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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #39: A pile of CDs... by Romy the Cat on 2008-01-31 
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"]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 you too!).[/quote]Jerry, I forgot to ask. I have ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #168: Did you think Bach have done everything? by Romy the Cat on 2010-06-09 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Romy The Cat's new Listening Room in Audio Discussions  478 Replies 
[quote user="zako"] I wold like to compose a symphony for a Hurricane [/quote] Yes, I know this feeling. I have a long desire to compose a musical piece for a percussion-loaded orchestra for snow falling to ground in a windless day. The Cat ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Wilsons, EMM, Ozawa, Saint-Saens and... by Romy the Cat on 2005-10-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Wilsons, EMM, Ozawa, Saint-Saens and... in Audio Discussions  4 Replies 
... other salad of dairies during the “Lost Saturday”…. Morning… Clark Johnson pitched a few days ago the Dino Ciani’s Beethoven sonatas… http://www.goodsoundclub.com/TreeItem.aspx?postID=1468 The Ciani’s Beethoven is unquestionably wonderful but...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #7: New B9 from Frankfurt by Romy the Cat on 2014-11-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Bruckner Ninth and the War. in Musical Discussions  20 Replies 
Just come in: Stanislaw Skrowaczewski and  Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestrahttp://concert.arte.tv/fr/stanislaw-skrowaczewski-bruckner ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Brian R.I.P. by clarkjohnsen on 2013-01-12 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Brian Cheney of VMPS in Musical Discussions  4 Replies 
This is as good a short notice on the truth about Brian, as I've ever seen. He visited me here in Boston many times, certainly for professional reasons but soon as we adjourned the talk was all about music. Also we went to several concerts (Symphony ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: LATER IN LIFE. by zako on 2011-06-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Paradoxes of my Racism. in Site Support Forum  10 Replies 
What would I do if I lost every thing in a fire ??  I reflect back, when I was a youngster...care free with no possessions,,,I,m much older than you,,Life was much simpler,,  What would i do different ??....I would not rebuild any possessions,,, In m...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Just compresed fragments... by Romy the Cat on 2011-10-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Abbado + Lucerne Festival Orchestra's Bruckner 5 (Royal Fest... in Musical Discussions  3 Replies 
Thanks, easternlethal It was nice but they were just the fragments. I wish they post the whole concerts. The people at Symphony Cast do post the whole concerts but they use mp3 file that in a way worthless. I hope the time come when the concert house...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #79: Second that devotion by clarkjohnsen on 2011-12-29 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Performance of a week. in Musical Discussions  87 Replies 
But Seiji did one once, from Symphony Hall, that was even better. The one from Tanglewood was a lesser, but still considerable affair.c...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Lutoslawski Concerto on WCRB by Romy the Cat on 2010-02-13 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Lutoslawski’s Concerto for Orchestra and Boston Philharmonic in Musical Discussions  2 Replies 
This weekend on Sunday Febuary 14, at 3pm on 99.5FM will broadcast the Benjamin Zander’s take with Boston Philharmonic on the Lutoslawski Concerto for Orchestra.  I am very excited to hear it again. Te rest of the broadcast will be Brahms Violin Conc...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Gorecki and Symphony No.3 by unicon on 2010-11-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: RIP Henryk Mikolaj Górecki in Musical Discussions  10 Replies 
I heard he briefly mentioned somewhere the Symphony No.3 could be not just for sorrows that Jews well faced in death camps... but it is for all of our sorrows .I never liked his personal views and never liked jews but we just humans ...unicon ....

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #25: Warner box set now available in U.S. by Amphissa on 2008-05-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Getting Started with Myaskovsky in Musical Discussions  35 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]The rumors are that Warner has bought licenses of all Svetlanov's recordings and they are reissuing them now. So far the Myaskovsky set is available only in Europe http://www.amazon.fr/Int%C3%A9grale-Symphonies-Nikola%C3%A...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #31: The tweeter and Sound (#4) - the Water Droped Stokowski by Romy the Cat on 2007-03-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: RAAL “Water Drop” tweeter for Macondo. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  77 Replies 
I was listening light night the Charles Ives’ Fourth Symphony by the kids of American Symphony Orchestra and Members of Schola Cantorum under the baton of probably 180 years old Leopold Stokowski. Ives music is not exactly my cap of tea but I hardly ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #27: I am very much not kidding by Romy the Cat on 2011-10-24 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The best audio source EVER! in Off Air Audio  34 Replies 
I truly love that. Sometimes in the randomness of internet audio idiocy there are events where I become sort of epicenter of bashing.  I say “sort of” as they do not discuss my personally or what I stay for but instead the intent Morons mostly sh...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: Orchestra Hall by zako on 2010-07-11 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The "artificially" made music? in Playback Listening  6 Replies 
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,,,,I wont have to ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #10: Living with a musician by drdna on 2013-06-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: How would you handle it? in Playback Listening  24 Replies 
My wife is a musician. She plays the trumpet in a small symphony orchestra,in a traditional brass band, and numerous small gigs around town. She has a lovely CD out and drove the first "tone-deaf" engineer insane while making it. Ultimately she was u...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: One shortcoming I'd forgotten... by de charlus on 2013-07-22 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Live vs. Recorded transcendent moments. in Playback Listening  3 Replies 
