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In quality and reputation, Estonia pianos are giving Steinway & Sons a serious challenge. And many discerning musicians say that owning an Estonia piano -- almost completely made by hand -- is ak...
... biography of Dennis Brain (1921-1957) and part of this project - a large part - is the cataloguing and discovery of additional recordings (unofficial private recordings, official private recordings, ...
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Am I correct that the Antheil originates from close to this time as well??
also - on the BayCities disc - with no dates given:
Gould - Spirituals for Orchestra - Susskind/LSO and
Gould - Form...
...nfonietta, London 421 717-2, recorded 1987;
Pamela Hunter, Silveer van den Broeck/Melologos Ensemble, Discover DICD 920125, recorded 1993;
Lynn Redgrave, David Shifrin/Chamber Music Society of Lin...
...ut there help me identify this book? Any suggestions for other books with similar analysis/memorization discussions? (I'm already familiar with Seymour Bernstein's 'With Your Own Two Hands' and C.C. C...
I want to get a portable minidisc recorder to record live piano performances, both of myself practicing and my students performing.
All the reviews I've read so far are focused mainly on the recorde
Nice disc from ProPiano (PPR224536) Esther Budiardjo plays Brahms /Hungarian Dances, Book I transcribed for solo piano by Moszkowski and Etudes op. 91 by Moszkowski. I have yet to hear a piece by MM t
...c in symphonic and choral masterpieces, recorded live at the Salzburg Festival from 1964 to 1979. Three discs of the four-CD set are in stereo, including a 1972 concert of Mozart and Bruckner sacred w...
...out a lot of other stuff. Your little petty arrogance may give you temporary relief, because you have a discerning mind I can tell, and this mind, even when your conciousness tells it to shut up, will...
...nds on a copy of the Nonesuch release of Rameau's Pygmalion? It was on LP, not CD (although I'd love to discover it's available somewhere on CD). Failing that, does anybody know who the performers wer...
I have been following the recent Dampp-Chaser discussion with interest. But it is unclear to me which of the comments refer to a grand piano and which to an upright. I have a grand piano (M&H BB). I h
...not so heavily processed, but the Archipel is available and it's pretty cheap.
According to a Rosbaud discography, the Bruckner 5th was recorded in May of 1962. This is entirely in line with Rosbaud...
...movement, as well as the inability to control the emotional intensity of the final movement.
In all a disconcerting experience. No wonder I had not bothered to listen to it again over the years.
T...
...of Wagner with London vs. Philadelphia. My first introduction to Wagner was the London 'Wagner Weekend' disc which stands out to me as wonderful in terms of both Stokowski's interpretation and LSO's p...
...ny of the great artists of our day are getting shafted!
This came to mind when the new Moravec Chopin disc from VOX walked in the door today.
Here we have one of the supreme pianists before the pu...
Along the lines of the recent discussion of whole-house humidity, Dampp-Chaser, etc, I recently had installed in my Bösendorfer CL130 vertical a new Japanese-manufactured (Fuji Silysia) product calle
I found a Petrov I like for 20k. Good price? Seems to be not a great discount but pretty good, especially for the expensive Bay Area.
...yto recording 962149. Now HBDirect lists both this recording (at full price, $56.40) and a second three-disc set of what is evidently the same performance for only $26.60 (Myto 021061). Does anyone kn...
... The timings on both releases are virtually identical and they were both derived fron Telefunken 78 rpm discs.
The Haenssler gives the recording dates as 10-11/04/39. The sound on the Haenssler rele...
...hat the museum received from 9/11 funds was not a significant help with expenses. In August Mr. Detrich discharged his staff of 10. He said that he has not drawn a salary in three years, and the museu...
I am auctioning EMI CD 7 63571 2 on Ebay - please find the link below.
This disc contains pianist Dimitri Bashkirov performing Schumann's Fantasy Op. 17 and selections from Bunte Blaetter, Op. 99. C
Google searching of opinions of this disc, I have discovered a thread where the overall sentiment for this recording is quite negative.
I've avoided this disc until stumbling across a first hand cle
... great. Outstanding. Distinguished. A rare find. Who on earth takes this crap seriously?
The Judd-RVW disc in fact presents uniformly mediocre performances of pieces of which there are fine, even gr...
...ness sake, you have treated me for more than 10 years as if I was dead. Is it because you have suddenly discovered I am alive, through the generosity of someone else, that you wish to make it exclusiv...
...e available in Europe on PAL DVDs, two symphonies to a DVD, I believe. The China/HongKong box set has 8 discs, each with one symphony, except one. I forget the coupling. The packlaging of these is a m...
