I would like to say Hello.

[Roberto]

Hello everybody from Hungary!

I am Robert, a Hungarian programmer. I love classical music but unfortunately my abilities are only for listening not playing.  I like to collect CDs, I think it is the best format for me. I listening to music mainly on my stereo system which contains "full-range driver" speakers.

My first four favorite composers are:
Mozart (my absolute favorite based only on HIP recordings!)
Bartók
Mahler
Beethoven

I listening almost everything from baroque to contemporary but apart from Mozart the opera is an undiscovered country for me yet. My favorite era is the 20th century. I discover the unmatched musical world of Webern nowadays.

I like modern recordings and vintage recordings also. My favorite mozartians are René Jacobs and Robert Levin but my two favorite conductors are Furtwängler and Mengelberg.

Have a great day!

[david johnson]

hi! 

dj

[mc ukrneal]

Hello everybody from Hungary!

I am Robert, a Hungarian programmer. I love classical music but unfortunately my abilities are only for listening not playing.  I like to collect CDs, I think it is the best format for me. I listening to music mainly on my stereo system which contains "full-range driver" speakers.

My first four favorite composers are:
Mozart (my absolute favorite based only on HIP recordings!)
Bartók
Mahler
Beethoven

I listening almost everything from baroque to contemporary but apart from Mozart the opera is an undiscovered country for me yet. My favorite era is the 20th century. I discover the unmatched musical world of Webern nowadays.

I like modern recordings and vintage recordings also. My favorite mozartians are René Jacobs and Robert Levin but my two favorite conductors are Furtwängler and Mengelberg.

Have a great day!

Welcome to the forum and enjoy yourself (and I see you have already started with an interesting post in the HIP Mozart thread)!

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

Welcome, Robert! Enjoy your membership! Greetings from Delft, the Netherlands.

[bhodges]

Welcome, Roberto! Bartók and Mahler are two of my favorite composers, and Webern's music is extraordinary.

Enjoy yourself - lots of interesting, fun and very knowledgeable people here.

--Bruce

[Gurn Blanston]

Welcome, Roberto! Mozart and Beethoven are two of my favorite composers, and Haydn's music is extraordinary.

Enjoy yourself - lots of interesting, fun and very knowledgeable people here.

--Gurn

[bhodges]

Welcome, Roberto! Bartók and Mahler are two of my favorite composers, and Webern's music is extraordinary.

Enjoy yourself - lots of interesting, fun and very knowledgeable people here.

--Bruce

Welcome, Roberto! Mozart and Beethoven are two of my favorite composers, and Haydn's music is extraordinary.

Enjoy yourself - lots of interesting, fun and very knowledgeable people here.

--Gurn

--Bruce

[Lethevich]

Hi Roberto! I just read your posts in the Mozart concertos thread, and would like to thank you for them and to welcome you to the forum.

[Mirror Image]

Bartók

One of my absolute favorite composers and one that never fails to inspire me. His music is as human as it can get. There is a coldness, almost detached quality in Bartok's music that I find intoxicatingly fascinating. His music isn't afraid to show the barbaric side of the human psyche.

Anyway, welcome aboard and good to have you here!

[Roberto]

Welcome, Roberto! Mozart and Beethoven are two of my favorite composers, and Haydn's music is extraordinary.

Enjoy yourself - lots of interesting, fun and very knowledgeable people here.

--Gurn

I love Haydn's masses and The Creation with René Jacobs is gorgeous. There are 4 Haydn album on my wish list now:
Fortepiano Sonatas with Brautigam
Fortepiano concertos with Brautigam
All Symphonies with Ádám Fischer
All String Quartets with Kodály Quartet

[Roberto]

I would suggest that if you want to expand on your opera listening from Mozart that you might want to try Rossini - an Italian who has many of the same qualities you find in Mozart.

Thank you for the suggestion!

[Roberto]

One of my absolute favorite composers and one that never fails to inspire me. His music is as human as it can get. There is a coldness, almost detached quality in Bartok's music that I find intoxicatingly fascinating. His music isn't afraid to show the barbaric side of the human psyche.

I agree. But I like his power also. And when I was  child we always sang Hungarian folk songs at elementary school. Bartók has a folk-like thinking very deeply in his music.

[Que]

Welcome, Roberto!

I see a lot of common interest, your favourite conductors for one.

I love Haydn's masses and The Creation with René Jacobs is gorgeous. There are 4 Haydn album on my wish list now:
Fortepiano Sonatas with Brautigam
Fortepiano concertos with Brautigam
All Symphonies with Ádám Fischer
All String Quartets with Kodály Quartet

Some comments & suggestions:

A resounding rec. of Brautigam's Haydn sonatas!
For the concertos you might also want to consider Andreas Staier (HM), not that Brautigam isn't any good BTW.
For the SQ I would definitely investigate period instrument (PI) options, notably the Festetics Qt (complete on ARCANA), or the Quatuor Mosaiques (Naive).

Same for the symphonies: Kuijken (Virgin), Harnoncourt (Warner & DHM) and Bruno Weil (Sony) (none of them complete, though)....

Another golden Haydn album is IMO the complete massses by Bruno Weil (Sony).

Que

[Roberto]

Welcome, Roberto!

I see a lot of common interest, your favourite conductors for one.

Some comments & suggestions:

Thanks! Now I would spend at least $300 for Haydn CD's only. 

Modified: Why is better Staier than Brautigam?

[Roberto]

Hi Roberto,

What kind of full-range drivers are you using?

Hi!

I am using a Hungarian manufacturer's driver in a joiner-made cabinet. (Painting is mine  )  The homepage of the manufacturer: http://www.sonido.hu/. Mine is the SFR-144-8 driver (in a 12 m² room). The amplifier is also a Sonido. 10W class-A.

I use it since 2008 with satisfaction. You can find another pictures on my homepage : http://www.egalizer.hu/hifi/sajat/sajat.htm. (Just click on "Fényképalbum" which means album of pictures in Hungarian).

[SonicMan46]

Hi Roberto - a belated welcome to the GMG forum - we've already met in the Mozart Piano Concertos thread - 

Please enjoy and looking forward to more of your posts - 

[Hollywood]

Hi there Robert. Greetings from Vienna, Austria. Welcome to the forum. 

[Roberto]

Hi there Robert. Greetings from Vienna, Austria. Welcome to the forum. 

Greeting from the neighborhood. 

I've read your signature. Why did you leave Hollywood?

[Hollywood]

Greeting from the neighborhood. 

I've read your signature. Why did you leave Hollywood?

Well Robert, I always wanted to live in Vienna since I was about 9 years old. I have been living in Austria now going on 18 years and I feel more at home here than I ever did back in Los Angeles. I really feel that I have come back home being in this part of Europe. Maybe this is because my 22 times great grandfather was Rudolf I von Habsburg.   

Whereabouts are you in Hungary? I myself am 1/4 hungarian and I have at least 6 direct blood ancestors who were hungarian kings. They start from my 23 times great grandfather King Stephen V and go through King Bela IV, Andrew II, Bela III, Geza II and Bela II.

[Roberto]

Whereabouts are you in Hungary? I myself am 1/4 hungarian and I have at least 6 direct blood ancestors who were hungarian kings. They start from my 23 times great grandfather King Stephen V and go through King Bela IV, Andrew II, Bela III, Geza II and Bela II.

Are you joking? This is a marvellous lineage but how do you know?
I live in East-Hungary, precisely in Eger.