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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #14: Czechoslovakia, London, Russia … and 40 year ago. by Romy the Cat on 2008-11-25 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Great Cello Concertos in Musical Discussions  21 Replies 
In her autobiography  Galina Vishnevskay  (the Rostropovich’s wife) wrote (translation is mine): “In Moscow we spent only three weeks, and then by plane we returned to London to participate in the Festival of Soviet Art, just before 21 A...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #16: Ligeti by el`Ol on 2008-11-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Great Cello Concertos in Musical Discussions  21 Replies 
Ligeti´s Cello concerto / Siegfried PalmThis CD is not only for specialists, also fits very well into a small "contemporary music for dummies" collection:http://www.amazon.com/Siegfried-Palm-Violoncello/dp/B000005W98/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=music&am...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #30: Gutman Live by Fugue on 2009-04-26 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Getting Started with Myaskovsky in Musical Discussions  35 Replies 
I heard her play Schnittke's First Cello Concerto with the SF Symphony two years ago. It was one of the most devastating and searing (in a good way!) live performances I have ever heard! She put's 120% into her performances. Gutman has her own series...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #361: The “strange” YO186 by Romy the Cat on 2009-07-06 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Single-stage Melquiades vs. DHT amps in Melquiades Amplifier  397 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]  Romy the Cat wrote:http://www.goodsoundclub.com/pdf/YO-186.pdf[/quote] I have to admit that I have written a few pieces of writing about my experiences with YO186 but I withhold to post it as I do not know if it might v...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #373: I had no idea how ‘different’ it is. by Romy the Cat on 2009-11-25 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Single-stage Melquiades vs. DHT amps in Melquiades Amplifier  397 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]  Romy the Cat wrote: Romy the Cat wrote:http://www.goodsoundclub.com/pdf/YO-186.pdfI have to admit that I have written a few pieces of writing about my experiences with YO186 but I withhold to post it as I do not know if...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: The "Lopsided" Performance by Paul S on 2009-12-09 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The "Lopsided" Performance in Musical Discussions  1 Replies 
Today on the way to work I heard on my truck FM Haydn's Cello Concerto #1, Yo Yo Ma with the English Chamber Orchestra, directed by Jose' Luis Garcia.  The orchestra played well enough, I suppose, and it was the truck FM, after all, but I couldn't he...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: Les francaises by RonyWeissman on 2013-10-25 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Celibidache / bruckner in Musical Discussions  12 Replies 
well we will see, I have never heard the celibidache munchen bruckner, it has very good press in french Diapason magazine, but sometimes the (we) french ar somewhat superficial in our classical tastes!  i am listening today to celibidache / du pre dv...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Getting Started with Myaskovsky by Romy the Cat on 2006-09-18 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Getting Started with Myaskovsky in Musical Discussions  35 Replies 
A few weeks ago Amphissa sent me a collection of recordings of Myaskovsky. I knew Myaskovsky, head his Sixth Symphon, “something else” and his cello concerto but to have a pile of selected CDs by a great aficionado of the Myaskovsky's music really he...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: Gerald Finzi's Cello Concerto by tuga on 2010-07-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Overlooked Cello Repertoire. in Musical Discussions  4 Replies 
This morning, while driving to work, the Classical station was playing the first movement of Gerald Finzi's Cello Concerto (14 July 1901 - 27 September 1956): From Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaThe Cello Concerto in A minor, Op 40, was compo...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: What about music? by tuga on 2018-03-06 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: About audio hoarding in Audio Discussions  6 Replies 
Let's make it more challenging: how many recordings of Beethoven's/Brahm's/Bruckner's/.../Schumann's/etc. 3rd, how many interpretations of that piano/violin/cello concerto does one really need?Or do you draw the line at audio gear?For the past 3 deca...

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 #3: Re: Liszt Piano Sonata & Chaconne by Busoni+Bach by RonyWeissman on 2005-03-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Liszt Piano Sonata & Chaconne by Busoni+Bach in Musical Discussions  7 Replies 
A strong second-recommendation of the 1977 Horowitz recording of the Liszt(RCA 12548 here in France). It is a superb sounding LP as well.  For some reason I can't listen to anything Argerich lately, maybe it's because everytime I have ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Beethoven's Triple Concerto vs. Gravity by Paul S on 2008-03-22 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Beethoven's Triple Concerto vs. Gravity in Musical Discussions  1 Replies 
I can't remember how long it's been since I sat through this concerto.  Today I sat through it twice.First version was Marlboro Festival Orchestra/Alexander Schneider; Rudolf Serkin, piano; Jaime Laredo, violin; Leslie Parnas, Cello; Columb...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #364: Ho to use the YO186 by Romy the Cat on 2009-09-05 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Single-stage Melquiades vs. DHT amps in Melquiades Amplifier  397 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]I have to admit that I have written a few pieces of writing about my experiences with YO186 but I withhold to post it as I do not know if it might valuable for anybody. It looks like no one use YO186 on West. There are ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #17: The Greatest Götterdämmerung by Romy the Cat on 2009-04-25 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Next week in Metropolitan Opera.... in Off Air Audio  17 Replies 
Wow, what a concert! Incontestably the very best live broadcast in 2008-09 seasons and the most impressive Götterdämmerung I heard, at least orchestral play. Did you pay attention how Levine cooked up the pressure and how smart he built up drama? So,...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #17: Natalia Gutman and the world by Romy the Cat on 2008-03-24 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Getting Started with Myaskovsky in Musical Discussions  35 Replies 
