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Gurdjieff’s Harmonium Improvisations (1949)

Saturday 24 September 2011 at 14:04



Recordings from the mystic and spiritual teacher G.I. Gurdjieff’s “last musical period”; improvised harmonium music which often followed the dinners he held in his Paris apartment during the Occupation and immediate post-war years, to his death in 1949.

(A total of 47 tracks are in the player above, use the next track button to navigate between them).

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Tokyo Rose (1944)

Fats Waller and His Orchestra live at The Yacht Club (1938)

Very early recording of George Gershwin's Rhapsody In Blue (1924)

Rudolph Valentino singing (1923)

Aiaihea - The Hawaiian Quintette (1913)

Antony's Address Over The Body of Caesar (1914)

Charlie and His Orchestra

Excerpt from Handel's Israel in Egypt (1888)

Gurdjieff's Harmonium Improvisations (1949)

General Pershing March - Imperial Marimba Band (1918)

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