Vlado Perlemuter plays Ravel’s Gaspard de la Nuit (1951)

Maurice Ravel (1875-1937): Gaspard de la Nuit 1. Ondine 0:00 2. Le gibet 6:32 3. Scarbo 12:10 Vlado Perlemuter (1904-2002), piano From a radio broadcast, 1951 This may be the first radio recital Perlemuter gave after the difficult war years. His name was on a list of French Jews to be arrested, and Alfred Cortot, although in an influential position, did nothing to help him. Eventually (if I am informed correctly) Perlemuter had a breakdown (tuberculosis), spending three years in a sanatorium in Switzerland, resuming his career only in 1950.