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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #9: The chicken has been roasted by rowuk on 2019-12-10 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: About Timbre and Audio. in Playback Listening  9 Replies 
In the case of brass players - including Mr. Schlueter, I would maintain that many simply have no interest in historic context for Mahler or Bruckner - or older music. Case and point: a Giovanni Gabrieli recording by the Met brass section. Sure, it i...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: A Documentary History Of EMI Classics by Romy the Cat on 2005-06-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: EMI rollercoaster across 20 century. in Musical Discussions  4 Replies 
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...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #41: Arrived at last by JANDL100 on 2008-02-06 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A great conductor - but almost unknown - Anton Nanut in Musical Discussions  52 Replies 
[quote user="JANDL100"]  Romy the Cat wrote:  JANDL100 wrote: Yes, please - I would very much like copies of Nanut conducting Mahler 7 8 9 & 10 - that would be wonderful!   (I will put...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: 2010 Classical Grammy Nominees by Romy the Cat on 2009-12-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: 2010 Classical Grammy Nominees in Musical Discussions  1 Replies 
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...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #12: The Baffling Case of Anton Bruckner by Romy the Cat on 2012-04-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: How to play Bruckner Sound in Audio. in Playback Listening  16 Replies 
...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, ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #7: Timbre from the musicians view by rowuk on 2019-12-07 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: About Timbre and Audio. in Playback Listening  9 Replies 
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...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: Orchestra Hall by zako on 2010-07-11 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The "artificially" made music? in Playback Listening  6 Replies 
Yes we now can digitally replace the violin section and cello section,,and horn and bass,,and wind and tymponyss of an orchestra....I will now orchestrate a new Mahler Ressurection,,,,replacing Micheal Tilson Thomas with my version,,,,I wont have to ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: LATER IN LIFE. by zako on 2011-06-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Paradoxes of my Racism. in Site Support Forum  10 Replies 
What would I do if I lost every thing in a fire ??  I reflect back, when I was a youngster...care free with no possessions,,,I,m much older than you,,Life was much simpler,,  What would i do different ??....I would not rebuild any possessions,,, In m...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: Probobly it will not be Mahler however.... by Romy the Cat on 2011-06-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Paradoxes of my Racism. in Site Support Forum  10 Replies 
[quote user="zako"]What would I do if I lost every thing in a fire ??  I reflect back, when I was a youngster...care free with no possessions,,,I,m much older than you,,Life was much simpler,,  What would i do different ??....I would not rebuild any ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #167: Storm by zako on 2010-06-09 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Romy The Cat's new Listening Room in Audio Discussions  478 Replies 
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...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #13: Souls of tubes, Tone Control and midrange forwardness. by Romy the Cat on 2007-08-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The Sakuma's Show in Audio Discussions  35 Replies 
[quote user="dazzdax"] Sakuma's idiosyncratic and esoteric way of thinking (he believes for example that tubes have a "soul") is not to everyone's liking. He is projecting his mind into a sort of tone control. At least for him this tone control bring...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #71: New morning by zako on 2010-05-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Romy The Cat's new Listening Room in Audio Discussions  478 Replies 
Yes i know the expierence,,,I too live in the wild,,As I open the sliding doors,,The Deer across the lake look up as Mahler symphony rolls across the water,, A startled redtailed hawk takes flight,,,  Good to be alive and witness a fresh new morning....

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #384: Something is not right by Romy the Cat on 2010-10-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s Midbass Project – the grown up time. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  455 Replies 
Last night Levine and BSO played a phenomenal Mahler 5, truly great play.  I had some issues with BSO sound and I probably will bring it up to them. Tonight I decided to listen the M5 broadcast for the first time and I realized that my bass is gone. ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Good Examples/Marketing, Anyway by Paul S on 2018-05-19 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: In interesting new company in Munich: Jo Sound. in Audio News  1 Replies 
Well, they managed to find program that highlights their products' good qualities in this situation, all right, which is more than one can say about other, similar product marketers.  Not enough to overcome my inner skeptic yet, but this has gotten m...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #183: Room Mode Gain vs. Speaker/Amp Output by Paul S on 2017-07-13 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A listening room for a domesticated Cat? in Audio Discussions  283 Replies 
Romy, do you still have the "bass traps" from your previous house?  I also hate an "over-damped" room, but it might be useful to know more about the "character" of the room modes you have mentioned.  Sure, the 60 Hz plagues everyone.  The RTA will te...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #46: No, I don't believe in 'accidents' by JANDL100 on 2008-02-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A great conductor - but almost unknown - Anton Nanut in Musical Discussions  52 Replies 
Perhaps we mean different things by the word 'accident'.  For me, an accidently great piece of art would be if I painted things at random on a canvas and it 'accidentally' turned out to be identical to a masterpiece by Rembrandt.  Pure chan...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #25: If you around Boston and have a tuner. by Romy the Cat on 2008-10-22 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: I hate, hate, hate, hate Boston Symphony! in Musical Discussions  72 Replies 
Then do not miss the live-to tape WGBH 89.7 broadcast on Sunday Oct. 26, 3pm James Levine leads the Boston Symphony Orchestra with Gustav Mahler #6. They might do something very interesting and combine different movements from 3 concerts that they pl...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #73: Must differ, somewhat by clarkjohnsen on 2014-02-23 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: I hate, hate, hate, hate Boston Symphony! in Musical Discussions  72 Replies 
The first movement went terrifically well -- Rhythmically alert, quickly paced and beautifully shaped. It reminded me of the Weingartner recording, and of the Thomas/Pittsburgh I once heard on the radio while sitting in the car. Difference is, the la...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #64: My latest BMI post... by Romy the Cat on 2013-09-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: I hate, hate, hate, hate Boston Symphony! in Musical Discussions  72 Replies 
...deletd.The Mahler Second last Saturday was a wonderful concert to demonstrate how irrelevant BSO is becoming in lives of people who are interesting in actual musical results instead of paranoiac desire of feeding a parochial cesspool of smalltalk ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #8: Sound Liaison by Gentleman on 2013-05-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: New audiophile download sites in Musical Discussions  12 Replies 
this is my homework so far. Soloist diploma from the Royal Academy of Music the Hague the Netherlands, Classical Double Bass.Played Mahler with Bernard Haitink,Beethoven with Jaap van ZwedenBach with Ton Koopman to name a few.should I go on`............

