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- Mon Aug 11, 2014 3:09 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Historic piano recordings
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1056
Re: Historic piano recordings
Kentner seems to have suffered from his vinyl recordings not making it to CD. I have at home a two LP set of Kentner playing all the Liszt Hungarian Rhapsodies. As he was a noted Liszt specialist this is a recording of historical interest but the only version on CD is the one I had made for me by a ...
- Fri Aug 01, 2014 12:29 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Jokes So Awful They Could Provoke You To Murder
- Replies: 163
- Views: 32879
Re: Jokes So Awful They Could Provoke You To Murder
What do you call a man with no arms or legs swimming - Bob. What do you call a man with Seagulls on his head - Cliff What do you call a one legged Irish woman - Eileen What do you call a man with a shovel in his head - Doug What do you call a man without a shovel in his head - Douglas What do you ca...
- Tue Jul 15, 2014 2:54 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Does anybody know how to ... ? (technical question)
- Replies: 19
- Views: 1060
Re: Does anybody know how to ... ? (technical question)

Simple solution
I posted this using Firefox
find the image
Right click on image
choose: Copy Image Location
Then paste as usual in your post
- Tue Jul 01, 2014 10:04 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Marie-Aimee Varro
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1656
Re: Marie-Aimee Varro
The label is Orion but Naxos has 46 pages in its listings so this would be a long way around finding everything by Varro in its database.
I found the recordings by typing Varro into the NML Keyword Search box.
If you still have problems then I do have another solution.
I found the recordings by typing Varro into the NML Keyword Search box.
If you still have problems then I do have another solution.
- Tue Jul 01, 2014 3:43 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Marie-Aimee Varro
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1656
Re: Marie-Aimee Varro
NML has 8 CDs of her performances.
- Sun Jun 29, 2014 8:50 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Marie-Aimee Varro
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1656
Marie-Aimee Varro
There was a previous thread about her in 2006 which is now locked. http://www.classicalmusicguide.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=11145&sid=de08ab5d00676a765741d4b2bafa66f3 Her recordings are now available on NML and include, joy of joys, her exciting rendition of the Liszt Paganini Etudes. I haven't heard ...
- Mon Jun 23, 2014 4:27 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: The VERDI Requiem
- Replies: 33
- Views: 5507
Re: The VERDI Requiem
Cliftwood here.. Some other suggestions of this masterpiece worth hearing.. Boston/Leinsdorf..Nilsson,Chookasian, Bergonzi,Flagello Rome Opera/Serafin..Caniglia,Stignani, Gigli, Pinza NY Philharmonic/Bernstein..Arroyo, Veasey, Domingo,Raimondi Hi, maestrob and holden !! Can't get here with my old p...
- Mon Jun 23, 2014 4:25 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: The VERDI Requiem
- Replies: 33
- Views: 5507
Re: The VERDI Requiem
If I started to collect music DVDs (I'm already into movies!), I would end up in the poor house! It's bad enough just with compact discs, as it was with LPs during their heyday! One wonders why major companies like DGG would not issue a CD of the performance given such a glorious cast as you mentio...
- Sun Jun 22, 2014 3:31 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: The VERDI Requiem
- Replies: 33
- Views: 5507
Re: The VERDI Requiem
Ted/Lance: I have the new Barenboim/Verdi Requiem, and it's quite good. Barenboim has tamed his style in recent years, and seems more disciplined to my ears. His recent Manon w/Netrebko on DVD was outstanding, as have his Bruckner IV & V (also on DVD) and Elgar II and Cello Concerto on CD (w/Alisa ...
- Sun Jun 22, 2014 3:28 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: This IPod thing is awesome!
- Replies: 4
- Views: 567
Re: This IPod thing is awesome!
.....and of course your iPhone and iPad will also allow you to do this.
Thanks for the heads up about CD option - has anyone found it on their iPad/Phone or is it an iPod only feature?
Thanks for the heads up about CD option - has anyone found it on their iPad/Phone or is it an iPod only feature?
- Sun Jun 22, 2014 4:54 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: The VERDI Requiem
- Replies: 33
- Views: 5507
Re: The VERDI Requiem
If I started to collect music DVDs (I'm already into movies!), I would end up in the poor house! It's bad enough just with compact discs, as it was with LPs during their heyday! One wonders why major companies like DGG would not issue a CD of the performance given such a glorious cast as you mentio...
- Sat Jun 21, 2014 3:34 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: The VERDI Requiem
- Replies: 33
- Views: 5507
Re: The VERDI Requiem
I agree with you Lance that this is glorious music. I either own or have heard a number of the recordings in your list but my favourite isn't there. It's a DVD made in La Scala conducted by von Karajan. He has a superb groups of soloists: Cossotto, Ghiaurov, Leontyne Price and a young, non-bearded P...
