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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Rachmaninoff conducts Rachmaninoff by Romy the Cat on 2009-09-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Drama vs. Chic in Musical Discussions  2 Replies 
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...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: The Rachmaninoff Birthday… and the event... by Romy the Cat on 2007-04-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Today: Rachmaninoff in America in Musical Discussions  4 Replies 
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 ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #7: They do not make them like this anymore. by Romy the Cat on 2007-03-05 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Juana Zayas plays Chopin in Musical Discussions  10 Replies 
Yesterday the WHRB broadcasted the Rachmaninoff’ conducting from 30s and 40s and they end up the programs with the celebrated 1939 Ormandy/Philadelphia performances of Rachmaninoff’ Third Concerto As many times I heard Rachmaninoff’ played the peace ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: An evening to remember - Russian National Orchestra performs Rachmanin... by skushino on 2006-03-29 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: An evening to remember - Russian National Orchestra performs... in Musical Discussions  7 Replies 
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 ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: I have the Rachmaninoff-Ormandy by Antonio J. on 2005-08-10 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Recommend me works to get into Myaskovsky and Glazunov in Musical Discussions  8 Replies 
on a Naxos edition. Very nice rendition, and as you say, quite diferent from others I've listened to. Thanks for the recommendations.What about other Rachmaninoff's and Rimsky's works I should know? :-)Regards,AJ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: The Rachmaninoff Birthday… and the event... by Romy the Cat on 2007-04-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Today: Rachmaninoff in America in Musical Discussions  4 Replies 
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 ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Rachmaninoff PC 2: Concertgebouw, Chailly, Volodos. by Romy the Cat on 2007-06-06 
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It is not that I agree with everything but interesting…. ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: The Rachmaninoff Theird Concerto. by Romy the Cat on 2005-08-09 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Recommend me works to get into Myaskovsky and Glazunov in Musical Discussions  8 Replies 
[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...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Rachmaninoff, PC 3; Kondrashin/Van Cliburn by Paul S on 2008-06-15 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Rachmaninoff, PC 3; Kondrashin/Van Cliburn in Musical Discussions  4 Replies 
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...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No.5 by Romy the Cat on 2009-01-18 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No.5 in Musical Discussions  2 Replies 
OK, whatever you say, but did you buy it already? http://www.amazon.com/Piano-Concerto-No-5-Based-Symphony/dp/B0015XAT1QThe caT...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Today: Rachmaninoff in America by Romy the Cat on 2004-12-18 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Today: Rachmaninoff in America in Musical Discussions  4 Replies 
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...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: A horrible re-performance of Rachmaninoff!!! by Romy the Cat on 2009-10-31 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A horrible re-performance of Rachmaninoff!!! in Musical Discussions  1 Replies 
Zenph released their new album: Re-performance of Rachmaninoff http://www.zenph.com/rachmaninoff/ Sure I bought it was listing it yesterday. What can I say – yes it is a very good piano but it very poor played piano. The play is b...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: The pointless wondering by Romy the Cat on 2009-01-25 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No.5 in Musical Discussions  2 Replies 
Ok, I got it yesterday and I really do not like it. I do not know where to start - it is so much off what where Rachmaninoff left it – it just a very different amplitude of talent. With Rachmaninoff each note has beauty, balance, reference to the who...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: The Corelli’s Variations and sense of humor. by Romy the Cat on 2009-03-06 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Today: Rachmaninoff in America in Musical Discussions  4 Replies 
I did not know that Rachmaninoff had such a great sense of humor and such great send of … justness. Well judge yourself. Here is the WGBH's  Ron Della Chiesa’s introduction to today’s Rachmaninoff concert.http://www.mediafire.com/?1xtgs3mzztu(a ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Today: Rachmaninoff in America by Romy the Cat on 2004-12-18 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Today: Rachmaninoff in America in Musical Discussions  4 Replies 
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...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Spivakov, NPoR Orchestra and Olga Kern by Romy the Cat on 2007-03-16 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Spivakov, NPoR Orchestra and Olga Kern in Musical Discussions  12 Replies 
There is a lot that might say about the subject but I won’t. Returning today after the performance of Vladimir Spivakov’s new orchestra: National Philharmonic of Russia and Olga Kern as piano player I will  say very short: Today is March 16 and...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Surprising: the most interesting composer of 20 century. by Romy the Cat on 2007-12-26 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Surprising: the most interesting composer of 20 century. in Musical Discussions  14 Replies 
I do not do the idiotic quizzes “who is the best” and who would be the top 5 or 10 in some bogus lists but a few days ago I did asked myself who is  among 20 century composers I feel was the most interesting and the most appreciated by me. While...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #71: Lang Lang and St. Petersburg New Philharmonic the right performers. by unicon on 2011-05-31 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Performance of a week. in Musical Discussions  87 Replies 
Brilliant piano performance from Lang Lang :http://www.amazon.com/Rachmaninoff-Piano-Concerto-Scriabin-Etudes/dp/B00006419GRgs....

