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I have to play in a performance of the Elgar/Payne 3rd Symphony and have the opportunity to purchase the Davis BBC Symphony one or the Bournemouth one with Paul Daniel conducting. I have the read the
Some of Justin's comments about prefering not to attend concert performances and some of the reasons that audiences attend concerts got me thinking about my own concert experiences. For more than a de
Has anyone heard these performances? I've listened to a fair number of performances of this cycle but have never heard of this group. Opinions?
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My introduction to Debussy's L'Isle Joyeuse was the Horowitz recording. No performance I have heard since quite satisfies me the way VH does. Beside the Horowtiz , everyone sounds weak. Vasary's Isle
...day.com - Rosette, Penguin Guide 2002
Press quotes 'I've seldom been as moved by a recording, both music and performance.' BBC Music Mag. 08/2001
'This recording can scarcely fail to delight.' Int...
.... 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...
...versions of Le sacre were not protected by copyright. (For that reason Stravinsky never received royalties for performances of his three most famous pieces, Firebird, Petrushka, and Sacre.) Disney app...
... Sibelius' Oceanides the other day in multiple versions, and it occured to me why this piece so often fails in performance and on recordings (and by 'fail' I mean 'doesn't make the impression it shoul...
...ol my passion by trying to present it in a funny or clever manner. It is not my intention to be pompous.
The performance of Music requires the control of this passion. That is where Ansermet(especia...
...any one knew where I can get the sheet music for Peace on Earth/Little Drummer Boy by Bowie and Bing Crosby. A performance group I work with is putting on a Christmas Show this year in our home town a...
...composition is tractable without a mistake or false step from beginning to end. Use controlled dynamics, three performances at each metronome speed, and at least six metronome speeds (18 performances ...
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I've been trying out his Pictures at an Exhibition lately. It's a good performance, but I think I'm spoiled by Richter, and am having trouble seeing what's so remarkable about Ugorski. Can you rec
...onse), so I am not clear just what changed in terms of his writing, and what, if anything, changed in terms of performance practice. I have always wondered about this, and would be appreciative if you...
...IT IN. I am clear that it is being done in large numbers. I am don't know if using foam in these parts reduces performance. I do know that it saves the manufacturer a great deal of money. However, sin...
I'm looking for recommendations for videos (or DVDs) which are more than recorded performances, which have some accompanying narrative or instructive commentary which illuminates the music or the musi
...ding to purchase?
I've heard the Opera d'oro release and it sounded terrible. From what I read it's the same performance as the Orfeo which supposedly sounds much better.
But what about the altern...
....at Penn State U. Great performance. They played two encores: one a piece from the Nutcracker and a second overture of some sort. It was fabulous and I'd never heard it before. Valery announced wha
...t issued a remastered version of this as part of their Compact Opera Collection series. I have never heard the performance, but have heard that it is one of the really great Pelleas'. Could anyone com...
I am very curious as to how others feel about Karl Munchinger. I got to know his performances in my collecting duties. In this case those of the Suisse Romande. Before the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra
... 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 ...
...Orozco/de Waart on Phililps, but again that is a complete set. I have not actually found much about individual performances on the Orozco set.
In any case, thanks in advance for your contributions....
Does anybody know the approximate date of a broadcast performance of the Bruckner 5th with Stanislaw Skrowaczewski and the Philadelphia Orchestra? My best guess is around 1981-82, but would be far hap
This posting is mainly for the LP enthusiasts out there. My interests for a good long time have been with live performance, though my thoughts went to LPs the other night when I finished listening to
...first movement I saw that it was extremely fast and way under 20 minutes (19:29)! The difference to other fast performances I have is over 1 minute! Pollini/Boehm (20:45), Ogdon/Stokowski (21:00) and ...
...embers.aol.com/ansermetniac2/eaahsym33.mp3
Recorded in September 1968. Ansermet died in Jan 1969. A stunning performance from an 85 year old conductor. I am not a fan of 20th century music, but I li...
Anyone heard it? I've read the threads about the contents- I'm curious about the performances.
...nsburg is available on the Korean label Aulos Classics. I have the set and they are without a doubt the oddest performance of these works that I have ever heard. Shafran has a unique tone which he ach...
...It has just been reissued by Supraphon and I wanted to do my bit of unsolicited exhortation on its behalf. The performance is all that David Hurwitz claims it is and then some, and it so richly deserv...
... and flowing feel. It's not a oratorio!
Modern sound would be nice, or if that can't be obtained with a good performance, at least not strident sound. I would prefer stereo to mono, all other things...
I'm looking for recommendations for videos (or DVDs) which are more than recorded performances, which have some accompanying narrative or instructive commentary which illuminates the music or the musi
...s a disc put out by the Russian insurance firm Reso-Garantia which claims to be a first issue of a 1960 Moscow performance. I'm curious to know if the claim is accurate or if in fact this is the same ...
...-issued on CD (Pearl, Naxos, etc.) and it is quite fascinating to read judgments of the original sound quality/performances as revealed on good equipment of that time and filtered by that period's mus...
How good is Polyanskii's performance of Shostakovich's Symphony #10 on Chandos?
...olegato, baritone; Atlanta Sym. Orch. Cho.; Atlanta Sym. Orch.) [Telarc Digital]
Category 93 Best Orchestral Performance (Award to the Conductor and to the Orchestra.)
Mahler: Symphony No. 6 Micha...
...tting the music flow naturally'? Well, I am looking for exactly the opposite of that with 'Carnaval'. I want a performance with many showy, even arbitrary touches, strong dynamic contrasts, pronounced...
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