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- Sun Nov 06, 2011 9:30 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Charles Munch: Late Romantic Masterpieces [7 CD set]
- Replies: 33
- Views: 13672
Re: Charles Munch: Late Romantic Masterpieces [7 CD set]
Well, there were some interesting responses on the Munch era on this thread. Thanks everyone for the insight. Greg your link is not working, and I would be interested in reading that article if you can fix the link. As far as these particular recordings I will trust my ears and they like what they ...
- Fri Nov 04, 2011 7:08 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Charles Munch: Late Romantic Masterpieces [7 CD set]
- Replies: 33
- Views: 13672
Re: Charles Munch: Late Romantic Masterpieces [7 CD set]
For Munch fans. It's more about LP making, but great none the less. Appologies if this is well known here. It was new to me.
Gregg
Sound And The Story (1956)
http://www.archive.org/details/SoundAndTheS
Gregg
Sound And The Story (1956)
http://www.archive.org/details/SoundAndTheS
- Fri Dec 31, 2010 5:07 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Life before Gieseking. So tell me about Marcelle Meyer?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 5268
Life before Gieseking. So tell me about Marcelle Meyer?
Some thread, somewhere online lead me to Marcelle Meyer, and I listened to some works performed by this French pianist of the first 1/2 of the last century on you tube. I'd like to solicit some opinions and to know about any other french pianists, particularly woman, whose performed Debussy in the e...
- Fri Dec 31, 2010 5:05 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: What do you like or dislike about HvK?
- Replies: 88
- Views: 61661
Re: What do you like or dislike about HvK?
A lot of good comments in the thread. How the mighty have fallen, HvK placed on a level with the over exposed Ormandy. One of the first records I ever bought was his early seventies recording of Symphonie Fantastique (bought in the afore mentioned early seventies as a new release). Now having more F...
- Thu Jun 14, 2007 4:16 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Don't Act Out if You Don't Like the Music
- Replies: 104
- Views: 31559
Individual artists within this region are circles Thank you for the explanation. I had thought it might have been a dam metaphor (i.e. modern composers filling in the cracks in the barrier created by great composers to prevent...?) and I was curious to know what you thought was being held back. An ...
- Thu Jun 14, 2007 3:01 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Don't Act Out if You Don't Like the Music
- Replies: 104
- Views: 31559
- Wed Jun 13, 2007 9:28 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Don't Act Out if You Don't Like the Music
- Replies: 104
- Views: 31559
- Wed Jun 13, 2007 9:20 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Don't Act Out if You Don't Like the Music
- Replies: 104
- Views: 31559
- Tue Jun 12, 2007 5:37 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Don't Act Out if You Don't Like the Music
- Replies: 104
- Views: 31559
It won't work. These people are so indignant they're impervious to humiliation, or reason, for that matter. There is something that I identified when I was an art student in college, forgive me if I'm going over well trod ground here, and it does not pertain to the those in any of the arts who have...
- Tue Jun 12, 2007 1:25 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Lance involved in local piano series for the young!
- Replies: 11
- Views: 6263
- Tue Jun 12, 2007 7:46 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Don't Act Out if You Don't Like the Music
- Replies: 104
- Views: 31559
Re: Don't Act Out if You Don't Like the Music
As long as the symphony boards have to make some money, that means they have to cater to the tonal neanderthals like me. I refuse pay to be annoyed and nobody is going to make me feel guilty for my reactions on the basis that critics didn't like Beethoven's 4th sym. Hell, I don't like Beethoven's 4...
- Mon Jun 11, 2007 11:18 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Don't Act Out if You Don't Like the Music
- Replies: 104
- Views: 31559
Re: Don't Act Out if You Don't Like the Music
".... a crass monster, a hideously writhing wounded dragon, that refuses to expire, and though bleeding in the Finale, furiously beats about with its tail erect," Are your sure that wasn't written about Boléro ? It seems accurate. Actually, I'd be indignant too. If I made the effort to sit through ...
- Thu Jun 07, 2007 2:18 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Happy Birthday Lance!!!!!!
