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Schumann and Brahms Piano and Chamber Music... :oops: It took about four years for me to be able to listen to a String Quartet when I initially started listening to Classical music... :shock: I love most of the ones I've heard. But Schumann's Piano Quintett, beats me how anyone could not love it. W...

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Auntie Lynn wrote:In a few months, we gonna do The Bonesetter's Daughter, Three Decembers and Die Tote Stadt...come on out, bring money and a compact car...

You're a correpetitor, right?

matti

Thank you, Beckmesser, an interesting article.

Lance, I wonder if you cared to elaborate in even more detail the differences between different brands.

Steinway/Bösendorfer/Fazzioli/Bechstein/Baldwin etc. Pros and cons?

I know every instrument is individual, but still, the broad picture.

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Lance, I was hoping for a detailed response from you, and boy did I get one! Thank you. I think I'd be a Bechstein person myself - I prefer a velvety tone rather than a very bright one. However, I must say that many Steinways I have played have somehow "lured" me to play better than I would normally...

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I'm sure this subject has been discussed before, but I could not find a thread using the search function. I'd be interested to know about your thoughts on different instruments. I suppose most major concert halls still have Steinways, with the odd Bösendorfer here and there, or both. Still, Gould pr...

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Auntie Lynn wrote: the terrors in the accompaniment, which can be managed, depending on how you play it...

I suspect most mortals need to use some "tremolo" to manage it.

matti

I've been watching (and marvelling at) Michelangeli on Youtube for the last couple of nights. If any pianist could be said to be devoid of 'mannerisms' his name is surely near the top of the list. The economy of movement to produce that sort of sound is quite mind boggling. You could class Rubinste...

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For me Serkin was one of the very greatest in the sence that he always seemed to be searching (and often finding) the real essence of the music he played. In other words, he was not the most lyrical of pianists, not a crowd pleaser - in fact he often sounded rather rugged, even clumsy sometimes, alt...

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OK, here's a list: Sweden: Sibelius You need to read again your history books, Karl. Sibelius was Russian, of course, and not Swedish. :lol: :lol: Anyway, with a name like Jean, he must have been Haitian, Matti ! His name Jean - there is a funny story behind this one, and a reasonably reliable one....

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karlhenning wrote:OK, here's a list:
Sweden: Sibelius

You need to read again your history books, Karl. Sibelius was Russian, of course, and not Swedish.

matti

Give Kari Kriikku/Oramo a try. A wonderful clarinettist.

matti

Here's a little something about Bachauer from Chasins' book Speaking of Pianists which you are surely familiar with: "Here, then, is a man who loves what he does and has made his public love it, year in and year out. Brailowsky may not be a pianist's pianist or a musician's musician, but he is a peo...

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100 %.

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There's finally something new on this site now: Kreisler.

matti

Thanks a lot, Dave. I, too, enjoyed those very much. Next, a nice and juicy selection of the Bäsle letters, please!

matti

It turns out that it was her last wish that her death would be kept secret until the funeral. Her last months were extremely difficult. She was in and out of hospital since last summer, and in constant pain resulting from kidney and heart problems. Intellectually she appears to have remained alert a...

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According to Swedish newspapers the funeral was held today, January 11th. None of the on-line papers I've checked give the exact date of her death.

Here's a link with a slideshow.

http://www.aftonbladet.se/

Click
Bildextra, Birgit Nilssons liv i bilder

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I rarely listen to other Schumann symphonies but the 4th, which is a gem. The recording I have is the Kubelik, and it's great.

matti

Here's a website that might be of some interest to some of you. For instance, Landowska playing Mozart on the piano, Sarasate playing his own works, many great opera voices from the past. The website is all in Finnish, and as an extra nuisance there's a short introduction in Finnish before every per...

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Karl, as a clarinetist, what do you think about Mozart's K581 and K622?

matti

Terve Eetu,

Any relation to Matti Pellonpää?

[A brilliant actor who became known as a leading anti-hero figure in Aki Kaurismäki's movies]

Welcome aboard!

Matti

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Come on, Caballé is 72 and Pavarotti is 70. Both are fat and still singing. But they are part of the history at the same time. I'll ask again: name obese singers born in the 50's or later.

matti

Obese singers are history, more or less, aren't they? It just won't do in modern opera productions that the tenor or the soprano stands stationary through the whole opera, and all the choreography (and ballet) in his/her performance is raising hands slowly and gracefully at the end of each aria. Re...

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Obese singers are history, more or less, aren't they? It just won't do in modern opera productions that the tenor or the soprano stands stationary through the whole opera, and all the choreography (and ballet) in his/her performance is raising hands slowly and gracefully at the end of each aria. Rem...

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Borodin?

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Anyone into salty pies?
My favourite is mushroom pie in which I usually use self-picked boletus edulis, but fresh champignons will do at emergency.
If interested, the yummy is just a PM away.

matti

Eight finalists were chosen tonight.

