Quattro Mani will perform George Crumb's 'Zeitgeist (Tableaux Vivants)' on Monday, January 8, 2001 at 8pm in Weill Hall, New York City.
...sts could not afford. Namely:
1. Recording equipment and engineers that could successfully transform a live performance into a recording, 2. A distribution network that enables a single artist's wo...
...lity to make copies of CD's, they would be able to prevent MP3's from making it to the web. Wrong again. The Performance Rights Tax is another piece of legislation being pushed by the RIAA with the ...
I agree, actually. Wishing that the performance came up to what you expected is itself interesting. You get to listen to your expectations. I always hear an atrocious 'Messiah' when the seas...
Bachauer fans may not have noticed her performance of the Grieg concerto included on the BBC Magazine cover disc, Vol VI no 12: 'Last Night of the Proms', Malcolm Sargent, BBCSO, 1961. I hap...
...d the Takacs' almost orchestral tone at times, and this is perfectly understandable. However, Wang's performance, though capable technically, seemed underpowered, making Schumann's musi...
...iting. with this in mind, i wonder at the extreme lyrical flattening of each of Chopin's comments in your performance? In Chopin the little figures aren't really ornaments, i think, but intr...
To be clear, the NBC performance has been issued at least on LP, ATRA-3006.
I heard/watched a performance of 'The Bewitched' in '74 not long after Partch died
...riginally composed for piano in 1899 as 'Five Poems.'
He orchestrated them in 1900 and the first performance was by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra with Frederick Stock in 1907.
It ha...
Boulez/Sony (Columbia). The performance of the Opus 22 quartet is painfully draggy. It should DANCE!
...hink when that set came out, it was the first time I violated my rule that I wouldn't duplicate on CD any performance I already had on LP. (Except for Britten's, of course.)...
Yes, I know and I love the words. Not too long ago I heard an acappella chorus performance which was so enchantingly subliminal.
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Funny, I thought the quality of the performance ought to enter into it somewhere, and the conductor or soloist had more to do with pace, rhythm, and timing than the playback gear did. But w...
... Mozart, which is not necessarily his cup of tea. I positively defy you, however, to listen unimpressed to his performance of the Chaconne on Phillips....
... the same forces in the Symphony and Concerto for Orchestra. I also have the Dorati which is still a very fine performance and I think that despite other recent recordings these two have the field. Jo...
...9;s probably a Temptation scene in Penderecki's Paradise Lost, but, having sat through its world premiere performance, I'd say, Who cares?)...
...en I haven't much cared for a work from just listening to it, I've come around after learning it for performance (JSB is a lot better for singing than for hearing...
...sic company released 'the Eloquence series', can anybody give comments on this series in the view of performance and recording.
Thanks in advance!...
James DePriest is the Music Director of the Oregon Symphony. I heard him conduct a suberb performance of Walton's 1st Symphony back in '85 at Aspen.
Harold C. Schonberg, the NY Times head critic for decades. He came to the Jupiter Symphony's performance of I think it was the Tovey Cello Concerto a few weeks ago; he looks about 100 years old b...
... set was also fairly good. There is no doubt that the three sets of these works have all been lucky as to both performance and recording John Carter Barsoom...
...y part of the U.S. A friend of mine did hear him in Tanglewood years ago during the Bernstein era and said his performance was electric....
After seeing him at the Met in 1999, I was somewhat disappointed in his performance in the recording. What to me was remarkable about the recording was Solti's conducting. Still, for this opera n...
...so, there is a wonderful recording of the Blue Danube with chorus on London with Boskovsky conducting. A great performance and very effective with chorus.
I. Kraemer...
...le makes a musician 'sound all right', is this because of the composition or because of the polished performance? I bet the NY Philharmonic can make any poor composition 'sound all righ...
I'd very much like to put together an outdoor performance of Mozart's Serenade for 13, K361 for a summer party. However, the two basset-horn parts provide an obvious stumbling block. Is it p...
...9;s always been my dream. My profession is music promotions/PR, something I sort of fell into years ago, so my performance aspirations were put on hold. Now I've decided that what really needs to...
... are referring to Szell's stereo remake of the 'Jupiter,' then I respectfully demur: I find the performance hard-boiled and unlistenable. But there was a splendid mono recording by Szel...
...nd why a piece of music celebrating the triumph of an oppressive autocrat should be considered appropriate for performance on U.S. Independence Day....
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