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If you don’t mind: Become a Patron! Over to Spain this week for a concert by Orquesta Sinfonica de Eskadi, conducted by Andrey Boreyko and featuring the inimitable Hèlène Grimaud, piano. Grimaud was born in 1969 in Aix-en-Provence and began her piano studies at the local conservatory with Jacqueline Courtin...
Music from the historic Stratford Music Festival in Ontario Canada this week. This recording from the 1968 festival, is presented by the CBC International service and feature the Stratford Chamber Orchestra in several works, including two World Premiers. Starting with Jeu a Quatre by Serge Garant, with the composer conducting...
Part 1: Part 2: Continuing Summer Festival season in Europe with a concert from the 2016 Aix-en-Provence Festival. This festival has been one of the most popular and legendary, having been around for several decades and offering some of the most memorable performances of instrumental, opera and orchestral repertoire. Certainly...
Paul Paray with Arnold Steinhardt, violin and The Detroit Symphony – Nov. 12, 1959 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Part 1 Paul Paray with Arnold Steinhardt, violin and The Detroit Symphony – Nov. 12, 1959 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Part 2 Violinist Arnold Steinhardt, with Paul Paray,...
– Gothenburg Symphony – Gustavo Dudamel, cond. – Sveriges Radio – June 3, 2010 – Part 1 – – Gothenburg Symphony – Gustavo Dudamel, cond. – Sveriges Radio – June 3, 2010 – Part 2 – I was reminded by a reader from my old site of many years that...
– Los Angeles Philharmonic – Sixten Ehrling, guest Cond. – Itzhak Perlman, violin – February 17, 1966 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection. – Another classic and long-lost concert this week from the vault. The Los Angeles Philharmonic, guest conducted by Sixten Ehrling and featuring the then-wunderkind violinst Itzhak Perlman in...
. . .or click on the link here for Audio Player – S.F. Symphony – DeWaart – Rostropovich – Feb. 20, 1979 – Part 1 . . . or click on the link here for Audio Player – S.F. Symphony – DeWaart – Rostropovich – Feb. 20, 1979 – Part...
. . . or click on the link here for Audio Player – Netherlands Radio Symphony – Carlos Miguel Prieto, cond. December 4, 2005 – VPRO Over to Hilversum this week for a 2005 concert by the Netherlands Radio Symphony, conducted by Carlos Miguel Prieto in music by Alphons Diepenbrock...
. . . or click on the link here for Audio Player – Orchestre National de France – Live broadcast – Nov. 27, 2014 – Radio France Musique Over to Paris this week for a concert by Orchestre National de France, guest conducted by Stèphane Denéve and featuring Pianists Frank...
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Live from The Salle Playel, Paris – Evgeny Kissin – Myung-Whun Chung – Sept. 19, 2014 -Part 1 Click on the link here for Audio Player – Live from The Salle Playel, Paris – Evgeny Kissin – Myung-Whun Chung – Sept,...
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