Eugen D’Albert plays Beethoven ~ Sonata ’Waldstein’ ~ The 1906 piano roll recording

Видео группы “Уроки выдающихся пианистов“ Alongside the other Beethoven works which he played, such as the 5th and 4th piano concerti, (q.v.) D’Albert’s performance of the ’Waldstein’ Sonata was famous and legendary even in his own time. Although he later recorded for the phonograph a heavily cut version of the Rondo, this gives us no idea of the conceptual span in his interpretation of the whole. But for the first time in living memory, we can hear his piano rolls of the whole So