...l has raised the prices on the full price line of DG, Philips, & London from $15.99 to $18.99 on single discs! However, prices of multiple disc sets have gone down.
Anyone know if the price increase...
...ers and textbooks are very dogmatic about these fingerings, like I saw in the other thread where it was discussed whether or not to use the 3rd or 4th finger in a chord. I'm not trying to bait anyone,...
It's no surprise that this conglomerate has adopted an attitude tantamount to, 'The customer can screw himself.' Just another symptom.
...co Polo) Alexandre Tansman - 1963(Concerto) (Koch) Henri Sauguet - 1964('Melodie Concertante') (Russian Disc) Andre Jolivet - 1966(Concerto No.2) (Solstice) Frank Martin - 1966(Concerto) (Preludio) He...
...George Cohan. I have only been reading this newsgroup for a short while, though I have noticed a lot of discussion regarding the relative merits of traditional mechanical pianos as compared to digital...
...pose, but a trifle disingenuous on the part of the producers of this set.
Oh, I have not commented on Disc 2, crumbs from the concerto table of Mr. Hofmann. No, they are better not discussed. Or per...
How many of you have bought discs from EMI or Virgin only to discover that they don't work in certain CD players? This often affects car CD players and portables. In addition, they don't work well in
Years ago, I discovered that virtually every concert by our local orchestra is recorded. I assume this is true of most or even all orchestras. What happens to the recordings? Who owns them? 99.99999%
...in 1989 and I suspect these are 1989 pressings. I finally got around to listening to them today only to discover that the top (labeled) sides are turning, well, bronze. One of the three discs is espec...
...its restorations of the original recordings throughout the United States in bad faith, at substantially discounted prices in direct competition with Capitol's recordings of the same performances, ofte...
...htly reduced touch course. The pianos sounds are very good and a special wheel organ mode lead to fun rediscovery of many forgotten sounds. Not many buttons but many functions hidden behind combined s...
...husiast.com. I've looked at their offerings, and it just seems to be a listing of every $1.99 and $2.99 disc sold by the Berkshire Record Outlet, only with opening bids of $6.99 or so. Hmm...
Each t...
Has anyone listened to Horowitz Redicovered yet? It includes a complete Carnegie Hall Recital (Nov 16, 1975), and the piece de resistance is the Sonata in f minor Op. 14 by Schumann (dubbed Concert sa
Discussions of this around a month ago seemed more shaped by excitement than by familiarity with the recordings. Now that people have had a chance to listen to them, what are the conclusions? How do t
Slightly OT, but akin to the discussion about 2001. Decided to give Chinatown on Encore another watch last night (never did really appreciate it many moons ago), and kept being persuaded by others (an
As the editor of the Bruckner Discography, I have endeavored to obtain at least one recording of each performance listed. A few items have eluded me and I would be very grateful if someone could lead
...Portland in October 2000, accused major record labels and large music retailers facing competition from discounters like Target and Wal-Mart of conspiring to set minimum music prices.
The defendants...
...ired up Roxio Easy CD Creator 5.x to make a copy, and all seemed to go smoothly. Then I listened to the disc that I had made. All was okay until I got to the last track. Then it was evident that the c...
I'm sure there has been discussion in this group before on ways of reducing the volume of sound from pianos (eg, in flats). Does anyone know any tricks for brightening the sound of upright pianos (eg,
I've long had a disc of the three Mozart concerti (clarinet, oboe and bassoon) with Bohm conducting. I recently heard a disc of the Clarinet Concerto with Michael Collins (?) on clarinet and Pletnev c
...ey music, Rimsky-Korsakov's Iz Gomera for orchestra and woman's chorus. It is available from Tower on a disc of 4 Rimsky, 'Cantates profanes'. I think Faure's Penelope is also derived from the Odyssey...
...mmendations? I can recommend the Sessions symphonies, the Rochberg String Quartet No. 1, and the Josten disc.
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Note that their database server has mixed in some Scribendum i...
Somebody warned about bronzing Nuova Era discs in another thread. Well, I just discovered one in my collection: a live Boulez Mahler 5. Is bronzing an incremental process or does it happen fairly sudd
... for music). And of course, add in all the usual benefits of having a musical background of some sort - discipline, logic, math, manual dexterity, you know all that stuff typical yuppie parents (like ...
...i on Chandos; for #3, Prokofiev/Coppola on Naxos or Pearl.
The better of the two performances on this disc is definitely the Second Concerto, which replaces the Gutierrez recording as my favorite. E...
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