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. . . or click on the link here for Audio Player – Helen Jepson – RCA Magic Key Program – May 24, 1936 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection. Continuing our look at Singers of the 1930s as they appeared on the radio. This week it’s Soprano Helen Jepson, who...
. . . or click on the link here for Audio Player – Trio Medici – Recorded live at The Louvre Museum – April 30, 2015 – Radio France Musique. Over to Paris this week for a concert by stars-on-the-rise Trio Medici, recorded at The Louvre Museum in Paris on...
Click on the link here for Audio Player – The Fine Arts Quartet – Live At The Chipping Camden Festival – Part 1 Click on the link here for Audio Player – The Fine Arts Quartet – Live At The Chipping Camden Festival – Part 2 Over to the UK...
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Duke Ellington in concert at the Ravinia Festival – July 1, 1957 – CBS Radio Network – Gordon Skene Sound Collection The legendary Duke Ellington this weekend. The Radio premier of his Such Sweet Thunder, Suite on characters from Shakespeare as performed...
Click on the link here for Audio Player: Some Americana tonight, by way of the Eastman School of Music Symphony, with the venerable Dr. Howard Hanson at the podium. Part of the series America‘s Composers, this segment features Hanson conducting one of his own, lesser-known works. Fantasy Variations...
Click on the link here for Audio Player: Getting ready for the onslaught of Festivals this year. Rock and Jazz aren’t the exclusive property of the Festival atmosphere. Festivals throughout Europe featuring Classical music probably outnumber the others by a sizable number. But we have our fair share...
Click on the link here for Audio Player: (Still haven’t gotten the player situation resolved – waiting for “the team” to assess what’s going on – bear with us – UPDATE: It’s been fixed) A dose of Americana tonight by way of the legendary Leo Kottke and a...
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Part 1: Brahms- Piano Con. Nr 1 – Leinsdorf-Van Cliburn – July 1964 Click on the link here for Audio Player – Part 2: BSO – Van Cliburn – Liszt PC 2 and 1 – 1964 Only two months into 2013...
Click on the link here for Audio Player: Roparts – Quartet No. 6 – Pascal String Quartet – 1950 Another overlooked composer who has been getting some attention in recent years. Guy Ropartz was all but unheard of since shortly after his death in 1955. He has lately (over the...
Click on the link here for Audio Player: Los conciertos de Radio 3 – Niños mutantes -15_05_12 Anyone who has done any radio surfing on the Internet will find there are literally hundreds of stations all over the world who devote a goodly chunk of their daily programming to live...