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Recordings of classical music. 130 years of commercial, broadcast & unpublished material. Tweets by Jonathan Summers, Curator, Classical Music, British Library. bl.uk/collection-gui… London, England Joined June 2016-
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Absolutely delighted that my piano transcriptions of songs by Anton Rubinstein have been published in Japan as both hard copy and download. muse-press.com/en/product/mp0… muse-press.com/en/product/mp0…
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Johannes Heidenreich, repetiteur at Staatsoper Berlin and lecturer at Hochschule fur Musik in the 1920s. 1932 lost his teaching post and wrote musical reports for Goebbels. When it was discovered that his Aryan certificate was forged, he commited suicide. Rare 1924 recording.
Two of four unissued alternate takes @britishlibrary Sound Archive from Nicolas Medtner's 1946 recording of Beethoven's Appassionata Sonata. Take 4 of this matrix was published.
Just acquired for @britishlibrary Sound Archive - a rare wartime recording made in Zurich by Paul Baumgartner (1903-1976).
Delighted to acquire this rare disc by Busoni pupil Edward Weiss (1892-1984). Around 50 years later he participated in a Busoni Symposium at the National Sound Archive, the forerunner of the @britishlibrary Sound Archive.
Recently acquired! A recording made just after the premiere of the opera in 1911 with Eduard Kunneke conducting.
The other side of the US Vogue picture discs from the last posting. This time it is 'The boy who cried wolf.'
A US Vogue picture disc of a children's story The Trial of 'Bumble' the Bee performed by The Jewell Playhouse Inc. directed by James Jewell. Released in 1947.
A recent acquisition. The premiere performance of Alan Rawsthorne's Violin Concerto (later to become No. 1) at the Cheltenham Festival in 1948 with Theo Olof, Halle Orchestra and John Barbirolli.
Delighted to write the booklet note for Jorge Bolet's complete @deccaclassics recordings which include a selection of previously unpublished Chopin Nocturnes.
On 9th November Cortot pupil Thierry de Brunhoff will be 90. His EMI recordings were re-issued on CD in 2004. Now a Benedictine monk, Brother Thierry Jean has been at En-Calcat Abbey since 1974. Bon anniversaire!
Violinist Maurice Rubinstein won the 1906 Klindworth-Scharwenka competition and made this disc in Berlin, apparently his only recording. Delighted to acquire this rare disc for the @britishlibrary Sound Archive.
Denise Molié (1903-1995) recorded four sides of Debussy for French HMV on 11th June 1928. Pleased to acquire two of them for @britishlibrary Sound Archive.
Delighted to be able to provide the majority of the 78rpm discs for this wonderful collection of recordings by Alfredo Campoli on Decca @EloqClassics
The third and final part of the extraordinary story of violinist Camillo Sivori by Andrew Krastins was posted today. SIVORI IS DEAD! VIVA SIVORI! The haunting recorded legacy of Paganini’s only pupil, Part 3 - Sound and vision blog
I was delighted to see my old friend Alan Walker when he visited @britishlibrary to do some research for the second edition of his Chopin biography. I also interviewed him on his extraordinary 94 years for the collections (C1742).
Celebrate the 4th July with Sousa's Stars and Stripes Forever whistled 122 years ago in 1902 by Georg Tramer (1871-1939)
Andrew Krastins continues his fascinating story of @britishlibrary phonograph cylinders that could be by Paganini's only pupil Camillo Sivori. SIVORI IS DEAD! VIVA SIVORI! The haunting recorded legacy of Paganini’s only pupil, Part 2 - Sound and vision blog
Delighted to see that the story about @britishlibrary cylinders of possible Sivori recordings in @TheStradMag has been picked up in Poland and France. ruchmuzyczny.pl/article/4354 search.app/jzzP5fZqbtWr48…
Could these @britishlibrary cylinder recordings actually be by Paganini's only pupil Camillo Sivori? Read the first part of Andrew Krastins' amazing detective story here! blogs.bl.uk/sound-and-visi…
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