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Coopmv

#44080
March 30, 2009, 06:51:15 PM
Quote from: Bogey on March 30, 2009, 06:35:45 PM
Never thought about it, Stuart.  Just started listening again this summer after buying a turntable.  I mix cds and vinyl so hard to get a bearing.  I probably listen to one, possibly two pieces each day.  However, my listening of it is increasing a bit as I am purchasing more in the classical genre.  Said I was going to stay away from it and just stick to jazz soundtracks, but that lasted about as long as my New Year's resolutions, whatever they were. :)

As for me, the convenience factor still rules.  It is so easy to just pop a CD into my desktop while I am online.  I still have not taken that speaker that had some accident while playing Bach organ works over the Christmas to the shop.  While it still plays, it makes that scratchy sound whenever the music has strong bass content.  To be sure, I could have taken the laptop to the music room where I can listen to the big rig.  I just do not care much for the online experience via the small screen compared with the 22" screen of the desktop.

One of these days, I hope to spin my thousands of LP's much more frequently.   ;D  

Solitary Wanderer

#44081
March 30, 2009, 06:57:09 PM
Quote from: Mn Dave on March 30, 2009, 06:44:40 PM
I bet that's nice.

Quote from: Coopmv on March 30, 2009, 06:50:01 PM
That is the 4-CD set?  If so, I have the set too.  I have not played the set in a few years.

Yes, it's a wonderful set. Four cd's worth. I haven't got through all of it yet.

Disc.4. includes Sonata #2, Night Visions, Three Romances & Forest Scenes.

Wilhelm Kempff's playing seems perfectly suited to Schumann's beautiful romantic piano works  :)
'I lingered round them, under that benign sky: watched the moths fluttering among the heath and harebells, listened to the soft wind breathing through the grass, and wondered how any one could ever imagine unquiet slumbers for the sleepers in that quiet earth.' ~ Emily Bronte

Dr. Dread

#44082
March 30, 2009, 06:58:52 PM


LvB Syms 1 & 4; Egmont Overture

Coopmv

#44083
March 30, 2009, 07:00:36 PM
Quote from: Solitary Wanderer on March 30, 2009, 06:57:09 PM
Yes, it's a wonderful set. Four cd's worth. I haven't got through all of it yet.

Disc.4. includes Sonata #2, Night Visions, Three Romances & Forest Scenes.

Wilhelm Kempff's playing seems perfectly suited to Schumann's beautiful romantic piano works  :)

I have the 9-CD Beethoven Sonatas set by Kempff and that also is a great set ...

Coopmv

#44084
March 30, 2009, 07:06:31 PM
Quote from: Mn Dave on March 30, 2009, 06:58:52 PM


LvB Syms 1 & 4; Egmont Overture

You are way ahead of me.  My set is still in the cellophane after it arrived from Amazon UK ...

Dr. Dread

#44085
March 30, 2009, 07:07:55 PM
Quote from: Coopmv on March 30, 2009, 07:06:31 PM
  You are way ahead of me.  My set is still in the cellophane after it arrived from Amazon UK ...

Each night, I'm going to listen one disc from this set, in the order they're packaged.

That's the plan anyway.  ::)

Coopmv

#44086
March 30, 2009, 07:13:58 PM
Quote from: Mn Dave on March 30, 2009, 07:07:55 PM
Each night, I'm going to listen one disc from this set, in the order they're packaged.

That's the plan anyway.  ::)

Buddy, you have the next five weeks all cut out for you ...

Dr. Dread

#44087
March 30, 2009, 07:17:32 PM
Quote from: Coopmv on March 30, 2009, 07:13:58 PM
  Buddy, you have the next five weeks all cut out for you ...

Then I move on to the 14-CD EMI Richter box. That's two more weeks.  ;D

imperfection

#44088
March 30, 2009, 07:46:45 PM
Quote from: Bogey on March 30, 2009, 06:10:58 PM
Is that on the Music & Arts set, (1943)?

You're right.

imperfection

#44089
March 30, 2009, 07:48:25 PM


Trying to understand what all the fuzz is about.

Bogey

#44090
March 30, 2009, 07:53:22 PM
Quote from: imperfection on March 30, 2009, 07:46:45 PM
You're right.

That whole set is incredible. 
There will never be another era like the Golden Age of Hollywood.  We didn't know how to blow up buildings then so we had no choice but to tell great stories with great characters.-Ben Mankiewicz

Renfield

#44091
March 30, 2009, 08:11:17 PM
Quote from: jlaurson on March 30, 2009, 06:34:54 AM
I'm lacking "Das Lied"... 1, 5, 7 are just about mandatory, 9 is very good... only 8 is a dud. (But a good dud, at least.)

Since Boulez offers no fillers like Chailly and Gielen, one might as well wait for the box which will be inevitable (if you can shake off the other copies while they are still catching a fair price)... although it might take a year or two for it to appear.

I profess to admiring Boulez' 8th; but I somehow feel we've been through this discussion before...


Re Judd's 1st, I'll keep it in mind. It might just pleasantly surprise me! :D

imperfection

#44092
March 30, 2009, 08:25:09 PM
Quote from: Bogey on March 30, 2009, 07:53:22 PM
That whole set is incredible. 

You're even more right.

RussellG

#44093
March 30, 2009, 10:48:13 PM
Quote from: Sergeant Rock on March 30, 2009, 06:32:25 PM
My answer was "straight." The orchestra isn't moving to Florida but they do have a three week residency in Miami during winter.

Sarge

Ah so the following sentence in the Florida Phil Wikipedia entry:  "Hopes for reorganization were further stunted when the 10 year Miami residency of the Cleveland Orchestra was announced in 2007", doesn't mean they're moving to Florida permanently for 10 years?  It kind of read that way.  Especially if it's having such a major impact it's preventing the resurrection of a local orchestra.

I thought perhaps the entire Cleveland woodwind section was suffering Vitamin D deficiency or something  ;D

Que

#44094
March 31, 2009, 12:30:24 AM


Third part of the Clavier Übung.

Good morning. :)

Q

sul G

#44095
March 31, 2009, 01:24:50 AM
Quote from: imperfection on March 30, 2009, 07:48:25 PM


Trying to understand what all the fuzz is about.

With the music, or with the playing? Either way, I don't get how anyone couldn't be utterly bowled over. This is real music, and real music-making. As good as it gets. IMHO of course  :)

Que

#44096
March 31, 2009, 01:31:45 AM
Quote from: sul G on March 31, 2009, 01:24:50 AM
With the music, or with the playing? Either way, I don't get how anyone couldn't be utterly bowled over. This is real music, and real music-making. As good as it gets. IMHO of course  :)

FWIW I'm not that hot about Gilel's Brahms either (or Jochum's for that matter). ::)

Q

sul G

#44097
March 31, 2009, 02:08:37 AM
Well, I am, though that's neither here nor there - but what I'm unsure of is whether the bemusement is with the fuss made over Gilels, or over Brahms!

karlhenning

#44098
March 31, 2009, 04:10:34 AM
Martinů
Huit préludes, H.181
Giorgio Koukl

karlhenning

#44099
March 31, 2009, 04:15:26 AM
Martinů
Le Noël, H.167
Giorgio Koukl
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