Faust The General Nana Rien que les heures (Nothing but Time) Ménilmontant The Winning of Barbara Worth The Holy Mountain (Der heilige Berg) The Magician Secrets of a Soul A Page of Madness (Kurutta IppÄ“ji) The Strong Man The Overcoat Nelson The Adventures of Prince Achmed Battling Butler The Devil’s Wheel, (Chyortovo koleso) Flesh and …
An 80-minute mix of a massive four orchestral recordings from 1926, available exclusively to patrons, sign up here for access. Tracks 0:00:00 Gustav Holst with London Symphony Orchestra – The Planets 0:42:40 Fritz Kreisler & Berlin State Opera Orchestra – Mendelssohn – Violin Concerto e-moll Op.64 1:08:28 Cortot, Thibaud and Cassals – Schubert Trio No. …
MP3 download | Apple | Spotify | Castbox | Stitcher | Radiopublic | RSS “This time James and Sean take a trip back to the 80s — the 1880s that is. Aside from the original music we have celebrity appearances from Arthur Sullivan, Johannes Brahms, William Ewart Gladstone and Queen Victoria herself (possibly) — plus …
Time: 8pm BST, Saturday 18th July 2020 Place: Cambridge 105 Radio Audio curator James Errington is joined by jazz historian Joe Moore to discuss the astonishing year of 1917, when a new music called “Jass” or “Jaz” or “Jazz” swept the world, changing it forever. A genuinely astonishing time for music, brought to life with …
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January 3 — Theodoros Pangalos declares himself dictator in Greece January 8 – Crown Prince Nguyá»…n Phúc VÄ©nh Thuy ascends the throne, the last monarch of Vietnam January 26 — Scottish inventor John Logie Baird demonstrates a mechanical television system for members of the Royal Institution, and a reporter from The Times, at his London …
At Centuries of Sound I am making mixes for every year of recorded sound. The download here is a cut-down 30 minute mix, for the full two-hour version please come to centuriesofsound.com to stream, or patreon.com/centuriesofsound for downloads and a host of other bonus materials for just $5 per month. MP3 sample download | Patreon …
Tamara de Lempicka — Autoportrait (Tamara in a Green Bugatti) Joan Miró — The Birth of the World Charles Sheeler — Still Life Otto Dix — Portrait of the Dancer Anita Berber Paul Klee – Fish Magic Wassily Kandinsky — Yellow-Red-Blue George Adomeit – Down to the Harbor Lyonel Feininger — Barfüßerkirche in Erfurt I …
Strike (Stachka) The Gold Rush Feu Mathias Pascal (The Late Mathias Pascal) The Whirlpool of Fate (La Fille de l’eau) Phantom of the Opera The Battleship Potemkin The Freshman The Big Parade Orochi Miss Flying Feet Red Heels (Das Spielzeug von Paris) Seven Chances The Lost World Ben-Hur Quo Vadis The Merry Widow Little Annie …
Time: 8pm BST, Saturday 20th June 2020 Place: Cambridge 105 Radio This time James Errington is joined by John Ashlin to explore the music of 1916. While Europe lies devastated in the midst of the darkest year of the first world war, America is hotting up, with the birth of jazz and blues music imminent, …
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MP3 download | Apple | Spotify | Castbox | Stitcher | Radiopublic | RSS For the inaugural Centuries of Sound radio podcast I’m joined by Sean Spencer (not pictured) as I delve into the first 35 years of sound recording, including lines drawn in soot with feathers, a wasp trapped in a bottle, a talking …
