"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
– Izia – SFR Studio Concert – March 19, 2012 – Over to Paris this week for a concert by the deceptively dramatic and dynamic Izia and her band, recorded live at SFR Studios in Paris on March 19, 2012.…
– Marc-Antoine Charpentier – Miserere (extended excerpts) – circa 1953 – ORTF, Paris – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Over to Paris this week for a performance of a seldom heard work (in the 1950s), the Miserere for Chorus, soloists, organ…
Over to Paris this weekend for a Radio studio recording of the Lalo Cello Concerto, with the legendary Andrè Navarra, cello and the Paris Conservatory, conducted by the great Andrè Cluytens. No date on the disc, but judging from the…
Become a Patron! Another of the lately-less known French composers featured this weekend. Rene Challan is probably better recognized among collectors as the producer of some of the great recording sessions to come out of France in the 1950’s and…
Juliette Armanet – Live At Foule Sentimentale Le Live – RFI – September 15, 2016 – Juliette Armanet is a French singer-songwriter, whose dreamy, luxuriant voice is a welcome addition to the Pop Music world. Releasing her very first ep,…
– Maurice Emmanuel – Salamine – excerpts from Acts 1,2 and 3 – Cast and Chorus conducted by Tony Aubin – ORTF, Paris – March 29, 1958 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Excerpts from seldom performed French operas this…
Aix-en-Provence Festival 1959 – The Belgian National Radio Orchestra, Igor Markevitch, Cond. – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Another historic concert this week. From the 1959 Aix-en-Provence Festival, The Belgian National Radio Orchestra led by the legendary Igor Markevitch in music…
– Jacqueline Eymar – World Premier of Toccata for Piano by Luc-André Marcel – ORTF Studio Recording – 1965 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – A highly regarded but sadly forgotten pianist this weekend, playing a world premier of a…
– August 25, 1944 – News Reports from BBC – NBC and a Radio Documentary from Paris Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – August 25, 1944 – in a flurry of bulletins and reports, news came pouring in that…
Chabrier: Suite Pastorale – FNO conducted by Manuel Rosenthal – 1952 – ORTF Studio Session – Familiar ground this weekend. Manuel Rosenthal is certainly no stranger to collectors, nor is Emmanuel Chabrier to Music lovers. Today it’s a performance of…