Hi, everyone, Months ago I bought Mengelberg's Matthew Passion (on Philips), very hesitantly for the recording time is 1939 and I'd had up till then absolutely...
Lei Chen
chenlei211@...
Dec 1, 2000 4:57 pm
5257
... I could not agree more; it was a revelation to me when I first heard it about a year ago. Of course, it is a shame that the performance is severely cut (as...
Mark Berry
mkb1002@...
Dec 1, 2000 5:06 pm
5258
Ahem. Please, Chenlei, no 'anonymous' postings: reset your preferences to include your name and/or email address. Describing Mengelberg as pro-Nazi is a little...
Peter Quantrill
pquantrill@...
Dec 1, 2000 5:59 pm
5259
N. B. It would be honest to mention that Thomas Mann's Erb reference (or allusion) was *not* checked or read by me personally, I only remember it quoted -- I'd...
samir golescu
golescu@...
Dec 1, 2000 7:28 pm
5260
Dear Lei Chen, [For the record, I received your message *with* name/e-mail address. Moreover, *unless one wrote something insulting* (which was not your case ...
samir golescu
golescu@...
Dec 1, 2000 7:29 pm
5261
It would be honest to mention that Thomas ... Hi, I happened to be reading Doctor Faustus when I purchased the set. The mention of Erb appears in the latter...
Lei Chen
chenlei211@...
Dec 2, 2000 3:12 am
5262
I have been working on compiling a book list of or about WF for more than three years. There have been a difficulty for me to check and include all the book...
Yen Jui-Yuan
d85010@...
Dec 2, 2000 3:19 am
5263
I found the Mengelberg SMP on a Philips Duo when I was in Munich two summers ago. I listened to the entire thing in the Munich airport while waiting for my...
Gil Zilkha
gzilkha@...
Dec 2, 2000 5:16 am
5264
Alan Blackwood's biography has several citations in the index to WF. Also, the Beecham Society's "Le Grand Baton" has articles that frequently mention WF. I'm...
Eric Kisch
kischmir@...
Dec 2, 2000 4:25 pm
5265
... The superb violinist Herman Krebbers (among others, I recall a beautiful Dvorak Concerto) was indeed the Concertgebouw concertmaster for many years, but...
samir golescu
golescu@...
Dec 2, 2000 4:59 pm
5266
You will want to consult the following. Geissmar was Furtwangler's secretary in Germany before WWII and then went to England to be secretary to Beecham. ...
Tom Simone
tsimone@...
Dec 2, 2000 5:00 pm
5267
... That's *1939*. ... * POSTED to furt-l - the Furtwangler Mailing List * Send new posts to furt-l@... * To unsubscribe, go to http://...
samir golescu
golescu@...
Dec 2, 2000 8:25 pm
5268
There is a new book on Willem Mengelberg or Part One of it - in Dutch: Frits Zwart: Willem Mengelberg 1871-1851, I. Een Biografie 1871-1920. Amsterdam:...
Risto Vaisanen
rvaisane@...
Dec 3, 2000 8:14 pm
5269
I will soon be leading a discussion of the Ronald Harwood play "Taking Sides," about the denazification of conductor Wilhelm Furtwangler. Many reviewers have...
David Sobelsohn
dsobelso@...
Dec 5, 2000 7:02 pm
5270
<html><P>Dear Simon,</P> <P>This isn't relating to any matter of interest to Furtwanglerians, but is just about our meeting next Monday. Unfortunately,...
martin holland
martinholland@...
Dec 6, 2000 12:43 pm
5271
Does anyone have below CDs with some WF's talking? 1) TAHRA FURT 1014/15 (2CD-set) 2) The French Furtwaengler Society SWF 961/2 (2CD-set) I already have these...
Yen Jui-Yuan
d85010@...
Dec 7, 2000 3:41 am
5272
In a message dated 12/6/00 10:42:48 PM EST, d85010@... writes: << Does anyone have below CDs with some WF's talking? 1) TAHRA FURT 1014/15 (2CD-set) ...
MWKluge@...
Dec 7, 2000 11:37 am
5273
I wonder if anyone else caught Ted Koppel on ABC's Nightline Wednesday night. If you didn't see this, I present the following paraphrase of Ted Koppel's very...
Philip B. Walsh
bf779@...
Dec 8, 2000 3:48 pm
5274
Has anyone here heard the new Naxos issue of the Flagstad/Melchior Tristan und Isolde? In particular, how is the sound quality? Thanks for any information. ...
Philip B. Walsh
bf779@...
Dec 8, 2000 3:58 pm
5275
Philip, I have the VAI issue and the new Naxos issue; I frankly don't hear much difference between them. I think Ward Marston did the (excellent) remastering...
Boyd D. Cathey
parsifal@...
Dec 9, 2000 12:18 am
5276
... Courtesy of the transcript at ABCNews.com, here's what he said verbatim: TED KOPPEL This may fall in the more than you ever wanted to know category, but...
Alan Spaeth
aspaeth@...
Dec 9, 2000 3:05 am
5277
...following a previous discussion on Mengelberg and on what I believe to be his post-WWII distorted media-image, I thought it would not lack interest to...
samir golescu
golescu@...
Dec 10, 2000 1:37 am
5278
... I have heard it. It has come out very well in Ward Marston's typically tactful remastering. Simon _____________________ Simon Trezise, Lecturer in Music at...
Simon Trezise
strezise@...
Dec 10, 2000 2:57 pm
5279
Hi All: You may have heard about the phrase "the fat lady sings" in the last few weeks about the US presidential election, and may have wondered what the hell...
Wong
whs@...
Dec 10, 2000 10:10 pm
5280
"The opera isn't over until the fat lady sings" is a very common expression in North America, particularly among people (sports casters, for example) who, one ...
Philip B. Walsh
bf779@...
Dec 11, 2000 12:30 am
5281
It is a sign of the amazing times that this newsgroup could develop a whole thread on this expression, which clearly derives from some cliches about the build...
Eric Kisch
kischmir@...
Dec 11, 2000 1:46 am
5282
Well, I received some improbable requests while managing a busy CD store in the centre of London: none more so than an earnest entreaty for (I kid you not): "...
Peter Quantrill
pquantrill@...
Dec 11, 2000 10:36 am
5283
Eric, One of the better true howlers I remember came from the announcer over the local PBS station (WUNC) a number of years ago who announced that we were...
Boyd D. Cathey
parsifal@...
Dec 11, 2000 11:48 am
5284
... Thanks you very much Samir for this fascinating posting. It is most interesting that Schoenberg was among the speakers. Does anyone know whether Mengelberg...
Mark Berry
mkb1002@...
Dec 11, 2000 12:18 pm
5285
I was once told of a radio announcer on British Classic FM who introduced his listeners to "'Dvorak from the New World'. I'm afraid it doesn't say who wrote...
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