Oh, and there's one more transcendent thing that recorded music will never be able to do; there are few things that appear to me more erotic than Valkyrian female cellists with flowing locks and silk ballgowns rocking their instruments back and forth...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #9: And some Bruckner over the air.... by Romy the Cat on 2014-01-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Boston and Bruckner in Musical Discussions  13 Replies 
Well, unfortunately, or fortunately, Giulini with Vienna during this live 1988 performance have closed any imaginable interpretation of Bruckner 9. At least it is the way how I feel…. In Feb 13, 8PM, Herbert Blomstedt will be leading San Francisco Sy...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: I believe this is it by clarkjohnsen on 2006-03-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: An evening to remember - Russian National Orchestra performs... in Musical Discussions  7 Replies 
http://home.flash.net/~park29/koussevitzky.htmAnd in a nice big box:http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00005TS0B/102-0376091-0067332?n=5174Along the way I found this appreciation of K's Rachy 3rd: My Favorite Stereo 3rd, April 19, 2005 ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #19: Damocles' LS by Paul S on 2007-03-15 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Another light for the LS tunnel: transformer-attenuators? in Audio Discussions  26 Replies 
I am thinking again about “detail” in the context of this thread.  The issue is which, what sort and/or how much/many detail[s] “should” we be able to hear at any given volume setting? I have been guilty of enjoying details, etc. I knew were mo...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: That bad boy Shostakovich... by Romy the Cat on 2004-06-24 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Chostakovich: Concerto pour violoncelle et orchestre n°... in Musical Discussions  3 Replies 
As I told, I’m generally not a fan of the Shostakovich’s orchestral music. There is in Shostakovich’s “large music” a constant sense of vulgarity, peasant intellectualism, humiliation and a sense of blown-up meaningless artificial musicality that ver...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #8: A good overview of Boston Symphony Hall by Romy the Cat on 2008-10-31 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The sound of Concert Halls in Audio Discussions  7 Replies 
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...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Some notes to my own dairy.... by Romy the Cat on 2013-05-12 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Kitties go to London in Audio Discussions  92 Replies 
Wow, the Definitive Audio is half hours away from London, this is good news. I did look at Google and it said 2.45 Hours but I might look some at something different. We probable will be staging near Royal Abler Hall, which is center city. We are ver...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #167: Storm by zako on 2010-06-09 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Romy The Cat's new Listening Room in Audio Discussions  478 Replies 
ROMY,,,,,Its hard to duplicate the power of nature,,,,in music,,Even Wagner would have a hard time,,,much less Mahler..  I wold like to compose a symphony for a Hurricane,,          Maron...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #71: New morning by zako on 2010-05-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Romy The Cat's new Listening Room in Audio Discussions  478 Replies 
Yes i know the expierence,,,I too live in the wild,,As I open the sliding doors,,The Deer across the lake look up as Mahler symphony rolls across the water,, A startled redtailed hawk takes flight,,,  Good to be alive and witness a fresh new morning....

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #12: Looking for friends to drink it with? by Romy the Cat on 2013-08-06 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Wine, women, song.. and audio in Playback Listening  71 Replies 
Clark, I am with all seriousness inform you that the best match for your exotic wine will be drinking this wine with me. We can even manage to open the bottles with opening bars of the Haas version of the last movement of the 8th symphony. What might...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #75: A preview form Boston by Romy the Cat on 2014-03-18 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Bruckner, me and the Seventh in Musical Discussions  81 Replies 
Zubin Mehta played B8 with Israel Philharmonic in Chicago, the concert that Matt attended. I presume that the very same result is reasonably to expect from the same performance that we will have tomorrow in symphony Hall. I hope you will be attending...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: This is the future by steverino on 2014-09-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Too damn loud? in Musical Discussions  5 Replies 
 I guess young people like Romy are going to be facing a quiet future - or you will get a visit from OSHA. The symphony orchestra hall will have QUIET signs posted everywhere and the orchestra will have a top screen that flashes the dynamic level the...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: A stunning contra-Bruckner 8 Symphony. by Romy the Cat on 2011-04-13 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A stunning contra-Bruckner 8 Symphony. in Musical Discussions  2 Replies 
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...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Upcoming B4 by Nic on 2013-03-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Upcoming Bruckner 4 in Musical Discussions  2 Replies 
I saw the Symphony do the Nutcracker a few years ago.  The orchestra was able and conductor followed the dancers perfectly.  I think the pit was miked, but not in an obnoxious way. How they'll sound on stage I don't know.  ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #35: Let them know you know the facts by RichardMitnick on 2010-01-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The new FM Classical scene in Boston in Off Air Audio  47 Replies 
Hey Cat-First, sorry about  the second post. I did not realize that I had already left a message.The best advice is to let them know you know. I have been reading abouot the WCRB take over all over the place, Doc Searle, Scannng the Dial, boston.com....
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