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: A homework for Mahler lovers…. by Romy the Cat on 2011-03-16 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Why I do not love Mahler? in Musical Discussions  15 Replies 
Yesterday I was listening an broadcast from Netherlands over FM with Mariss Jansons leading Concertgebouw and Netherlands Radio Choir with Mahler’s Resurrection. The play was horrible, starting from playing of Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and ending...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #42: 12th annual Bruckner Marathon, California by Romy the Cat on 2010-08-05 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Bruckner, me and the Seventh in Musical Discussions  81 Replies 
Join us on Saturday, September 4, 2010, to celebrate Bruckner's 186th birthday in Carlsbad, California.  This year marks our 12th annual Bruckner Marathon and we'd like to share some good music with Bruckner lovers. As in previous years, we'll pl...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: The best 3 live musical events in 2010. by Romy the Cat on 2010-11-05 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The best musical event of 2010! in Musical Discussions  1 Replies 
As the year coming to the end I would like to nominate the best 3 live musical events from 2010. Here they are and without any particular order: 1)      Martinu Double Concerto for Two String Orchestras, Piano and Timpani by Discovery Ensemble last n...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #18: The random Asahina and Slovakian Bruckner. by Romy the Cat on 2007-12-06 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The "new" Shostakovich 10th symphony in Musical Discussions  22 Replies 
[quote user="JANDL100"] Have you got around to the Nanut Bruckner 8 yet, Romy?   Love it or hate it, I'm sure you'll have a strong opinion! [/quote] I have listened it a few times and I still do not know. I like the performance but it did ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #21: Is anything specific that you would like? by Romy the Cat on 2007-12-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The "new" Shostakovich 10th symphony in Musical Discussions  22 Replies 
[quote user="JANDL100"]I have sent you another small packet of CDRs, Romy, including a very wonderful (I think) Shosty piano quintet - I eagerly await your opinion on it![/quote] Jerry, I am planning to copy some CDs for you next week. I will copy so...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #22: Thanks Romy! by JANDL100 on 2007-12-09 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The "new" Shostakovich 10th symphony in Musical Discussions  22 Replies 
Hi Romy,Just the Nanut Mahler would be really great.  80)   (I already have Nanut's Mahler 1 4 5 & 6).Anything else that you rate highly would also be most interesting & welcome (I tend not to listen to much oper...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: Modern Composers by drdna on 2008-01-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Surprising: the most interesting composer of 20 century. in Musical Discussions  14 Replies 
I am surprised not to hear mention some of my favorites: Karol Syzmanowski, Leos Janacek, Gustav Mahler, Claude Debussy, Jean Sibelius, Charles Ives, Arnold Schoenberg, Edgard Varese, Anton Webern, Kurt Weill, George Gershwin, Alfred Schnit...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #37: I accept your kind offer, & Tchaikovsky preferences by JANDL100 on 2007-10-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A great conductor - but almost unknown - Anton Nanut in Musical Discussions  52 Replies 
Yes, please - I would very much like copies of Nanut conducting Mahler 7 8 9 & 10 - that would be wonderful!   (I will put together some more, interesting CDRs for you too!).I am not sure I would go so far as to throw Nanut's Tchaikovsk...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #30: Just received Nanut M6 by clarkjohnsen on 2007-10-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A great conductor - but almost unknown - Anton Nanut in Musical Discussions  52 Replies 
From Newbury Comics, $4.50. Sealed.But maybe I'll wait until you determine whether the whole Mahler set is his, then beg to dub them.clark...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: April in Montreal... by AOK_Farmer on 2005-01-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Why I do not love Mahler? in Musical Discussions  15 Replies 
If anyone is going to the Montreal Audio Show April 2-4 this year there is a concurrent playing of Mahler 2 in town. See ya there.Steve...
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