Sorry, I'm getting email from everywhere but apparently my server has been bouncing all furt-list mail in the last days. I've been removed from furt-l twice in...
Alberich
mgbarrio@...
Feb 2, 2000 9:42 am
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Neil
neil@...
Feb 2, 2000 6:39 pm
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Dear cd collectors, The best to write on of newly recordable Cds is the Staedtler Lumocolor Permanent Ink, Fine Point. I have tried a lots of kind of pencil,...
martin richard
martinrichard56@...
Feb 2, 2000 9:32 pm
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Dear cd collectors, The best to write on of newly recordable Cds is the Staedtler Lumocolor Permanent Ink, Fine Point. I have tried a lots of kind of pencil,...
martin richard
martinrichard56@...
Feb 2, 2000 9:36 pm
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Hi- Sorry for the long delay, a computer crash, and a rather hetic schedule prevented me from getting around to this sooner. Below is the first part of the...
Gary Smith
gary@...
Feb 3, 2000 1:37 pm
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Dear Gary, Could you send the Beethoven Symphony translation. Best, Martin Richard ... From: Gary Smith <gary@...> Reply-To: furt-l@... ...
martin richard
martinrichard56@...
Feb 3, 2000 4:06 pm
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Wilhelm Furtwangler once said about Felix Von Weingartner, "He was the classical model of elegance and clarity, his conducting is something I can probably...
Gil Ariel Zilkha
gz200@...
Feb 3, 2000 4:13 pm
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I'd like very much to get the translations for the specific recordings. By the way, I have noticed that the Vienna Philharmonic, Paris Conservatory, and most...
RSteinb615@...
Feb 3, 2000 4:50 pm
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The Vienna Philharmonic has historically used a higher than normal pitch, but not a semi-tone higher. I don't know about the Royal Philharmonic, which is not...
Manny Nadelman
enadelman@...
Feb 3, 2000 8:16 pm
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... Might be, the translation might be a little wrong. It was translated from German to Japanese and then I translated it from Japanese into English....
Gary Smith
gary@...
Feb 3, 2000 11:32 pm
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Hi Again- I guess I have been in a mode to translate. Below is the translated version of the short chorological bibiography that is included in all the CDs....
Gary Smith
gary@...
Feb 4, 2000 12:15 pm
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Nick wrote : "BTW, the comment from Furtwaengler about Weingartner doesn't sound like a back-handed compliment to me. I know that Furtwaengler had his friends...
Gabriel Parra-Blessing
gparra-blessing@...
Feb 4, 2000 3:34 pm
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I don't think Furtwangler would ever intentionally be ironic or insincere. This is actually why I thought his compliment of Weingartner to be somewhat...
Gil Ariel Zilkha
gz200@...
Feb 5, 2000 12:01 am
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Folks - are we talking about "liner" notes, as in those things you could READ -- from the good ol' LP days? Linear means in a straight line! Now we deal with...
Eric Kisch
kischmir@...
Feb 5, 2000 5:05 pm
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Why, you are certainly right, but I fear the point is that on the back of an LP you actually had more room then in a CD booklet for +AF8-liner+AF8- notes. Or...
Ponzetto
ponzetto@...
Feb 5, 2000 10:19 pm
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The Beethoven violin concerto by Menuhin and Furtwangler on 28 & 29 Aug. 1947 in LUCERNE is a studio recording. But M & A CD-1018 had applause in the end. Can...
Yen Jui-Yuan
d85010@...
Feb 6, 2000 2:44 am
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The M & A is not, to my knowledge, the Lucerne but the live Berlin performance from September, 1947 (also available on Tahra) ... * POSTED to furt-l - the...
Gil Ariel Zilkha
gz200@...
Feb 6, 2000 3:05 am
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... My guess would be that he enjoyed them as en example of restraint not leading to dullness. There are no willful distortions in his performances, no...
Bradleigh Stockwell
koloman@...
Feb 6, 2000 6:50 pm
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Things have been blissfully free of politics in this group recently. I have no desire to precipitate more banal trench-warfare about WF under Hitler. But...
Edwin Bock
eabock@...
Feb 6, 2000 10:34 pm
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Sirs: The perf in question is indeed the HMV Lucerne perf (same as on Testament, issued later) but by mistake applause was added by an assistant engineer...
Music and Arts Progra...
musicart@...
Feb 7, 2000 2:26 am
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I disagree with those who say the Felix Weingartner was merely a competent, unspired and "controlled" conductor who was incapable of exciting performances....
RSteinb615@...
Feb 7, 2000 8:13 pm
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... I agree with you, and yet it is for his sanity in performances, his unwillingness to to be extravagant that he is admired and respected. The easiest thing...
Bradleigh Stockwell
koloman@...
Feb 8, 2000 3:45 am
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... I would add Beethoven's Weihe des Hauses Overture where he dares some slow tempi both before the fugal allegro and for the allegro itself which give shape...
Simon Clark
simonclark99@...
Feb 8, 2000 6:25 am
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Recently I bought three CDs of M & A, I found these 3 CDs are good. CD-538 Bruckner No.5 -Furtwangler CD-653 Beethoven No.9 -Furtwangelr CD-790 Beethoven No.9...
Yen Jui-Yuan
d85010@...
Feb 8, 2000 8:43 am
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I have understood that not all orchestras have used the same standard pitch (435 or 440) at the same time. This fact is of extreme importance in reissuing old...
Risto Vaisanen
rvaisane@...
Feb 8, 2000 10:08 am
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The Vienna Philharmonic has always used a pitch higher than A=440. For Furtwangler, who did not have absolute pitch, the pitch difference between Berlin and...
Manny Nadelman
enadelman@...
Feb 8, 2000 7:27 pm
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Actually, Weingartner was remarkably fluid in tempo, particularly in his Vienna Philharmonic performances. Another feature of his Beethoven Seventh is the way...
RSteinb615@...
Feb 8, 2000 7:42 pm
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... Really? What is your evidence for this? Boyd Pomeroy Ithaca, NY ... * POSTED to furt-l - the Furtwangler Mailing List * Send new posts to...
Boyd Pomeroy
dp35@...
Feb 9, 2000 5:28 am
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... No, most of them tune to 440 (in theory, anyway). Which is no guarantee, of course, that they'll still be at the same pitch by the end of the concert. ... ...
Boyd Pomeroy
dp35@...
Feb 9, 2000 5:29 am
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... It is inconceivable that the two orchestras' pitches diverged by such a drastic margin. It has to be an error on EMI's part. I don't have the discs in...
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