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Sir Arnold Bax – Symphony Number 5 – BBC Northern Symphony – Morris Handford, cond. May 15, 1967 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Become a Patron! The music of Sir Arnold Bax this weekend – a performance from May 1967 by The BBC Northern Symphony conducted by Morris Handford....
Leif Segerstam – The Austrian Radio Symphony – Salzburg Festival 1980 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Become a Patron! Leif Segerstam at the podium this week, along with Martin Haselbock, Organ – Doris Bierett, Mezzo-soprano – Helmut Wildhaber and Christopher Doig, tenors – George Tichy, baritone and Alfred Srsmek,...
Young Uck-Kim with Kurt Sanderling Conducting The New York Philharmonic In Concert – January 21, 1984 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Another historic concert this week. This time featuring the New York Philharmonic, guest conducted by the legendary Kurt Sandlering and featuring the Korean violinist Young-Uck Kim in the...
Debussy – Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune – Orchestra of The Santa Cecilia Academy, Rome – Bernardino Molinari, cond. – circa 1947 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Taking a detour to some rarely heard performances of the 78 era by artists who don’t figure prominently on the historic radar....
Rudolf Buchbinder, piano – Rafael Frühbeck De Burgos – Berlin Radio Symphony – April 2010 – RBB, Berlin – To Berlin this week for a concert by the Berlin Radio Symphony, conducted by Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos and featuring the legendary Rudolf Buchbinder in a performance of the Beethoven “Emperor”...
Andrew Dawes, violin – Bela Siki, piano – Adaskin: Canzona and Rondo – in concert at 1964 Jeunesses Musicales du Canada – CBC Radio Canada – The music of Canadian composer Murray Adaskin this week, featuring violinist Andrew Dawes and pianist Bela Siki in Adaskin’s Canzona and Rondo, recorded in...
The Belgian National Orchestra In Concert – Yossif Ivanov, violin – Roberto Minczuk, cond. – May 7, 2010 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Over to Belgium this week (via Madrid) for a concert by The Belgian National Orchestra, led by Roberto Minzcuk and featuing Yossif Ivanov, violin. The concert...
Sir Simon Rattle – Berlin Philharmonic – Music of Schoenberg and Mahler – October 30, 2010 – RBB Berlin – When Sir Simon Rattle finished out his tenure with the Berlin Philharmonic last year, after 16 years leading one of the world’s great orchestras, critics said the audience reception and...
Alejandro Posada and Orquesta de RTVE, España – In concert – October 15, 2010 – RNE Clasica – Over to Spain this week for a rather short concert by the celebrated Orquesta Sinfonica de RTVE in Madrid, broadcast live and recorded on October 15, 2010 by Radio Nacional España. Led...
Arthur Benjamin, conducting The CBC Vancouver Symphony – Canadian Music In Wartime – October 5, 1944 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – The noted British composer Arthur Benjamin in a different role as conductor, leading an orchestra he was associated with during the years of World War 2, from 1941-1946....
