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What is British Library Sounds
• Includes 50, 000 recordings and their associated documentaries
• Recordings come from all over the world
• Cover the entire range of recorded sound – music, drama, literature, oral history, wildlife and environmental sounds.
• Divided in 9 categories as follows:
• Accents and dialects,
• Arts, Literature and Performance,
• Classical music,
• Oral history,
• Sound recording history,
• World and traditional music
• and finally Sound maps
Accents and Dialects
• BBC Voices: conversations about language recorded by BBC Nations and Regions
• British Commonwealth Recordings –Recordings of WW1 British prisoners of war held in Germany
• Millenium Memory Bank: Oral history in Europe, recorded by BBC Local radio stations duing 1998 & 99
• Survey of English Dialects: Extratcts taken from recordings made between 1951 and 74
• UCL Phonetics Recordings: Poetry, dramatic performance, nursery rhymes, folktales and teaching materials for English
Arts, Literature and Performance
• African Writer’s Club: Radio programmes on Africa literary, social and cultural affairs produced in London for broadcast in Africa
• Art & Photography: Intimate encounters with the life and work of British painters, sculptors, photographers, designers and architects.
• Between Two Worlds: Poetry & translation: A wide range of poets who are bilingual or have English as a second language.
• Early spoken word recordings: English language recordings drawn from commercial sylinders and 78 rpm discs
• ICA Talks: Talks and discussions held at the ICA during the period 1982-1993, featuring leading writers, artists and film makers.
• ST Mary-le-Bow public debates from the 60s and 70s on social issues, featuring guests from the world of entertainment, business, politics and science.
• The Power of Caribbean Poetry: Readings, lectures and discussions
• Theatre Archive Project: A reinvestigation in British theatre history 1945-1968.
• Touch Radio: All the broadcasts from the pioneering station
Classical music
• BACH: All the pre-1957 recordings of the Orchestral suites, Brandenburg Concertos and keyboard Concertos.
• BEETHOVEN: Compare & Contrast performances of Beethoven’s string quartets, symphonies and concertos
• BRAHMS: Recordings of the symphonies, concertos and overtures made before 1957.
• Chamber Music: Performances include the Philharmonic String Quartet, the London .
• CHOPIN: Performances of all the major works.
• DEREK COLLIER COLLECTION: Recordings of the British Violinist at the BBC
• HAYDN: Pre-1957 recordings of the symphonies
• HUGH DAVIES: Experimental music.
• MOZART: Symphonies and Concertorsrecorded before 1957.
• ORAL HISTORY of GYLNDEBOURNE OPERA: Interviews with people connected to Gylndebourne Opera
• WILHELMJ CYLINDERS: Recordings of the Great Violinist
Environment and Nature
• A.R,Gregory Kenyan bird recording: Recordings from the most comprehensive archive of wildlife sounds from East Africa.
• Amphibians: A comprehensive collection of vocalisations from around the world.
• British Wildlife recordings: A selection of sound recordings of wildlife from around Britain.
• Early wildlife recordings: Pioneering wildlife sound recordings from the first half of the twentieth century.
• Interviews with wildlife sound recordists: A growing collection of interview with British wildlife sound recordists.
• Listen to Nature: Birds, mammals, amphibians, reptiles and insects from all over the world.
• Sound Effects: From Victorian street scene to the sounds of World War Two.
• Soundscapes: This selection draws together industrial sound and natural soundscapes and wildlife sounds from around the globe.
• Water: Field recordings of various bodies of water from around the world.
• Weather: Field recordings of meteorological phenomena
Popular music
• Oral History of Jazz: Musicians, promoters and label owners reveal some of the less well known aspects of British Jazz.
• Skiffle recordings
• Touch radio: All the broadcasts from the pioneering station
Oral History
• Architecture: Oral history interviews with British architects and those in associated profession.
• Art & Photography: Intimate encounters with the life and works of British painters, sculptors, photographers, designers and architects.
• Branding & Design: Life story oral history interviews with people involved in British branding fashion and design industries.
• Disability Voices: Interviews that chart the experience of disabled party.
• Early spoken word recordings: English Language recordings drawn from commercial cylinders and 78 rpm discs. E.g. Archbishop Bourne’s speech on Education.
• George Ewart Evans Collection: Interviews and songs recorded by oral history pioneer George Ewart Evans between 1956 and 1977.
• History of the Common Cold Unit: The memories of those who worked at the Common Cold Unit from 1957 until it’s closure in 1990.
• Industry, Water, Steel and Energy: Oral history interviews documenting the lives and careers of those who worked in the UK Electricity, Water, Steel, Oil and Gas industries
• Jewish Survivors of the Holocaust from Jewish survivors living in Britain.
Sound recordings history
• Alan Blumlein recordings: Early recordings made by the pioneering sound engineer.
• Early record catalogues: Record catalogues from 1898 to 1926 of discs produced for the British markets.
• Oral history of recorded sound: Interviews with people involved in all areas of the recording industry.
• Playback and recording equipment: Over 400 images of devices, from phonographs to DAT players.