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Well, my Great Recordings of the Century EMI CD has arrived of the Opp 53, 57, 109 & 110 piano sonatas by G. It's almost reversed what I expected to hear in that, from what I have heard of his reputation, I would have expected him to ...
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Claude Debussy, Three Nocturnes (Triptych); Printemps; 1st Rhapsodie for Orchestra with Solo Clarinet;Pierre Boulez conducting the New Philharmonia Orchestra, with the John Aldis Choir, and Gervase de Peyer, clarinet; Columbia (stereo) M30483So ...
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We are so overly familiar with the music of the Romantic era (and to a lesser extent with some 20th century orchestral music) that we tend to overestimate the importance of dynamics overall in music and in listening. Obviously, abrupt and frequent dy...
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Hm, that is interesting. I also not a huge fun of Boulez but I remember a few years back I turned my tuner and it was somebody play Debussy’s “La Mer” and then without introduction the Jeux. It is very difficult to knock me off with La Mer but then i...
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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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NEW! CD-1180(4) Johann Sebastian Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier Evelyne Crochet, pianoCD 1 : Book 1 - Preludes and Fugues I to XV (Total time: 65:45) CD 2: Book 1 - Preludes and Fugues XVI to XXIV Book 2 - Preludes and Fugues...
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Firstly, no form of criticism was implied, why at all? Bartók just seems to give you some form of 'empty notion' perhaps, as does Brahms with me. I discussed this subject earlier today with my audio friend who would share your take on Bartók but does...
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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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As anybody else’s my listening habits are subjects of infatuations. Sometimes I develop some unhealthy interest to some music and being a compulsive Cat I begin to suck it in at full throttle. My last infatuation was the Beethoven last movement o...
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We will be happy to share our music with all GSC members who would be
willing to try the Truthful Recording Technology (calibration v2.0)
sound on their systems. All we want in exchange is to get as much
feedback as possible. It would be great ...
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CD-1124(2) J.S. BACH: THE FRENCH SUITES. BWV 812-817, selected Preludes, BWV 923, 999, 815a, and three Preludes from the Well-Tempered Clavier, performed by David Cates, harpsichord. CD1 49:38; CD2 45:22. DDD UPC #0-17685-112...
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"Highlights include complete Beethoven Symphony Cycle, Strauss's Four Last Songs with Renée Fleming, Mendelsshohn's "Elihah," Mahler's Fourth and Seventh Symphonies, and Premieres by Carter, Harbison, Lieverson and John Williams.
BSO Music Director ...
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Romy,Well, in the course of a weekend I typically listen to a lot of music, but there are a few favorite CDs that I like to use when trying to evaluate things:Piano Music of Chopin, Brahms & Prokofiev, Lincoln Mayorga, Sheffield Lab SL505The Lein...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]
JANDL100 wrote:
Oh, and the sound is surprisingly good! 1953 and 56 mono.Jerry, unfortunately you heard “wrong” Gieseking. The real Gieseking is the Gieseking before the WW2, in 20s and 30s. Afte...
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[quote user="rowuk"]It certainly shows my ignorance but I am surprised at the apparent market in Iran but still am pretty sure that it is a very small „privileged“ group of people participating. Practicing audio certainly can reflect the local „cultu...
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STOKOWSKI - Members' Special Sale(through September 30, 2006)
CD-1190(1) STOKOWSKI and KUBELIK conduct: experimental stereo recordings from 1952. JACOB AVSHALOMOV (b. 1919): The Taking of T’ung Kuan (7:53); TCHAIKOVSKY: Symphony No. 5 in E Min...
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Category 95:
Best Engineered Album, Classical
(An Engineer's Award. (Artist names appear in parentheses.))Britten: Billy BuddNeil Hutchinson and Jonathan Stokes, engineers (Daniel Harding, Nathan Gunn...
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They offer 24/88 downloadable and thanks God they do not record the Audiophile Blues or the similar crap. This is a good part. The bad part is that they record at 4X and then outsource the file to vireos industry cretins to “master” them, pushing...
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... other salad of dairies during the “Lost Saturday”…. Morning…
Clark Johnson pitched a few days ago the Dino Ciani’s Beethoven sonatas…
http://www.goodsoundclub.com/TreeItem.aspx?postID=1468
The Ciani’s Beethoven is unquestionably wonderful but...
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Hi Romy and JJTriode:
I wish I could take credit for all of the very pertinent commentary by Rosalyn Tureck, extracted below but I will not. I do agree with the sentiment though and the reasoning behind her expressed...
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The Wolf at Our Heels
The centuries-old struggle to play in tune.
By Jan Swafford
Y...
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Recordings are listed by year of release:
"The Lord's Prayer" and "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star." Emile Berliner. (ca. 1888)
Emile Berliner, the inventor of the microphone and founder of the first disc record company, lived and worked in Washi...
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