Albert Spalding – RCA Magic Key – August 30, 1936 – NBC Red Network – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Digging up more rarities this weekend. This one might take a little getting used to – the original discs are badly damaged. But this is a very rare live performance from
– Jean-Phillipe Collard – In Recital at France Musique Studio 104, Maison de la Radio, Paris – March 12, 2016 – Radio France Musique – If there was a concert which would constitute as therapeutic, cathartic, energizing, uplifting and the equivalent of a feast of comfort food, it would be
This week it’s a concert from the 1960 Vienna Festival featuring the Munich Philharmonic, led by Fritz Rieger and featuring the legendary violinists Edith Peinemann and Pina Carmirelli in music of Bach and Bruckner. The concert starts off with the Brandenburg Concerto Number 2, played by members of the Munich
Part 1 – Part 2 Back to rarities this week. A concert by the San Francisco Symphony led by its then-Music Director Edo DeWaart and featuring the legendary Russian Cellist Mstislav Rostropovich in music of Mozart, Dvorak, Rimsky-Korsakov and Tchaikovsky. No premiers or new works – pretty much meat-and-potatoes this
Paul Paray with Arnold Steinhardt, violin and The Detroit Symphony – Nov. 12, 1959 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Violinist Arnold Steinhardt, with Paul Paray, leading the Detroit Symphony this week in music of Bach, Mendelssohn and Mahler. The concert was recorded on February 12, 1959. Another classic concert this
– Jacqueline Eymar – World Premier of Toccata for Piano by Luc-André Marcel – ORTF Studio Recording – 1965 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – A highly regarded but sadly forgotten pianist this weekend, playing a world premier of a piece dedicated to her. The Toccata for Piano, by the
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 Arts station WNCN on March 21, 1983. A relaxed setting,
Boston Symphony – Aaron Copland, guest Conductor – January 2, 1960 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection- More historic concerts this week. The Boston Symphony, led by the legendary Aaron Copland in a concert of his own music, as well as music by Henry Purcell, Franz Joseph Haydn, David Diamond and
Jean-Yves Thiubaudet with Semyon Bychkov and Orchestre National de France – December 15, 2016 – Radio France Musique – Staying in Paris this week for a concert featuring the legendary and much-talked-about Jean-Yves Thibaudet with Semyon Bychkov leading Orchestre National de France in a program of music by Aram Khachaturian,
