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Joaquin Turina – Piano Trio Number 2 op. 76 – The Halifax Trio – circa 1962 – CBC radio performance – Music of Joaquin Turina this week. His Second Piano Trio played in this broadcast recording by the Halifax Trio of Canada (the same ones who did the Violet Archer...
Maurice Miles – New London String Ensemble: John Humphries, Concerto – Recorded February 16, 1945 – BBC Transcription Service – Become a Patron! Maurice Miles leading the New London String Ensemble in a performance of John Humphries’ Concerto, recorded at the BBC on February 16, 1945 and issued as part...
Frederick Jacobi – Concertino For Piano And Orchestra – Irene Jacobi, Piano – Belgian Radio Orchestra, Franz André – SPA Records #7 – circa 1953 – Frederick Jacobi tonight. Most likely the premier recording of his Concertino for Piano And Orchestra composed in 1946, premiered shortly after – and this...
Igor Stravinsky – The Soldiers Tale (L’histoire du Soldat) – Ojai Festival Ensemble – 1948 – KNX – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Igor Stravinsky’s L’histoire du Soldat had its premier in September of 1918, conducted by Ernest Ansermet. Since that time, its had a series of premiers throughout the...
Debussy – Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune – Orchestra of The Santa Cecilia Academy, Rome – Bernardino Molinari, cond. – circa 1947 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Taking a detour to some rarely heard performances of the 78 era by artists who don’t figure prominently on the historic radar....
Andrew Dawes, violin – Bela Siki, piano – Adaskin: Canzona and Rondo – in concert at 1964 Jeunesses Musicales du Canada – CBC Radio Canada – The music of Canadian composer Murray Adaskin this week, featuring violinist Andrew Dawes and pianist Bela Siki in Adaskin’s Canzona and Rondo, recorded in...
Carroll Glenn, violin – National Association Of American Composers And Conductors Orchestra – Thomas Sherman, conductor – April 9, 1953 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Back to concerts this week. A broadcast from the annual gathering of the National Association of American Composers and Conductors, featuring a complete performance...
Miklos Rozsa – Serenade For Orchestra – La Jolla Musical Arts Festival Orchestra, Nikolai Sokoloff, cond – Concert Hall Society Records – Lp #G-4 Music of Miklos Rozsa this weekend. Universally known as one of the key film composers during the “Golden Age of Hollywood”, his soundtracks have been considered...
Norman Dello Joio – Ricercari For Piano And Orchestra – Germaine Smadja, piano – Henry Swoboda and The “Concert Hall Symphony” – Concert Hall Society Release D-6 – 1950. Continuing our break from broadcasts and staying with small American labels featuring noteworthy American composers, once again Concert Hall Society and...
Wilhelm Peterson-Berger: Soros Flowers (arr. Orch.) – Swedish Radio Symphony – Sten Frykberg, cond. – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Over to Sweden this week for some radio performances of less-known works from Sweden with the Swedish Radio Symphony conducted by Sten Frykberg in this 1948 radio broadcast via Sveriges...
