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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...
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...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 ...
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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...
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The NY Times article about the stupid craze that the industry creates around Gustavo Dudamel.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/13/arts/music/13dudamel.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss
It is one of those moments when it a shame...
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I spent today couple hours starting to search the DPoLS for Macondo. So far I am far from target but the experience was quite amassing. The “new”, properly aligned Macondo, with the bells and Water Drop and whistles does quite well. I have some “test...
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I have commented before that with all my admiration of the fact the BSO made the 88/24 available I was not completely thrilled with the job SoundMirror did. Those zillion microphones that John Newton’s team stack in each empty space of Symphony ...
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Where those EdgarHorn Titans with the Edgar’s woofers? I ask because I am very concerned about the LF response. The Shelter 901 has phenomenal bass in my view, even now. In fact all my system/room in a way “calibrated” from the bass that Shelte...
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Fugue,
obviously your expertise in guitar world is involved. I never cherished guitar specifically and know little about it. There is a guy arond here from AU, Peter Foster – he post here sometimes – if I am not mistaken he ether owns gu...
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Best Classical Album Award to the Artist(s) and to the Album Producer(s) if other than the Artist. Mahler: Symphony No. 8; Adagio From Symphony No. 10 Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor; Ragnar Bohlin, Kevin Fox & Susan McMane, choir directors;...
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Can the brits show MGM a thing or two?The incredible john wilson recreates...-http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00m10hz/BBC_Proms_2009_Prom_22_A_Celebration_of_Classic_MGM_Film_Musicals/John has booked the best of the best of london musicians. 2 ...
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Partly too, if not largely, this blandness results from the recording process and its expectations wherein performers strive for perfection at the cost of expressiveness. Even orchestras that have not recorded for ages fall prey to it. A band like th...
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I agree with the notion that with age our tastes change, I also listen to and perform a lot of classical to baroque music, mostly with historically correct instruments and with attention to different temper.I do not consider Bach or Vivaldi any less ...
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[quote user="op.9"]But, from a C21 perspective, Janacek is the one who fundementally changes the way we listen to music itself - single handed. Did any other C20 composer do that ?[/quote] James, could you elaborate about your view on Janacek? I know...
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Debussy or any good composer not using loud dynamic shifts to generate tension has to compose so that the music works without it. Also they have to score it differently. But Debussy is not notating microdynamics just to be clear. And Gieseking's mic...
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[quote user="Paul S"]I try every few years to home in on "leads" to Strauss's "men's chorale" works. I've heard only 2 examples, both while driving, and both times the usual "random selection" with "random explication" from "dee-jays" who hold forth ...
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You are right I think. He confuses his followers with this GIP review, his fans who sold their Tannoys and bought his recommendd Krell Lats and Magicos, but they will fall in love with him all over again when he tells them the latest Magicos got ...
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I’d like to pick up on one thing the visitor noted. He said Macondo was able to “dissect” the most “complex and dramatic” Bruckner. To me, this is a stunning achievement. In my humble attempts at resolving the most complex passages, all successs has ...
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Hi Bud,Thanks for the pointers; I already have a pair of vertically sectioned cores wound from a while back, on white nylon (ugh?!) . Not remotely optimal, but if the concept works I will definitely have to try something along your lines. The tip reg...
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Yes, Jerry, thanks,I would like to pick some Anton Nanut CDs, not everything from you list but juts some of them. What I would be interesting if the Japanese folks ever pressed Nanut CD/LPs. In SOME cases the Japanese CD mastering is much more intere...
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One of the paragraphs in my initial posts mentioned the Mravinsky’ own version of the Nutcracker suits. A few days ago I discovered a performance of it that I did not head. It was on 12 October 1977 by Mravinsky with his Leningrad Philharmonic, live ...
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Today I listened for the first time to an interesting CD that's been sitting there unopened for some time, namely Mahler 3 by the Koln Phiharmonie, on the new-to-me WDR "label" (Westdeutscher Rundfunk), conducted by Semyon Bychkov. I will get into t...
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I started to read the article but I honestly have difficulties. I know Mark Anstendig – we met on-line a few years back in old Mahler forum. We had some correspondence between us for a while and then Mark started annoy me. Mark is former conductor. I...
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I hate when I'm listening to think of the composers, or performers themselves, in cases where their personal lives or politics were (are) vulgar, or even abhorant. Plenty of examples, unfortunately. As for Brahms, we have discussed here that not all...
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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 brings him nearer to th...
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Originally written by David Hurwitz and posted at “Classics Today”: SEVEN PHASES IN THE LIFE OF A HARD-CORE COLLECTOR Do You Recognize Yourself Here? I’m sure that some of you have seen that famous little poster called “The Six Phases of a Proj...
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the way you want to hear it!Bruno Walter, was a close friend to Mahler and very much a Classic only preference conductor. He does "The Titan" without over-emphasising it's late romantic origin.It is available on Columbia "<-360 SOUND->" STE...
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Great conductor but you never know what you get from him. I was listening tonight the FM recording from SymphonyShare of Dorati with CSO doing Mahler 6. Chicago Symphony play not well but whole together it is strangely powerful performance. As the pe...
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[quote user="haralanov"]Most of the acoustic instruments in reality have strong boundary effect of their tonal pressure. Have you ever heard somebody complaining by the fact the violin does not release its pressure gradually in the surrounding enviro...
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A site reader sent me email that Elusive Dicks announced a new 22 records box-set with MTT doing 9 Mahler Symphonies. The recordings are all live in Davies Symphony Hall from '01-'09. They claim that it will be only 1000 individually numbered sets p...
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I also thought this question was kind of idiotic... until I noticed that its really been bugging me for a few weeks...what are the rules for a C20 composer? Died after 1900? If so....I've been fighting between Mahler and Janacek. I can make a waterti...
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