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Burchest

Q. What happens when a child's dexterity playing a video game is invested in a piano instead? A. a very promising future. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDac1UdBY6c N.B. Unfortunately, the music and the video are not well synchronized. It's kids like her that cause envy to creep into my life.....an...

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Thanks, did not know that, Scherchen is one of my favorite conductors. On of my favorite conductors also. His recording of the Beethoven 'Eroica" was one of the first, if not the first, to use a tempo in the first movement that back then was considered break neck speed. I have a reissue on cd of th...

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We don't hear much about de Larrocha these days. She's retired and played her last concert some time ago. From what I hear, she is alive and well. I would consider her to be among the finest pianists of the last half of the twentieth century. At the age of 78 she is indeed entitiled to retirement. ...

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I finished listening to all of Bartok's string quartets today. Why are they considered the best quartets since Beethoven's? :? Partly because music has moved on since Beethoven , even if you have not. Cheers, ~Karl Karl, your lessons with the Gurnster seem to be working wonders. You seem to have a ...

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What I call compilations are Mp3 disc that I burn for use in my car. But then again these disc are made up of compete works.

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IcedNote wrote:Sorry if this has been posted already, but it's HILARIOUS!!!!!

http://websrvr40nj.audiovideoweb.com/av ... 71/12T.mp3

-G

This just proves to me that 12 tone music in any form, commercial or other wise, is just a joke, and a bad one at that.

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I also ordered the Mozart compete Piano Concerti performed by pianist Mitsuko Uchida with Jeffrey Tate conducting the ECO. I just got this really cheap on eBay, too. What do you think, Burchest? I think the recordings are quite good. Uchida did a fabulous job with the Piano Sonatas, I though. I hav...

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I not only rejoiced, I ordered them on Monday, April 17th from Tower and they arrived on Friday April 21st. The cost was $32.29. I also ordered the Mozart compete Piano Concerti performed by pianist Mitsuko Uchida with Jeffrey Tate conducting the ECO. The price was $54.99 for the 8 disc set which br...

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Who else out there is a member of the "Vox Box" LP generation? Sure, many of the recordings and performances weren't up to today's minimal standards. But they were inexpensive and precious to a young music lover with little money. Thanks for the memories, Vox. You said it, Thanks for the memories. ...

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Hush, Hush Sweet White House........ Why is it if John Doe shots a duck out of season its public knowledge and is on the 11 o'clock news but when Dick Cheney shots somebody there is protocol that has to be observed before the public hears about it, which by the way is explained away as looking after...

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Franz Schubert's Rosamunde, Princess of Cyprus (complete)
The only Cd I know of this work complete is with Abbado and the Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Schubert was certainly a melody master and this work proves it.

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That's what I call 'looking toward the future.' The question is what kind of a future do Irans have to look forward to?

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[quote="Ralph"]Too much Mozart makes you sick
By Norman Lebrecht / December 14, 2005

[quote]

Yah, Like to much ice cream makes me sick but I still go back for more....

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OK, went in the shopping cart for January (gotta stop spending before Christmas). I have a few Hummel chamber pieces and love them, but I was wondering if people have recommendations for his concertos. There seem to be a few more recordings than last time I looked. Any or all of them, piano, violin...

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Lance, there is a new Chandos CD of a Mass in D minor by Hummel that was just released and like the others is just as super. Coupled with the Mass is a Salve Regina. I too cannot get enough of Hummel. Along with that cd I bought a Chandos recording of three of Hummel's Piano Trios. This man was one ...

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I thought Immortal Beloved was quite good. The score sounds fantastic on a nice home theatre system. Beethoven Lives Upstairs is a good little film. I was the music director at Tulane's summer camp and I showed all the kiddies Beethoven Lives Upstairs (I don't think Immortal Beloved would have been...

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I think Buck makes a good point…In 1827 living to almost 57 was way beyond the norm…Look at Mozart and imagine what he could have produced given another 22 years Granted, but look at Haydn, a ripe old age of 77, Auber 89, Cherubini 82. In comparison LvB was a youngster. But Buck is right when you c...

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Perhaps he meant to say "Schubert," instead of "Schumann." I frequently make mistakes like that. (If the "schu" fits....) Wasn't lead poisoning much more common in those times, as lead was commonly used in pigments for paints and ceramic glazes before its toxicity was understood?[/quote] No, I meant...

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I think Buck makes a good point…In 1827 living to almost 57 was way beyond the norm…Look at Mozart and imagine what he could have produced given another 22 years Granted, but look at Haydn, a ripe old age of 77, Auber 89, Cherubini 82. In comparison LvB was a youngster. But Buck is right when you c...

