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I just ran across this one from the Paleo Festival in Nyon, Switzerland which was recorded on July 13, 2013. Sophie Hunger is from Zurich and she was a surprise hit at the 2008 Montreux Festival. Her sound is a mixture of a lot of different influences. And so is her...
Rafael Kubelik with The Chicago Symphony – Smetana: Ma Vlast (Complete) – Broadcast of October 27, 1983 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Another historic concert this week. Former Music Director of the Chicago Symphony in the early 1950s, now guest conducting the orchestra in the first of 5 concerts...
January 31, 1980 – CBS News – The World Tonight – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – January 31, 1980 – A day of diplomacy, arm-twisting, posturing, proclaiming and finger-pointing. Jimmy Carter’s Special Envoy, Clark Clifford paid a visit to India’s Prime Minister Indira Gandhi to assure here the weapons the...
Massive Attack – Live in Lausanne, Switzerland – October 21, 1995 – Swiss Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Massive Attack this weekend; who I consider one of the game-changer bands of the 90s; a group of artists casually labeled Trip-Hop, but who extend far beyond that to shape...
Basel Radio Symphony – Gennadi Rozhdestvensky, cond. – Alexander Tcherepnine Memorial Concert – 1979 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – The music of Russian-born/naturalized American citizen Alexander Tcherepnine this week. An historic memorial concert performed in Lausanne, Switzerland by the Basel Radio Symphony conducted by Gennadi Rozhdestvensky and featuring a...
Fauré Quartet – In Concert at the Octogone Theatre, Pully Switzerland – January 20, 2015 – RTS Switzerland – The Fauré Quartet this week – in a concert of music by Gustav Mahler, Sergei Taneyev and Richard Strauss – it was recorded in Pully Switzerland at the Octogone Theatre on...
– Shake Shake Go – In Concert At Paleo Festival – July 22, 2015 – RTS Couleur 3 – Jumping back into Festival Season this week with the latest offering via the Paleo Festival in Switzerland. Around for some 40 years, Paleo is one of the more popular festivals in...
– Pierre Wissmer – Le Bal chez Sylvie – Orchestre de la Suisse Romande – Edmond Appia, cond – Swiss Radio – 1951 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection. – Going back to the Swiss Radio-Geneva sessions circa 1951 this weekend, with the legendary Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, led by...
. . . or click on the link here for Audio Player – Dalcroze – Variations sue La Belle est Suisse – Suisse Romande Orch. – Edmond Appia, cond. – RSR – circa 1950. Over to Switzerland this week for a radio session circa 1950 featuring l’Orchestre de la Suisse...
. . . or click on the link here for Audio Player – Bill Evans Trio – live in Epalinages, Switzerland – Feb. 6, 1975 – RSR-Espace 2 Over to Switzerland this week for a concert by the legendary Bill Evans, with his trio consisting of Eddie Gomez on bass...
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