Blasts from the Past (Archival Recordings)

Early 20th Century Music Interpretation - Phonobase.org

You may not have come across Phonobase.org - it's a French database of very old sound recordings.  If you're curious how things were first performed, this could provide hours of productive amusement.

Here is Phonobase introducing itself to you:-

"Description

Phonobase : www.phonobase.org gathers sound excerpts and photos taken from early commercial cylinders and records made from 1888 to 1914 approximately, and distributed in France and Europe mainly.
It contains also amateur and private recordings made during the same period on wax cylinders.
Photos and audio tracks are watermarked. Complete unmarked audio and photos are available upon request for broadcasting or publishing purposes.

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Classical Music Library, via Alexander Street Press

MORE RECORDINGS!!

Whittaker has just received a news bulletin about one of our streamed music services.  Alexander Street Press tell us that Classical Music Library has added a whole load of new recordings this month. 

This news is too good not to share!

"This week, we have added 5,904 albums (100,261 tracks) into the collection - now around 246,000 tracks in total!

Content is included from a wide variety of genres and labels, including Analekta, Arts Productions, Ltd., Cedille Records, Claves, Delphian Records, K&K Verlagsanstalt, Labor Records, Parnassus Records, Qualiton, Soli Deo Gloria, Tactus, and more.

Artists and ensembles include: London Concertante, Westminster Choir, Kathleen Ferrier, NBC Symphony Orchestra, NY Philharmonic, Franco Corelli, Kirsten Flagstad, Sviatoslav Richter, Janos Starker, Marian Anderson, Borodin String Quartet, Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, Anthony Braxton Quartet, Martha Argerich, New Arts Trio, Lukas Foss, Quartet Glinka, New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, and many more.

New content includes:-

·         Douglas Lilburn: The Three Symphonies

·         Music of Ysaye, Rozsa, Noon, Paganini/Bednar

·         World Of Robin and Marion: Songs and Motets From Time of Adam De La Halle

·         NBC Recordings: 1946 / 1948

·         Joaquín Turina: Grabaciones Históricas

·         Stravinsky & Prokofiev Conduct Their Works

·         The Platinum Collection - Mario Lanza

·         Max Bruch: MOSES (Oratorio Opus 67)

·         Hosanna In Excelsis - Texts and music from the spiritual world of the Middle Ages

·         Richard Wagner: Organ Transcriptions by Edwin Henry Lemare"

Centre for Research in New Music, University of Huddersfield



University of Huddersfield
http://www.hud.ac.uk/

There's plenty of new and exciting stuff going on at the Centre for Research in New Music, in the University of Huddersfield.

Why not take a look?  The Whittaker Library plans to obtain the Huddersfield new music recordings in the near future.

Music Streaming - more good news for 2012

Classical Music Library

adds  more  recordings

Classical Music Library (Alexander Street Press) has added even more recordings to its database for you to stream and enjoy.  Staff and students of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland can access these through the Library and IT Database website, here.

Here's their news release:-

"...we have just released released 459 albums (8,384 tracks) into Classical Music Library from a wide variety of labels, including new releases from Haenssler Classics, Mode Records, Bridge, Vox, and Wirripang.

New material includes compositions by Frank Bridge, Benjamin Britten, Arnold Bax, Gustav Mahler, Charles Koechlin, Wolfgang Rihm, Elliott Carter, Edvard Grieg, Morton Feldman, Aldo Clementi, Antonio Salieri, Lawrence Dillon, John Cage, Olivier Messiaen, Henry Fillmore, Morton Subotnick, Ursula Mamlok, Valentin Silvestrov, Giacinto Scelsi, Toru Takemitsu, and more.

... This new content is available worldwide."

Music Online now contains

• 693,698 tracks
• 100,030 pages text reference
• 24,977 scores (417,083 pages)
• 889 hours of video

Music Streaming - good news for 2012

Classical Music Library

(Alexander Street Press)

Classical Music Library – one of the Whittaker Library’s music streaming services – has just notified us of a huge addition to their provision.  They’ve now got lots more EMI recordings.  Staff and students can stream recordings via our library website.  Why not take a look at what’s on offer?  Here’s our databases page. 

Subject: Major EMI content release into Classical Music Library and Music Online

I am pleased to announce that we released 1,409 albums (35,688 tracks) into Classical Music Library and Music Online today!  We have now released the remaining EMI material into Classical Music Library, adding to the already 22,000 tracks of EMI already in the database - over 50,000 tracks of EMI in total.

New content comes from EMI Classics, Angel Records, Capitol Catalog, and more.

Highlights include recordings by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Jussi Bjorling, Victoria De Los Angeles, Itzhak Perlman, Renata Scotto, Mstislav Rostropovich, London Symphony Orchestra, Taverner Choir, Maria Callas, Jon Vickers, Melos Ensemble, Pinchas Zuckerman, Borodin Quartet, Christoph Eschenbach, Elly Ameling, Trio Sonnerie,  Alban Berg Quartett, Chung Trio, John Ogdon, and more.

Also included in this release are hundreds of full length operas ... 

Classical Music Library now includes 7,417 albums, equaling 134,381 tracks, and is growing regularly.