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"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
– Salzburg Festival 1938 – Mozart: Don Giovanni -Act 2 – Aug. 15, 1938 – Berlin Radio/NBC Blue Network – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – The Salzburg Festival, 1938 this week. Touted as one of the great innovations in broadcasting,…
Click on the link here for Audio Player – 4 by Betty Everett – 1963 – Vee-Jay Records (session masters) The history of Rock may not have exclusive rights to the stories of the overlooked and underrated, but they have…
Click on the link here for Audio Player – The Boston Symphony In Rehearsal – Charles Munch, cond. – Jan. 2, 1950 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Last week I ran the BSO rehearsing the first two movements of Tchaikovsky’s…
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Amsterdam Concertgebouw – Eugen Jochum, cond. – Kox – Symphony Nr. 2 – March 15, 1970 – Part 1 Click on the link here for Audio Player – Amsterdam Concertgebouw –…
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Romain Guyot and Lidija Bizjak in recital – 2013 Festival de l’Orangerie de Sceaux – September 6, 2013 – Radio France Musique Over to the Festival de l’Orangerie de Sceaux in…
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Lukas Geniusas in concert at Palais des Congres du Tourquet – August 23, 2013 – Radio France Musique At the ripe old age of 23, and already the recipient of numerous…
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Alejandro Garcia Caturia – Fantacion – NBC Radio Orchestra, conducted by H. Leopold Spitalny – October 7. 1943 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection A short one this weekend, but a rare…
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire, Conducted by André Cluytens – Henriette Faure, piano – Besançon Festival – Sept. 1951 – ORTF broadcast – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Something…
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Orchestre National de Radio France, Conducted by Gustavo Dudamel – April 13, 2012 – RFI France Musique – Part 1 Click on the link here for Audio Player – Orchestre National…
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Los Angeles Philharmonic – Carlo Maria Giulini – Radu Lupu, piano – March 8, 1980 – Part 1 Click on the link here for Audio Player – Los Angeles Philharmonic –…