- Fri Jun 20, 2014 7:16 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Iraq about to fall?
- Replies: 74
- Views: 6124
Re: Iraq about to fall?
Why bother? The place is medieval and we should just step back and let them get on with killing each other in the name of conflicting versions of their own personal god. So they own a bit of oil - who cares? Let's leave the Arabs to sort out their own excrement by themselves.
- Sat Jun 07, 2014 2:45 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Happy Birthday to Lance
- Replies: 22
- Views: 2211
Re: Happy Birthday to Lance
Happy Birthday Lance - hope it's a good one
- Wed May 28, 2014 3:08 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Orff: Carmina Burana recorded renditions
- Replies: 14
- Views: 3914
Re: Orff: Carmina Burana recorded renditions
My seminal recording of this work was: http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Krr%2B%2BoknL._SL500_AA280_.jpg and it still rates very highly. However, I also acquired the Ormandy and like Lance, I tend to see this as the version I prefer above all others. There is a lot of support for the Jochum bu...
- Mon May 19, 2014 3:18 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Witold Malcuzynski
- Replies: 7
- Views: 869
Re: Witold Malcuzynski
Amazon US has this listed for $34.00 not the $23 quoted. Still cheap and still worth getting.
I've placed my order through Amazon UK and have ended up paying $AUS 34.50 including p&h.
I've placed my order through Amazon UK and have ended up paying $AUS 34.50 including p&h.
- Sun May 18, 2014 3:06 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Witold Malcuzynski
- Replies: 7
- Views: 869
Re: Witold Malcuzynski
I had some LPs of his Chopin which I thought were excellent so I will probably invest in this box set. I already have the Brahms and Beethoven on another CD but it's his Chopin I want to hear again.
- Thu May 08, 2014 2:55 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: On Melodiya's 50th anniversary
- Replies: 14
- Views: 1718
Re: On Melodiya's 50th anniversary
I would be interested to see what Melodiya have got of Grigory Sokolov that is not available elsewhere. I know that there is a lot of LvB that he recorded that is not currently available so here's hoping.
- Sat May 03, 2014 5:05 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Is there still hope for us so-so pianists?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 779
Re: Is there still hope for us so-so pianists?
Interesting that the author also includes the Michelangeli performance which is the best I've ever heard.
- Wed Apr 30, 2014 3:04 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Alternatives to Internet Explorer
- Replies: 10
- Views: 892
Re: Alternatives to Internet Explorer
Haven't used IE in years. It's bloated, contains all sorts of features that I don't want and is slower than the other browsers. I'm a Firefox fan on my PC for some of the reasons listed in John's post and I use Chrome on my iPad. If there was a Firefox app for iPad I'd use that too.
- Tue Apr 29, 2014 2:55 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Firefox version 29
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1034
Re: Firefox version 29
I have Windows 8 here at work (and at home) and have just updated. I'll report back but as I also use Chrome I can't see any issues for me.
- Thu Apr 24, 2014 4:13 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Donald Isler Plays Beethoven Sonata No. 31, Op. 110
- Replies: 6
- Views: 972
Re: Donald Isler Plays Beethoven Sonata No. 31, Op. 110
Donald, I have your CD of this sonata and once again I was in awe of what you can do with the slow movements in the LvB sonatas.
- Sat Apr 19, 2014 6:27 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Education: Common Core under attack
- Replies: 24
- Views: 1572
Re: Education: Common Core under attack
Holden, one cannot have 'understanding' without 'knowledge'. This 'either/or' thing with education is part of the problem, IMO. I agree that knowledge is a prerequisite for understanding and this leads to the point I am trying to make. How you use knowledge is what should be paramount. If the Core ...
- Fri Apr 18, 2014 4:18 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Education: Common Core under attack
- Replies: 24
- Views: 1572
Re: Education: Common Core under attack
Any system that seeks to assess knowledge, as opposed to understanding, is assessing only a small part of the human intellect and is therefore doing the majority of its students a major disservice
- Wed Apr 02, 2014 9:31 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Tchaikovsky Piano Trio in A minor
- Replies: 23
- Views: 1923
Tchaikovsky Piano Trio in A minor
I've just listened to the Kogan/Rostropovich/Gilels on Spotify. I've heard others that are very good (Heifetz/Piatigorsky/Rubinstein) but this performance just jumped out at me as being exceptional.
- Wed Apr 02, 2014 2:50 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Schubert
- Replies: 52
- Views: 4295
Re: Schubert
As a fellow lover of Schubert's music there are a few other works I'd like to add to Tarantella's list. The Arpeggione sonata for Cello and Piano is a beautiful example of his gift for creating exquisite melodies. The two Piano trios are also wonderful. Finally, the Wanderer Fantasy for solo piano i...
