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| Classical Music for Aficionados MozartMozart OverturesAcademy of St. Martin-in-the-FieldsNeville MarrinerEMI Label, Recorded 1982Marriner was one of the founders of ASMF. Now led by American Violinist Joshua Bell.From the Notes: " A night at the opera has not always been the ev... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados Johannes BrahmsViolin Concerto in D, Op.77Jascha Heifetz, violinChicago -- Fritz ReinerRecorded 1955. RCA, Sony SACD 2005https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJFJgVYFQh4From the notes: On New Year’s Day, 1879, the concerto was introduced at the Gewandh... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados Johann Strauss -- THE BLUE DANUBEVienna State Opera ChorusVienna PhilharmonicWilli BoskovskyLondon label -- 1984I remember the first time I heard this version, I was driving across Louisiana in my Taurus SHO, listening to PBS on the radio. Bo... | |
| Scheherazade by Rimsky-Korsakov My guru says:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIG97J0_bvAI think it's Reiner on RCA.Cheers | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados MozartSerenade for 13 Winds in B-flat major, K. 361 "Gran Partita"Orchestra of St. Luke'sSir Charles MackerrasTelarc 1994https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBjDdKdq_tQ&t=258sFrom The Notes: "The composition of the B-flat Serenade(K.361) coinci... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Last month when I learned my CD player had been shipped, I needed another LC-1 interconnect, so I called Blue Jeans Cables to see if they could tell me the length of the other interconnects I had ordered from them. The phone rang, a guy picked u... | |
| Jazz for aficionados @pjw81563,All my wire is Blues Jeans. LC-1 and 10 white. I got my locking bananas separate and attached them myself.Is it worth the money to get the welded bananas?ThanksCheers | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados I remember this scene in an episode or 'POIROT', everyone is dressed to the nines in this grand house to listen to some 400 pound babe sing 'Lieder'. Once she starts, everyone's eyes glazed over almost instantly. Trying, as discreetly as possibl... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados Would it be free trade if a firm was told what they could do or sayby the Congress under threat of blackmail or punishment ?Example please?Cheers | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados Franz Joseph Haydn: SYMPHONIES 68 & 93-104 "LONDON"Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra -- Nikolaus HarnoncourtWarner Classics 5CD Box Symphony No.68 in B flat major : I Vivace https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwfbGWkbJmU Symphony No.68 in B fl... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados Very nice piano playing, but bizarre interpretation of the music. Well, as you said, they are French, after all. A Stereo Review recommendation. I can still see the page. Now, I will have to look for Martha Argerich. There is always som... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados Hess & Speer at Spadau:You know what they say, The Germans are either at your throat or at your feet. During the time you met them, they were in foot mode.I got to Germany a year after his (Speer) release. He was quite the celeb. Played the... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados FANTASY ON GEORGES GERSHWIN’S "PORGY AND BESS" FOR TWO PIANOSKATIA and MARIELLE LABEQUE(piano)The Notes: The fantasy is by Australian born composer Aldridge Grainger(1882-1961) who was an ardent admirer of the music of George Gershwin. Here the Fa... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados MESSIAH, or HWV 56, for us elites.You can't go wrong with either of these. Recorded on two great Classical labels.No one can do this music like the English:Sinfoniahttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wn5N5nMHHKEFor unto Us a Child Is Bornhttps:/... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados they have a slight problem , very slight and one theyone they do not know,Their culture is "how am I doing " , Ours is " how are we doing " . I would not consider that a "problem". Besides, without American Individualism, there would be no Jazz... |