
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Those are indeed great recordings, although for some reason I'm not as huge a fan of the Furtwaengler as most. But let it pass, let it pass.One recording that you must become familiar with: Sigmund von Hausegger and the Munich Philharmonic (1938...
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First, the Fifth: The first movement is indeed a stunner, nothing comes close. For the rest, I can line up competition. But no matter! The "live" aspect trumps all.The Met, indeed, had its moments but was not a keeper.The Traviata was terrific! Even ...
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http://home.flash.net/~park29/koussevitzky.htmAnd in a nice big box:http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00005TS0B/102-0376091-0067332?n=5174Along the way I found this appreciation of K's Rachy 3rd:
My Favorite Stereo 3rd, April 19, 2005
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Romy wrote: "what is interesting the he proposes Scherchen as some kind of cult or some kind of off-mainstream?" No, not at all! He wrote: "Who on earth was Scherchen? I soon found out, and Beecham and Walter soon became history. And thus began a per...
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Scherchen's Moving Mozart Requiem, June 11, 2005I have little objectivity when it comes to this magisterial Scherchen account of Mozart's Requiem. My first versions on LP in the 1970's were Bruno Walter's and Sir Thomas Beecham's (the former now on ...
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Let me rephrase. The recent remasterings (on CD!) of early Westminsters have shown them to be gorgeous mono recordings, in every instance better far than the LP. That's why I said the Scherchen MR sounded poor -- I was anticipating its glorious ...
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The mystery of all this has not been solved. Not to worry, it will be... moments before people stop buying CDs.clark...
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...I nominate Mengelberg's as the finest overall. Unfortunately it does not include his utterly transcendent studio recording of the Sixth.clark...
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Listened to as much as I could. We in Boston are lucky people indeed, to have such programming.clark...
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Yes, the 1953 Scherchen. For over twenty-five years I have hailed it as the best ever committed to disc. So let them laugh at me, I don't care.But the sonics were not good, and it was never remastered, because along came stereo, dammit.Now ...
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Welcome to, my latest filing:A Letter to Harryhttp://positive-feedback.com/Issue23/cjdiaries.htm...
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Damn! Those do look tempting. One that I do know is the Kabasta set, truncated though I think it be from the original 4-disc set. Pity no one's heard of the man, hardly.I'd like to hear from anyone who knows about the others.clark...
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