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...ut I can definitely speak for the keyboard group! I can estimate accurately that a full 20 to 25 percent of my performance work comes from continuo work on harpsichord or organ. It is extraordinary to...
...(and should have treasured her more in her day). So far (through 'Madre, pietosa Vergine') this is a wonderful performance - though lacking some of the grandeur and intensity provided by better conduc...
... concert grand. This emerges very clearly in every fortepiano record I have. However, I have never heard a HIP performance of Chopin that didn't make me think that Chopin had put meore into the music ...
...hat heated bar?
Oh, and another question. In your opinion, does rolling a piano from one room to another for performance purposes affect the tuning in any way? It's a straight shot, and the large wh...
...t of Mozart and Bruckner sacred works celebrating 50 years of Vienna Philharmonic and Vienna State Opera Choir performances at the Salzburg Festival. Other works include the Bruckner Fifth Symphony, t...
... concert!
Now the 5th Prokofiev is an entirely different matter - seldom played (I dimly remember a Bronfman performance in Paris last year), rather stark in appearance without the lyric and sometim...
...t hear enough of the music that was made?
How many audience members have left a concert unimpressed with the performance or the work, just because the acoustics at their seat hid some of the music? ...
...t times to facilitate the best publicity coverage.
The Boonton Monthly Music Festivals is arranging for live performances of many music formats and in languages chosen by the performers. The on-goin...
...t infringement. Capitol challenged Naxos' distribution of historic recordings dating from the 1930's featuring performances by Yehudi Menuhin, Edwin Fisher and Pablo Casals. Capitol claimed to be the ...
...f several hundred musical societies :):)
One of them, in Buckinghamshire, had been pressing him to conduct a performance of Handel's Messiah for many years. For many years he had been forced to turn...
...thcoming concerts of the Coronation music - which has never been played as a complete programme since its only performance in Westminster Abbey on June 2 1953.
But, after dusting off the country's g...
There are many companies that sell pirate recordings of live
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
...ca)? He continues to sing as Amfortas in 1962 Bayreuther - impressive nonetheless. What's your favorite Wagner performance of his ?...
...iano concerto. While some have commented on Abbado's dull Beethoven 9th, I found myself easily absorbed by the performance, at least the part I saw.
These boxes are being advertised on EBay as havin...
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I have no connection with the seller, except that the seller is me.
I actually like the performance, Bob Lombard, but I culled it because of too many versions of the piece.
Pa...
...rtext; and lastly a 'performeing edition', in which the writing is laid out differently in order to facilitate performance. The editor is Gonzalez, who has also recorded it for Naxos, apparently witho...
... to share with you a transcription that I made recently of Art Tatum's 'Begin The Beguine'.
There is a video performance of me playing my transcription at: http://collinatorstudios.com/tatum
enjoy...
...Die Auferstehung und Himmelfahrt Jesu ('The Resurrection and Ascension of Jesus,'
Can others here suggest cd performances of these and other key C. P. E. Bach pieces. Thanks very much. bill carroll,...
...a CD of the Bruckner Symphony # 7 with Eugen Jochum conducting the VPO (Haenssler CD 93.043). This is the same performance as that released on Lys/Dante # 007/008 (with the Hamburg B4). The timings on...
On PBS 'Great Performances' this evening I saw an excellent rendition of Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 20 by Pierre Boulez and the Berlin Philharmonic with the Portuguese virtuoso, Maria Pires, at piano
...asized, while the strings are lost in the background. It might sound like an exaggeration but to my ears these performances sound like concerti for brass, timpani and orchestra rather than symphonies!...
...cs. It is likely they were produced for the composer's private collection and most probably they are the first performances on 28 January 1955.
I am interested in tracking down recordings made at Al...
...the Beethoven Violin Sonatas on ASV a year or more ago. I got them used and they weren't recent pressings. The performances were recorded and issued in 1989 and I suspect these are 1989 pressings. I f...
.... 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 great ones in abundance. For starter...
...h symphony. Good music and sound.
Butt conducts Saint Saens - Symphony #2, Suite Algerienne, Phaeton. Lively performances and excellent sound....
...ave to be superb.
I did some preliminary searching around here but most people's suggestions centered around performance. Any suggestions?
TIA
Jason A....
... tempi, dynamics, etc. from Stokowski are somewhat consistent; what I'm more concerned with is the orchestra's performance and specifically the sound of the brass in the big climaxes. Also I'd like th...
Which performance of Mahler's Adagio from Symphony No. 10 (leaving 'completions', 'conjectures' and so-called 'realisations' to one side) does everyone rate highest?
I like Bernstein's live Vienna v
I recently transferred from reels a performance of the Bartok Violin Concerto No. 2 with Edith Peinemann, William Steinberg and the NYP, this from a broadcast on May 16, 1965. I was stunned by the ver
...s conducted by someone named Bernet. The catalogue number *may* be BMH 20834-6.
I remember really loving the performance - especially the Schumann. Does anyone know if this recording is available an...
...cheat and play these as 2+3 or 3+2 or 2+2+1 etc. such that it won't matter when I play up to full speed?
Any performance tips would be appreciated....
...ntly. Had some doubts durring the process, but when I listened to the whole thing I realized it's an excellent performance - of Brahms' PC1. That's the thing though: it's Brahms' PC1. Seems like I've ...
Archiphon has just released Rudolf Kolisch/Gunnar Johansen performances of Beethoven Sonatas 5-10. The 2CD set is ARC-130/131. The performances are from recitals in Madison, Wisconsin in the 1960's. T
...er on the $3.99 wall. I just got his Beethoven 4/6, and they're as extraordinary as his 1/2: exuberant, joyful performances that have you practically dancing along. I've never heard an orchestra play ...
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