- Mon Mar 31, 2014 10:08 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Arthur Rubinstein Complete Edition Odyssey
- Replies: 20
- Views: 2273
Re: Arthur Rubinstein Complete Edition Odyssey
Excellent post, thanks. I agree re Chopin: note for note, he is my all-time favourite, especially with the nocturnes, which are probably my favourite Chopin. An excellent Schubert, the last piano sonata, was not on your list but would be on mine. There were two D960s in the box, which one are you r...
- Mon Mar 31, 2014 2:45 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Arthur Rubinstein Complete Edition Odyssey
- Replies: 20
- Views: 2273
Re: Arthur Rubinstein Complete Edition Odyssey
Order the Moscow concert DVD that was left out of this set and prepare to have your mind blown all over again! I've been thinking about doing that. I have a CD recording from the now defunct Russian Revelation label which had all the Chopin from that concert and your post has convinced me that this...
- Sat Mar 29, 2014 10:13 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Arthur Rubinstein Complete Edition Odyssey
- Replies: 20
- Views: 2273
Arthur Rubinstein Complete Edition Odyssey
I purchased the Arthur Rubinstein complete edition towards the end of last year and every weekend since then I have played at least a couple of the CDs each morning in order from CD 1 to CD 142. It is now time to set down my thoughts on the edition and Rubinstein the musician. The most striking thin...
- Wed Mar 05, 2014 2:47 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Australia: land of perpetual climactic extremes?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1686
Re: Australia: land of perpetual climactic extremes?
I'm 1000 kms further north than Tarantella and our summer has been one of ups and downs as far as temperature goes. Overall, I'd have to say it's been a relatively warm summer for us but not extreme. The one thing we could really do with here is rain which we have seen very little of for the last fo...
- Sat Feb 22, 2014 4:33 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: What's wrong with American news media
- Replies: 32
- Views: 2578
Re: What's wrong with American news media
There will never be a perfect society; what's 'wrong' with the media is generally what's 'wrong' with society at large. We mostly get the media we deserve; unless people stop consuming rubbish it will continue to be dished up to them. Last night I watched an interview with a popular Australian colu...
- Mon Feb 17, 2014 3:18 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Need basic smart phone advice
- Replies: 3
- Views: 470
Re: Need basic smart phone advice
There are only two phones on the market worth considering - Samsung Galaxy and iPhone 5s.
- Sun Feb 02, 2014 4:55 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: "Climate change is a fact"
- Replies: 101
- Views: 3468
Re: "Climate change is a fact"
What would you accept as empirical evidence? Because it seems to me that there's plenty of evidence that humans have changed the environment in other ways, such as the effect of aerosol gas on the ozone layer. So I'm open to the argument that we are changing the climate as well, by pouring greenhou...
- Sat Feb 01, 2014 5:34 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: "Climate change is a fact"
- Replies: 101
- Views: 3468
Re: "Climate change is a fact"
Yes, this old argument which we heard many times before on these forums: a. there's no climate change; b. there's always been climate change over the millenia; c. there's climate change but it ain't caused by humans. I bet rwetmore's and holden fourth's prior messages, particularly four or so years...
- Fri Jan 31, 2014 5:20 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: 50 Greatest Recordings of All Time
- Replies: 25
- Views: 3551
Re: 50 Greatest Recordings of All Time
As for methodology, I don't see how there can be one when we're talking about "greatness." Criteria, perhaps; historical authority and importance (the composer himself performing, or performers with a close connection with the composer), influence on performance practice, etc. Toscanini would quali...
- Thu Jan 30, 2014 2:48 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: "Climate change is a fact"
- Replies: 101
- Views: 3468
Re: "Climate change is a fact"
a demonstration of the ability of any politician to state the obvious as if it was a revelation. He is certainly correct, the earth's climate has not been in stasis for many millenia now but that's nature I guess.
- Fri Jan 24, 2014 3:34 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Brendel and Beethoven
- Replies: 18
- Views: 3144
Re: Brendel and Beethoven
I should have made it more apparent in my comments that while I prefer the second of his three Beethoven cycles, there at least a dozen other cycles I would recommend ahead of it. But I've not heard anyone play the slow movement of the Hammerklavier the way Brendel plays it. He is a master of the l...
- Tue Jan 14, 2014 4:57 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Happy Birthday, Donald Isler!
- Replies: 15
- Views: 1738
Re: Happy Birthday, Donald Isler!
Many happy returns to a fellow Capricorn.
