MPRC
The Music Performance
Research Centre
The Barbican Centre,
London
MPRC Web Site
From the outset ThamesWeb must state an
interest. A keen interest. In August 1997 a ThamesWeb representative
met Jon Tolansky, musician and broadcaster of note, outside the
Albert Hall. Over coffee, Jon described the concept of an archive
of recorded (live) performances that included a recital given
by Sviatoslav Richter in the Royal Festival Hall in June 1967.
The ThamesWeb rep - a teenager in 1967 - had been at that concert
and for weeks beforehand had been getting to know the Liszt B
Minor Piano Sonata recorded by Clifford Curzon.
So some twenty years later he
hears from Jon that the MPRC have a tape of that self same concert!
In short, WOW!
The result of that meeting was
the original MPRC Web site, and if you have an interest in the
great performers of the past, or present if you include them
in their youth, then you will spend a very pleasant few hours,
or even days, at their Archive in the Barbican Centre Library,
London.
Heartily recommended!
MPRC Web Site
Travel by Rail From Windsor, via Slough and Paddington, Circle
Line to Barbican Station. Barbican Centre 5 minutes walk, signposted.
Approx 1 hour or less.
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