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The man was only 57, for God's sake. In those days if you lived to that age in the first place you died of communicable disease, septicemia, cancer, or long-standing cardiovascular condition (I think most people always assumed "dropsy" was some version of the last). You didn't die of lead poisoning...

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jbuck919 wrote:Good grief.

Jeez John, Did it ruin your day. Beethoven's birthday is coming up shortly, that should cheer you up.....

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I read it was Stravinsky that said it and I also read it was Luigi Dallapiccola. Who really cares who said it because they were blowing smoke. Every composer does some recycling of one theme or another. Beethoven used the eroica theme in the Eroica symphony, the Eroica variations, the contredance an...

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Dorati did the first Haydn symphony cycle. The next, as far as I know, is the excellent Fischer cycle. The Hogwood project unfortunately ran out of money before all the symphonies could be recorded. I would recommend Fischer first. Well-recorded and performed. I have both the Dorati and Fischer cyc...

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Ralph wrote:I do not want David Duke posting here!

I would just happy if he stayed in Syria.

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operafan wrote:Perhaps the ACLU will use the 'Madonna' defense; unmarried Mother Mary was the great teacher of Jesus, should not the Catholic Church derive it's actions from the scriptures?

Point is she married Joseph before the birth of Jesus.......

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trazom wrote:I will never post here again!

What did you expect? You seem to have all the answers.

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I have an early stereo LP recording of Cantelli performing the Beethoven 7th Symphony. I was and still is one of the best performances I have vere heard. His early death was a tragedy not only for his family but for the whole music world. What might have been had he lived longer?

Burchest

Ordered these from Tower;
Hummel - Serenades
Hummel - Mass in D minor

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Here is a case where the composer is worth more dead than alive.
Poor Beethoven's relations.......

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Febnyc wrote:They're all gone.

How Sad. Years ago I took many trips from Boston to by LP's and I always managed to find what I wanted. More doors closed on classical music.......

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Anyone in the NYC area know if the Record Hunter, King Karol, Peters International are still doing buisness?

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I don't even bother with radio, in the car or at home. When Iam going out I take enough CD's to last me through a major tie-up. That way I hear what I want without any interruptions. Come to think of it I wonder how many hours a year we spend listening on radio and watching on TV news and commerical...

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I've got my beer and my noshes ready. I'll take Chicago in 6 and one of your cold beers. What? You're not going for a sweep? {handing over a frosty Fosters} Gee, I thought that after the Red Sox did a number on the Cards last year that the series would go a little longer this year. Lets see, we had...

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Corlyss_D wrote:I've got my beer and my noshes ready.

I'll take Chicago in 6 and one of your cold beers.

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And the Nonesuch covers with their brilliant and eyecatching art work. Corlyss, Thank's for bringing up the Nonesuch label. I remember buying both the Haydn "Paris" and "London" symphonies with Leslie Jones conducting the Little Orchestra of London. Super recordings and very good performance. The c...

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A nice post, Burchest- you (we) have a right to be nostalgic about those days when the LP age was still new and vigorous, and we all read High Fidelity or Stereo Review. And we were younger ourselves - but that's another matter. Werner, I still have a pile of Stereo Review and High Fidelity magazin...

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Geez, pardon me for asking, - but how old are you? Well let's see Greg, I voted for Herbert Hoover back in 1928 and was at Charles Lindburg's ticker tape parade in New Your back in 1927, Oh! I almost forgot I saw Teddy Roosevelt charging up the hill in San Jaun PR. I met Dvorak when he lived in New...

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When I think back to my youthful days relating to classical music and the equipment I had to reproduce the sound with I tend to get nostalgic. Tube amplifiers, bass reflex speakers, Benjamin or Dual turntables. There were brushes that swept the dust of the LP's while they played. The diamond stylus,...

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Lance wrote:OCTOBER 17

Born 1940: Stephen Bishop-Kovacevich, pianist [said to be once husband of pianist Martha Argerich. Can anyone verify?

Lance, I have read where she was married to Charles Dutoit from 1967 to 1973, but nothing pops up on her being married to Kovacevich.

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Lance, I just read that Edmond de Luca passed away on April 9, 2004 at 95 years of age.

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[quote="Lance"]As a young collector, I happened on an LP recording that I have never forgotten and as I got older I was hopeful it would eventually appear on a CD remake. It did. I'm speaking of Edmund De Luca's symphonic/choral work entitled Conquerors of the Ages . It's ironic that you mention thi...

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