Chopin / Alexander Slobodyanik, 1972: Etudes, Op. 25, Nos. 6 and 7 - Indexed, Vinyl

The late Ukrainian pianist Alexander Slobodyanik (1942-2008) performs the third, fourth and fifth etudes from Chopin’s Op. 25. From the LP you see above, recorded live in what was then the USSR by Melodiya and distributed abroad under the Angel label, catalogue number SR-40205. (Note: the notes from the reverse side of the LP identify him as a Russian pianist; during the Cold War and the Communist era it was common for Melodiya to identify as Russians artists from the Ukraine and the Baltic states, among