"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
– Claude Arrieu – Violin Concerto – Jeanne Gautier, Violin – French National Orchestra – Pierre-Michel LeConte – Paris Radio – 1952 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Back over to France this week for a radio broadcast performance of…
Boston Symphony – Seiji Ozawa, Cond. – Maurizio Pollini, Piano – March 10, 1983 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Only two works this week, but they are widely admired works done by one of the world’s great symphony orchestras,…
Serge Koussevitzky and The Boston Symphony In Rehearsal – March 14, 1949 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – The music of Ralph Vaughan Williams, as conducted by Serge Koussevitzky and the Boston Symphony, from a rehearsal broadcast of March 14,…
– Monique Haas – Ravel: Le Tombeau de Couperin – Paris Radio session – 1952 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – The legendary, though somewhat forgotten French pianist Monique Haas this weekend. Born in 1909, she studied at the Paris…
– Casella: Scarlatiana – Alexis “Sigi” Weissenber, piano – San Antonio Symphony – Max Reiter, cond. – March 26, 1949 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection. – Piano legend Alexis Weissenberg, as he sounded when he had turned 20 and had…
Part 1 – Part 2 Back to rarities this week. A concert by the San Francisco Symphony led by its then-Music Director Edo DeWaart and featuring the legendary Russian Cellist Mstislav Rostropovich in music of Mozart, Dvorak, Rimsky-Korsakov and Tchaikovsky.…
– Igor Stravinsky rehearses The Boston Symphony – February 7, 1949 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Igor Stravinsky rehearses the BSO in Le Baiser de la Fée (The Fairy’s Kiss) on February 7, 1949. Several years ago, I ran…
– Elsa Barraine – Symphony Nr. 2 – Paris Conservatory Orch. -Cluytens – circa 1953 – ORTF-Paris Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection. – Elsa Barraine is a name not heard very much lately. But in the 1930s, all the…
– CBS Radio – Invitation To Music – Igor Stravinsky Conducts the CBS Symphony and Choir – Dec. 16, 1946 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Something slightly out of the ordinary this weekend.Igor Stravinsky appeared frequently on the CBS…
– The New York Philharmonic – Vaclav Neumann, guest conductor – Brigitte Engerer, piano – April 7, 1984 – An historic concert this week, featuring the New York Philharmonic with guest Conductor Vaclav Neumann and Pianist Brigitte Engerer in music…