{"id":7636,"date":"2015-07-16T15:41:38","date_gmt":"2015-07-16T15:41:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pianostreet.com\/blog\/?p=7636"},"modified":"2015-07-19T16:00:56","modified_gmt":"2015-07-19T16:00:56","slug":"famous-composers-alive-and-just-a-click-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pianostreet.com\/blog\/piano-news\/famous-composers-alive-and-just-a-click-away-7636\/","title":{"rendered":"Famous Composers Alive and Just a Click Away"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Schostakovich

Schostakovich playing his first piano concerto<\/p><\/div>\n

That a recording exists of the voice of Tchaikovsky<\/a> tantalizes the imagination. If there is a Tchaikovsky recording on an Edison cylinder, might there not also be, hidden away in a dusty shoebox in an attic somewhere, another cylinder with Liszt<\/a> at the piano? It’s not outside the realm of possibility. After all Liszt lived for almost nine years after Edison invented the phonograph. In the absence of that mythical cylinder, however, we can still enjoy some rare footage, both audio and video, of famous 20th-century composers, both on stage and at home. Rachmaninoff<\/a> charms the audience in one film with his gruff good humor, while Toscanini and Walter commiserate in another.<\/p>\n

Hear Sergey Prokofiev<\/a> play one of the waltzes in his ballet Cinderella and speak about what he was working on at the time of the interview (1946) :<\/p>\n