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I assume that you're referring to that wonderful British character actor of the 50's and 60's, "Dial M. For Murder", etc. I didn't realize that he was also into music.

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What happens when Mama plays a wrong note?

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His Mendelssohn concerto with Ormandy is one of my favorite versions.

His Trio with Istomin and Rose was outstanding in Beethoven and Schubert.

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You can listen to virtually the whole Sills repertoire on

http:/www.beverlysillsonline.com

It's mostly live recordings with variable sound.

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I have several "Great Performance" CDs and they are very good. But I was under the impression that this series had been discontinued with many of the performances moved into the "Essential Classics" series.

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Also recommended--Eliahu Inbal and Frankfort Radio Symphony.

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Lots of material on the internet. Simply google "Classical Music" and take it from there. Yes, but it's so unsystematic and dubious. You have to know what you're doing when you rely on internet sources. That is certainly true. In fact if he's not careful BC may actually run into a post from CMG , :...

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Lots of material on the internet. Simply google "Classical Music" and take it from there.

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Why did they do those three pieces on the same program? They should have known better.

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Kiri Te Kanawa did it for the movie "Room With a View." I've always liked her rendition after that. But even the oft lamented Sarah Brightman does it well. A more interesting comparison might be how different sopranos do Liu's first aria from "Turandot". Caballe and Tebaldi float beautiful pianissim...

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Happy Birthday and thanks for your efforts in keeping this board going.

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Since public radio station WETA switched back to classical music from talk radio ratings have more than doubled and contributions have increased. However a good part of this may be due to the demise of commercial classical station WETA. I think you mean WGMS in that last reference. This is good new...

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Since public radio station WETA switched back to classical music from talk radio ratings have more than doubled and contributions have increased. However a good part of this may be due to the demise of commercial classical station WETA.

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Barenboim is outstanding.

One of the earliest sets of the complete concertos is by Geza Anda. It is very good.

One of the great bargains is a Seraphim duo of Annie Fischer playing concertos 20-23 with Boult (20,23) and Sawallisch (21,22).

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We switched to Comcast digital TV primarily so that my wife could continue to get her favorite channel--Turner Classic Movies. To our surprise we also get three audio channels providing classical music with excellent sound. One of these channels is devoted to opera. Over the weekend they played many...

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We at the Riderwood Village senoir development in Silver Spring, MD. are extremely fortunate to have outstanding local talent perform on our campus. Last Sunday we may have gotten the best of the lot. Korean born Eun Joo Chung a multi-piano competition winner and student of Leon Fleisher and Paul Ba...

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Antonello Palombi, the tenor who came out in jeans to substitute for Alagna in the Scala Aida, recently received rave reviews as Cavaradossi in the Baltimore Opera's Tosca.

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Fritz Reiner and the Chicago Symphony were superb accompanists in the Rachmaninoff 2nd piano concerto for both Rubinstein and Cliburn. Unfortunately Reiner and Rubinstein did not get along and made no other recordings.

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I also recommend his excellent Rachmaninoff Concerto #3, a live performance with Berglund and the Oslo Philharmonic.

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Some works do not come to me now with the same magic that they did in earlier hearings--Brahms' 1st symphony, Mendelssohn's 4th symphony, Tchaikovsky's 1812 come immediately to mind.

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Mahler: Sym. #7--Michael Halasz/Polish Natl. RSO (Naxos)
Schumann & Dvorak Cello concertos--Arto Noras/Sakari Oramo/Finnish RSO (Finlandia)

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Another Ruth Gordon classic--"Where's Poppa" (1970)

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TODAY: "Defiant Requiem", a special version of the Verdi Requiem developed by conductor Murry Sidlin as a tribute to the Jews who performed this work at Terezin concentration camp, most of whom subsequently perished in Auschwitz. The music was interspersed with narratives including those of survivor...

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Music of Lecuana--Morton Gould & orchestra (RCA/BMG)
(again) Schumann Piano Qt.--Ames Qt. (Dorian). I began to appreciate it the second time around.

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Alan Gilbert and David Robertson should be given consideration because there doesn't seem to be enough young conductors with funny sounding names. If they hire Maestro Merlot they risk alienating music lovers who liked the movie "Sideways".

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I heard the piece recently on a recording by the Ames Piano Quartet. It may be the only Schumann chamber work I ever heard. Upon first hearing it's far from my favorite piece in that genre but I'll soon give it another play.

