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Clark, of cause you might have any copy you want but I need to warn you that it is, in my view, very far from the “greatest Eighth performances ever”. The BSO history attributes to Tennstedt the great debut with BSO in 1974. It was a good debut and B...
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I also have problems with Prokofiev, like having noisy, intrusive neighbors' sounds flying around while I'm trying to do something else. I do have what I think is a good version of his VC2, but I forget which dead Russian violinist was lead. I'll try...
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now THAT is the kind of instruction in critical listening that gives you some real guideposts for making your system sound right! romy, i believe you have honestly set a new standard... i have a 2 way system, so i can't use the exact instr...
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I've had lots of down time for a while now, and I just saw the old IEM (in-ear monitor/earbud) post while mining the site. I already posted that I got a Crane CC2E radio, mostly to listen to nighttime re-broadcasts of the local symphony orchestra. I ...
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Last year I am in obsessive and compulsive quest for most interesting Third Movement of the Mahler first symphony. I happen with me from time to time. I love that French funeral march into which Mahler stick so much twist but I am under a neurotic f...
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It is a tradition in Boston to close the Tanglewood season with Beethoven IX symphony and it is almost a tradition to pay it very badly. Today was not an exception. Michael Tilson Thomas led BSO with Tanglewood Festival Chorus with the celebrated wo...
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For decades I've declared him the Greatest Living American Composer.I was privileged to know him and visit him back in the Eighties and early Nineties. A true gentleman. His two sons followed him in classical music, one as a violinist, the other as a...
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Just this morning Boston's classical music station WGBH just featured The Red Violin Concerto by John Corigliano. Joshua Bell performing with the Boston Symphony. A wonderfully colorful and dynamic presentation. Since being introduced to the g...
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I do not like Gershwin and I do not like Rhapsody in Blue. I call it all the “elevator music”. I also very much do not like how they shot the whole performing event – this is new fashionable CNN style of camera work is very amusical and more suitab...
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Ok Romy thanks for advice. I will see about the loading for my shelter, and my cable to the step-up is nothing special. I am going to listen to mono only for next few weeks and see if i find the "same character of sound everywhere" syndrome! I do h...
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Yep, the TU-X1 is just wonderful. Find someone to align it, have a good antenna, good attenuator (it is hard to use it without one) and headphones to set the attenuator right – it is all that might ever need from FM. BTW, are you planning to record a...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"] To assess how far audio imaging from sound of a ”live” musical presentation we need to subtract visual experiences from perception, including the long-lasting visual experiences.[/quote] OK, Soundstage is a BS category and...
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[quote user="rowuk"]EUREKA - The Magico is a creative tool for new experimental music - not a reproducer of old! Even Miles Davis is on record as calling Beethovens music "Dead Shit"............[/quote]Presumably the music that Magico (or other vendo...
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For a casual observer it might appear that I am constantly fought with my ULF, finding and loosing better and worse configurations. It might be so but I have a very strong sense of objective of what I would like to accomplish. I want to reinstat...
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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...
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... when a teacher asked children in a class how would be call a man who want a women sexually but can’t. All children raised their hands and a called up girl answered: This man would be call impotent.” Then the teacher asked: “How would you ca...
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This week Boston was blessed by Carmina Burana, the Orff’s and the original one
http://www.bso.org/images/program_notes/songs_from_burana.pdf
http://www.bso.org/images/program_notes/carmina_burana.pdf
I was listening the Friday’s live broadcast ov...
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The last night there was a broadcast of Marek Janowski leading the San-Francisco Symphony with Sarah Chang playing Sibelius’ Violin Concerto. It was interesting performance and also I might not like it as whole but there was something in there. I do ...
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Well, glad to hear you are starting to 'get' Shostakovich, Romy. He has been one of my very favourite composers for many years. The 10th is my fave DSCH symphony - I have 10 recordings in my collection. I don't hav...
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Hi Romy and other Nanut thread followers!Yes, the Mahler 6 is wonderful, I agree.Nanut's Beethoven 7th symphony is the best I have ever heard.His Bruckner 8th is the best I have ever heard - and I have nearly 40 recordings of the 8th on my CD sh...
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I had to take a look at this thread... I've played the few Beethoven symphonies that I have today. one 5 and two 7.After 1 LP side of Böhm/Berlin I couldn't stand anymore and actually thought "what a stupid symphony!".I decided to give Carlos Kleiber...
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That's interesting Romy - I had not seen that website before.250 recorded albums - I had no idea! I have a lot of his work on CD, but nowhere near that many.I have his Dvorak 8th symphony - very good, but perhaps a little fast. I am...
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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...
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In a few days Simon Bolivar’s National Youth Orchestra of Venezuela will be paling in Boston and I am kind of debating if I need to do. They have a program that I do not particularly care: Bartok’s Concerto for Orchestra, Bernstein’s Symphonic Dances...
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Come on, Clark, I know what I am doing and The BNI’s Lee is predictable like winter snow. The sideswipes at BMI were very much not gratuitous. The frivolous writing about serious music is BMI credo and it is very much not an accident that I associate...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Amy the Kitten is amazing. [/quote]Well, those two events had happened today for a first time. Today I for a first time committed adultery to my wife by sleeping not with her but with a box set of records. I just woke up hu...
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Hi!The cuts are from a bonus disc that came with EMIs "Centenary Edition - 100 Years of Great Music", a 10 CD set issued in 1997. Each CD was dedicated to a decade long span, beginning with 1897-1907.I bought the set when it came out, and I...
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A few months ago, I played the last movement of Shostakovich's Fifth symphony and went to cast my vote against our current dirt in White House. Nowdays, a celebrated cellist Matt Haimovitz released his new album. In there, he introduces his cello ver...
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I was truing to figure out what was my most impressive musical experience in just past year. After a little consideration and without naming the nominees I'm declaring the winner: Brahms Symphony #4 by Sir John Barbirolli and Wiener Philharmoniker du...
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Last night as I lay down in bed I checked what was on the local PBS FM, using my headphones. Beethoven's 7th Symphony was near the end of the first movement, and it was being played well enough that I continued listening through to the end.I was try...
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