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Romy, I know this 1977 performance of Horowitz. It is part of a famous compilation “Horowitz Play Liszt” (RCA 09026-61415-2). This performance is fine but I have a lot of problem with Horowitz in 70s. The beautiful thing about Horowitz was that he re...
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Romy, I know this 1977 performance of Horowitz. It is part of a famous compilation “Horowitz Play Liszt” (RCA 09026-61415-2). This performance is fine but I have a lot of problem with Horowitz in 70s. The beautiful thing about Horowitz was that he re...
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Her is in early interview in 1977 ua a very rare event of Horowitz plays fragments from Emmerich Kalman’s "Die Czardas Fürstin" at 2.40 and 3.14. Between Horowitz says "I can play the instrument during dinner hours."...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"] A few months ago I bought the first pressing of the same album… only sealed (paid $60 - love Horowitz in the end of 40s begin of 50s)... and you know what? Suddenly the entire album could be perfectly tracked with the cont...
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C, I very much agree about the benefits of spherical needle, partially on the older records and out of condition records, and this is one of the reasons why people have multiple arms on TTs. Yes, in many cases the spherical stylus “tracks better” 9mo...
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Her is in early interview in 1977 ua a very rare event of Horowitz plays fragments from Emmerich Kalman’s "Die Czardas Fürstin" at 2.40 and 3.14. Between Horowitz says "I can play the instrument during dinner hours."...
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Heard this recording, by Valery Kuleshov on the Van Cliburn Competition 1993 disc, played on WFMT yesterday. A mezmerizing performance, fantastic arrangement, and superb sound. An Amazon reviewer writes:
"Though Horowitz wrote these variations a...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"] A few months ago I bought the first pressing of the same album… only sealed (paid $60 - love Horowitz in the end of 40s begin of 50s)... and you know what? Suddenly the entire album could be perfectly tracked with the cont...
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[quote user="Antonio J."]Do you know of other renditions of this work worth the purchase?[/quote] This concerto is “lucky”, it well-performed and there are many good recordings. Some of my “honorable mentions” would be: Michelangeli with anybody else...
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Hey, Guy.
The pre-Baltic countries are a nice place to be – quite interesting people in there, although thier women behave like they just were taken out of a freezer. :-) They kind of facially less-reactive and less-responsive than the girls-souther...
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I never was a big fun of Pletnev. Even his Rachmaninoff’s Third Concerto (he plays piano), which many promoted as an “ultimate Rach 3” I found was unspeakably bad. Still, the “live” is live at it defiantly ads a lot of kink.
In regards of the recor...
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A strong second-recommendation of the 1977 Horowitz recording of the Liszt(RCA 12548 here in France). It is a superb sounding LP as well. For some reason I can't listen to anything Argerich lately, maybe it's because everytime I have ...
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Piano Sonata No. 21 in C major, Op. 53, WaldsteinA very nice performance of the begining of Beethoven's "heroic" phase (1803-1812). Wilhelm Kempff's genius pianissimo (perhaps the best of any pianist I have heard) made the d...
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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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I constantly receive emails from people asking me my opinions about audio equipment. I was trying to address it in here:
http://www.goodsoundclub.com/TreeItem.aspx?PostID=681
…but still. Those people do not really understand hot tedious to think ab...
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I have been listening for the last week German player Fumiko Shiraga plays Bruckner’s sole piano works. The CD has the piano version of the Adagio from Symphony No. 7, the 26 min 40 second of pure hallucinogenic ride. I think the world pianist need t...
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This afternoon I was listening to a Rach 2/3 concerto performed by 20-something Georgian pianist Khatia Buniatishvili. I wasn't familiar with the musician, and was simply interested in listening to some comfortable background music. These are piece...
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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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I just returned home from an evening of Russian music in Seattle - Pletnev and RNO performing Rachmaninoff and Tchaikovsky. The program began with Rachmaninoff Vocalise, then Piano Concerto #3 (Alexander Mogilevsky on piano) and ...
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As some of you know I do not like the orchestrated “Pictures”… There are a half dozen different orchestrated versions, including a concert version for a piano and orchestra but I prefer to say with a simple piano as properly performed it is more “imp...
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Today, December 18 many years ago, a Russian refugee running form the Red Plague and after spending some time in Northern Europe was forced to make living by playing piano. By the today’s concert that took place in Providence RI, Sergey Rachmanin...
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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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Connected today Melquiades and Macondo in new room. Macondo uses drivers as they are – no time or axis aliments of any kind yet, no Insertion Channels, no level calibration by channels. I just in-phase the channels and sat to listen, to see what happ...
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My curiosity peaked with Jessie Dazzle’s last few posts. I realized that, in France, he receives 220v, 50 Hz power. I then recalled Romy’s post at http://www.goodsoundclub.com/Forums/ShowPost.aspx?postID=1177#1177. I was wondering i...
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Stressing Bass in my former post I would like do not overly accent the lower bass itself but rather an organic combination of bass with something that I would call “full body” sound.
It we look at many properly setups, loaded and amplified cartridge...
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Ok, who do not play Rachmaninoff toady? I kind of dived today into the Rachmaninoff’s liturgy and even went so far as span an album of Nina Koshetz songs… :-) BTW, for the East Coast falks if you are interested:
The International Rachmaninoff ...
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Nope is it now what extraterrestrials would love but rather we would be able to offer to them to demonstrate what our Earth Classical Music (let say Western music) is all about.
When in 1977 Voyager was sent into deep space then the golden phonograp...
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The Mozart's latest Piano Concertos are cool and everlasting thing; it is interesting that with all Mozart's Piano Concertos simplicity the capable pianists could really play them well only in the end of their carries. The Mozart's conc...
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[quote user="Antonio J."]Would you recommend some of their works different than the most popular ones? Also knowing which is your favourite rendition of the Rachma's 3rd piano concerto would be interesting ;-)[/quote]Without any particular order:
Gi...
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Well Ronnie, welcome to the world of classical music! Tschaikovsky 4th
is actually my favourite Tschaikovsky symphony (Mravinsky!), followed
by the 6th symphony (also Mravinsky). The 4th is dramatic, dynamic and
opera like, the 6th is tragic: when...
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