Erich Kleiber – NBC Symphony – Music Of Wagner – March 10, 1946 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Considered one of the giants of the podium during the 20th century, Erich Kleiber had a distinguished, yet frustrating career. The Austrian conductor had come to prominence after conducting a performance
Jean-Jacques Grunenwald – Concert d’ètè – Marie-Claude Warkowski – ORTF Chamber Orch – Jean-Paul Krèder, cond – ORTF, Paris – Jean-Jacques Grunenwald – a name much more familiar in Europe, particularly France, than here in the U.S. – Grunenwald was a celebrated Organist, a student of Marcel Duprè and his
Maria João Pires with Trevor Pinnock and The German Chamber Philharmonic of Bremen – in Concert at Théåtre des Champs-Élysées, Paris – January 16,2016 – Radio France Musique – Maria João Pires, legendary Portuguese pianist joins conductor Trevor Pinnock and the German Chamber Philharmonic of Bremen in a concert,
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Fauré Quartet – In Concert at the Octogone Theatre, Pully Switzerland – January 20, 2015 – RTS Switzerland – The Fauré Quartet this week – in a concert of music by Gustav Mahler, Sergei Taneyev and Richard Strauss – it was recorded in Pully Switzerland at the Octogone Theatre on
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Raymond Trouard – Fauré – Theme And Variations – ORTF, Paris 1963 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Raymond Trouard, a name which may not ring many bells unless you are a serious piano student, and more specifically, a student of French Piano music. Born in 1916, Trouard studied piano
Loewenguth String Quartet – Ibert – Quartet (1944) – Rec. October 1963 – ORTF, Paris The Loeuwenguth String Quartet in a radio concert this week. From French radio Transcriptions comes a performance of the 1944 String Quartet by Jacques Ibert, recorded around October of 1963. Jacques Ibert was a prolific
Michel Perrault – Sextet for Harp, Clarinet and String Quartet – The Montreal String Quartet – CBC Radio – 1956 Michel Perrault this weekend. The extraordinary (and still very much with us) Canadian Composer Michel Perrault and his Sextet for Harp, Clarinet and Strings – composed in 1955 and given
Dezsö Ranki with Daniele Gatti and Orchestre National de France In Concert – November 21, 2015 – Radio France Musique – Dezsö Ranki, accompanied by the legendary Daniele Gatti and Orchestre National de France in a program of music by Beethoven and Bartok, and recorded last November 21st by the
