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Tchaikovsky’s Fourth
What are the best ways to "hear" Tchaikovsky's great Fourth Symphony? Lawrence Schenbeck introduces a ground-breaking late-Romantic work. [...]
Best of Winter 2013
Lawrence Schenbeck selects favorite new classical recordings from those released in the last four months or so.. [...]
Persuasive Percussion
There's more to modern percussion than the kick drum. If you can hit it, stroke it, or shake it, it'll give your ears a feast and your audio equipment a darn good workout. [...]
Tchaikovsky Begins
Tchaikovsky's first three symphonies are full of color, drama, and great melodies. Two new recorded cycles show just why these works are worth hearing, again and again. [...]
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- Tchaikovsky’s Fourth (6)
Soundminded: While I’ve heard this music in the past, it’s been a very long time since the last time...
Lawrence Schenbeck: I had the same impression of the “fate” theme when I came back to the Fourth, to...
Soundminded: First impressions of the first movement, four ideas seem evident. Romeo and Juliet Overture stands...
Soundminded: This two disc set is from analog recordings originally made in 1975-1976. It’s DG 453 088 2....
Lawrence Schenbeck: You have to admit, though, the third movement seems a long ways away, expressively, from the...
- Microphones (6)
adam75: Interesting post. The vector/ scalar analysis you refer to is if course at the heart of ambisonics. I have...
Paul McGowan: I don’t think anyone is anything other than appreciative of your comments – I for one...
Soundminded: Paul, thank you for your comment. I want to make it clear I don’t wish to ruin anyone’s fun. Once I...
Paul McGowan: Excellent post Mark, as usual. I agree with you completely on this point and it really brings to the...
Soundminded: I always like these postings that stand back and try to look at more than one or two trees but...
- Microphones like lenses (6)
paulsquirrel: Is a most important point that you are stressing here, Paul. But when you mention: “In the...
Paul McGowan: Spot on!
Dennis Penner: A Chris Botti concert in our city’s concert hall provided an interesting comparison of...
Soundminded: Placing microphones close to musical instruments, especially directional microphones is like using a...
Bassman23: Two AKG 414′s employed in a cross pattern can do a pretty good job with piano. Unless, of course,...
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Paul McGowan: Sure. The idea is to build an active differential low pass filter whose rolloff is low enough to not...
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Leveraging sound
Can't get lower mass than an electron - it's hard to warp electrons to
Andy Narell and Steelpans
Hello, Thank you for your interest in my article and for the inform
Pat Metheney
Hey Neil, Thank you so much for your interest in my article! I,
Tchaikovsky's Fourth
While I've heard this music in the past, it's been a very long time si
Microphones
Interesting post. The vector/ scalar analysis you refer to is if cours