Category: Classical Music
Charles Munch Rehearses The Boston Symphony In Music By Prokofiev – 1951 – Past Daily Weekend Gramophone
Charles Munch and The Boston Symphony In Rehearsal – June 16, 1951 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Charles Munch and the Boston Symphony in rehearsal this week. First broadcast on June 16, 1951, Munch leads the orchestra through their first performance of Prokofiev’s Symphony Number 6. The symphony, written
Josep Pons Leads Orquesta Nacionales de España In Music Of Nino Rota And Gustav Mahler – 2011 – Past Daily Mid-Week Concert
Orquesta Nacionales de España, cond by Josep Pons – In Concert live – April 3, 2011 – RNE Madrid – Turning to performances of a more recent vintage this week (i.e. we’re taking a small detour out of the 70s and 80s for a couple weeks), a performance by Orquesta
Seiji Ozawa And The Boston Symphony In Music Of Tchaikovsky, Griffes And Bartok – 1976 – Past Daily Mid-Week Concert
Seiji Ozawa and The Boston Symphony – In Concert – February 3, 1976 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – More historic concerts this week. The Boston Symphony under their then Music Director Seiji Ozawa in a concert recorded on February 3, 1976. A good one – Starting with Tchaikovksy’s Symphony
Claudio Abbado And The Cleveland Orchestra Play Mahler – 1972 – Past Daily Mid-Week Concert
Claudio Abbado – Cleveland Orchestra – Mahler: Symphony No. 6 – Nov. 6, 1972 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – A historic concert this week (again) – this time it’s the legendary Claudio Abbado guest conducting the Cleveland Orchestra in a performance of Mahler’s Symphony Number 6 – broadcast on
Georges Migot: Piano Concerto – World Premier – 1964 -Past Daily Weekend Gramophone
George Migot – Piano Concerto – Jacqueline Eymar, Piano – ORTF Symphony, Manuel Rosenthal, cond – June 26, 1964 – ORTF -Gordon Skene Sound Collection World Premiers this weekend. The French Composer/painter/poet/writer Georges Migot (1891-1976) and the premier of his Piano Concerto, completed in 1962 and given its world premier
Music Of Pierre Mercure – 1957 – Past Daily Weekend Gramophone
Pierre Mercure: La Rite du Soleil Noir – CBC Symphony – Jean Beaudet, Cond. – CBC Transcription Service – Back up to Canada this week for a performance of La Rite du Soleil Noir by Pierre Mercure. This is a broadcast session originally aired in 1957, featuring the CBC Symphony,
Luciano Berio With The Swingle Singers And The Boston Symphony Play music Of Boccherini, Bach And Berio – 1982 – Past Daily Mid-Week Concert
Luciano Berio, Guest Conductor, The New Swingle Singers – Boston Symphony – August 22, 1982 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – More historic performances this week. The Boston Symphony in concert at The Berkshire Festival on August 22, 1982, featuring contemporary Composer Luciano Berio in the role of guest Conductor,
The Music Of Marcel Mihalovici – Guy Deplus, Flute – ORTF Chamber Orch. André Girard, Cond. – 1962 – Past Daily Weekend Gramophone
Mihalovici – Musique Nocturne Op. 87 – Guy Deplus, Clarinet – ORTF Chamber Orch, André Girard, Cond. – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Over to France this week for music by the Romanian/French composer Marcel Mihalovici, as performed in this circa 1962 radio broadcast by Guy de Plus, Clarinet and