"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
– Tcherepnine plays Tcherepnine – The NBC Music Guild – 1938 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Diving into music from the 1930s this week, with a recital by the Russian composer Alexander Tcherepnine, who was on a brief tour…
You can do a lot with coffee: Schmitt: La Tragèdie de Salomè – Paris Conservatory Orchestra, Andrè Cluytens, cond. 1950 Besancon Festival – ORTF – Gordon Skene Sound Collection The music of Florent Schmitt this weekend. A popular figure during…
– Gyorgy Sandor in Recital – WNCN-FM, New York – November 9, 1983 – More history this week. The celebrated Hungarian Pianist Gyorgy Sandor in recital at New York station WNCN-FM and was broadcast on November 9 , 1983. Unlike…
– Lalo: Piano Concerto – Reine Gianoli, Piano – ORTF Phil. Pierre-Michel LeConte – ORTF Broadcast 1967 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Another slice of history this weekend – a legendary pianist playing a seldom-performed work. The celebrated and…
– 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…
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…
Something historic again this week. From the 1980 Salzburg Festival, a recital by legendary Russian Pianist Emil Gilels in a program of music by Mozart and Chopin. Here’s the rundown: Mozart: Sonata in F Major K. 533 and 494 Mozart:…
WNCN-FM – Murray Perahia In Recital – March 21, 1983 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Something special and historic this week – a broadcast-only recital by legendary pianist Murray Perahia, given in the studios of long-defunct New York Fine…
Orchestre National de l’ORTF, conducted by Jean Martinon with Vlado Perlemuter, piano – Recorded March 22, 1956 – Radio France/INA Archives – Even though this year has been filled with great festivals and great artists, the real gems several summers…
Back to French Radio transcriptions again this week. This time featuring something familiar played by two highly regarded artists of the 1950s – Roger Albin, cello and Claude Helffer, piano. They play the Debussy Sonata for Cello and Piano, as…