A March 1946 Liszt sonata from Carnegie Hall, never released due to three cuts that Vladimir Horowitz made in the score.

Nonetheless exceptional.

From the Bayreuth conductor Hartmut Haenchen:

WAGNER-WAGEN, am größten Wagner-Denkmal im Liebethaler Grund in der Sächsischen Schweiz, wo Wagner die ersten Skizzen zu “Lohengrin” schrieb. Mehr Romantik geht nicht. Die Ruine der Lochmühle will der Wagner-Liebhaber Hermann Häse zum Hotel ausbauen.

This is the idyllic location in Saxony where Wagner conceived the idea for Lohengrin. Might it be ruined by tourism?

From typically forthright interview with Vladimir Ashkenazy:

If record companies asked me to record music, I always said yes. Why not? In the Soviet Union, recordings were limited to Soviet and Russian music, maybe Beethoven and Mozart. When I started travelling to the West, I brought back suitcases full of scores and records that you could never find in Russia. The officers would open my suitcases and ask, what is this? Other people brought back clothes, expensive things they couldn’t buy in the Soviet Union. Because I had so many recordings and scores, people heard and asked to borrow them; very rarely, they didn’t return them….

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