What a spectacular setting! Looks vaguely diplomatic.
And most lovely playing - although I don't know the details of the piece, your performance communicates much and the sound is brilliant.
Didn't you originally post this along with a Saint-Saens piece?
Indeed this is rarely heard, and it occurs to me how pianists have the power to create an image of a composer as they see him, purely by their repertoire choices. This piece strikes me as more substantial than the oft-played "Un sospiro" with which it appears to have some similarities.
Bravo.
Walter Ramsey
Thank you Mr. Ramsey (or do you go by Walter?) for your kind words and for remembering my Saint-Saens post as well, you certainly have a good memory!

I took SS off thinking that to post one thing at a time would be better, less confusing. As for the "diplomatic" setting: you probably meant those flags, they were for the members of various countries who were participating in this particular event at that time.
And I agree with your take on Impromptu vs "Un sospiro [a sigh]," very keen of you! Somehow there is more bewitching, attractive quality about the impromptu than in the sigh-piece (perhaps due to subconscious effect of "sigh"?) Partly the "sigh" has been overused and lost its effect on the lister?

As well, your comment about how pianists have the power to create an image of a composer as they see him, purely by their repertoire choices, it is certainly true, as the below shows my take on Liszt (used as my CD liner notes):
Franz Liszt, a Byronic colossus whose ultimate fascination lay in the divine, reveals the very essence of his art—ecstatic piety joining with sensuous decadence—in this gem, the Impromptu in F-sharp major. This key has often been associated with the supernatural in Liszt's music. As a glimpse of heaven is granted amid the intoxicating perfume and smoke of opium, the sound of distant church bells restores the purity of soul.
Very cordially yours,
Quentin