[quote user="Amphissa"] 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 that she never toured in the West. She is re...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #18: Han-Na Chang and Shostakovich’s Second Cello Concerto by Romy the Cat on 2009-03-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Great Cello Concertos in Musical Discussions  21 Replies 
Today WGBH broadcasted Antonio Pappano leading Chicago Symphony Orchestra with Shostakovich’s Cello Concerto No. 2 with a Korean cellist Han-Na Chang. I never head this girl and I had no idea what to expect. Anyhow, it was superb performance. Han-Na ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Lynn Harrell is unquestionably.... by Romy the Cat on 2008-10-12 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Mendelssohn, Cello Sonata #2 (in D), Op 58 in Musical Discussions  2 Replies 
Well, Lynn Harrell is unquestionably is in the pantheon of the greatest alive cellists, right along with Mischa Maisky, Yo Yo Ma, Natalia Gutman, Truls Mork, Maria Kliegel, Janos Starker (still alive? still playing?)  I think he is worth to peru...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #17: The Siegfried Palm’s record by Romy the Cat on 2008-12-06 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Great Cello Concertos in Musical Discussions  21 Replies 
[quote user="el`Ol"] Ligeti´s Cello concerto / Siegfried PalmThis CD is not only for specialists, also fits very well into a small "contemporary music for dummies" collection:http://www.amazon.com/Siegfried-Palm-Violoncello/dp/B000005W98/ref=sr_1_2...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: Melchiades further ruminations by montepilot on 2009-07-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo listening experience in Playback Listening  4 Replies 
This past weekend I was able to have an extended listen to the revised Melchiades amplifers.  My previous listening session left something to be desired with midbass punch and dynamics.  Had I not have heard mini me it may not have been noticeable.  ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #12: Jerry's Anton Nanut CDs by JANDL100 on 2007-10-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A great conductor - but almost unknown - Anton Nanut in Musical Discussions  52 Replies 
Here's a list of my current holding of Anton Nanut CDs ....___Beethoven symphonies 1 to 8Beethoven overtures: Leonora III, Coriolan, Fidelio, King Stephen, Ruins of AthensBeethoven Mass in CBerlioz Harold in Italy & Roman Carnival ov.Brahms piano...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #7: Re: I disagree. Surprise? by rdrysdale on 2005-06-15 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Why horn-loaded loudspeakers are bad. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  9 Replies 
Romy      I think for many people it's not even possible to reach a level of musical spiritual force. I've talked to Dr. Edgar at length about this, he and I believe that to have this feeling about music, one needs ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: The “mystery” of the Furtwangler’s tempo is resolved. by Romy the Cat on 2007-02-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Furtwangler War Years Recording in Musical Discussions  5 Replies 
Sure, those, “events” around musical performance have HUGE affect to the musicians and I in fact LOVE to collect stories about them. What could be more “interesting” from a perspective of “anxiety” then for instance the Tanglewood performance of Shos...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #21: Lynn Harrell playing Herbert's Concertos 1 & 2 by Paul S on 2012-09-11 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Great Cello Concertos in Musical Discussions  21 Replies 
Victor Herbert, Cello Concertos 1 & 2, and 5 Pieces for Cello and Strings; London CD, D-125316, with Neville Marriner conducting his Academy of St. Martin in the Fields orchestra; Lynn Harrell, Cello.Although I have never been a fan of Marriner's...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: Weilerstein and Barenboim play Carter Cello Concerto by mats on 2012-12-09 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Overlooked Cello Repertoire. in Musical Discussions  4 Replies 
Today on WFMT's New Releases program, Lisa Flynn played a live recording of Elliott Carter's Cello Concerto.  Composed in 2001, this performance I believe is from the fall of 2012.  Daniel Barenboim conducts the Berlin Staatskapelle Orchestra, and th...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Flying over Boston? by Romy the Cat on 2010-02-11 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: SF audio gurus? in Audio News  5 Replies 
Rony, as I underrated from California to France you would not find a direct fly and it would be a landing some in East Cost. Would it be a different time then I would invite you to lend in Boston and spend some time with me. Unfortunately for aud...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #10: After all: the vinyl shopping. by Romy the Cat on 2009-06-13 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: My today’s views on LP culture and my audio habits. in Analog Playback  24 Replies 
After my recent vinyl re-inspiration I did today something that I did not do for over two year – I went for vinyl shopping. It is not that I was walking by my local vinyl shops and stopped by for a glance or two -I do it occasionally – but rather...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #65: BPO will play B7!!! by Romy the Cat on 2013-06-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Bruckner, me and the Seventh in Musical Discussions  81 Replies 
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....

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #23: Another good play of the Symphony No. 10 by Romy the Cat on 2010-05-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The "new" Shostakovich 10th symphony in Musical Discussions  22 Replies 
This Sunday is was devastating. It was 85F in my town with 1000000% humidity. I did not sleep the whole high before and felt not god. The center air-conditioned in my house did not work as I expected and since I tolerate heat very badly I felt li...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #7: The typewriters concertos! by Romy the Cat on 2010-05-18 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Listening rooms and composers. in Playback Listening  15 Replies 
[quote user="Lbjefferies7"]I suppose WTC is properly in the first group, but I was playing my beloved Richter 1970 performance.  The gorgeous, aqueous, lucid, somehow Mozartian playing just did not work on a inferior setup.  I think that Bosendor...
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