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Month: December 2005
Capturing Sound: How Technology Has Changed Music
http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=3825
Internet encyclopaedias go head to head ó Jimmy Wales’ Wikipedia comes close to Britannica in terms of the accuracy of its science entries, a Nature investigation finds
http://www.nature.com/news/2005/051212/full/438900a.html
Giulini Conducts Mozart and Mahler
With the passing of Carl Maria Giulini (1913-2005) in June 2005, the music world lost one of its finest conductors. Among his legacy are some critical recordings, which represent the literature that Giulini chose to preserve.
Two Super Audio CD re-releases of Elly Ameling performances for Philips
I admit I jumped at the chance to review these SACD re-releases of performances that were on the very first classical vocal LPís that I owned and overplayed on under-maintained equipment, to the point where I frankly shudder to even try to compare my vinyl versions with the digital.
Monteverdi Choir/Gardiner ó Cadogan Hall, London
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/reviews/story/0,11712,1670919,00.html
Acoustics first, then architecture
http://news.ft.com/cms/s/9efbcdb6-70fd-11da-89d3-0000779e2340.html
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe himself as a musical hero: The case of Leh·rís Friederike
Franz Leh·r was not the first to think of Goethe as an opera or operetta hero. There was the precedent of Giacomo Meyerbeer himself who in his old age wrote theatre music for a piece called La Jeunesse de Goethe. The piece was never performed.