- What on earth do you mean by 'quality' and 'better' instruments? That they play louder and it is not so risky to hit the right note? Alas, almost all...
Perhaps the brass instrument-makers and players of 100 years ago did actually know what they were doing. Not necessarily. Instruments have improved and are...
In a message dated 2/5/2009 5:59:24 AM Eastern Standard Time, ... heard was the Met orchestra with James Levine conducting the last few minutes of Die...
In a message dated 2/5/2009 5:59:24 AM Eastern Standard Time, ... They play louder and softer. Brighter and darker. << Perhaps so -- but only in the hands of...
Yes, but it's probably not the instruments that are causing the balance problems. It should be easier, in the hands of technically good and musically...
Levine's 10th with Philadelphia reigns supreme! Especially the last movement is unmatched in its power and profundity. - Sam ... most ... singers -- he ... or...
In a message dated 2/6/2009 5:51:40 AM Eastern Standard Time, ... problems. It should be easier, in the hands of technically good and musically sensitive...
Clumsy writing on my part. I was in complete agreement. My response was to what Quantz called "an absurd love for the old." The idea that if somehow ...
allowing myself to be slightly off group theme, I also find Levine enigmatic- his Paris Symphony (31st Mozart) is dreadully fast whereas his Idomeneo...
I prefer to think of that as improved musicianship; greater flexibility on the part of both musicians and instruments. I'm old enough to remember when there...
Greetings everyone. I'm very pleased to announce that MDG label will very shortly be issuing a CD recording of Czech composer J.B. Foerster's third and fourth...
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... One would hope that mdg (on which label I often hear things on arcane radio programs that make me desire acquiring them; often Baroque) would develop a USA...
... arcane radio ... German postage is quite reasonable, but the shipping charges of a mail order company might not be. However, it doesn't matter. You can...
Also worth considering is MDT, in the UK. http://www.mdt.co.uk/MDTSite/pages/home/default.asp Often due to their extremely low postage surcharges [75...
... programs that make me desire acquiring them; often Baroque) would develop a USA distributor.<< MDG does have a USA distributor, and has for some time?--...
The responses of Mr. Oliva and Maestro Lazar to our Moderator's comment about overseas shipping is heart-warming, in a way -- it indicates that the Moderator...
... << from recent comments by Mr. Oliva on another list, I suspect he is heading towards my basic age range, if he's not there already. ... Heading? Here in...
... I actually do like a "physical artifact" and haven't yet bought digital downloads, though I do record radio and TV broadcasts, but even those get archived...
... wrote: << Though I'm interested in new technologies, I also happen to know what a hard disk failure means (heard and seen myself too many times). ... ...
Hi, I asked, as it were, the other day, about a Brahmsian contemporary one of whose symphonies I heard on the air. It was in the context of Förster (BTW,...
Yo Yoel I've racked my CDs but not sorted them - so how long would it take to find the Friedrich Gernsheim (1839-1916) CD of his 4 symphonies? Amazingly, 10...
I've racked my CDs but not sorted them - so how long would it take to find the Friedrich Gernsheim (1839-1916) CD of his 4 symphonies? Amazingly, 10 seconds!...
merton.grassroots wrote: goes off into his next number, presumably seeking a constant state of ecstasy. Nothing builds, develops, it just keeps coming at you...
(1) It wasn't Steve who heard Gernsheim after all - whilst plugging Reinecke and Rheinberger (whoever they may be - a German legal firm?), he was merely...
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