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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #22: What matters more: size or quantity? by Romy the Cat on 2012-02-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: If you were to start from scratch, what horn system would yo... in Horn-Loaded Speakers  22 Replies 
[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...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #42: It is nice to live in 21 century. by Romy the Cat on 2013-07-05 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The new FM Classical scene in Boston in Off Air Audio  47 Replies 
I was laying in the beach of update NY’s Keuka Lake, smoking Samuel Gawith’s Commonwealth from my churchwarden, browsing internet and learned the today BSO started this Tangelwood season with all Tchaikovsky program by Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos.  I r...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: A great conductor - but almost unknown - Anton Nanut by JANDL100 on 2007-09-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A great conductor - but almost unknown - Anton Nanut in Musical Discussions  52 Replies 
Does anyone else here share my passion for Anton Nanut?  Long-term conductor of the Ljubliana SO.   Now deceased.His Beethoven is superb.  Nanut's is my fave version of the 7th.  I've only ever found 1 to 8, never seen a 9th ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: Ooops, please take my Murata comments with a grain of salt! by Gregm on 2006-04-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: How to give bats a headache. in Playback Listening  5 Replies 
"...what would you do with this driver." Please don't anyone take my silly joke at face value. It's fine for what it is (they sell to radio stations & the like) -- bad for what it isn't (indespensable atop yr spkr; improvement for yr cell ph...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #16: The Anton Nanut CDs pressed by domestic Japanese labels? by Romy the Cat on 2007-10-04 
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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...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #7: Ah, Nutcracker, Mravinsky, Japan! by Romy the Cat on 2006-10-29 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker: why Cats not always hate mice. in Musical Discussions  7 Replies 
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 ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #32: The Belgium Mahler Collection by Romy the Cat on 2007-10-20 
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[quote user="JANDL100"] Re: the Mahler "Nanut set" - I think you might find that symphonies 2, 3, 7, 8 & 9 are not by Nanut after all.   But please let me know if I am wrong about that![/quote]I got the CD SET yesterday. Here is what it...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: Clark Johnsen - the man from Iowa by rickmcinnis on 2020-04-10 
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Clark demanded that I, too, concentrate on Bruckner.At first listen I thought it was lacking in that frenzied intelligence of Mahler - too simple.  With time I see how idiotic that impression was and my listening to Mahler is almost nil where Bruckne...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #157: Yep, Barbirolli would do it... by Romy the Cat on 2019-01-22 
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When I was making a sarcastic joke about you begin to enjoy slow interpretations (something that any VERY good playback should do to a system owner) and referred you to the Barbirolli’s Mahler of cause I mean the exquisite  performance of 1967 of S...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #40: Not arrived yet! by JANDL100 on 2008-01-31 
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]  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 together some more, interesting CDRs for y...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Tanglewood 2010 by Romy the Cat on 2010-07-06 
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Well, sadly James Levin is out the summer season and will be substituted but it is what it is. ******************************************************* Tuesday, July 06, 2010 - 8:00 PM - Emerson String Quartet performing all Mozart program a...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #10: According to a Slovenian web site by Romy the Cat on 2007-10-04 
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Below is the text from Slovens Website that presumably knows Anton Nanut. According to them Mr. Nanut did record the Beethoven Nineth. Interesting is that Nanut also record Dvorak’s last symphonies, Jerry, are they interesting in Slovenian rendering?...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: Re: Love? by slowmotion 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 
I remember when hearing Mahlers 2nd. for the first time. It was Bernsteins recording with LSO from 1974 (?) Liner notes from Bruno Walter. Anyways I was floored. I got the record in a used record store, and it was very noisy, unfortunately. That...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #68: Fashion du jour 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 
"Their review of the M2 was however the most frivolous piece of writing about serious music I've read since, oh, 1958.The performance came across on the radio much better than it did evidently in the hall. It did evince a good d...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #15: What a lady! by Romy the Cat on 2013-02-06 
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Amy the Kitten is amazing. Next week, on Feb 12 we have our anniversary. Amy informed me that I need to have the rest of the week after 12 off and that she booked a secret anniversary trip for us. I was guessing what it might be and a Vermont sky res...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #150: You would be most welcome... by anthony on 2019-01-05 
