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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...
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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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As I said I am not a huge admirer of Boston Symphony Hall. However, here is a good observation by WGBH’s Brian Bell about our prime Concert Hall. Some aspects of acoustics in there are deceased. It is 12Meg file of MP3 http://www.mediafire.com/?0guu2...
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"Highlights include complete Beethoven Symphony Cycle, Strauss's Four Last Songs with Renée Fleming, Mendelsshohn's "Elihah," Mahler's Fourth and Seventh Symphonies, and Premieres by Carter, Harbison, Lieverson and John Williams.
BSO Music Director ...
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Symphony No.3 has nothing with the death camps, middle part refer to II war. It say about sorrow of a single man in Polish mouintans. This opinion about death camps in Gorecki Symphony No.3 comes from Staalhoj and Palmer movies where is pla...
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With an orchestra that I play with we had a concert series at a public sauna. We had to wear tuxedos like penguins and had a tent set up outside to entertain the sauna members between their time in the cabin. We played populist stuff like Ravel Boler...
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Last week in a different thread I posted:"I've been reading about
the acoustic characteristics of the world's great symphony halls, like
Boston and the Concertgebouw. Did you know that Sabine, Berenak, and
Cyril Harris mathematically defined t...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"] Levine gave to BSO deliberate full body ...[/quote]
On Wednesday, March 25, 8pm, London Symphony Orchestra and Valery Gergiev play in symphony hall. It would be good opportunity to hear “another” orchestra. The program in...
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Although I am a Brit and have been an avid fan of classical including British music (RVW is my fave) for several decades, I just haven't been able to appreciate what the hell Elgar was on about in his 2 symphonies. (I've loved his '3rd' as completed...
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Sergei Prokofiev is one of my favorite composers. I like all of his music. His Classical Symphony No.1 was composed to emulate Joseph Haydn's composing style, although there is nothing in the music that would lead me to connect it with Haydn. Toni...
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Posted on Tue, Jul. 19, 2005
Baltimore Symphony appoints AlsopFOSTER KLUGAssociated Press
BALTIMORE - Marin Alsop was appointed music director of the Baltimore Symphony on Tuesday, overcoming vigorous dissent by ...
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There are some “unlucky” compositions for “audio people”. For instance the Mozart’s Requiem: still there is no good performance of this work committed to a recording media. Yes, there are more or less OK performances of the Requiem but the comple...
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I picked this up a few weeks ago and it has become one of those CDs that I keep returning to often. I don't know what it is about the Russians, but they seem to perform music with such passion. Maybe it is all of the suffering they, as a ...
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A lovely afternoon yesterday with Hilary Hahn in Chicago's Symphony Center.
Playing Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms, with over a dozen of her new encore pieces interspersed,Ms Hahn created a very enjoyable recital. I'll leave it to the experts to revi...
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I few months back I picked up in my local used CD store a used CD of “The Queen Symphony ” for $5. To my surprise (and I am not a big fan of the Queen rock-and-roll band and do not particularly know their music … the 5-movement symphony is derivation...
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I do not even know where to start. I my comfortably warm and presold to myself world there is only one way to play Bruckner 8 symphony. I have quite a few recordings of the work that I like and I have “The Supper Recording” that makes all there r...
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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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Last few weeks Amy was playing with BPO, and it was surprisingly
good. Zander’s Boston Philharmonic is very strange orchestra. Sometime Zanders’
interpretations are just “survival” and sometime BPO do sound like semi-professional
orchestra. But so...
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The regular visitors of my site know about my recent frustrations with my new Ortofon SPU cartridge for my “mono tonearm”: Is it all that Ortofon SPU can do? Today I made some alternations that more or less cured the audio problem and I decided ...
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I have been enjoying the "Euroclassic Notturno" (BBC?) program on swedish radio tonight. As a happy rookie in the world of classical music, I seek advice on Tchaikovsky based on what I just heard; His Symphony No. 5.I thought: "Horrible waltz mi...
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Interesting that if to leave aside the “tragic” context of the Tchaikovsky’s Six then I would say that I like the Tchaikovsky’s Fifth more then any other his symphonies. Sure it too much Slavic but it was kind of first Tchaikovsky’s “real” symp...
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I never was a big fan of this symphony, as I am not a big fan of Shostakovich generally, but this time it was truly remarkable performing event. My local FM WGBH 89.7 stated the new fiscal year funding campaign and compile a CD recorded “live” locall...
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Thank, Okan.
I will be there. Any good concert in Mechanics Hall worth to attend even under a penalty of two hours of driving.
This might be very much an interesting consent. The State Symphony of Russia use to be the main state sponsored symphony ...
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"Under Young’s button the 8th sound like it is a light, concert version of the symphony, some kind of almost operetta-style phrasing. Then I presume that this style is not Ms. Young version but Bruckner own original vision."
I don't think Bruckner...
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Interesting history!https://vimeo.com/179471456...
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Here is a not frequently performed on West but beautiful Symphony, unfortunately and unreasonably neglected. A few words about Kalinnikov.Vasily Sergeyevich Kalinnikov was born in 1866 at Voina, in the Oryol District, where Turgenev, Henry James's "b...
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Truckloads of ecstasy tonight!Two LF boxes are finished, and it makes me giggle to think that you have twelve. :DOut of a billion mp3:s and ripped CD:s, the first movement of Tchaikovskys (Mravinsky) 5th and the fourth of Beethovens 9th have jus...
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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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If you are interested in “better” BSO recordings then here is a wonderful site that that list BSO recordings. The wonderful about this site that it has the catalog of the Transcription Trust’s broadcasts as well as the know “live” off-the-air r...
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Romy, thanks for the link, it is very educating. Anyhow without knowing who they are and how they are good, I bought the ticket yesterday, which is a good catch for me. I know 2hrs driving from Boston at the rush hour is a torture, but afte...
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