– Chairlift at The Dour Festival – Dour, Belgium – July 17, 2012 – Brooklyn based Chairlift have been making huge inroads with the genre of Electronic/Experimental. Having gotten started in Colorado and relocating to Brooklyn, Chairlift have established themselves as one of the cornerstone Electronica outfits on the scene
The Paris Conservatory Orchestra, lead by the legendary Andrè Cluytens at the 1951 Besancon Festival in a performance of La Peri by Paul Dukas. Andrè Cluytens belongs to the era when style and musicianship coupled with impeccable phrasing were the key elements to performance. In 1932 he accepted a position
– Hubeau – Violin Sonata – Another rarity this weekend – and another broadcast recital from French Radio in the 1950’s. This one features rising-young-star Renèe France Froment on violin with legendary pianist-pedagogue Louise Clavius-Marius on Piano in a performance of the Sonata for Violin and Piano by contemporary 20th
– Blossom Toes – In Session at Bouton Rouge – February 10, 1968 – We have that small, dedicated, somewhat loopy society of individuals known as The Record Collectors to thank for rescuing what has been, up to now, one of the most criminally underrated and overlooked bands of the
Over to Paris this week for one day of a multi-day recital of the complete solo Piano music of Claude Debussy, as well as music by other composers who inspired Debussy, performed by Pianist Phillippe Cassard. A pretty Herculean task, if you ask me. The whole recital was recorded in
– Sonny Rollins Trio – live in Aix-en-Provence – March 11, 1959 – Radio France International – Something special and historic this weekend. The legendary Sonny Rollins in one of his last appearances in 1959 before his self-imposed withdrawal from the scene for a period of introspection, regrouping and reappraisal.
– Izia – SFR Studio Concert – March 19, 2012 – Over to Paris this week for a concert by the deceptively dramatic and dynamic Izia and her band, recorded live at SFR Studios in Paris on March 19, 2012. Izia is the daughter of late 70’s Pop Icon Jacques
Over to Paris this weekend for a Radio studio recording of the Lalo Cello Concerto, with the legendary Andrè Navarra, cello and the Paris Conservatory, conducted by the great Andrè Cluytens. No date on the disc, but judging from the other sessions around this time, it would be about 1949
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