- Replies: 40
- Views: 15940
- Wed Jun 06, 2007 9:20 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: New York Magazine Cans Long Time Music Critic
- Replies: 14
- Views: 8161
- Wed Jun 06, 2007 11:26 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Mozart Pianists
- Replies: 44
- Views: 18912
I'd like to toss one contemporary in the mix, Lars Vogt. A very good solo collection particularly the Fantasias. I might like the collection he does in twenty years, my one criticism is that he needs a little more variety in the ways he speeds up and speeds down (if you know what I mean), but it's a...
- Wed Jun 06, 2007 8:45 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: New York Magazine Cans Long Time Music Critic
- Replies: 14
- Views: 8161
What's happened to most of the classical review mags? That is the question. I say this a lot when I am talking about my point of view, it's obvious but bear with me. My farther, for decades, has subscribed to Smithsonian and Natural History magazines. Every year they have civil war covers and monke...
- Tue Jun 05, 2007 11:27 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: New York Magazine Cans Long Time Music Critic
- Replies: 14
- Views: 8161
Seriously, one of the things that most annoys me about the NY Times Sunday Arts section is that it used to list virtually every concert taking place in New York, and then they eliminated this page. More demoting of the importance of classical music! If there is one thing that steams New York musici...
- Sat Jun 02, 2007 9:16 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Elgar Sesquewhatever Celebrations
- Replies: 38
- Views: 18221
- Sat Jun 02, 2007 5:56 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Ernest Ansermet: New Decca Budget Box (6 CDs)
- Replies: 22
- Views: 14640
No, since the mono era begins with the invention of the phonograph. Thank you that goes in to the permanent repertoire! Though I am not an Ansermet cultist I bought a 2 CD set with Ansermet recordings from 1916, the second CD has 30's and 40's recordings. I won't pass judgement, this is a we love A...
- Sat Jun 02, 2007 4:01 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Ernest Ansermet: New Decca Budget Box (6 CDs)
- Replies: 22
- Views: 14640
There is a lot of Ansermet out there, and several recordings of a lot of important works. I have some early 50's monos that I like, but I also remember hearing a rehearsal recording of Stravinsky done with the LSO in his last year (or close to it, if my memory serves me right) a fantastic performanc...
- Sat Jun 02, 2007 3:47 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Flap Over Soprano's Canning in San Francisco
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4866
Would you mind telling me how you came to have this information?jbuck919 wrote:A fat black cow with a viibrato as wide as the New Jersey Turnpike between exits 14 and 8A, when approximately ten thousand sopranos in the world can sing Donna Anna adequately. Nothing poliically correct going on here.
Gregg
- Sat Jun 02, 2007 3:37 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Elgar Sesquewhatever Celebrations
- Replies: 38
- Views: 18221
Elgar will be featured at this summer's Bard College Festival I wish there was more Elgar in New York. In January I had some one who was willing to write about Elgar, if there was a performance that I could tie it to - but there was nothing to be found. Maybe when the LSO comes in September? I thin...
- Fri Jun 01, 2007 6:03 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Strad Heist in Vienna
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4575
Re: Strad Heist in Vienna
What makes you think they were destroyed, I always assumed that it was a targeted theft and that the works are in someone's art hideaway somewhere in the world?jbuck919 wrote: and the most likely explanation of the fate of those works is that they have been destroyed.
Gregg
- Thu May 31, 2007 11:26 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Willem van Otterloo, conductor
- Replies: 15
- Views: 9487
...still his era has passed, along with the shade of Toscanini..... Or so it might be said. And in his place we have Haitink. I'll offer no editorializing, having in my youth been a Haitink fan. He was my first exposure to Bruckner, and several other composers. I rarely listen to his recordings now,...
- Thu May 31, 2007 10:45 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Willem van Otterloo, conductor
- Replies: 15
- Views: 9487
- Tue May 29, 2007 7:48 am
- Forum: Classical Concert Reviews
- Topic: Beethoven in a tea cup
- Replies: 11
- Views: 7926
I could not resist the chance to tie two of the threads (in this thread) together for New Yorkers. YOU are the soloist and chorus! Spring 2007 Sunday, June 24th, 2007, 3PM David Bernard, Conductor Alan Moverman, Piano BEETHOVEN SING!!!! For this performance of the Choral Symphony, the Park Avenue Ch...
