Classic concert from Paris this week. The legendary Pierre Boulez leads Orchestre de Paris in a concert of music by Arnold Schönberg and Bela Bartok, with pianist Bertrand Chamayou in the Bartok 2nd Piano Concerto. Recorded at Salle Pleyel on December 21, 2011 by the veneral Radio France Musique.
Back to the vault this week for something historic by way of the Los Angeles Philharmonic from the 1960s. Guest conducted by the great Hans Swarowsky and featuring legendary Pianist Claudio Arrau in a concert of music by Brahms, Alban Berg and Zoltan Kodaly. This previously unheard, never-broadcast and long-thought-lost
Tangerine Dream – live in Berlin – November 15, 1982 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection. Tangerine Dream this weekend. They were probably the first purely electronic bands to appear on the World Stage in the late 1960s. Prior to that, it was all experimenting and pretty much the exclusive domain
Further evidence that history on any particular day isn’t about one earth-shifting event, but a series of seemingly inconsequential ones that creep up from time to time and take center stage without anybody looking. On this June 4th in 1961 it was about the upcoming Vienna Summit with Soviet Prime
On this May 30 in 1961, in what began during JFK‘s campaign as a promise to visit Paris and shore up sagging relations withFrench President DeGaulle, quickly became sidetracked when a proposed summit in Vienna with Nikita Khruschev was scheduled to happen around the same time. The French visit was
Every little bit helps: Become a Patron! News for this April 1st in 1945 wasn’t about joking around. It was announced hours before this broadcast that Allied forces had landed on the island of Okinawa. The strategic objective was some 325 miles from Japan, and one step closer to ending
Become a Patron! The legendary Art Farmer Quartet this week, in a broadcast concert from Austria on May 23, 1974. As Farmer’s reputation grew, he expanded from bebop into more experimental forms through working with composers such as George Russell and Teddy Charles. He went on to join Gerry Mulligan’s
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– Horace Silver Quintet – live at Konzerthaus, Vienna – March 11, 1968 – ORF Radio The amazing Horace Silver in concert this weekend. Recorded live at Austrian Radio’s Konzerthaus on March 11, 1968. Can’t add anymore than what Chris Kelsey said on Silver’s Blue Note bio. So I’ll excerpt
Over to Austria this week for a concert by the legendary Drummer/Percussionist Max Roach, recorded live at the Vienna JazzFest on July 8, 1994. In the early 1980s, Roach began presenting solo concerts, demonstrating that multiple percussion instruments performed by one player could fulfill the demands of solo performance and
