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Guillaume Vincent In Recital – Erik Satie – Musée d’Orsay – February 16, 2016 – Radio France Musique – The Music of Erik Satie this week, with Guillaume Vincent in recital at Musée d’Orsay, recorded on February 16 of this year by the venerable Radio France Musique. A program of...
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Tcherepnine plays Tcherepnine – The NBC Music Guild – 1938 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Diving into music from the 1930s this week, with a recital by the Russian composer Alexander Tcherepnine, who was on a brief tour of the U.S....
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Lukas Geniusas in concert at Palais des Congres du Tourquet – August 23, 2013 – Radio France Musique At the ripe old age of 23, and already the recipient of numerous awards and accolades, including a Young Talent award from his...
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Sviatoslav Richter in recital at the 1986 Tivoli Music Festival – 1986 – American Public Radio – Part 1 Click on the link here for Audio Player – Sviatoslav Richter in recital at the 1986 Tivoli Music Festival – 1986 –...
Click on the link here for Audio Player: Yefim Bronfman in recital – May 15, 2013, Salle Pleyel – Radio France Musique Over to Paris this week for a recital by the great Pianist Yefim Bronfman, recorded at the Salle Pleyel on May 15th of this year by the ever-present...
Click on the link here for Audio Player – then click Save As to download: George Shearing – LIve At The Hollywood Bowl – Boys Club Benefit 1961 Part of a longer concert featuring a wide range of talent as part of a Boys Club benefit in 1961 (the same...
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Part 1: Russian State Symphony – Part 1 Click on the link here for Audio Player – Part 2: Russian State Symphony – Part 2 The 140th birthday party for Sergei Rachmaninoff continues from Moscow this week, with another concert –...
Become a Patron! Paderewski Recital – 1938. Something unusual tonight. A truly historic recording of the first broadcast recital by famed Polish pianist and statesman, Ignacy Jan Paderewski, broadcast on September 25, 1938. During World War I, Paderewski became an active member of the Polish National Committee in Paris, which...
Click on the link here for Audio Player: News for March 5, 1997 Characterized as the worst flooding since the infamous Ohio River Valley floods of 1937, the Ohio River Valley Floods of 1997 were causing no end of havoc to countless towns and villages, submerged in water for yet...
Click on the link here for Audio Player: Bienvenu 1 Within the vast heading of The History Of Music, I don’t there is, or will ever be, a shortage of musicians and composers whose work has gone mostly unnoticed, or at best, largely underrated. Lily Bienvenu is one of those...
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