- Tue Jan 14, 2014 4:56 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Happy Birthday, Holden Fourth!
- Replies: 6
- Views: 944
Re: Happy Birthday, Holden Fourth!
Thank you for you birthday wishes. just arrived back home last night . Let's hope that this year is far less traumatic and dramatic than the last one. 

- Wed Dec 11, 2013 8:41 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Johann Nepomuk Hummel Has Been Criticized Because ...
- Replies: 14
- Views: 1168
Re: Johann Nepomuk Hummel Has Been Criticized Because ...
That TC Rondo is my ringtone!
- Mon Dec 09, 2013 4:51 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Noise-cancelling earbuds recommendation needed
- Replies: 2
- Views: 947
Re: Noise-cancelling earbuds recommendation needed
Noise-cancelling earbuds recommendation needed. For all-around listening, including classical. Would someone be willing to recommend one of these? What about the Bose QuietComfort 20? I would be willing to pay up to 300 dollars. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Nearly all in ear monitors (IEM...
- Fri Dec 06, 2013 2:46 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: New Hungerford CD of a Live Beethoven Recital Released
- Replies: 3
- Views: 705
Re: New Hungerford CD of a Live Beethoven Recital Released
KASP Records is happy to announce that the new 2 CD album of Bruce Hungerford playing a live Beethoven sonata recital is now available. The program, which includes five sonatas (one of them being Op. 111) plus two encores is the first ever released live recording of the works of the composer with w...
- Wed Nov 27, 2013 3:24 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Cholesterol: new guidelines
- Replies: 28
- Views: 2362
Re: Cholesterol: new guidelines
I stopped taking my prescribed statin nearly 2 weeks ago, and after just a few days the symptoms (easily tired legs when walking, sore lower back) diminished quite a lot. Whether it's cause and effect or some kind of negative placebo effect, who knows? Whatever, it's a significant improvement. Even...
- Tue Nov 19, 2013 10:03 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: About those boxed sets...
- Replies: 33
- Views: 4088
Re: About those boxed sets...
With access to online streaming music services such as Spotify, I thought that my CD buying days were virtually over. So I can't explain why I've just purchased the 142 CD Arthur Rubinstein Complete Album Collection. Glad I did though, the remastering is sonically impressive and all the other littl...
- Sun Nov 17, 2013 2:58 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: About those boxed sets...
- Replies: 33
- Views: 4088
Re: About those boxed sets...
With access to online streaming music services such as Spotify, I thought that my CD buying days were virtually over. So I can't explain why I've just purchased the 142 CD Arthur Rubinstein Complete Album Collection. Glad I did though, the remastering is sonically impressive and all the other little...
- Fri Nov 15, 2013 5:05 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Cholesterol: new guidelines
- Replies: 28
- Views: 2362
Re: Cholesterol: new guidelines
Quite so. A great deal isn't yet known about the human body and how it functions, and medicine can only go so far. My situation is something like yours, so I've been following doctor's orders and taking the pills. But if the aches and pains that hinder me getting around are indeed a side effect, an...
- Fri Nov 15, 2013 4:04 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Cholesterol: new guidelines
- Replies: 28
- Views: 2362
Re: Cholesterol: new guidelines
In the last decade much has attention has been paid, not just to the role of cholesterol, but why plaque builds up in arteries. People with normal cholesterol levels have ended up with coronary artery disease and subsequently died from the resultant myocardial infarction. Others with very high level...
- Thu Nov 14, 2013 3:01 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Cholesterol: new guidelines
- Replies: 28
- Views: 2362
Re: Cholesterol: new guidelines
I stopped taking them and noticed a great improvement after about 4-5 weeks (one week is not enough). My doctor changed my medication and I am on Ezetimibe (Ezetrol) and this has been great with no noticeable side effects so far. Thanks for the info. It will be months until my next checkup, and as ...
- Wed Nov 13, 2013 6:10 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Cholesterol: new guidelines
- Replies: 28
- Views: 2362
Re: Cholesterol: new guidelines
I can tell you that statins can have terrible side effects. For me they included back pain, muscle soreness, extreme feeling of fatigue, a sort of fuzzy headed feeling and extreme irritability. I stopped taking them and noticed a great improvement after about 4-5 weeks (one week is not enough). My d...
- Sun Oct 13, 2013 3:04 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Not going deaf yet (computer speakers)
- Replies: 22
- Views: 2916
Re: Not going deaf yet (computer speakers)
I've been using a DAC (a digital audio converter that connects via USB to my computer) and a pair of powered speakers for the past year. It's a Cambridge DacMagic Plus and AudioEngine 5+ speakers that I got online at the Audio Advisor. The setup wasn't cheap. However, the sound I get from my comput...