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...to call in if you ever did get to Aus.  There is plenty to see and experience here, and the weather is great just about all the time.  A critical ear applied to my efforts would be most welcome. [quote user="Romy the...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: You are very much correct. by Romy the Cat on 2010-07-11 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The "artificially" made music? in Playback Listening  6 Replies 
[quote user="zako"]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...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: (Whose) classical music... by twogoodears on 2011-04-22 
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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 ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #10: Continue to work with the room by Romy the Cat on 2010-04-11 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Romy The Cat's new Listening Room in Audio Discussions  478 Replies 
The more I play with me room the more I fell in love with it.  As I mentioned before there are so many truly perfect features in the room that I very frequently note that if I build the listening room from scratch according to my own design then very...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #10: Not too far apart but different reasoning. by Romy the Cat on 2012-07-18 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Big room vs small room in Audio Discussions  9 Replies 
[quote user="rowuk"]I had a rehearsal for a church concert last night and as usual, sat in the church to "acclimate". I was alone at first and saw no mice running around to generate "noise". Still, there was a fundemental sound, or breathing of t...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #52: Those Bruckner’s erogenous zones... by Romy the Cat on 2010-12-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Bruckner, me and the Seventh in Musical Discussions  81 Replies 
[quote user="unicon"] Playing Bruckner I never can figure out which symphony I am hearing 1,2 ..7 (beside the symphony no 3, 8 lll)[/quote]If so, then what difference it makes you? The fact of immediate recognition is just a properly of familiarity. ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: A Charlie Schlueter syndrome? by Romy the Cat on 2014-10-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Too damn loud? in Musical Discussions  5 Replies 
I know, I know, rowuk. I was teasing you with your trumpetness, trust me it was playful. The reality is that I do not feel that it all about Strawinskys trumpet vs. Bruckner trumpet or about Antol Dorati's trumpets vs. Guntar Wand trumpets. With t...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: That is not 1812 and the cannons… by Romy the Cat on 2013-08-09 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: That is not 1812 and the cannons… in Playback Listening  0 Replies 
I remember a couple year back I was observing how sound of playback interact with sound of the forest just out of my listening room. Somebody even proposed that it would be fun to have Mahler 7 complimented by the scream “off stage” life deer… Last n...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #425: Default properly balanced sound. by Romy the Cat on 2012-03-11 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s Midbass Project – the grown up time. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  455 Replies 
[quote user="mats"]I really think the upper bass implementation must be flexible, depending on recording and composer.  Plus 3-5 dB for Mahler, more for Bruckner?  Actually it is probably not loudness so much as volume of foundation.[/quote]It was wh...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #436: Audio as an interactive subject. by Romy the Cat on 2013-01-03 
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[quote user="rickmcinnis"]It is possible someone would buy the house JUST FOR THE SYSTEM and leave it as a separate listening house… [/quote] Yes, that would be very gratifying for sure and my ego will be dramatically enlarged but in reality we all k...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #9: It would seem that... by clarkjohnsen 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 
...forces numbering 1000 happened only once -- at the premier, where 1039 were reported, including the conductor, Mahler himself. The title Symphony of a Thousand was given by the promoter of that concert, so they pretty much had to gather the 100...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: Rooms and Composers by Lbjefferies7 on 2010-05-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Listening rooms and composers. in Playback Listening  15 Replies 
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...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: Definitions by steverino on 2024-02-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: ... and some Bruckner buzz in Musical Discussions  4 Replies 
Romy,  When you say no good sounding Bruckner LPs do you mean no "great" sounding, or that all Bruckner LPs sonics are average or worse? It would help if you gave an example of late 19th C Romantic music on LP that you did con...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #48: The GREAT Bruckner 8 by Romy the Cat on 2008-06-20 
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"] I'm glad the discs have arrived OK.  The Nanut Eroica is good - the Bruckner 8 is GREAT.  You must listen to it soon![/quote]Jerry, I was intentionally slow with Nanut’s Bruckner 8. I of course have listened it now a...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: I'm omnivorous... am I ill, doctor?!? by twogoodears on 2008-08-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: I'm omnivorous... am I ill, doctor?!? in Musical Discussions  2 Replies 
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