I was listening to something late at night on the radio but unfortunately was feeling too tired to last to the end of what obviously would be a substantial...
In a message dated 11/1/2005 7:25:10 AM Eastern Standard Time, ... Oh, my gosh, Tom, you are in for a treat :) Fibich is my favorite of the Czech composers,...
May I add to these excellent suggestions AT THE TWILIGHT (Idyll for Orchestra , op. 39- you'll recognize one of its famous themes once you listen to it) and...
... Has Inbal recorded any Fibich? I heard a recent broadcast of a Czech Phil. concert which began with a Fibich overture, Eine Nacht auf dem Karlstein. It is...
I don't remember whether it's 8 or 9 in which K left the fiddles on the left. If I recall he did this in some of the early Decca stereo performances as well. I...
... I am sorry, Stan. I have no idea how this works. I have just about gotten used to CDs. Is this a different way of buying music? ... I take it you are now...
Same continent - these are Google-Earth Lat & Long coordinates for Kimberling Missouri. The Internet police can find me faster this way. My continent change ...
And soon we won't even need to leave our homes for anything, thanks to digitization, FreshDirect, good plumbing, and a hopefully soon-coming Woody Allen-style...
In a message dated 11/1/2005 8:36:39 AM Eastern Standard Time, ... That concert sounds interesting. While I don't like Inbal in everything - too frequently he...
The Fibich 3 part of which I heard was conducted by Gerd Albrecht with the WDR-Sinfonieorchester Köln (i.e. Cologne Radio Symphony Orchestra) - not surprising...
In a message dated 10/25/2005 10:36:09 PM Eastern Standard Time, ... Stateside, the symphony was spread over a full four sides (though, IIRC, some of the box...
... Putting the Andante 16:03 and the Scherzo 13:59 =========================== 30:02 is about a limit. but then the finale is 32:47 And that always...
... I believe, to broaden the question, it depends on a number of variables. Not all seats in any live venue are conducive to a great musical experience. Quite...
The Furtwaengler La Scala Ring on Murray Hill and/or Everest LPs with up to 45 min. per side also sounded very bad. A french discography of Furtwaengler...
It had been released on Melodram (not Golden), now oop. It will be released by Orfeo very soon. Would you give a list of the awful Malibrans you have got ? I...
... Later, it's not a large collection and some of the later issues seem first class. I will have to look at what I have. Yoel Der Bach singt voller Wohllaut...
R Buckminister Fuller once postulated that if the human race used its full faculty and were totally responsible the whole population of planet earth could live...
... and ... seek it, ... but ... but then ... The guy on the radio said that the Times reviewer panned it on account of being friends with Gian Carlo Menotti...
There is also a Reiner Meistersinger from MET (1952 IIRC), currently available on Archipel. There is also the 1936 ROH Tristan, an act 2 from Chicago 1937, the...
... it's a great opera and my favorite Meistersinger is with Knappertsbusch from 1950-1, also with Schoeffler, I like it even better than the Kempe, personally...
... Hi Yoel, I agree, nothing beats a great performance. But even then one can easily get distracted by coughing, the antsy person down the aisle, the horrible...
... As I previously noted, I am no great fan of Malibran and some of their issues verge on or trespass decency to be point of being sacrilegious. Few of them...
... Dear N. and All, Opera, as opposed to symphonic music or even a concerto, where there is a soloist in addition to an orchestra and a conductor, is a very...
... critic ... The Kubelik is too weak and I was also disappointed with the Kempe after everybody I talked with rated it as numro uno. I don't want to get into...
... My knowledge accumulates daily. In 100 years I will really be knowledgeable:-) ... I have been in various such halls. One was an auditorium where the ...
... I don't know whether you have the abridged Thill Othello [sic with the -t- in French). If you don't, I will gladly send the seven tracks in my friend's...
The clip is posted at http://www.operas-are.us/ and should be available there for some time. Dear All, I don't know how the subject of William Lewis arose on...
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