A very little goes a very long way: Become a Patron! Another historic rehearsal from The Boston Symphony. This week it’s Charles Munch and the BSO rehearsing the first Boston performance of the Symphony Number 6 by Prokofiev. The rehearsal took place on June 16, 1951. The Sixth Symphony dates
Carlo Maria Giulini, guest Conductor – Daniel Barenboim, Piano Chicago Symphony – Nov. 11, 1977 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Another historic concert entry for Anti-Road Rage Wednesday. This week it’s The Chicago Symphony guest conducted by Carlo Maria Giulini and featuring pianist Daniel Barenboim in an all Brahms
Paul Sacher (L) – Willy Burkhard (R). -Two leading lights in Swiss Music Back to the Swiss Radio Archives tonight for a performance of Die Schwarze Spinne – Suite by Will Burkhard, performed by the Basel Radio Orchestra, conducted by Paul Sacher from a broadcast of May 16, 1955. Composer
Cleveland Orchestra – Erich Leinsdorf, guest Conductor – Michel Beroff, Piano – 1975-1976 season Continuing our leap around the vault this week with a concert by The Cleveland Orchestra, guest conducted by Erich Leinsdorf and featuring the French/Bulgarian Pianist Michel Beroff in music of Stravinsky, Bartok and Bizet/Shchederin. This concert
Richard Flury (L) – Paul Burkhard (R) – The rarities continue. Back over to less familiar territory from the Swiss Radio Archives with a composer we’ve run before – Richard Flury with the Radio Beromünster Orchestra led by Paul Burkhard in a performance of Flury’s Im Altisberg, Sinfonische Suite für
Over to Geneva Switzerland for a historic concert by Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, conducted by their Music Director of many years Ernest Ansermet and featuring the legendary Artur Rubinstein, piano in a concert recorded circa 1961 (no exact dates, sorry). It was rebroadcast as part of the ongoing RTS
Walther Geiser – practitioner of late Romanticism. Back to the Swiss Radio Archives this week for a performance featuring composer Walther Geiser conducting his own work. Fantasie For Orchestra number 2, performed with the Basle Symphony, led by the composer in this radio recording from October 17, 1946. After finishing
Orquesta Sinfonica RTVE – Michel Plasson, cond -Isabel Villanueva,viola – February 10, 2017 – RNE Radio Clasica – A concert from Spain this week, recorded by Radio Nacional Epaña featuring the RTVE Orquesta Sinfonica guest conducted by the legendary Michel Plasson with Spanish Violist Isabel Villanueva in music of Gabriel
Robert Oubussier (L) – Ernest Ansermet (R) Back to Switzerland this weekend for another rarity. This time it’s the music of Robert Oboussier – his Introitus for Orchestra written in 1946 and performed here in this radio recording featuring the Suisse Romand Orchestra, conducted by Ernest Ansermet and recorded in
Claudio Arrau, Piano – Boston Symphony – Seiji Ozawa, Cond – Berkshire Music Festival – August 26, 1977 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Back to something historic this week. The Boston Symphony during the 1977 Berkshire Music Festival, with Music Director Seiji Ozawa leading the BSO with the legendary
