Virtual Soirée Recording store
Not a Conley & Silvers Member, but want access to our Recording Library? Good news, we are making our past tour recordings available for purchase to all of our C&S friends!
With over 50 lectures already in the library, new tours will be added at the conclusion of each Virtual Soirée series. Recordings are available as a set of multiple tours packaged at a discounted rate averaging $10 per tour. Peruse the selection below and select the subject of your choice for access to stream our virtual tours online until September 30, 2022.
For an example tour, see this complimentary recording of a past talk where celebrated author Ross King joined us to discuss Monet’s Water Lilies as wartime paintings. Better yet, check-out the kind words by our loyal C&S fans here.
Summer 2020 Virtual Recording Library
Summer 2020 Virtual Recording Library
Your purchase includes eight tour recordings. Upon purchase, you will be emailed a link where you can download a PDF of your recording list! This PDF will have descriptions, links and passwords to the tour recordings, and will expire on December 31, 2021.
These recordings from summer 2020 covering the English Countryside with Sophie Campbell, the Moorish Spain with Julian Brown, and Renaissance art with Ross King and Elaine Ruffolo.
The Chelsea Flower Show with Sophie Campbell
The first cancelled activity of London social season - Sophie will spin stories of its history whilst we sip afternoon tea at home, sporting our best hats.
Meanderings in Moorish Spain: Andalucian Soirée - Travel with Dr Julian Brown through Andalucía as he talks about its people, buildings and spaces, spinning stories of their unique histories, and exploring the themes of memory, myth and museumification.
A Thousand and One Nights: Tales of the Alhambra
The Countess and the Mosaics: Ancient Italica and the Lebrija Palace - Seville
Walk back in time: Avebury to Stonehenge with Sophie Campbell
Get to grips with the world’s most famous stone circle, which sits exposed to the elements on a famous plateau in south west England known as the Salisbury Plain.
A jaunt down London’s water border: the Lee Valley with Sophie Campbell
We all know that English spelling is nuts, but the River Lea running through the Lee Valley really takes the biscuit. This often-forgotten watercourse starts up in the Chiltern Hills at Leagrave, and elbows east and south to join the River Thames.
Art of Living: Côte d’Azur Soirée with Julian Brown - Jet set on the French Riviera with Dr. Julian Brown, as he brings to life the artists and collectors of this world-famous stretch of Mediterranean coast-line. Discover how each of the personalities whose lives are explored in these lectures has left behind a unique museum.
Queen Victoria’s Donkey: An Historical Overview of the Côte d’Azur
The Hole in the Castle Wall: On the Beach with Picasso – Antibes and Vallauris
A Tale of Two Convalescences: Matisse, the Nurse and the Nun - Nice and Vence
From Russia With Love: Marc Chagall the Fiddler on the Roof - Nice
The Second-Hand Radio Shop: The Story of Aimé and Marguérite Maeght – St Paul de Vence
The White-Haired Lady Goes Gambling: The Rothschild Villa – St Jean Cap Ferrat
Florence: From the Dawn of the Renaissance to the Medici Dukes with Historian Elaine Ruffolo
Join Renaissance art historian, Elaine Ruffolo for a virtual profile of the city of Florence, the birthplace of the Renaissance that for hundreds of years nurtured an unceasing succession of great artists and thinkers.
The Genius Michelangelo with Historian Elaine Ruffolo
Renaissance art historian, Elaine Ruffolo will follow the remarkable career of Michelangelo traveling from Florence to Carrara to Rome and experience the David, Sistine Chapel and Pieta.
Leonardo and the Sense of Wonder with Author Ross King
Author Ross King will discuss the elements of a place and time that sparked Leonardo’s creativity and some of the most remarkable aspects of his life, work, and creative thinking.