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But not as music director. They couldn't work it out, apparently because of Fischer's continued commitment to the Budapest Festival Orchestra which he founded. Fischer and his family live in Budapest. His title will be principal conductor and his 2-year term will begin in the 2008-09 season.

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Schumann: Overtures--Neeme Jarvi/LSO (Chandos)

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Two CDs featuring soprano Montserrat Caballe. One on the RCA label contains songs recorded in Spain before she became well known and arias recorded for RCA shortly after she hit the international scene. She is in excellent voice throughout and displayed more of a sense of drama than what she is gene...

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Debussy: La Mer & Images--Rahbari/BRT orch. (BBC Music; originally on Naxos)

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With Swenson and Fleming sharing "Traviata" is it known who gets the Saturday broadcast performance? I remember years back when the late James McCracken did most of the Met Otellos but Domingo was given the broadcast performance. McCracken then quit the Met in a huff and did not return for several y...

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Beethoven: Symphonies 1 & 3--Blomstedt, San Francisco SO (London)

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On this date in 1800 Beethoven's Symphony #1 received its first performance.

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I guess Shirim is the name of the group.

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My only Klezmer recording is a Newport Classics CD titled "Klezmer Nutcracker Shirim" which not only gives a Klezmer version of the Nutcracker but also tackles Mahler, Satie, Enecsco, Brahms and others. The performers did not seem to have a group name but I did note especially the names of two of th...

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Operetta Overtures by J.Strauss, Von Suppe, and Offenbach

Martin Sieghart/Bratislava RSO (Lydian)

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I'm familiar with two Bernstein opera recordings. "Carmen" with a surprisingly good Marilyn Horne worked very well. In "La Boheme" bucking against such combos as Pavarotti/Freni, Domingo/Caballe, and Bergonzi/Tebaldi, he used lesser singers, Jerry Hadley and Angelina Reaux, and played it slower than...

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How good a conductor was Leonard Bernstein? Like many conductors, Bernstein conducted some pieces very well, and others pretty badly. His overly romantic and "weltschmerz" approach to conducting some music was pretty appaling with just about every composer except Mahler. His complaints about Glenn ...

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This thread shows the negative side of having an other issues board along side two music boards. I realize that this arrangement is better the earlier situation where non-musical threads crept into the music boards. But aren't there any political boards around for this purpose?

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Smetana: Vltava (Moldau): Vilem Tausky/BBC Sym.
Debussy: Iberia--Leppard/BBC Northern Sym.
Delius: Norwegian Suite--Ashley Lawrence/BBC Sym.

A BBC Music recording

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Chopin: Piano Concerto #1--Capova/Pesek/Slovak Phil. (Pilz)
Tchaikovsky: Manfred Symphony--Abravanel/Utah Sym. (Vox)

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"Extreme Nessun Dorma"--A CD put together by a friend, of a bunch of tenors singing the famous aria from Turandot. Most sing it pretty well even Andrea Bocelli--but not Michael Bolton. Franco Corelli does it the best.

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My daughter will be on a MS walkathon in D.C. on behalf of a family friend with the condition. Fortunately his case is relatively light and he was able to work as a high level government attorney until he retired at age 60.

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That's what VCRs are for!!

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Schumann--Piano Quartet, op.47
Brahms--Piano Quartet, op.25

Ames Piano Quartet (Dorian)

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Promising Polish composer Mieczyslaw Karlowicz died at age 33 in an avalanche while skiing.

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Smetana--String Quartet #1, "From My Life" I heard it at a concert Friday night and wanted to hear it again. It is fast becoming one of my favorite chamber works. It was on a Pilz recording and this time Pilz did not use a fictitious name for the players. They simply threw it in unidentified in a 2C...

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Members of the string faculty of the University of Maryland have formed a quartet, The Left Bank Quartet, which gives performances at the Kennedy Center and other Washington area venues. Their prize pupils also formed a quartet, The Dionysian Quartet. Last Friday the two groups banded together to pe...

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From Steinway's list I only saw Rubinstein, Istomin, and Browning. But I also saw Fleisher, Watts, De Larrocha, Ohlsson, and the somewhat lesser known Alexander Toradze who gave the most outstanding performance of all. He also had the greatest opportunity--he did Rachmaninoff 3.

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Wagner: Overtures, preludes, and orchestral music from operas--From two Laserlight CDs with several conductors and orchestras, primarily Gyorgy Lehel/Budapest symphony.

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