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Ive attended a half dozen performances this year and I find the acoustics of this hall quite terrible. Apart from some of the orchestra's lackluster and sloppy performance at times, the sound generally doesnt seem to carry well in this hall. It sou...
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Apparently it still happens: good electricity during the day. Wifey went to the fair with a granddaughter, so I took full advantage! If forced to guess why the electricity was good, I'd guess that the nearby school is out, kids are visiting relativ...
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...I'd sent the Feline an email thanking him for the disc but hadn't seen this thread... I'd wondered why the posts count on the site was creeping upwards with no new mentions of kit, gear, componentry, Melquiades or the like.Well, DUH ...
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Hi Romy,When you visited our room, you played 3 pieces of music on our 1000 dollar speakers.All were nice recordings, one was Saint Saens 3, one was a very contemporary sounding piece of 17C Harpsichord? and I can't remember the third although I did ...
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Hi Scooter,
First of all, thank you for the Mac check list. Very helpful!About this Mac>More info>USB Device Tree: I appear to be able to select a dedicated port.My Revox B-260 S tuner seems immune to the Lavry at this point. I have a ferri...
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It's been some time since I've listened to my hi-fi. Today I started out with my DAC because I wanted to hear a new (to me) CD. After about 2 hours I switched to the K&K, listening first to Verde, then Brahms PCs 1 & 2. By the time I got to the 3r...
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Funny you should bring this up, since I was just thinking (today) about how some of my favorite conductors seem so adept at presenting a narative or "thread" that can "unify" otherwise-discursive material, say, Brahms, for example. Apart from other ...
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Interesting.
When I moved my system and was just learning the new room and making changes, I was also listening to more Bach than usual. I mostly wanted to play Partitas, Inventions, Preludes, and Goldberg Variations. I was turned off by any cell...
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Not to take away from Brahms, but just the "audio-centric" rejoinders...Many years ago, in LA, I used to love to stay awake or even wake up to listen to late night FM. The sense of "space" was uncanny, and the absence of noise was sur...
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[quote user="Paul S"]I would be very interested to know what Richter said about this in his diary. Apparently, this was Richter's 1st American recording, and all did not go well, at all. For instance, from a long list of unlikely "catastr...
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This is in interesting Bruckner. Asahina plays this 9 in 2000 like someone would play Brahms. While I was listening it I did not think about the music but about audio. This Tokyo orchestra realty does not have “it”, even though I do like what A...
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Alisa Weilerstein hit the jackpot this time - she will be playing in one of two greatest events of 2008-2009 BSO Season.
This weekend Hans Graf leads BSO with Brahms Double Concerto with Janine Jansen and Alisa Weilerstein. Ms. Weilerstein I think i...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"] Romy the Cat wrote: Amphissa wrote: Mats, I agree with you. The recording of the cello concerto by Natalia Gutman with Svetlanov conducting is the best overall performance of this beautiful concerto. It is unfortunate...
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It is hard to stress how much “right tone” an orchestra need to play the adagio from Bruckner 7. It might be a good orchestra but it might still be “the-Adagio-incompatible” and I have seen very few of them that are compatible.
I am playing now a v...
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A couple hours ago WGBH in their “BSO on Record” program span a recording of Brahms’ Piano Concerto B-flat that was made in Boston in November 95:
http://www.wgbh.org/playlists/playlist?program_id=3368365&episode_id=3981909&airing_id=3845593...
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Here is an interesting recording that I played today. Live Performances from December 1943 by Adrian Aeschbacher with Furtwangler and Berlin. The sound of the LYS label is beyond expectation, as usually. The performance is different: the same Furtwan...
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This is a great question, Romy! Who knows, really, since music has gone more and more "pop" for the last 50 years and the "average American" is probably stuck with the notion that this stuff is the music of the 20th century. Well, never mind th...
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Frankly, I do not understand your reply. Greatness did not stop with Beethoven and late Mozart but it is not the point. There is an abstract definition of greatness and there is a specific definition of interest. All that I said that despite the Bart...
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I know some people who do not get Brahms. I am not one of them; even I am not a huge fun of his First Symphony. As any composer he has more and less interesting works, much more interesting in my view. In contrary with all my respect to Béla Bartók I...
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It is Vladimir Ashkenazy conducts BBC Proms with European Union Youth Orchestra It is very good, but… I do not think that this is THE WAY to play Mozart. I would get it as Brahms or Sibelius Concerto but not the Mozart. She is overly idealistic and s...
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[quote user="Axel"]
for me, in answer to your first question.Another example comes to mind is: Ernest Hemingway and his writings. To me he is a skill-less dabbler (German = Stümper), but to others -- some elevated free-spirited writer re-defining ...
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Yes, rowuk, thank you, I have seen it. The FB Bruker forum showed a video a few weeks ago how Mike Framer demonstrated his fetish of opening the box, smelling it and to glorifying it in all imaginable way. It is hard to say what it is. Bernard Haitin...
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A few years ago Bernard Haitink conquered my heart for all times.Leading the CSO most patiently through Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis,everything made sense, sheer beauty. The only performance even close was a recent Blomstedt Brahms excursion. Perhaps I...
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Absolutely love them!
https://www.belceaquartet.comListening now Brahms String Quartets & Piano
Quintet with wify and dog. Probably will
buy whatever they recorded....
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For the past couple of months I have been fascinated with Brahms’ "Ein deutches Requiem". I have several versions, but none matched the version I would “hear in my head” whenever I was not actually listening to the piece, until I heard the 1947 versi...
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I was re-reading with interest a post by Roman with interesting and stimulating posts by Amir... http://www.goodsoundclub.com/Forums/ShowPost.aspx?postID=254#254I MUST agree that when talking or thinking about message, "coherence", deepnees, moving ...
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A lovely afternoon yesterday with Hilary Hahn in Chicago's Symphony Center.
Playing Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms, with over a dozen of her new encore pieces interspersed,Ms Hahn created a very enjoyable recital. I'll leave it to the experts to revi...
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BOSTON PHILHARMONIC just announced the 2013-14 Season and they will be playing Bruckner Symphony No. 7 on Friday, February 28, Symphony Hall, 8pm. Special BPO Concert (rescheduled from April, 2013)Beethoven, Coriolan OvertureBeethoven, Symphony No....
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I think the third movement was the best. Mehta really took his time there and dropped the overly fast tempo of the whole work. Some moment were truly nice during that adagio. I did not hate the performance in the way how I hated some other Bruckne...
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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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