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NBC Summer Symphony with Milton Katims, Conductor – Leo Smit, Piano – 1953 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection More rarities.This week it’s The NBC Summer Symphony series featuring conductor Milton Katims and pianist Leo Smit in music by Mozart and…
To the heavy, cumbersome, oversized and thoroughly enjoyable BBC Transcriptions this week for a concert by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra led by the legendary and amiable Sir Thomas Beecham in an all-Mozart program, recorded on April 28, 1947. Starting off…
Part 1: Part 2: Gerhard Oppitz, piano with the NHK Symphony, guest conducted by Sir Neville Marriner in music of Mozart and Brahms, recorded by NHK, live from Suntory Hall on November 25, 2015. Back over to Tokyo this week…
– Salzburg Festival 1938 – Mozart: Don Giovanni -Act 2 – Aug. 15, 1938 – Berlin Radio/NBC Blue Network – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – The Salzburg Festival, 1938 this week. Touted as one of the great innovations in broadcasting,…
Click on the link here for Audio Player – The Boston Symphony In concert – Charles Munch, Cond. – Victoria de Los Angeles, Soprano – April 9, 1955 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection While we’re still working on more BSO…
Click on the link here for Audio Player – The Voce Quartet in Concert at Festival of Summer Nights – August 2, 2014 – Radio France Musique Over to Paris this week for a concert featuring Rising Young Stars recipients…
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Part 1 Click on the link here for Audio Player – Part 2 More historic concerts this week. From the 1979 Salzburg Festival, a concert featuring the Berlin Philharmonic conducted…
Click on the link here for Audio Player – L’Orchestre de la Suisse Romande – Neeme Järvi, Cond – Patricia Kopatchinskaya, violin – April 19, 2013 – RTS Espace 2/Radio France Musique Over to Geneva by way of Paris this…
Click on the link here for Audio player: Vilde Frang Recital – June 24, 2012 Over to Bad Kissinger in Germany this week for a concert recital from the Kissinger Sommer Festival by rising-young-star-wunderkind Vilde Frang in a program of…