- Mon May 21, 2007 11:39 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: The Maestro as Teacher
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3363
in these days of jet-set guest conductors , and short term music directors, this function is severely abridged or eliminated...often the orchestra "teaches" the conductor - << this is how we play it, you can change a few things if you address them specifically, otherwise, this is how we do it >> Ve...
- Fri May 18, 2007 5:16 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Chausson, Symphony in B-flat, Anybody?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 12987
- Thu May 17, 2007 10:14 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Chausson, Symphony in B-flat, Anybody?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 12987
Just because Franck "quoted slightly" Liszt's "Les Préludes" doesn't lower the quality of spiritual value of the symphony. It's pure César Franck----through and through.....and stands with the finest contemporary symphonic creations of Bruckner, Brahms and Tschaikowsky. Well, I was being a little t...
- Wed May 16, 2007 4:25 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Chausson, Symphony in B-flat, Anybody?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 12987
Well, if you are going to pick on Wagner, then the late-Romantic French are sitting ducks - and it's hunting season - as per Chuck Jones. Actually I really like some of those composers, particularly in chamber music. As Lance said, the "concerto" really is a great work. But if one does have to pick ...
- Thu Apr 26, 2007 9:12 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Shostakovich Symphonies/ Rozhdestvensky
- Replies: 5
- Views: 5126
The notes indicate they were recorded throughout the '80s and as late as '91. The symphonies are performed by the USSR Ministry of Culture SO, and some of the orchestral works are by the Moscow Phil. O. and Leningrad PO. Some are DDD and others ADD. Sorry for the delay... I hate to presume, but som...
- Tue Apr 24, 2007 10:06 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Remembering cellist Gregor Piatigorsky
- Replies: 9
- Views: 8025
Two cents to add: His recording of the Walton concerto made me love his playing and particularly his cello. I recently found a box set of LP (mono) of the Beethoven sonatas with Solomon (a real surprise for me). As soon as I get a new mono cartridge they will be on deck. I seem to remember that anot...
- Tue Apr 24, 2007 9:58 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Shostakovich Symphonies/ Rozhdestvensky
- Replies: 5
- Views: 5126
Pizza, Are those the same as the early 80s digital recordings? I look for the early JVC/japan issues. I've seen the other ones but I have not bought any. 15 is indeed great, it was the first one I bought. 5 is also good... I think he gets the bombastic humor just right. In fact I like all that I hav...
- Tue Apr 24, 2007 9:53 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: What Got You Interested in Art Music?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 6937
Seeing a repeat of Lost in Space in the 70s. There was a particularly awful episode with a space Valkure, and whenever she appeared the Ride was on the soundtrack. I never did get it out of my head. By the time I started high school I found out what it was and started down the long dark path of art ...
- Sat Mar 24, 2007 11:12 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: What I bought/ordered/got in the mail today
- Replies: 156
- Views: 72436
Gulda set of the Beethoven piano sonatas. Really great music. But I don't have a favorite for complete (BTW) One thing I like about the Gulda recordings, is that he brings out a "dance" feeling in many of the movements, and ( pace HIP) I think that gives aspects of the pieces a feeling of "original ...
- Wed Mar 14, 2007 10:41 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Best Shostakovich quartet? Why is it always no.8?
- Replies: 23
- Views: 22989
Not to worry, Gregg ; none of the audience can plot where a composer will go after such-&-so a piece. Only the artist himself can discover his path. Cheers, ~Karl Untrue! There was an audience poll taken directly after the first performance of the Rite of Spring , and the overwhelming response of t...
- Mon Mar 12, 2007 9:22 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Best Shostakovich quartet? Why is it always no.8?
- Replies: 23
- Views: 22989
- Sun Mar 11, 2007 11:32 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: If Only N.Y. Would Follow Baltimore's Example
- Replies: 17
- Views: 10589
I for one would like to hear your story. Thank you for asking. But I'll spare everyone the details. I've spent the weekend re-tooling some funding applications and I am spent... I think my site has a great potential, it's up to me to reach out for sources of funding. I have a great resource for the...
