Transit Strike: Day 3

Transit Strike: Day 3

Dec 22, 2005

"Do you want a ride to work?"<br>
"What?"<br>
"Are you going to Manhattan?"<br>
"Yeah."<br>
"Do you want a ride to work?"<br>
"What do you mean?"<br>
"I've got my car over there. I'm going to 58th Street, but you need four people in a car to be allowed to drive into the City. You wanna ride?"<br>
"Nah, man. You're a stranger. Good luck with that, though."

Walter Klien Plays Brahms

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Submitted by Todd on

Or, How Piss-Poor Engineering Can Nearly Kill A Recording.

Whilst browsing the new releases section of Gramophone a few months back, I spied a new reissue from Vox: a five-pack of Brahms' piano music played by Walter Klien. Hallelujah! I am a big fan of Mr Klien. His Mozart sonata cycle is my favorite, his Mozart concerto recordings are superb (if in rather poor sound), and his Schubert sonata cycle is glorious. So I determined that I should get his Brahms. When I found it at Arkiv for $16, the deal was sealed.

Carnaval

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Submitted by Todd on

After some of the posts considering why recordings are even made, and some older posts considering comparative listening, I figured it might be time to select a work I have a good number of recordings of and listen to them all in a relatively brief span of time. So, over the last week, I have listened to all eleven versions of Robert Schumann

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