Rudolf Serkin - 1936 broadcast - Schumann Piano Concerto

[@DavidLudwigMusic]

Thank you for posting this--I've never heard this recording.

[@dasglasperlenspiel10]

Thank you!!!

[@andrewharrison8975]

What an extraordinary survival, and in good sound. Is the original source the BBC? They had a terrible habit of destroying recordings. One such sad example was Egon Petri’s 1933 recitals of the music of Alkan - the Symphony and Concerto for solo piano - which were recorded by the BBC, but the discs were subsequently destroyed!

[@ClassicalPianoRarities]

The live Queen’s Hall broadcast was given with the London Philharmonic, Julius Harrison replacing Hamilton Harty who had been taken ill. Some site a date of 19 October 1936 as indeed does Geoffrey Self in his Harrison biography but the BBC Genome database states a broadcast date of 29 October.