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Become a Patron! Over to Geneva Switzerland for a historic concert by Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, conducted by their Music Director of many years Ernest Ansermet and featuring the legendary Artur Rubinstein, piano in a concert recorded April 27, 1960. It was rebroadcast as part of the ongoing RTS...
If you like this, and want to hear more every day, you might want to support it: Become a Patron! I thought I would dive into some Americana this week by way of a classic and previously unavailable concert featuring the legendary Oscar Levant on Piano with The Los Angeles...
The Verve – In session for Mark Radcliffe – June 19, 1995 – BBC Radio 1 – The Verve this Tuesday – Recorded on June 19, 1995 for Mark Radcliffe at BBC Radio 1. A brief rundown on where the band was, emotionally and musically during this particular phase in...
Maria João Pires, Piano – NHK Symphony – Herbert Blomstedt, guest Conductor – April 20, 2018 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – With the announcement by pianist Maria João Peres last year of her retirement from the stage in 2018, this concert, recorded live only a few days ago by...
Fiat Lux – In session BBC Radio 1 – March 1984 – BBC Radio 1 – Fiat Lux tonight. Never heard of them? Well . . .they were together for only three years. They released one mini-album and 7 singles and had the distinction of their sax and keyboards player,...
Rain – In Session – BBC Radio 1 – February 15, 1991 – BBC Radio !- Liverpool Indie band Rain to end the working week – The band was formed at the Merseyside Trade Union Community and Unemployed Resource Centre in Huyton, Liverpool, in 1988 with a line-up of Ned...
Placebo – live in Paris – Recorded June 30, 1997 – Black Sessions – RFI – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Placebo in session/concert tonight. Formerly known as Ashtray Heart, Placebo are an Indie/Alternative band started by guitarist/singer Brian Molko and guitarist/bassist Stefan Oldsdal. They first grabbed attention and prominence...
The Fall – in concert at Tut’s, Chicago – July 16, 1981 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – With the sad news earlier this week regarding the death of leader/front man/writer/iconoclast Mark E. Smith of The Fall, tributes have been pouring in from all over the world. Clearly, Mark E....
Art Pepper – Live from Espace Pierre Cardin, Paris – May 19, 1981 – Radio France FIP – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Art Pepper this weekend. Widely acknowledged as one of the World’s Great Altoists, Art Pepper was a rapidly rising star from the late 1940s on. The trouble...
The Cranberries – In Concert from Vredenburg, Utrecht – The Netherlands – February 8, 1995 – VPRO-Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – With the devastating news earlier this week of the death of The Cranberries’ Dolores O’Riordan, and the void her loss leaves, I ran their very first session,...
Gordon Skene, two-time Grammy Nominee and archivist runs The Gordon Skene Sound Archive and this website, which is dedicated to preserving and encouraging an interest in history and historic news, events, and cultural aspects of our society. Past Daily is the only place on the Internet where you can hear a Nixon speech, listen to an interview with John Cassavettes or play a broadcast of Charles Munch rehearsing the Boston Symphony in 1950, all in the same place. It's living history and it's timeless.
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