"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Chabrier: Suite Pastorale – FNO conducted by Manuel Rosenthal – 1952 – ORTF Studio Session Familiar ground this weekend. Manuel Rosenthal is certainly no stranger to collectors, nor is Emanuel Chabrier to Music lovers. Today it’s a performance of his very...
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Faurè – Ballade – Jeanne-Marie Darrè, Piano – French National Orchestra, Manuel Rosenthal, cond. – 1955 – ORTF – Gordon Skene Sound Collection. Something familiar this weekend, as performed by two icons of French music performance during the mid-20th century; Pianist...
Click on the link here for Audio Player: Challan-Piano Concerto – French National Orchestra, Manuel Rosenthal, Conductor – Samson Francois, Piano – ORTF 1955 I am only guessing when I say this broadcast recording from the ORTF is from circa 1953. Since I have no access to exact recording dates,...
Click on the link here for Audio player: Debussy – Rhapsodie Orientale for Saxophone and Orchestra – 1955 To more familiar territory this week. Still by way of French Radio in the 1950’s. The repertoire is Debussy this time. The Rhapsodie Orientale for Saxophone and Orchestra featuring the legendary saxophonist...
