January 1, 2002 The Furtwaengler part of The Smidth Pages: http://www.geocities.com/Vienna/7863/furt/furt.html has been updated today. 15 new links (November...
Henning Smidth
smidth@...
Jan 1, 2002 4:12 pm
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After much diligent hunting in NYC over the holidays, I located a copy of Die Piraten at Tower. Driving back to Cleveland today, I finally got to hear it....
Eric Kisch
kischmir@...
Jan 4, 2002 3:08 am
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ParsifalCSA@...
Jan 4, 2002 3:35 am
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Dear list members, I just received information that the following page does no more exist : http://www.geocities.com/Vienna/5999/ It was an interresting site...
Roland Baetens
roland.baetens@...
Jan 5, 2002 12:58 pm
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The Furtwangler Beethoven 9th video excerpt exists at http://www.aeiou.at/aeiou.film.f/f062a;internal&sk=ROBOT and can also be accessed from the Smidth Pages...
Ty Schuiling
ty_schuiling@...
Jan 5, 2002 1:21 pm
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I want to acquire the LaScala Ring. Has this group, or anyone in this group, compared the Opera d'Oro pressing to other incarnations? On some releases, Opera...
davidtgoh@...
Jan 5, 2002 4:31 pm
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David, If I were you, I'd go for the Urania releases. The sound is superior to the Opera d'Oro and it's still cheap without the cheap booklets of the latter. ...
Rob Sibie
robsibie@...
Jan 5, 2002 5:11 pm
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... At the possible risk of beating a dead horse, it seems appropriate to mention here that the reason the M&A edition is OP is because of the knock-off from...
Tom Davenport
saltydog@...
Jan 5, 2002 5:13 pm
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Tom wrote: "M&A is a non-profit educational corporation, which exists only to keep music like this available to a small number of discerning listeners." That's...
EskenasyV@...
Jan 5, 2002 6:53 pm
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... Wasn't it established here some while back that the Opera d'Oro version *is* the Music and Arts edition? If you look in the Archives, I think someone...
Philip Walsh
bf779@...
Jan 5, 2002 7:08 pm
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If it is available outside Italy, the Arkadia edition is worth considering: it is cheap and I am told it is also legitimate and of good sonic quality. Best...
Ponzetto
ponzetto@...
Jan 5, 2002 9:58 pm
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... I guess most of us are guilty of supporting the suppliers of pirate issues at sometime or another. Many of us will have been disappointed with the sound...
Mikhial Gorbochov
tophoca@...
Jan 6, 2002 11:19 am
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At 11:04 AM 1/6/02 +0000, you wrote: snip, ... We appreciate hearing this from someone other than ourselves! The situation with The Ring was so bad that it...
Tom Davenport
saltydog@...
Jan 6, 2002 6:30 pm
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Hi, I recently bought a book (in french) published recently (november 2001): Wilhelm Furtwängler La puissance et la gloire by Gérard Gefen Edited by...
Remy Bruno
remy.bruno@...
Jan 10, 2002 10:03 am
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Anyone on the list who is fluent in French willing/able to translate this into English? I have never of a WF "Here I stood - and why" essay before. Could be ...
Eric Kisch
kischmir@...
Jan 10, 2002 4:22 pm
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Dear All, Could anyone please comment on the quality of the recent Archipel 2 CD release of Furtwangler's 1947 Tristan & Isolde excerpt (live, Berlin). The...
David Harbin
dharbin_uk@...
Jan 10, 2002 5:50 pm
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Eric Kisch : After Shirakawa's book, does it add anything new? ... No, it doesn't. And it's strange that Gefen doesn't quote properly the archive source and...
EskenasyV@...
Jan 10, 2002 7:21 pm
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Nothing like our eagle-eyed FURT-L members to ferret out the truth on these matters. Keep on truckin' (which tells you how far I go back)! Eric K ... * POSTED...
Eric Kisch
kischmir@...
Jan 10, 2002 7:45 pm
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... Just a comment on this point. Gefen published another biography on Furt already in 1986 and this is often cited in Shirakawa's book. Kazuo Ohmi, Japan. ......
Kazuo Ohmi
ohmi@...
Jan 11, 2002 2:27 pm
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Gregor Piatigorsky: "Cellist", Doubleday & Co Garden City, New York, 1965, hardcover, 273 pages. In recent WFSA Newsletter, vol.9 No.4, page 17 is the...
Yen Jui-Yuan
d85010@...
Jan 11, 2002 8:33 pm
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I just saw for the first time that there is a studeo Furtwangler conducted Death & Transfiguration on EMI. I had been thinking of getting the live performance...
Phlmaestro@...
Jan 17, 2002 12:22 am
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Barry. If the EMI D&T you refer to is the same as that on the LP issued several decades ago, then on at least the level of the performance, it is definately...
Gardner Rust
gardner.rust@...
Jan 17, 2002 1:16 am
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Phlmaestro@...
Jan 17, 2002 2:25 am
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=== The original message was multipart MIME === === All non-text parts (attachments) have been removed === barbaric yelp. And, being the...
Gabriel Parra-Blessing
gabriel.parrablessing...
Jan 17, 2002 8:49 am
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I'd like to thank those of you who offered suggestions as to how to go about ordering CD's from Japan which are otherwise unavailable in the States. I was...
Gabriel Parra-Blessing
gabriel.parrablessing...
Jan 17, 2002 9:04 am
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Sorry to ask such a silly question, but could anyone tell me where i could get a listing of the contents of the big DG box set? Anyone care to comment on it? ...
Rorel@...
Jan 17, 2002 12:03 pm
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There is also a third performance from a concert recorded complete in Turin on 3rd March, 1952, the last work on the bill after after Haydn 88, Beethoven...
summers2
summers2@...
Jan 17, 2002 3:02 pm
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Can anyone on the list help me out with a copy of the first disc (Kyrie-Gloria-Credo) in the above set issued by DG in their VPO Anniversary set of a few years...
summers2
summers2@...
Jan 19, 2002 3:20 am
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I can burn you a copy.Please give me your address. Ceasar Braga ... From: owner-furt-l@... [mailto:owner-furt-l@...] On Behalf Of summers2 ...
Ceasar Braga Jr
saz1@...
Jan 19, 2002 7:14 am
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This is Furtwangler's birthday. Presumably, we should all find some appropriate way of celebrating. Personally, I plan to listen to the Schubert 9th, this...