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  Mediafire experiment: Drolc Quartet plays Schubert (opera label)         


Author: Otterhouse Rolf
Date: Jan 31, 2008 23:29

Hello all,

I've never used mediafire before, so this is an experiment for me,
hope it works. I bought a lp of the Drolc quartet on the German
subscription label "opera" (anyone know more about this label?)
Unfortunatly, at home I could see the lp was warped... So the only
thing I could play was the Schubert Quartetsatz. I uploaded it here:
http://www.mediafire.com/?9tymmdaxxy1
Scans are included.

Greetings,
Rolf
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  Naxos Historical New Releases - February, 2008         


Author: Mark Obert-Thorn
Date: Jan 31, 2008 22:15

Again, for those who are interested:

BRAHMS: Symphony No. 1 / WAGNER: Siegfried Idyll (Klemperer)
(1927-28) 8.111274
Symphony No. 1 in C minor, Op. 68 * Academic Festival Overture, Op. 80
* Tristan und Isolde, Act I: Prelude (1859 version) * Siegfried Idyll
Berlin State Opera Orchestra | Klemperer, Otto (Reissue producer: Mark
Obert-Thorn)

SEGOVIA, Andres: 1950s American Recordings, Vol. 4 (Segovia, Vol.
6) 8.111092
Pavana No. 3 * Fantasia No. 16 * Cancion del Emperador * Guardame las
vacas * Romanesca, "Guardame las vacas" (arr. for guitar) * Captain
Digorie Piper's Galliard, P. 19 (arr. for guitar) * Galliard in A
major * Aria detta la Frescobalda (arr. for guitar) * Passacaille in G
minor (arr. for guitar) * Vaghe belleze * Bianco fiore * Danza (arr.
for guitar) * Gagliarda (arr. for guitar) * Se io m'accorgo (arr. for
guitar) * Saltarello * Suite in D minor * Suite in D major * Platee,
Act II: Menuet (arr. for guitar) * Keyboard Sonata in C minor, K.11/L.
352/P.67 (arr. for guitar) * Preludio * Balletto * Suite in A minor
Segovia, Andres (Reissue producer: David Lennick)
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  Re: New Bruckner Reissues on Music & Arts         


Author: Tony
Date: Jan 31, 2008 21:23

On Jan 31, 1:36 am, Aaron Z Snyder alum.mit.edu> wrote:
>
> There's no trade secret here. One of my tools is indeed Har-Bal, but
> believe me it's just a tool. There's nothing automatic about it. I still
> have to use my ears and eyes to determine if I'm making things worse
> instead of better. It is very useful in the quest to match equalization
> between/among 78-rpm sides, and it's very helpful in improving the
> equalization of a recording.

Are you using the same sources as in previous releases? Has a better
source for the Bruckner 9 been found? Now that would be truly worthy
of Fred's hype!

cheers,
Tony
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  A Real Sounding CD         


Author: ansermetniac
Date: Jan 31, 2008 19:04

http://www.mediafire.com/?abz2zxtxizh
Scans

Flacs

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?4yxtzgxgnd0
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?1mgromimntw
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?31m5p09yoha
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?0g10tb59znm

It was recorded in an umamplified concert at the Berlin Philharmonic

It is trying Music, at times but it proves one thing:

CDS sound like shit

Not because

1) My equipment is bad
2) My ears are bad
3) My knowledge is nil
4) Digital is a bad storage medium

but because
1) The lucidity of Digital reveals the incompetence of those paid to
master
2) The public's perception of Musical sound is skewed as badly as the
masterings due to years of listening to recordings...
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  Re: Mahler Overkill?         


Author: Matthew Vaughan
Date: Jan 31, 2008 18:56

"Nick Sun" email.msn.com> wrote in message
news:2bb12b7e-6077-428b-a13c-426f2c1002c1@q21g2000hsa.googlegroups.com...
>
> It's not a
> perfect Mahler 5th, but way better than the one MTT did with SFO
> couple of year back.

I agree. I thought MTT's SFS Mahler 5th was quite dull (compared to both his
other Mahler recordings and other Mahler 5ths I've heard). I have a
difficult time listening to the recording. (I couldn't judge the live
concert very well as I only heard it in Flint Center, where the acoustics
are quite lacking - particularly in treble liveness, so "deadness" is always
a problem.)
> To me it's not the
> lack of "rougher contours" that bothers, it's the lack of textual
> clarity. Unlike Bruckner, my Mahler every note, every layer counts. If
> an orchestra deplored nine double Base on stage and you still couldn't
> get the clear base line that you had hoped for, you knew something was
> not quite right, I guess their rather recessed stage position could be
> part of the reason.
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  Re: Mahler Overkill?         


