This week’s selection comes from Charlie Morgan, Oral History Archivist. The Barley Mow is a classic end of the night folk song; funny enough to leave you in a good mood, adaptable enough to please the crowd, and it’s about drinking so normally has the… read more
Illustration from HMV set of Merrie England (Courtesy of Damien’s 78s) By Jonathan Summers, Curator of Classical Music To celebrate St George’s Day this year I have selected a work whose popularity lasted well into the twentieth century. When Arthur Su… read more
This week’s selection comes from Greg Green, Audio Project Cataloguer for Unlocking our Sound Heritage. With hundreds of recordings of birds from around East Africa, Myles E. W. North is a name that constantly crops up within the enormous collection of… read more
This week’s selection comes from Steve Cleary, Lead Curator of Literary and Creative Recordings. This week’s Recording of the week – composed of two recordings in fact, an A-side and a B-side – is drawn from the disc issued by the Columbia Gramophone C… read more
This week’s selection comes from Michele Banal, Audio Project Cataloguer for Unlocking our Sound Heritage. Husband and wife Mihaly and Gizella Halmagyi were a duo of professional musicians from Gyimes Valley, in the Romanian stretch of the Eastern Carp… read more