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Actually I use Koussevitzky 1949 version of Tchaikovsky’s IV (first movement) to assess my mono analog. There is not doubts in my mind that any more or less serious records enthuses much have a dedicated mono cartridge, preferably permanently install...
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The last night Alban Gerhardt played Dvorak’s Cello Concerto with BSO under Marek Janowski.
http://www.bso.org/images/program_notes/20081113.pdf
I did not go to the concert but was listening the concert lives over WCRB. Alban Gerhardt has reported...
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I never was a big fun of Pletnev. Even his Rachmaninoff’s Third Concerto (he plays piano), which many promoted as an “ultimate Rach 3” I found was unspeakably bad. Still, the “live” is live at it defiantly ads a lot of kink.
In regards of the recor...
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Dear Romy,The tracks are correctly listed.Yes, the tracks are varied and some are not good recordings at all. BUT if you want to listen to Billy Bean play guitar or you want to hear Louis Stewart's first recording as an 18 year old then you hav...
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A few weeks back I bought a CD of Hans Vonk lead Saint Louis Symphony with Bruckner 4. It was not the best Bruckner 4 that I heard – the Saint Louis is not the orchestra that does the best Bruckner but it was a very nice performance, surprisingly...
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I think there were few homes that “do music” and who did not play today Mstislav Rostropovich. I do not know why but I got today distressing with news about Rostropovich death much more then I would expect from a death of a person that I did not know...
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The Bohuslav Martinu’s last Symphony No. 6, or as it called "Fantaisies Symphoniques" that I feel is a better name (it does not sound to me as “Symphony”, too playful), is one of those secretive little treasures that no one plays, and it is a sha...
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WFMT simulcast LSO's Chicago performance.
Valery Gergiev, conductor; Vladimir Feltsman, piano.
An all-Serge Prokofiev program: Classical Symphony,
Piano Concerto #2, Symphony #5 in B-Flat Major.
Good sound, great playing all around, Feltsman ...
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Hm, it is like a déjà vu. I am listening now my WHRB that is playing Westminster LP with “Artur Rodzinski who died in Boston November 27, 1958” lading the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (at that time “Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra of Lond...
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Music does not only expose to musical ideas and permit to share human expirences but also us it reconstructs our own experiences. How many times we hear one or other piece of music and refer our attention to the moments when we first time heard or th...
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Eventually I spant last nigh 3 hours to listen the Peter’s K-Stereo processed CD’s and took some notes, Below are some real-time comments of this listening session.
Playlist 06; Song 01.Track 1; 17:27.Serge Koussevitzky, Boston Symphony Orchestra.Tc...
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It was Shostakovich Ninth, it played a couple days back; it was the FM broadcast by the estimable MTT and San Francisco. I hardly call it as a symphony. Rather it is a compilation of musical irrationality, though written amazingly smart and rational....
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[quote user="yoshi"]I don't know much about the US situation, but here's some realistic estimate to maintain such business in Tokyo. Of course it depends very much on the size and location of the space, but let's assume it's in downtown Tokyo (I...
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I do not care about the Bruno Walter’s or the Mahler’s himself comments. I care about myself and in the way how I want it to play not one plays, and I am disappointed.
I am not a huge fun of Mahler First Symphony; in fact I am not a huge fun ...
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It is immensely popular and has many great recordings. However, l if your looks for another immensely popular and well–recorded work, let say Mozart 40 symphony, then you will not find among tones of recordings a lot of truly good recordings. With Er...
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RCA LSC-2401 (stereo)Despite truly terrible electricity today there were some amazing moments from this LP. This is the first time I have I heard this record via my present system, and it warrants a recommendation despite the unbearable sound (due t...
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Hans Vonk is also my favorite... It was Slatkin that built up the St Louis Symphony orchestra,,and passed the batton on to Vonk when he left,, VONK and the STL.,,,did a special concert for PBS TV of Carmina Burana,,,The chorus and soloists really ha...
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I never was a huge fun of it. It is an OK symphony and my Barbirolli’s play with London pretty much was all that was enough for me. Today my FM again broke my virginity…
Herbert Blomstedt took James Levine’s place to lead today BSO. The Egmont...
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the box set just arrived, listened to the third symphony twice tonight. geez romy if this is bad bruckner then I would really love to hear the good stuff!very nice flow, always teling a story, superb layering of themes. crisp horns, clear woodwinds, ...
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The local, mostly whoreish publications, are drooling over themselves about the Beethoven’s Third symphony BSO played this week. I sat on Saturday and listed it (and recorded of cause). God, listening the concert I realized that it was epiphany why I...
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PCA LM 2355 (2-channel mono)I don't listen to a lot of Rachmaninoff, buut I would if more of it was done like this.Here is a young Van Cliburn, just back from his USSR tour, playing at Carnigie hall with Kiril Kondrashin directing the Symphony o...
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“…stop by and bring some of your music….” – how many times we hear when we invited to listen someone’s playback. I am sure all of us have a selected favorite recording to assess playbacks and I would like to share some of mine that I have been ...
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I know that performance of Bach's Double Concerto by Oistrakhs. It was with Moscow Chamber Orchestra. It is a very good band and BTW some of their even later recordings are very good as well. I am not a huge fun of the Oistrakhs performance generally...
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Actually the kids sometime can play. It is two blocks from and it is free: Benjamin Zander, Conductor of the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra, will conduct a FREE concert with the Youth Orchestra of the AmericasSeventy-five of the most talented young ...
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This week WHRB broadcasted live-to-tape Britten Britten’s Violin Concerto from SF with Medori. I did not know the work well, I nearly is not a huge fun of Britten but this Violin concerto was interesting, what attracted me that it was not annoying, i...
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Because so few conductors look beyond the tried-and-true favorites among Mozart’s symphonies, it’s rare to encounter in the concert hall any of the composer’s symphonies that we haven’t already heard. For his final concerts of the BSO’s 2008-09 subsc...
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Hi, Anyone listening to the new release of beethoven cycles by Anima Eterna organised by Jos van Immerseel (ZigZag productions ZZT080402.6 distributed by Harmonia Mundi)?Really passionate small group. What is nice is overall balance and quality of mu...
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...of wines and power conditioners and Bruckner and cigars. That said, I don't do cigars; I really, really do do Bruckner; power conditioners vary in their effect from place to place, day to day, and hour to hour (not only that, but most of them need...
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[quote user="clarkjohnsen"]Must disagree with Romy that
the M8 is useless and without point. Just for starts, there's Goethe, the
tallest hero of German literature, and his Faust, of which schoolchildren there
must memorize significant portions. [...
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Sounds reasonable to me. There has to be some sort of soft target we're aiming at, with all our mechanical manipulations. I recently got a new clock radio (C Crane 2E) that I listen to a good deal more than I do my Big Rig, although I can foresee thi...
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