Jim Fassett interviews Artur Rubinstein

Artur Rubinstein interviewed by Jim Fassett, radio broadcaster of the NY Philharmonic as part of the intermission program on March 26th, 1950. Rubinstein talks about being too nervous to play Rachmaninoff while he was still alive because he was such an incredible player of his own music. Also a story about how playing Ravel in Spain nearly caused a riot (!).
Technical info:
Unknown Scotch
7” Cine Reel
7 1/2 IPS
Some radio/electronic noise that I was unfortunately unable to eliminate in post processing.

[@Chopin1995]

Absolutely wonderful! Rubinstein is my favourite pianist and I collect the entire videography of him and every single bit of audio that isn't a studio recording. I don't have this one, thank you so much.

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Thanks for listening/watching!

[@MichaelKaykov]

Do you have an Gyorgy Cziffra?

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