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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Mozart Sym. 35 and Bruckner's Sym. 5 is complete by easternlethal on 2011-10-15 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Abbado + Lucerne Festival Orchestra's Bruckner 5 (Royal Fest... in Musical Discussions  3 Replies 
I can hear the whole of Mozart's 35th and Bruckner's 5th and to me the Bruckner 5 performance is very good despite the awful compression. Good enough to go into your "Recording Of The Week" section.I also wish they would release non-compressed files ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: 8th wonder by mats on 2012-12-13 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Bruckner and women in Musical Discussions  46 Replies 
Congratulations on this happy occasion.Through music the gods do appear,and it seems to have happened to you.Funny, I just mailed you an audience recording of the 8th with Jarvi in Tokyo.Take in the blessings of Hawaii!Mats...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #96: Moving from conductor to audience by rowuk on 2021-10-07 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo's Axioms: Horn-loaded acoustic systems in Horn-Loaded Speakers  120 Replies 
What Romy has done up until now is very similar to what a conductor of an orchestra does:Search for music to performBuild the ensemble to play itDecide on the venue to perform inTrain all of the forces involved to play in accordIn real time, guide th...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #8: They do not play like music period! by ShuffleSk8Ter on 2013-07-31 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Why Horn loaded systems?! in Playback Listening  30 Replies 
your post has not merit sir...some of the most stupid people that have the ability to play musical instrument have no clueon how music sounds in an audience(fact) I know several people here in the chicagoland area that play for CSO they are cluelessa...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #235: Wagner AND Family, at 7 am?!? by Paul S on 2017-10-22 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A listening room for a domesticated Cat? in Audio Discussions  283 Replies 
You are living the Dream, all right!  I think the only time I ever pulled this off was on a family ski trip, blasting "Ride of the Valkyries" on our way to the lifts.  But that was a captive audience, and your family came to you!  You must be doing s...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #7: "1000 performers" by JJ Triode on 2015-09-16 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: How to play Mahler 7 at home… in Horn-Loaded Speakers  12 Replies 
It looked like they had "only" about 300-350 people on stage in Tanglewood.  I think the original score called for about 750, at least that is how many Jascha Horenstein had on stage in the Royal Albert Hall in 1959.  He also had about 6000 people in...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #221: Freak of nature? by rowuk on 2022-07-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Remedies the Beauty in Playback Listening  297 Replies 
As I was not present during the magic moment of the Dunnoys (or Dannoys), I can not assume anything but considering the initial aftermath documented here, perhaps that "moment" had more to do with stars/sun/moon lining up, DPOLS for a week or a speci...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #70: The audience by steverino on 2013-10-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: I hate, hate, hate, hate Boston Symphony! in Musical Discussions  72 Replies 
I was referring to the audiences and music buyers who acquire the above artists recordings, not the reviewer's opinions.  I assume the audience didn't walk out or fail to applaud. ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Radio Stations Harmonize On Classical Music by Romy the Cat on 2007-01-26 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Radio Stations Harmonize On Classical Music in Off Air Audio  0 Replies 
WGMS Ditches Its Old Format But Helps Orchestrate Its Revival On WETA By Paul FarhiWashington Post Staff WriterTuesday, January 23, 2007; C01 Washington radio station WGMS dropped the music of Mozart and Tchaikovsky yesterday after nearly six decad...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Furtwangler by blackmore on 2007-02-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Furtwangler War Years Recording in Musical Discussions  5 Replies 
Thanks for the reply.  The story seems to imply that the orchestra played with an increased sense of despair or anxiety.  But extraneous noises are just that.  Not worth looking for unless they add something to the performance.  M...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #33: Prokofiev and Brahms at their Best by Romy the Cat on 2009-04-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Getting Started with Myaskovsky in Musical Discussions  35 Replies 
Cellist Natalia Gutman and the Boston Philharmonic: Prokofiev and Brahms at their Best by Elizabeth Perten Under the baton of Benjamin Zander, the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra presented two masterpieces: Prokofiev’s Symphony-Conce...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #9: The cinematic imagination. by Romy the Cat on 2008-11-22 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Alessandro Baricco's "Lesson 21" or the challenge ... in Musical Discussions  13 Replies 
[quote user="twogoodears"]I've been an avid original soundtracks and film music collector for most of my life, and still I didn't find the PERFECT music for a movie... the classic, Alfred Newman's, Rozsa's, Hermann's, Williams', Horner's... them all ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: It's Hard Bee-ing Perfect by Paul S on 2009-02-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Zander, BPO, George Li and Saint-Saens in Musical Discussions  6 Replies 
Of course the Young Prodigy has to play this stuff; everyone expects it; you can hear the delight from the audience.As for the Saint-Saens, I would certainly attend more local-orchestra concerts if there were any assurances that they would go as well...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #73: Rough B8 by mats on 2014-03-18 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Bruckner, me and the Seventh in Musical Discussions  81 Replies 
Sadly not a blissful evening at Symphony Center.To my ears the orchestra sounded unrefined, and the intonation of the horn section way off.Occasionally in the quiet passages some magic was communicated, but overall they seemed unable to come to harmo...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Perception or memory? by mats on 2007-08-24 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Musicians' ear in Playback Listening  10 Replies 
