
Marcel Mule Plays The Music of Debussy – 1955 – Past Daily Weekend Gramophone
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Christian Manen – Piano Concerto – Aline van Barentzen w/The ORTF Symphony, Pierre Dervaux, cond. – 1965 – ORTF – The music of Christian Manen this week – a French composer, still very much with us and with a prodigious output of some 180 (and counting) compositions for Orchestra, soloists,

Rafael Kubelik with The Chicago Symphony – Smetana: Ma Vlast (Complete) – Broadcast of October 27, 1983 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Another historic concert this week. Former Music Director of the Chicago Symphony in the early 1950s, now guest conducting the orchestra in the first of 5 concerts
Boston Symphony – Aaron Copland, guest Conductor – January 2, 1960 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection- More historic concerts this week. The Boston Symphony, led by the legendary Aaron Copland in a concert of his own music, as well as music by Henry Purcell, Franz Joseph Haydn, David Diamond and

– Reynaldo Hahn – Piano Concerto – Jean Doyen, Piano – French Radio Orchestra, Eugène Bigot, cond. – 1952 – ORTF – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – This weekend it’s a performance of the not-so-obscure Piano Concerto by the early 20th century composer Reynaldo Hahn. With the legendary Jean Doyen

– Boston Symphony – In Rehearsal – Charles Munch, conducting – May 12, 1951 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Another rehearsal from The Boston Symphony. This week, it’s a rehearsal for the U.S. Premier of the Symphony Number 5 by Swiss-French composer Arthur Honegger, and it was first broadcast

– 1960 Prague Spring Festival – The Czech Philharmonic – Kirill Kondrashin, cond. – Mstislav Rostropovich, cello – Czech Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Another Historic concert this week – The celebrated Czech Philharmonic, led by distinguished Soviet conductor Kirill Kondrashin and featuring the legendary cellist Mstislav Rostropovich

– Boston Symphony In Rehearsal – Charles Munch, conductor – January 20, 1951 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Once again this weekend, the Boston Symphony in rehearsal. This time it’s two firsts – Saint-Saëns‘ overture to La Princesse Jaune, played for the first time by the BSO, and the

– Shostakovich – The New Babylon – Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France – Frank Strobel, cond. – October 9, 2010 – Radio France Musique – Shostakovich – the score to the 1929 film The New Babylon. Something a little different this week. In addition to the vast output of symphonies,

– The Boston Symphony, guest Conductor Pierre Monteux -In Rehearsal – February 10, 1951 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Another historic rehearsal program from The Boston Symphony. This one features guest Conductor and former Music Director Pierre Monteux leading the orchestra in a work he originally premiered in Paris