"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
Rudof Serkin, Piano – Boston Symphony – Seiji Ozawa, Cond. Sept, 25, 1980 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Normally, I don’t post half concerts or portions of concerts for the Mid-Week feature. And I almost didn’t post this one,…
Part 1 – Part 2 Back to rarities this week. A concert by the San Francisco Symphony led by its then-Music Director Edo DeWaart and featuring the legendary Russian Cellist Mstislav Rostropovich in music of Mozart, Dvorak, Rimsky-Korsakov and Tchaikovsky.…
– Igor Stravinsky rehearses The Boston Symphony – February 7, 1949 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Igor Stravinsky rehearses the BSO in Le Baiser de la Fée (The Fairy’s Kiss) on February 7, 1949. Several years ago, I ran…
– Elsa Barraine – Symphony Nr. 2 – Paris Conservatory Orch. -Cluytens – circa 1953 – ORTF-Paris Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection. – Elsa Barraine is a name not heard very much lately. But in the 1930s, all the…
– The New York Philharmonic – Vaclav Neumann, guest conductor – Brigitte Engerer, piano – April 7, 1984 – An historic concert this week, featuring the New York Philharmonic with guest Conductor Vaclav Neumann and Pianist Brigitte Engerer in music…
Over to Paris this weekend for a Radio studio recording of the Lalo Cello Concerto, with the legendary Andrè Navarra, cello and the Paris Conservatory, conducted by the great Andrè Cluytens. No date on the disc, but judging from the…
– The Moody Blues – In Session – April-November 1967 Top Of The Pops – BBC Radio 1 – Certainly not the first band to make use of the Mellotron, they were one of the first to take it with…
Paul Paray with Arnold Steinhardt, violin and The Detroit Symphony – Nov. 12, 1959 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Violinist Arnold Steinhardt, with Paul Paray, leading the Detroit Symphony this week in music of Bach, Mendelssohn and Mahler. The concert…
Aix-en-Provence Festival 1959 – The Belgian National Radio Orchestra, Igor Markevitch, Cond. – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Another historic concert this week. From the 1959 Aix-en-Provence Festival, The Belgian National Radio Orchestra led by the legendary Igor Markevitch in music…
Another classic concert this week. From the 1960 Salzburg Festival, a concert by the Berlin Philharmonic, guest conducted by the legendary Opera conductor Joseph Keilberth and featuring the equally legendary French violinist Christian Ferras in music of Schubert, Berg and…