University of Cambridge - Cambridge University Library

Location: 

11 West Road
Cambridge
CB3 9DR
United Kingdom
Description

Collection owner: 

Library/Archive

Holdings: 

Collections: Arthur Bliss Archive. Subjects: Classical Music; Speeches & Events; Radio: Recordings of music by Arthur Bliss and talks/broadcast relating to Bliss. items: 28 Shellac Disc, 125 Vinyl Disc, 192 Open Reel Tape, 279 Compact Cassette, 127 published CD; Deryck Cooke Archive. Subjects: Classical Music; Speeches & Events; Radio: Recordings by Cooke of interviews, talks, concerts, radio broadcasts. items: 66 Open Reel Tape; Frederick Booth collection. Subjects: Classical Music: The private collection Frederick Booth (with a strong emphasis on 20th century music). items: 1000 Shellac Disc, 3000 Vinyl Disc, 42 Compact Cassette, 188 published CD; Peter Tranchell Archive. Subjects: Classical Music; Speeches & Events: Recordings mostly of Peter Tranchell's music; talks. items: 48 Shellac Disc, 65 Open Reel Tape, 4 published CD, 8 Audio CD-R; Roberto Gerhard Archive. Subjects: Classical Music; Speeches & Events: Original musical compositions (sound component/ electronic music); Recordings of talks and rehearsals. items: 225 Open Reel Tape; Robin Orr Collection. Subjects: Classical Music; Speeches & Events: Recordings of music by Robin Orr and talks on/by Robin Orr. items: 11 Shellac Disc, 26 Vinyl Disc, 62 Open Reel Tape, 61 Compact Cassette, 19 published CD; Thurston Dart Archive. Subjects: Classical Music; Speeches & Events; Radio: LP recordings of performances by Thurston Dart; CD-R copies of broadcasts. items: 66 Vinyl Disc, 4 Audio CD-R; William Alwyn Archive. Subjects: Classical Music; Speeches & Events; Radio: Recordings of music by Alwyn and Doreen Carwithen; recordings of performances, talks, interviews and broadcasts. Also includes recordings from William Alwyn/Doreen Carwithen's private collection of works by other composers. items: 37 Shellac Disc, 44 Vinyl Disc, 187 Open Reel Tape, 450 Compact Cassette, 59 published CD, 10 Audio CD-R. Subjects: Classical Music; World, Folk & Traditional Music; Popular Music & Jazz; Language & Dialect: Main collections: Legal Deposit and purchases of music and language material. Includes the Linguistic Survey of India collection. Includes some items entered in the accessions registers or the online catalogue from the named composer collections. items: 800 Shellac Disc, 1500 Vinyl Disc, 4072 Compact Cassette, 11824 published CD, 52 floppy discs
Contacts

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01223/333072

Contact name 1: 

Anna Pensaert

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