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The GURRELIEDER is among the few pieces of Schoenberg that I really enjoy. I have the 2-CD set conducted by René Leibowitz (Paris Orchestra) with some fine soloists on the now defunct Lys label [557-558], but the one I grew up with, and continue to hear on occasions, was Leopold Stokowski's on RCA ...

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Giampiero Malaspina baritone 6 PUCCINI: Tre sbirri, una carozza (Tosca, Act I) Keith Hardwick tenor Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden / Michael Mudie 1.VII.1948, No.1 Studio, Abbey Road, London • Victor Carne • Douglas Larter CAX 10293-1 (Columbia DX 1514) Could it be the...

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What I expect this will mean in practice is that more classical listings will use stock photos and information. The upside is that you may get more information about a CD than the seller might have been willing to type in on his own. The downside is that you're not likely to see the actual item you'...

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This latest bit of analysis is all well and good, but surely I'm not the only one who has always heard a piano in that "Hard Day's Night" opening chord.

By the way, Cathy Berberian's "Beatles Arias" album was put out on CD in France a couple years back, complete with live bonus tracks!

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Sporky. Or Russell. Either way.

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Does Argerich hold the record for Franck Sonata Recordings? Here's chapter and verse from the Argerich discography at Andrys Basten's website. (I might be skeptical that the 1976 and 1977 recordings with Gitlis are not identical, but I haven't heard them.) Franck, César * Sonata for Piano & Violin i...

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Radio Netherlands used to have a webpage where one could hear an announcer giving the names of Dutch musicians. Sad to report, the page appears to have vanished.

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With the shops fresh out of Richter, and in spite of the tempting Rubinstein option, what about Gieseking? Certainly the breadth of repertoire is there. Not as much Chopin as I'd like, but there's a WTC, most of the Beethoven sonatas, Debussy and Ravel, the lovely Mendelssohn and Grieg pieces, and e...

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Sorry I had to leave rather abruptly today. I enjoyed what I was able to hear, in spite of the technical obstacles.

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Here's an oddity from my collection. It's a 10" LP: noces.jpg Ernst Lumpe has identified the real musicians behind the pseudonyms: The performance is the 1953 radio studio production of WDR Cologne with the Cologne Radio Symphony Orchestra and Chorus under Jean Martinon. The singers are Anny Schlemm...

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In general I'm all for taking exposition repeats. The influence of HIP has brought faster tempi, and that makes it possible to consider even repeats such as the Eroica first movement. (To adopt a slow tempo as Giulini does, and take the repeat anyway, is just too much.) Of course you need a repeat w...

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I once spent an afternoon working as a shopping-mall Santa

You qualify as a presidential candidate!

I'll be casting a write-in vote for myself on Tuesday!

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A few words about myself. • are male or female [it's hard to tell by sign-on names!] Male • sign-on name AND what do your friends call you? a. Sporkadelic b. Russell (or Russ, that's okay too) • what country you reside in USA • study music - if so what instrument No, but I do a lot of reading on all...

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For some time there has been a website selling recordings by the conductor Maximianno Cobra, who has some unusual ideas about proper tempi. Now you can watch a video of the complete Beethoven Ninth Symphony, if you have an hour and forty-five minutes or so. http://tinyurl.com/68shkz If you're impati...

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Here I'm displaying an image that I uploaded to Photobucket. That shouldn't use any CMG server resources, should it?

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How do I figure out if the stylus is damaged? There is really no sure way to do that without a microscope. You could look at the cantilever (the shaft the stylus tip is attached to); is it straight? Do you know how to check tracking force and anti-skating force on your turntable? We might be able t...

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I bought a used (of course) vinyl record and it won't play, ie, it continually gets stuck in the groove. The same passage plays over & over no matter where in the record it is. There are no scratches or gouges that I can see. I have never had this problem with an entire record. Any ideas? It is not...

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May I respectfully disagree with the proponents of subforums. We don't have such a large number of new threads every day that it's impossible to keep up by visiting the Chatterbox main page. I've found that when forums are excessively categorized, some subforums are less frequently visited and good ...

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Orchestral. I didn't realize there was a piano version. Well i just learned something new. Thanks! If you'd like to listen to the piano version, here's a link to a performance given earlier this year by Hélène Wickett in the studios of WGBH Boston. http://streams.wgbh.org/online/clas/clas_performan...

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For years, I wondered why soft drinks tasted so much better when I was a kid. Then I learned that gradually, bottlers have switched from sweetening with cane sugar to using more and more high-fructose corn syrup. Now, every year, we have an opportunity to get the good stuff. Look for the 2-liter bot...

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Folks, if we don't give these war criminals this type of multi-million dollar, world class defense our very rights could be in jeopardy! What will civilization say about us in a thousand years unless we spend eight million dollars?! How much is the government spending on their prosecution? Of cours...

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Thanks, but ... I'm seeking to purchase the newly released (or, apparently newly released) disc, and that site you linked seems a library repository of some sort. As well, I don't believe it's the same disc -- for Campra is the coupling work, not ballet music by Gretry. There's no disc. When the De...

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Pires and Alexeev were available on ArkivCD, but I ordered only one of those so I can see how it turns out. I'm quite concerned that they use archive quality CDs to burn these, as I notice ordinary CD-Rs wear out after only a few years. I have not had this experience, using (almost exclusively) Tai...

