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Walter Wanderley – Four from Samba No Esquema – Odeon Records, Brazil – 1963 Become a Patron! Brazilian Organist Walter Wanderley for Sunday night. One of the cornerstones of the Samba and Bossa Nova movements in Brazil from the late 1950s through the 1960s. These are selections from his Brazilian...
Ruth Posselt with Charles Munch and the Boston Symphony In Rehearsal – March 24, 1951 Become a Patron! Continuing our series of Boston Symphony Rehearsals. This week it’s the BSO under Music Director Charles Munch and the legendary American violinist Ruth Posselt in a rehearsal of Ernst Bloch‘s Baal Shem...
Jacques Loussier Trio – Live in Hannover, Germany – February 18, 1965 – North German Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Become a Patron! Jacques Loussier in concert for a Sunday. With the sad news earlier this year of the passing of Jacques Loussier, I was reminded how wildly...
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