"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
– BSO In Rehearsal – Charles Munch, conducting – March 2, 1951 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – This week’s installment of our Boston Symphony In Rehearsal series features the BSO under Charles Munch rehearsing two wildly different pieces on…
Ernest Chausson – Poème de l’ammour et de la mer – Jean-Christophe Benoit, Bariton – ORTF Chamber Orchestra, André Girard, cond. – ORTF Radio broadcast – 1962 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – A familiar name this week; Ernest Chausson…
Lang Lang In Recital – Recorded by Radio France Musique – November 12, 2016 – Over to Paris this week for a recital by the epic Chinese pianist Lang Lang, recorded live from Théåtre des Champs-Elysees this past November by…
Yvonne Loriod With The ORTF Chamber Orchestra – Conducted by Serge Baudo – Charles Chaynes: Piano Concerto – 1967 World Premier – ORTF, Paris – Yvonne Loriod is probably best known as the interpreter of the music of Olivier Messiaen.…
Part 1: Part 2: A concert this week featuring the highly regarded French conductor Stéphan Denève leading the French National Orchestra in a program of all French works. Do I spot a pattern here? I think so. Starting with the…
Part 1: Part 2: Continuing Summer Festival season in Europe with a concert from the 2016 Aix-en-Provence Festival. This festival has been one of the most popular and legendary, having been around for several decades and offering some of the…
Pierre Germain, Baritone with Odette Pigot, piano – Three Songs by Jean Rivier – ORTF, Paris – circa 1953 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Pierre Germain, was a brilliant star-on-the-rise at The Opera-Comique in Paris as well as the…
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Tito Ceccherini, conductor – Helène Collerette, Violin – Dec. 13, 2013 – Radio France Musique Over to Paris this week for a concert by Orchestre Philharmonique…