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REPRODUCING PIANOS

BBC Home Service
on BBC Home Service Basic

In the 1920s you could buy. if you were rich enough. a piano which would automatically reproduce. without any assistance, the playing of masters of the keyboard Recently some of the piano-rolls made by great artists have been transcribed to tape for the BBC Sound Archives.
DERYCK COOKE introduces piano-rolls of the playing of JOSEF LHEVINNE
MORITZ ROSENTHAL
SERGEI RACHMANINOV RENNO MOISEIWITSCH LEOPOLD GODOWSKY MISCHA LEVlTSKI
Produced by Denys Gueroult
A BBC World Service production

Contributors

Introduces:
Deryck Cooke
Unknown:
Josef Lhevinne
Unknown:
Moritz Rosenthal
Unknown:
Sergei Rachmaninov
Unknown:
Renno Moiseiwitsch
Unknown:
Leopold Godowsky
Produced By:
Denys Gueroult
Source: Radio Times

BBC Home Service Basic

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BBC Home Service is a radio channel that started transmitting on the 1st September 1939 and ended on the 29th September 1967.

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