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In Reply to: In love with Bosendorfer posted by Beethoven on November 15, 2002 at 13:22:36:
Here's a terrific recording that really captures the qualities of the instrument:
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If anyone is interested in more Chopin on a Bosendorfer check out Garrick Ohlsson traversal of all of Chopins music. No small scale stuff, effeminate stuff there! For general relaxing recitals on a Bosendorfer i have enjoyed Carol Rosenberger's CD's from Delos.Anyone want to start a list of performers who typically use a Bosendorfer?
Hi Newbee, we had Carol Rosenberger's "Water Music" and
"Per chance to dream" if my memory is correct. Excellent recordings.
They got a lot of play time here years ago along with the Frager.
They seem to be missing now with the help of younger family members.
Thanks for that link, must go look for it now. The following is from Bosendorfer's website, no wonder the bass notes sounded so fantastic. This is the same piano used in her CD. The keyboard has 97 keys."It is the only concert grand in the world to have nine sub-bass notes, down to bottom C, giving it a full eight octave compass keyboard. These extra notes enable some compositions to be accurately performed, which were originally scored with lower notes, by composers such as Bartók, Debussy, Ravel and Busoni. Special construction features have a very positive influence on the overtones produced when the piano is played, and helps to create the maximum range of both power and volume, and allows the smallest subtle variations in sound to be heard, across the whole range of the piano."
Cant beat the big B. My oldest daughter used one daily on campus near L.A. She totally loved it.
She found daily access to one now where she studies in Paris and she is in heaven. She is not
likely to ever come home unless I buy one. Any donations?
BTW the Frager recording is excellent
.....what you should do is, take out a 2nd mortgage and buy the Imperial Grand Bosendorfer with their digital reproducer option, that way you can tell your daughter to come home and she will, and what's more you can tell her to record all of her favorite pieces on it, so when she leaves you can have a player piano version of your daughter still there in the house with you ;)
Im back. I didnt realize their were so many models.
Ill have to ask her which model it is. I know it has
the extra keys. At one time when she was very young.
we had a 1907 Weber Aeolian Grand player piano. I surely
miss it.It went with 300 rolls. It was that, or a new house.
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Hmm! Should I get the Ferrari or the Bosendorfer?!?
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No system can compare with the sound of the real thing.
Also a much better investment High end audio is the worst investment money wise. Especially interconnects and cables.
So from Monday I am taking double bass lessons and start looking for a woman that can play the piano and sing, that would be the ultimate!!
well, not so fast..pianos, like hifi, need a really well treated or well dimensioned room to sound their best.
just like the big speaker-big room/small speaker-small room 'rule', a big piano in a small room is quite disasterous - despite being the 'real thing'.
.....but NOT the group buy that you would normally think of, where you get a bunch of people together in hopes of getting a group discount.I mean something more like when several people pool their money and buy a small airplane, and rotate their usage of it.
You could get 4 people together to buy a Bosendorfer 290, making sure all of the people live in the same locale, and each would get it for 3 months out of the year! The rest of the time, if they wanted to play it or hear it, they could call up their buddy and say "hey can my wife and I stop over tonight? We'd like to play the Bosendorfer..." heheheh
With the digital player-piano option, it would almost be worth it, at least for the deep-pocketed folks!!
Your idea interests me. Have you, however, heard of a little known style called "rock n roll"? The practitioners of this genre routinely bang the piano hard, stomp it with there feet (shoes not removed) and generally abuse it maximally in order to obtain the ellusive "I got [sic] to feel my music, dude" effect.
.....like "fingers *only* on the keys, please!!"
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