- Fri Mar 09, 2007 8:52 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: If Only N.Y. Would Follow Baltimore's Example
- Replies: 17
- Views: 10589
What I want to know is "how did a businessman with an understanding of markets and pricing ever get into an arts organization?" Speaking as someone who left the profit world to embrace the non-profit. Any businessman who exhibits aesthetic feeling is some one to be embraced. I have over 12,000 peop...
- Fri Mar 09, 2007 10:21 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Best Shostakovich quartet? Why is it always no.8?
- Replies: 23
- Views: 22989
Another reason why he composed so many of them later in life is said to be his friendly competition with Moshei Weinberg for who completed the greatest number of string quartets I should spend some time looking it up, but I can't. Didn't he plan on 24, one for every key, similar to a set of etudes?...
- Thu Mar 08, 2007 9:22 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: If Only N.Y. Would Follow Baltimore's Example
- Replies: 17
- Views: 10589
- Wed Mar 07, 2007 7:41 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Bartok string quartets revived
- Replies: 38
- Views: 28577
Shostakovitch, Schönberg, Webern, Bartok, Ravel, Hindemith, Reger, Alban Berg, Dutilleux, all composed splendid masterpieces. Totally agree, sometimes I think the quartet is primary musical idiom for the 20th C.. I do mean the string quartet since no one would dispute the dominance of the pop/rock ...
- Wed Mar 07, 2007 7:08 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: A Memorable Concert.
- Replies: 5
- Views: 5928
Re: A Memorable Concert.
That is one of my favorite lines of the week.pardew wrote: a rousing final, a surprise considering the Conductor,Tchaikovsky Symphony No4.
I've seen Davis a couple of time in NYC, with the NYP, but never with his traveling bands.
Happy birthday,
Gregg
edit for spelling, darn spell check
- Wed Mar 07, 2007 1:43 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Best Shostakovich quartet? Why is it always no.8?
- Replies: 23
- Views: 22989
Yes, I'll take a double dose of 15. One of my fondest musical memories was when I first heard the symphony, via recording. As I was taking a few seconds to try to figure out the symphony's first movement, when the second movement began - I was jolted into changing mental states, back in to my genera...
- Tue Mar 06, 2007 8:43 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Best Shostakovich quartet? Why is it always no.8?
- Replies: 23
- Views: 22989
- Sun Mar 04, 2007 7:41 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Bartok string quartets revived
- Replies: 38
- Views: 28577
Re: Bartok string quartets revived
My favourite set is DG Tokyo for their unmatched finesse and concentration, aided by the razor sharp sound Hi Hangos, Thanks for the tip. I just have the second series Juilliard LPs and the CD set with recordings across the five decades of JSQ incarnations. I can't listen to their Beethoven any mor...
- Fri Feb 16, 2007 1:13 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Joyce Hatto -- a strange discovery
- Replies: 62
- Views: 63538
The Hatto hoaxers had good taste. The Bronfman/Salonen recording of Rachmaninoff's second concerto is the best I ever heard. And if anyone finds out who made the Rachmaninoff solo CD reviewed on the BBC, please let me know they were great. I'd still buy the forgeries just to have them. At reduced p...
- Mon Jan 29, 2007 11:39 pm
- Forum: Classical Concert Reviews
- Topic: The Parker String Quartet Debuts at Lincoln Center
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2682
I saw them at Barbes, a tiny bar/club in Brooklyn, last year. Pretty good, but there is so much competition. They are named after the Parker House in Boston. So are some sort of bread rolls if I remember correctly. I heard a little of the Calder quartet at the Chamber Music America conference. They ...
- Mon Jan 29, 2007 5:21 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Brahms - not as appreciated as Beethoven, Mozart... (?)
- Replies: 148
- Views: 145865
most of the really serious musicians I've met or have ever known have all unanimously liked Brahms & JS Bach, HOWEVER, not the case with regards to both Beethoven and especially Mozart... most of the women i know or have known, (heck, could extend that to MOST PEOPLE I know), don't really like musi...
- Mon Jan 29, 2007 8:02 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Neglected Pianists
- Replies: 33
- Views: 30176