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #8: Many shadows of Gieseking… by Romy the Cat on 2008-06-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: More Gieseking! in Musical Discussions  19 Replies 
Well, Jerry, I can pitch you some CDs. They would be from US resellers but I am sure you can found your local UK equivalent. Be advised that I have none of the Gieseking’s CD only LPs, so I have no idea how good sound transfer was made to CD.  G...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: That was a lot of fun! by Romy the Cat on 2014-10-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: October surprise. NY, NYP, B8 in Musical Discussions  3 Replies 
Wow, two concerts on a row and both are phenomenal. On Friday NY Philharmonic showed off some very serious Bruckner and last night Boston Philharmonic delivered an absolute thrill with Rachmaninoff second symphony. The first part they did Mozart's...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: A horrible re-performance of Rachmaninoff!!! by Romy the Cat on 2009-10-31 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A horrible re-performance of Rachmaninoff!!! in Musical Discussions  1 Replies 
Zenph released their new album: Re-performance of Rachmaninoff http://www.zenph.com/rachmaninoff/ Sure I bought it was listing it yesterday. What can I say – yes it is a very good piano but it very poor played piano. The play is b...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: An evening to remember - Russian National Orchestra performs Rachmanin... by skushino on 2006-03-29 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: An evening to remember - Russian National Orchestra performs... in Musical Discussions  7 Replies 
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 ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: The National Philharmonic of Russia in NY by Romy the Cat on 2007-03-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Spivakov, NPoR Orchestra and Olga Kern in Musical Discussions  12 Replies 
I would like to follow up with my initial post. The last nigh I went to NY’s Avery Fisher Hall in Lincoln Center to hear the Spivakov NPoR. I have great sit (Orchestra RowM, center, 3 sits on the left – perfect for piano concertos). Funny: ahead of m...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #10: Taking a Few for the Team by Paul S on 2009-07-19 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: AMR PH-77: just another phonostage or more? in Analog Playback  11 Replies 
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...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Rachmaninoff conducts Rachmaninoff by Romy the Cat on 2009-09-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Drama vs. Chic in Musical Discussions  2 Replies 
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...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Russian Orthodox liturgy: Pavel Chesnokov by Romy the Cat on 2004-10-16 
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Following the recent thread about the Prokoviev’s “Hale to Stalin” I would like to pitch to the choral music lovers one more name. Russian Orthodox liturgy mostly sucks. There was a dozen of Russkis composers who composed Russian chants: Totov, Grech...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: The “bread and circus” of classical music. by Romy the Cat on 2006-10-11 
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A ‘solution” was brewing in my mind: that “they” need would be moves. I think the cinematographers and are classical music promoters are loosing whole point in here. Classical music propagandists keep bitching that the classical music is loosing mark...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: How it might be done. by Romy the Cat on 2008-06-16 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Rachmaninoff, PC 3; Kondrashin/Van Cliburn in Musical Discussions  4 Replies 
Paul, did you ever heard the Barbarolli and Gieseking? Gieseking painlessly slow opens the first movement but he does it so smart, so tactful, so sensitive and so ingenusly that it opens a totally new meaning how it might be done. The play has a lot ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: Richter and Karajan by Romy the Cat on 2010-01-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A Good Tchaikovsky PC 1? in Musical Discussions  4 Replies 
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...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: Better BSO performances committed to recordings. by Romy the Cat on 2007-08-05 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: I hate, hate, hate, hate Boston Symphony! in Musical Discussions  72 Replies 
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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