Romy said:  "they do not listen played back music but they rather register the pointers to keys and intervals and then they reconstruct in their consciousness the fabric of the music in accordance with their perception."Do you mean that the musi...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #15: DX, baby! by Paul S on 2008-07-07 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Rohde & Schwarz EU-6201 Tuner in Off Air Audio  34 Replies 
So, don't hold back...  did you like it???I, too, love the great outdoor venues, like the Hollywood Bowl and the old Greek Theater, which probably do not have bad seats (or at least they did not before DSP...).  I have also seen/heard ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #7: Masking and cancellation by JJ Triode on 2008-01-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The idiotism of Audio Synergy in Audio For Dummies ™  9 Replies 
Certainly the synergy users can only, at best, mask one coloration with another, but in the minds of their audience they encourage a belief that the errors somehow get cancelled; that is the "notion" I referred to. These notions extend into the do...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: Time and space by steverino on 2014-02-05 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Playback and chamber music. in Playback Listening  6 Replies 
Yes there is a spatial aspect in the live performance that is lost in recording. The players are typically a bit farther apart from each other than the left right placement of the speakers. Also, the audience is farther back so the sounds blend but a...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Live FM by drdna on 2007-11-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Reel-to-Reel Tape vs. Raw Better Digital in Didital Things  13 Replies 
The interesting thing about the Bottlehead people is that they are pretty good guys. "High and outside" is I think Paul Stubbelbine, who is an expert at mastering.  He remastered my girlfriend's last album.  I was very impressed.  His ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #29: Demos are Rigged, Alright by Paul S on 2014-05-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: High End Munich 2014 impressions .... in Horn-Loaded Speakers  36 Replies 
Of course they play sounds they think their speakers shine with, and they may actually have a better handle on their "audience" than we have given them credit for. Remember that much audio spending is about generating and countering envy. And remem...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #9: No less by Wojtek on 2014-05-07 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A new kid in the block: Sadurni Acoustics in Horn-Loaded Speakers  21 Replies 
Actually it was sad to hear potentially nice horn system wasted on mediocre music (at least that's what I heard at three different times I visited the room so it must have been a norm ) and grey sounding D-amps with "pumping " bass tubas. At least th...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #53: A wonderful write up about ribbons. by Romy the Cat on 2006-11-06 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Tweeter for Vitavox S2. High-sensitively ribbons? in Horn-Loaded Speakers  64 Replies 
Continuing to harass the readers of my site and myself with the good news about the performance of my SA8535 driver I would like to post a very educational article about the subject. As I told before, being familiar with sound of ribbons then never i...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #18: Full bodied by zako on 2010-06-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A new 'chic' foolishness about mono systems in Audio For Dummies ™  48 Replies 
Getting slightly off topic from stereo recordings,,, I was at a live concert,,sitting way up high and all the way back in the balcony in what i call POLOCK Heaven,,,The music i heard was full bodied and without the stereo localization,,,i was amazed ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #12: Incompleteness 101? by rowuk on 2021-10-18 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Remedies the Beauty in Playback Listening  297 Replies 
My view of Gödels "incompleteness" has more to do with systems not being able to verify themselves from within. This certainly can apply to audio in that the playback specifications can be very "qualified" but the "quality" must be found outside of t...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #35: Born to be alive by steverino on 2014-06-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: High End Munich 2014 impressions .... in Horn-Loaded Speakers  36 Replies 
[quote user="rowuk"]EUREKA - The Magico is a creative tool for new experimental music - not a reproducer of old! Even Miles Davis is on record as calling Beethovens music "Dead Shit"............[/quote]Presumably the music that Magico (or other vendo...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Why, indeed by Paul S on 2006-11-22 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: We don’t necessarily know “Why”, nor do we need to…. in Playback Listening  8 Replies 
I have found it useful to learn a little bit and also to remember what people have said about equipment they build.  When I have had a chance to listen to the gear and compare what manufacturers have said with my impression of the...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #10: Music, movie and dancing by twogoodears on 2008-11-23 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Alessandro Baricco's "Lesson 21" or the challenge ... in Musical Discussions  13 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] twogoodears wrote:I've been an avid original soundtracks and film music collector for most of my life, and still I didn't find the PERFECT music for a movie... the classic, Alfred Newman's, Rozsa's, Hermann's, William...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #854: Audience effects by steverino on 2011-04-26 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1910 Replies 
To be more specific about the Audience units, I initially thought they worked better in the audio chain than others at clearing up and clarifying sonic textures without slowing or hardening sounds.. But I started to notice that low level harmonic inf...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: "When Ewa Podles sings, people listen." by Romy the Cat on 2009-10-24 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: My beloved Contraltos: kill sopranos. in Musical Discussions  2 Replies 
Ewa Podles in Boston this week in Rossini’s opera “Tancredi.’’ To celebrate Ms. Podles arrival in Boston I bought last week a couple of her live CDs with Russian and Chopin repertoire.  Love her voice, even some of Garrick Ohlsson’s accompaniments we...

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 ...
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