Jacques Aubert – Violin Concerto No. 3 – Renee France Froment, violin – Girard String Orchestra, André Girard, cond. – ORTF Music from the Chateau de Sceaux music festival, circa 1958, featuring the music of late 17th/early 18th century composer Jacques Aubert. Concerto for violin Number 3, as played
Leo Sowerby – Comes Autumn Time – NBC Studio Orchestra – Joseph Stulpak, cond – July 1, 1943 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – American this weekend – Music of the early and mid-twentieth century by Leo Sowerby. Often referred to as the “Dean of American Church Music”, but
Jean Martinon – Suite Nocturne – Henri-Merckel, violin – Marie-Louise Caillard, piano – Circa 1950 – ORTF – Paris – Some rarities from French Radio this weekend. The music of Jean Martinon, played by the legendary French violinist Henri Merckel and noted pianist Marie-Louise Caillard – in a broadcast performance
Jacquest Ibert – Jeux for Flute and Piano – Michel Debost, flute – Christian Ivaldi, piano – ORTF Radio Session 1963 – The music of Jacques Ibert once again – this week it’s one of the number of then-recent discoveries made after Ibert’s death in 1962. With a considerable catalogue
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
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
Vittorio Giannini – An Opera Ballet (World Premier) San Francisco Symphony – Edwin MacArthur, cond. – August 27, 1939 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Vittorio Giannini – a name mostly forgotten, but one of the leading lights of the Neo-Romantic movement in American classical music in the early and
1959 Vienna Festival – Pfitzner: Violin Concerto – Edith Peinemann, violin – Bamberg Symphony – Joseph Keilberth, cond – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – 1959 Vienna Festival this weekend. An excerpt from and a historic performance by The Bamberg Symphony, conducted by Joseph Keilberth and featuring the legendary Edith Peinemann
