Title from container spine. Benno Moiseiwitsch, piano ; Stadium Symphony Orchestra, Josef Krips, conductor (CD 2, tracks 1-3) ; BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sir Adrian Boult, conductor (CD 2, track 4). tracks 1-4 of CD 1 recorded August 18, 1958, broadcast October 5 & 7, 1958, on the BBC Home Service. tracks 5-27 of CD 2 recorded June 26, 1961, broadcast July 2, 1961, on the BBC Home Service. tracks 1-3 of CD 2 recorded July 19, 1961, Lewisohn Stadium, New York. track 4 of CD 2 recorded September 14, 1946, broadcast live on the BBC Light Programme, Royal Albert Hall, London. track 4 of CD 3 broadcast May 13 1959 on the BBC Home Service tracks 5 and 6 of CD 3, recorded September 11, 1958, at an unlisted location. "Previously unpublished"--Container. Booklet with program notes by Jonathan Summers in English (7 pages : illustrated) inserted in container.
Contents:
CD 1. Sonata no., 21 in C, op.53 : "Waldstein" (20:04) ; Andante favori in F, WoO57 (8:04) / Ludwig van Beethoven -- Kreisleriana : op. 16 / Robert Schumann (28:26) -- Pictures at an exhibition / Modest Mussorgsky (23:38). CD 2. Piano concerto no. 5 in E flat, op.73 ; 'Emperor' / Ludwig van Beethoven (37:27) -- Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini : op.43 / Sergei Rachmaninov (21:46). CD 3. Moiseiwitsch in Interview. WKCR in New York in the late 1950's ; New York 1958 ; Extract from a BBC interview in the late 1950s or early 60s ; Frankly speaking: a BBC interview with John Freeman, Philip Hope-Wallace and George Scott ; Audio extract from Words and music with Jack Payne (72:20) -- Ballade no.3 in A flat, op.47 / Fryderyk Chopin (7:36).
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