Author: Matthew Vaughan
Date: Jan 31, 2008 18:35

"Norman M. Schwartz" optonline.net> wrote in message
news:47a0cc90$0$25034$607ed4bc@cv.net...
>
> There are some new listeners coming of age all the time. While this might
> not seem valuable to you, why do you wish to prevent others from being
> introduced to it. In any event they represent the future of any live
> performance of CM.

I agree. I took my girlfriend to the Concertgebouw performance of Mahler 5
and Strauss Don Juan on Monday (in SF). She's a relative newcomer to
classical music, had never heard either piece, and had never heard ANY
Mahler before. Considering her usual musical tastes and some reservations
about all things German, I was pleasantly surprised that she very much liked
both pieces.
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  Re: Mahler Overkill?         


Author: Thomas Wood
Date: Jan 31, 2008 17:19

"graham" wrote in message
news:Vmdoj.30218$ow.9842@pd7urf1no...
>
> "Thomas Wood" sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
>>
>> Mahler IS the new Beethoven. Get used to it.
>>
>> Tom Wood
> Go and wash out your mouth with soap and water!
> Graham

...and by that I don't mean to say I like Mahler better than Beethoven, or
that I think that Mahler is a greater composer than Beethoven
-- just that,
now, it seems Mahler's symphonies are the most frequently performed by
symphony orchestras.

Tom Wood
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  OT I admit it. My ears must be damaged         


Author: ansermetniac
Date: Jan 31, 2008 16:38

I could have sworn that I heard the following from a replay of last
night's debate"

Are we better off than we were 8 years ago?

Romney:No
McCain: Yes.

The dollar is worthless. There is NOTHING in the treasury. We are IN a
recession. Whirlpool closed its factory in Arkansas and moved it to
Mexico. The National Guard is ill trained and ill supplied( New
Congressional Report) yet die every day for profiteers, etc., etc.,
etc.

I could not possibly have heard McCain say that.

In 2005, the top 1 percent increased its wealth more than the bottom
20 percent. Stop selling us these Bullshit numbers of growth, Johnny.
There is something wrong when Romney appears to be the more honest of
two subhumans

Obama raised 32 million in January. At least I heard that correctly

Abbedd
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  Re: 9/11 INSIDE JOB - the PROOF by PHYSICS         


Author: BDK
Date: Jan 31, 2008 16:05

In article news.buckeye-express.com>,
BDK@magicsteel.com says...
> only brutality. We never seek
> things for themselves, but for the search. Likewise in plays, scenes which
> do not rouse the emotion of fear are worthless, so are extreme and hopeless
> misery, brutal lust, and extreme cruelty.
>
> 136. A mere trifle consoles us, for a mere trifle distresses us.
>
> 137. Without examining every particular pursuit, it is enough to comprehend
> them under diversion.
>
> 138. Men naturally slaters and of all callings, save in their own rooms.
>
> 139. Diversion.--When I have occasionally set myself to consider the
> different distractions of men, the pains and perils to which they expose
> themselves at court or in war, whence arise so many quarrels, passions, bold
> and often bad ventures, etc., I have discovered that all the unhappiness of
> men arises from one single fact, that they cannot stay quietly in their own
> chamber. A man who has enough to live on, if he knew how to stay with ...
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  Re: Scarlatti Sonatinas - Fernando Valenti         


Author: Philip Peters
Date: Jan 31, 2008 15:52

Russ and/or Martha Oppenheim schreef:
> "vhorowitz" hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:dfff780a-af3c-4b69-963d-b85e21dfbc29@v4g2000hsf.googlegroups.com...
>
>> Pristine Audio's (valuable!) series
>> only includes the Westminster volumes (1-11, I think), which were
>> recorded between 1951 and 1955. I believe there are that many more
>> Westminster volumes AND this later series (1964 is the date here) for
>> MHS. I would love to see a discography of the whole series, and would
>> like to see more of these later volumes.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Neal
>
> You might be interested to know that a certain Cap'n' has remastered 4
> additional
> volumes of the Valenti sonata series,
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