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October 16, 1939 – CBS Today In Europe – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – October 16, 1939 – The day German offensives were taking place on all fronts – the first German air attack on the British Isles took place over the Firth of Forth in Scotland where British warships...
Mundell Lowe Quartet – live at Le Bilboquet, Paris – May 4, 1988 – Radio France Musique “Jazz Club” – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Mundell Lowe this weekend. With a quartet featuring Olivier Hutman on piano, Luigi Trusardi on bass and Philippe Combelle on drums. It was recorded at...
Thelonious Monk Quartet – live in Amiens, France – 1966 – ORTF – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – I realize I ran another Monk concert from his 1966 tour in July of this year. But times call for much needed comfort and Thelonious Monk is comfort food – and man,...
Christian Tetlaff, violin – Strasbourg Philharmonic – Concert of February 11, 2011 – Radio France Musique – Back to France this week for a concert by the Strasbourg Philharmonic, conducted by Marc Albrecht and featuring German Violinist Christian Tetzlaff in music of Christophe Bertrand, Claude Debussy and Ludwig van Beethoven....
Berlin Philharmonic – Neeme Järvi, cond. – Arcadi Volodos, Piano – Recorded December 15, 2010 – Radio France Musique- Over to Berlin (by way of Paris) this week for a concert featuring the Berlin Philharmonic, led by Neeve Järvi with Russian wunderkind Arcadi Volodos as piano solo. Starting the concert...
Idles – in concert a La Cabaret Vert – Charleville-Mézières, France – August 25, 2018 – RFI – Idles in concert at La Cabaret Vert 2018 and recorded on August 25th. I first became familiar with Idles via Chris Hawkins’ BBC 6 Music show and hearing Well Done for the...
September 8-9, 1940 – News reports from the BBC Home Service, Shortwave relay to America – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – September 8-9, 1940 – News for this set of days had much to do with the Air War over Britain and events unfolding throughout Central and Eastern Europe as...
Les Rita Mitsouko – live at Alabamahalle, Munich – February 7, 1994 – Bavarian Radio – French Synthpop legends Les Rita Mitsouko in concert at Alabamahalle in Munich on February 7, 1994 and preserved for posterity by Bavarian Radio. Les Rita Mitsouko was a French pop rock group formed by...
Thelonious Monk Quartet – Live At Maison de l’ORTF, Paris – March 20, 1966 – Radio France – The legendary Thelonious Monk and his quartet, featuring Charlie Rouse on tenor sax, Larry Gales on bass and Ben Riley on drums, recorded live at ORTF Paris’ Maison de l’ORTF on March...
July 7, 1947. One of the side aspects to the Cold War; the propaganda war and the regular newscasts portraying life in the Soviet world, as opposed to life everywhere else. On this particular newscast, the emphasis is on the then-current state of affairs in France and the “big turn...
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