What Classical are you listening to?

[TLS Guy]

I bought a Mcintosh CD player years ago. Not cheap. New of course. Everyone jumped down my throat when i said it was a piece of poop.
Their precious was flawless at all times. All products, always.
Sounds like the same thing.

I am done. I am not furnishing more links for you to brush aside.
As i said, this issue is not umcommon since they rolled it out in the states and they have no customer service.

I am not doubting what you say, but I had not heard of it before and I have not experienced the problems you site. From memory, I don't think I have contacted their customer service. I suppose there could be language issues as they are in France. However I have to believe the problem is coming with distribution or reception somehow. It is strange that it seems to affect some and not others. So there has to be either distribution or receiving equipment issues. Anyhow, I hope you will be happy with the BPO. The only issues I have had with them were teething troubles with the Atmos streams, which are being rapidly resolved.

 

[eljr]

I highly recommend this new Christmas release.

Gabriel Jackson: The Christmas Story

The Choir of Merton College, Oxford

There’s often a strangeness to The Christmas Story – of instrumentation, style, text – that helps refocus the ear on a story blurred by over-familiarity. — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, December 2024

• Release Date: 8th Nov 2024
• Catalogue No: DCD34331
• Label: Delphian
• Length: 73 minutes
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  Gramophone Magazine
  December 2024
  Editor's Choice

 

[TLS Guy]

I bought a Mcintosh CD player years ago. Not cheap. New of course. Everyone jumped down my throat when i said it was a piece of poop.
Their precious was flawless at all times. All products, always.
Sounds like the same thing.

I am done. I am not furnishing more links for you to brush aside.
As i said, this issue is not umcommon since they rolled it out in the states and they have no customer service.

Because of the time of year I have been somewhat busy of late. However I have now researched your claim that there are widespread problems receiving Medici TV in the US. I can now say categorically that it is not true that there are the problems you speak off. The service is actually highly rated by many reviews and rated the best classical music AV service available in the US by many. There is high praise for this service all over the Internet.

This is how you can receive Medici TV in the US.

1. On a computer via our website.
2. On TV via AirPlay or Chromecast.
3. On any Apple device via our iOS application.
4. Our Roku application.

There has been praise for all of those applications from US users.

So, I can only conclude that if you are experiencing the difficulties you say, then you are doing something stupid.

Medici TV is easily available in the US and is a premium service. I would advise those who come across this thread to totally disregard your comments about Medici TV.

 

[eljr]

Because of the time of year I have been somewhat busy of late. However I have now researched your claim that there are widespread problems receiving Medici TV in the US. I can now say categorically that it is not true that there are the problems you speak off. The service is actually highly rated by many reviews and rated the best classical music AV service available in the US by many. There is high praise for this service all over the Internet.

This is how you can receive Medici TV in the US.

1. On a computer via our website.
2. On TV via AirPlay or Chromecast.
3. On any Apple device via our iOS application.
4. Our Roku application.

There has been praise for all of those applications from US users.

So, I can only conclude that if you are experiencing the difficulties you say, then you are doing something stupid.

Medici TV is easily available in the US and is a premium service. I would advise those who come across this thread to totally disregard your comments about Medici TV.

You are one rude little boy. Typical of people who know not of what they speak.

Id really enjoy talking to you in person about this. Message boards can often be confusing to children or slow people.

Merry Christmas!

 

[eljr]

Messiaen: Turangalîla-Symphonie

Yuja Wang (piano), Cécile Lartigau (ondes martenot)
Boston Symphony Orchestra, Andris Nelsons

Whether adding the most delicate filigree to the symphony’s more reflective movements, like the sixth, Jardín du Sommeil d’ Amour, providing virtuoso punctuation to the eighth, Développement... — The Guardian, 6th December 2024, 4 out of 5 stars More…

• Release Date: 6th Dec 2024
• Catalogue No: 4867045
• Label: Deutsche Grammophon
• Length: 75 minutes

Fantastic new release.

