
Category: Classical Music


Elisabeth Leonskaja And Christoph Eschenbach Play Music Of Bach And Mendelssohn – In Concert 2009 – Past Daily Mid-Week Concert
Elisabeth Leonskaja and Christoph Eschenbach – NDR Symphony – In Concert – May 3, 2009 – Radio France Musique – Certainly qualifies as a quintessential Wednesday Anti-Road Rage concert this week. The legendary Russian/Austrian pianist Elisabeth Leonskaja, together with Christoph Eschenbach and the North German Radio Symphony in a concert

Soprano Grace Moore – 10 Year Old Piano Prodigy Byron Janis – Alexander Woollcott – All This And So Much More – The Magic Key 1939 – Past Daily Weekend Gramophone
NBC Blue Network – The Magic Key – Grace Moore – Byron Janis and many others – Feb. 12, 1939 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Another installment of The Magic Key this weekend. featuring the celebrated Soprano, Grace Moore as well as a 10 year old Piano Prodigy Byron

Kirsten Flagstad, John McCormack And More – Live 1936 – Past Daily Weekend Gramophone
Kirsten Flagstad, John McCormack, Frank Black and many more – RCA Magic Key Program – Dec, 27, 1936 – NBC Blue Network – Gordon Skene Sound Collection. More Magic Key this week. This one, a broadcast from December 27, 1936 features the usual all-star cast – primarily artists for RCA

José Miguel Rodilla And Orquesta Sinfónica de la Región de Murcia Play Music Of Turina And Moreno-Buendia -2009- Past Daily Mid-Week Concert
Miguel José Rodilla and The Orquesta Sinfonica de la Region Murcia – In Concert – Dec. 4, 2009 – Radio Nacional España – Into the realm of the reasonably unfamiliar (at least to some of us) this week. A concert broadcast by Radio Nacional de España on December 4, 2009

Charles Munch And The Boston Symphony Rehearse Music Of Roussel And Debussy – 1951 – Past Daily Weekend Gramophone
Charles Munch Conducts The Boston Symphony In Rehearsal – October 28, 1951 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Charles Munch rehearsing the BSO in another one of the weekly broadcasts NBC radio did in the late 1940s and early 1950s with this orchestra. Narrated by veteran broadcaster Ben Grauer, this

André Cluytens With The Paris Conservatoire Orchestra Play Music Of Florent Schmitt At The 1949 Besançon Festival – Past Daily Weekend Gramophone
Florent Schmitt: La tragédie de Salome – Paris Conservatoire Orchestra – 1949 Besançon Festival – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – The music of Florent Schmitt this weekend. From the 1949 Besançon Festival and recorded by the ORTF in Paris, a performance of La Tragédie de Salome conducted by the legendary

Lorezno Gatto And Éliane Reyes In Recital – Barcelona – 2010 – Past Daily Mid-Week Concert
Lorenzo Gatto – Éliane Reyes – Recital from Barcelona – December 2, 2010 – Radio Nacional España – Lorezno Gatto in recital from Barcelona in 2010 this week. Accompanied by Éliane Reyes they play music of Mozart, Tchaikovsky, Saint-Saens, Ysaye and Prokofiev – all recorded live and preserved for posterity

John Charles Thomas – 15th Annual Celebration Of National Music Week – 1938 – Past Daily Weekend Gramophone
John Charles Thomas – Victor Glee Club – RCA Magic Key Orchestra, Dr. Frank Black, cond. – RCA Magic Key – May 1, 1938 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Another episode of the historic RCA Magic Key programs – this one featuring Metropolitan Opera Baritone John Charles Thomas in