Here's a nice site where you can listen & watch semifinalists play.

http://www.yle.fi/teema/sibelius/index_eng.php

matti

Harv, who is Nakamatsu? Is he good or were those cds just so cheap you decided to give them a try?

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Ralph wrote:
*****

Please contact me directly as you form your plans so I may have the pleasure of taking you to lunch/dinner, possibly a concert and certainly a walking tour.

Thanks a lot! I certainly will. It would really be a pleasure.

matti

Lance mentioned some nice Barnes & Nobles in his area, and by sheer coincidence the manager of the Barnes & Nobles we visited last week in Saratoga Springs used to work in one of them. "Binghamton?" I said. "That's in south central New York State, right?" "Yes, how did you know?" "Oh," I replied, "...

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Franck has had serious health troubles in spite of his young age. He's extremely talented. I truly wish he'll conquer his illnesses.

matti

There's a minor flaw in this article: Franck is more than 20 years younger than the rest of the people mentioned (Saraste, Saariaho, Lindgren). He is only 26.

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herman wrote:A blue note is one that is pitched just a little "flat",

... which finally reaches the required pitch after a while. That's infuriating.

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daycart wrote:I've got the vinyl of that one--my favorite recording (well...perhaps after the Gerald Moore one....)

Me too, mine too, and perhaps after the Gerald Moore one indeed.

matti

Yes, indeed, I know the Rosand Vox set very well. The pianist you are referring to is his late (first) wife, Eileen Flissler, who was an outstanding pianist. Oops, I have no idea why I thought all the time it was Leon Fleischer playing with Rosand. Flissler it is indeed, and she is great. They have...

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Not my first pick necessarily, but I've recently been listening to an old lp set by Rosand / Fleischer, and those men can play! Does anyone else have an affectionate relationship with old lps? For me, it's quite different from the one I have with my cds. You have to treat them with extra care, which...

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I do believe that Mozart's early works benefit from the halo effect of his late masterpieces. These juvenilia probably get 100 times the exposure of contemporaneous works, e.g. the symphonies of Myslivicek, but are they really any more worthy? Would the world be so much the poorer if K1 - K250 sudd...

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Of Mozart's enormous (and enormously overrated?) oeuvre the pieces I know best are those that have been lovingly re-worked by his successors :wink: , e.g. Alkan's solo piano transcription of the complete D minor concerto and Thalberg's of the Lacrymosa from the Requiem With all due respect, that's ...

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At the same time Matti got 10 out of 10 correct in "Mozart or Salieri?" quiz. The probability to get such score by chance is 1/1024~0.1%. This suggests that he understands some music and his comment on this quiz is the opinion of an expert. This quiz is a bit different from the previous one - it's ...

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double post

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pizza wrote:
matti wrote:Why was there such a large supply of Hungarian conductors back then, bad-tempered or congenial, does anyone know?
Because there wasn't much of a demand for them.

Ha! Stinker!

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Why was there such a large supply of Hungarian conductors back then, bad-tempered or congenial, does anyone know?

matti

A lied that always gives me the chills but fascinates me: Schubert's Der erlkoenig [/i] It gives me the chills too. It's one of those familiar things I thought I knew inside out, but a radical and staggering change of perspective came after having kids of my own. There are plenty of those, even in ...

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Why, this isn't an annoying post at all! If I had my life to live over again, I would have like to have been a piano accompanist the status of a Gerald Moore, who accompanied many great singers and instrumentalists (mostly singers, though) during his lifetime. Moore's "The Unashamed Accompanist" an...

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4/6. I thought both of the Moonlight beginnings pretty awful, but Bulva was just a tiny bit better is spite of the terribly reverberant recording - he at least tried to go forward. Horowitz I did not understand at all. And next time I'm in Zagreb, I might go to a symphony concert.

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Many happy returns, mate!

matti

Beethoven's op. 81a, Les Adieux over the weekend. Great fun, though I'm a bit rusty, haven't played anything this challenging in ages.

Also some Grieg's Lyrische Stûcke.

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It's Fun Survey time! Just quote it if you don't want to write it out. 1) Name? : Matti 2) Location? : Tampere, Finland 3) Favorite Composer? : Haydn 4) Favorite Color? : red 5) Fork or Spoon (for a chunky soup)? : spoon 6) Favorite Car? : BWV... err... BMW 7) Would You Rather Books or Magazies To ...

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Corlyss_D wrote:I'm racking up the entire string quartets of Shostakovich on Brilliant Classics for a Shostaquartetfest this afternoon.

Oh goodness, I hope you'll be able to post again in a week or so...

matti

MaestroDJS wrote:
Then again, maybe I'm Always Chasing Rainbows.

Dave

Or maybe Always Raising Eyebrows.

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