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Recordings of classical music. 130 years of commercial, broadcast & unpublished material.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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Edison Fellow Yanran Li writes about what we can learn from recordings by pupils of Clara Schumann in this new guest blog. blogs.bl.uk/sound-and-visi…
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Happy Birthday yesterday to Franz Liszt! Born 22nd October 1811.
A Stradivarius from 1703 and a Guarnerius from 1738 from the collection of Dr Lowenberg used for these Anker recordings by Sam Fidelmann around 1912.
Delighted to provide this rare recording of an exciting performance of Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 3 for the excellent 21 CD set Conductors' Gallery on @EloqClassics
Pleased to get a good review from Gramophone magazine for these first recordings of works by Rachmaninoff. Thanks Rob Cowan!
Sounds from the nineteenth century! Alfred Grünfeld (1852-1924) playing an apparently unpublished improvisation on Hungarian themes recorded in 1899. From the Malcolm Binns collection.
Recently acquired: A Toccata for the left hand composed by Franz Schmidt in 1938, who today is known for his four wonderful symphonies. Here recorded in a two-handed arrangement by Friedrich Wührer.
Pleased to research and write the notes for this excellent APR issue of Shura Cherkassky's complete 78 rpm discs, all in fully remastered sound.
Bernard Keeffe 1925-2022. A tribute to a familiar face and voice on BBC classical music programmes of the latter half of the twentieth century. robccowan.com/2023/08/04/the…
Very sad to hear of the death of Carl Davis last week. I was fortunate to record a three hour interview with him about his life and work last December for @britishlibrary Sound Archive. C1742/28
Fascinating unpublished test pressing of Arthur de Greef playing the second half of Liszt's Polonaise in E major. From the Malcolm Binns collection.
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The Incunabula of Recorded Sound. The only copy of a privately published single volume from the 1980s, containing info about the very earliest cylinder recordings of historically important people, like Florence Nightingale #JustDigitised #FullyDigitised access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ar…
Bennett Maxwell's privately published book about the earliest sound recordings on cylinder is now available to read on the Universal Viewer. access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ar…
Born more than 175 years ago, here is Sir Alexander Mackenzie (1847-1935) conducting his own work on 17th September 1916. Thank you Philip Moores for your recent donation!
Recently acquired: test pressings of unpublished recording by Noel Mewton-Wood. The last disc of the set is missing.....
Rachmaninoff 150! Excited to help with the release of these hitherto unknown recordings from 1937. Read about them here. blogs.bl.uk/sound-and-visi…
Delighted to research and write the notes for the Decca solo recordings of the excellent British pianist Kathleen Long.
God save the King! Released 99 years ago. A commercial copy of one of the miniature discs made by HMV for Queen Mary's dolls' house, recorded in 1924.
Delighted to receive a donation of a live broadcast from South America. Adolf Busch at the Cine Teatro Broadway, Buenos Aires. Thank you Tully Potter!
Sir Frederick Bridge, born in 1844, was organist and Master of the Choristers of Westminster Abbey @wabbey from 1882 to 1919. A disc of him conducting one of his compositions, recorded 25th October 1911, just accessioned from the Peter Stroud donation.
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Last autumn I spent a blissful few days in Prague delving into various archives. I was supposed to be back this week, so thought I’d share this snap from a sunny October day after visiting the Smetana Museum I forgot to post last year. Dreaming of this amazing city today!
I visited my former piano teacher’s house and look at what I found: 1948 Vladimir Horowitz recital program #MondayMotivaton
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