 

[Teetertotter?]

I haven't listened to classical in a while, and when I do, it is via the internet music station through my system. Usually, when going to bed.

 

[3db]

Last night's classical selection

 

[Eppie]

Anybody else watch the Vienna Philharmonic New Year's Eve concert? It's usually broadcast on PBS. So glad I got to take my kids there in the summer years ago. The acoustics in the Vienna music hall really are fabulous.

 

[Verdinut]

Anybody else watch the Vienna Philharmonic New Year's Eve concert? It's usually broadcast on PBS. So glad I got to take my kids there in the summer years ago. The acoustics in the Vienna music hall really are fabulous.

I did watch it and have been watching it for many years. Most of the music played by the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra are Johann Strauss II's works, the King of the Waltz. It's amazing to see the joy of the audience.

With regard to Riccardo Muti, the invited conductor, who has been directing the Chicago Symphony Orchestra for several years, I don't like his way of managing soloists. By the way, his annual salary with the CSO is over $2.8M US at present. Many years ago, he was conducting Verdi's Rigoletto at La Scala. The composer wrote the ending of the famous "La donna e mobile" cavatina, without a high B, but all tenors have been singing that high note including Caruso. He forbade a famous tenor from singing it. The tenor went and sang as ordered what had been written by Verdi, and he was booed by the audience. IMO, there's no place for that kind of dictatorship.

 

[Eppie]

I did watch it and have been watching it for many years. Most of the music played by the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra are Johann Strauss II's works, the King of the Waltz. It's amazing to see the joy of the audience.

With regard to Riccardo Muti, the invited conductor, who has been directing the Chicago Symphony Orchestra for several years, I don't like his way of managing soloists. By the way, his annual salary with the CSO is over $2.8M US at present. Many years ago, he was conducting Verdi's Rigoletto at La Scala. The composer wrote the ending of the famous "La donna e mobile" cavatina, without a high B, but all tenors have been singing that high note including Caruso. He forbade a famous tenor from singing it. The tenor went and sang as ordered what had been written by Verdi, and he was booed by the audience. IMO, there's no place for that kind of dictatorship.

I'd like to see the original score for The Blue Danube waltz. When the melody repeats, the tempo slows right down and the conductors always pause after the first two bars. It's a deliberate pause that throws off the tempo and some pause for so long it drives me crazy. Can't help but wonder is Strauss intended it that way.

I wish there was a surround track that captured the ambience of the hall. PBS only broadcasted in stereo but it still sounded pretty good. They're the only ones that carry Austin City Limits as well.

 

[Verdinut]

I'd like to see the original score for The Blue Danube waltz. When the melody repeats, the tempo slows right down and the conductors always pause after the first two bars. It's a deliberate pause that throws off the tempo and some pause for so long it drives me crazy. Can't help but wonder is Strauss intended it that way.

I wish there was a surround track that captured the ambience of the hall. PBS only broadcasted in stereo but it still sounded pretty good. They're the only ones that carry Austin City Limits as well.

I own the Johann Strauss Experience 5 CD Box Set. This is a CD remastered version of vinyl British Decca recordings of the late 1950's or early 1960's. It's on the old London label featuring the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Willi Boskovsky.

Willi Boskovsky was the concertmaster of the VPO for many years and later became its conductor. He had been the leader for conducting Strauss family works, against whom other conductors were rated.

I've just listened to disc 1 of the box set which contains recording of the famous Blue Danube Waltz. It contains several pauses and several slower musical line beginnings which you're complaining about. Compared to Muti's conducting, Boskovsky's pauses are shorter and the slowing down of starting tempi is not as pronounced. Well, I presume that Boskovsky follows the score more closely than Muti. You can listen to one of Boskovsky's several recordings of the piece on Youtube. Should you be interested in getting the box set, it is still available used from Amazon.com. By the way, the remastering of this set is amazing taking into account when the whole works were originally recorded.

 

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