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What's the difference between the 1933 Cortot and his earlier version from 1926? I've got the 1926 on Naxos and on a second listen, prompted by the previous post, this is very good indeed (in fact the sound quality for the era is surprising). I've heard the 1933 recording but it was a long time ago...

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I can burn CDs and print covers, so download-only releases are no problem. What I refuse to support is lossy compression such as mp3. We have been used to CD quality, and that should be the minimum standard. For classical music in particular, along with mp3 (for which there's a market worth supporti...

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Kant and Aquinas did for Anselm a long time ago. True enough, although that hasn't stopped some folks from trying to propose his ontological argument. But I've borrowed just the one premise; do Kant or Aquinas take issue with that premise? (I'm afraid I have forgotten many of the details over the y...

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Try an alternate train of logic: Only God is perfect Whatever God creates is not God Man is part of God's creation, but is not God Man is not perfect The Bible says that creation is Good, not perfect. Only God is perfect. Whatever God creates is not God. Therefore, God's creation is not perfect. Go...

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When you see the phonautograph, and Edison's original tinfoil phonograph, there's such a similarity that it's hard to believe it took more than 20 years to make the leap from one to the other. And then, just as Edison is at work, Charles Cros has the same idea independently.

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Not unexpected, but very sad all the same. I don't buy into every article of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, but we must have freedom of conscience and freedom of speech.

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The answer to offensive speech is not to silence it, but to counter it with more speech. That's the right way.

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slofstra wrote:
Either the 1933 version (currently available from EMI) or the 1926 will do nicely.
Ooh, how is the sound?

Fine, for the date. There are audio samples at amazon.com; do a music search for "cortot chopin preludes" and the EMI disc should be the first result.

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The first prelude of Chopin's Op. 28 has, in my view, the character of an introduction to the rest of the set, but then one could say the same of the first of Liszt's Transcendental Etudes. Rubinstein recorded the Chopin set only once, in 1946, and it's generally considered less successful than most...

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Also worth a mention: Goebel and Musica Antiqua Köln (DG/Archiv).

I would love to see Sony reissue the Goberman set, and his other recordings too.

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Biologist PZ Myers, who was interviewed in the creationist movie Expelled! and thanked in the credits, showed up with his family and friends at a screening of the film. On recognizing Myers, the film's producer had him ejected from the theatre. Apparently he didn't recognize one of Myers' friends, n...

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I understand that Richter's recording of the Diabelli Variations is the same on Regis (which I haven't heard) as on Philips, and that it's a composite of Amsterdam and Moscow performances.

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Fearless prediction: no takers at that price! It's been years since I heard that Fantastique, but my impression was much the same.

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Hey, I thought it was funny!

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DG had a complete Brahms edition. The volume of Lieder ran to 7 CDs. I believe it was mostly Fischer-Dieskau with some contributions by Jessye Norman.

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Despite what I had been led to believe, it's apparently not the case that the Royal Shakespeare Company actually used Mr. Tchaikowsky's skull onstage as that of Yorick, as the pianist had wished. In the event, a sense of propriety led them to employ a cast copy. The story is told in Shakespeare's Vi...

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Seán wrote:For those of us who love vinyl, particularly Jazz on vinyl here is a welcome announcement from Blue Note:

http://musicmattersjazz.com/

I'm not in the market for new vinyl, but with Steve Hoffman and Kevin Gray doing the mastering, these ought to be superb.

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two of the greatrest conductors I've played for - Walter Hendl and Boris Goldovsky - would often stop conducting if things were going well - they'd fold up their hands and let the players communicate..of course, they were always watchful [ earful ] ready to jump in for important entrances or detail...

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I'm against anyone who wants to end the gridlock in Washington! The less the government actually manages to do, the better off we are. Division in the government reflects real disagreement among voters, and that's healthy.

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Bartók did not write any sets of variations. The second movement of the 1937-38 violin concerto is a theme and variations. I've always imagined that Bartók may have been inspired by Beethoven's "Kreutzer" sonata, which he performed regularly (one such occasion having been preserved as a sound recor...

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Ralph wrote:People weren't worried about the alleged demise of classical music?

They were all too engrossed in the Hatto scandal to give it much thought!

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I will bump this with some clues: The composer of Song A wrote a piano concerto for Arthur Rubinstein, but Rubinstein never performed it. (The composer never got around to finishing the orchestration, so it wasn't Rubinstein's fault.) The composer of Song B dedicated his violin concerto to Joseph Sz...

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Has anyone else recorded all, or nearly all, Scriabin's solo piano works? The Ponti set is cheap, and when listening to it I was impressed by the overall level of quality of this music, both the earlier Romantic and the later far-out stuff. I find the sonatas to be the least satisfactory part of Pon...

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As the question is which Schubert sonata is the most beautiful (not necessarily the best, or one's own favorite) I will agree with D664. Here's the first movement, played by Wilhelm Kempff.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sv6XQc2s6Jc

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Excellent video! Do we need a hint on the quiz question, or are folks just busy with the holidays?

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Corlyss_D wrote:Song A: I Won't Dance, from Roberta. Music by Kern and (the famous) lyrics by Fields & McHugh.

Not the song I was thinking of. Of course, now that you've mentioned it, I want to hear it! Time to grab "Starring Fred Astaire" (Columbia) off the shelf.

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While we're playing trivia, how about this one? I'm thinking of two Broadway songs, each having something in common with Thanks For The Memory. Like that song, Song A was introduced by Bob Hope. The lyric of Song B, like that of Thanks For The Memory, mentions classical composers. Song B was a big s...

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