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London Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Sir Thomas Beecham, Bart.: A Faust Overture (Wagner)

Orchestre de la Societe des Concerts du Conservatoire, conducted by Weingartner; solo pianoforte Emil Sauer: Concerto No. 1 in E flat in one movement (Liszt)

Boston Symphony Orchtstra, conducted by Koussevitzky: Scherzo and March from Love of Three Oranges (Prokofiev)

Emil Sauer and Felix Weingartner, each of them over seventy years of age, were pupils of Franz Liszt, and they met in Paris last December in order to make this record.
Both Weingartner and Sauer were in their 'teens when, as pupils, they sat at the feet of the great Liszt, and the performance this afternoon is a striking testimony to the success of that historic tuition. Weingartner himself is said to have been so delighted with this recording that, on hearing it, he danced a wild jig in the studio. He declared 'There are very few of us, and when we die there will be no more of us; the new generation haven't got the training, discipline, and broad experience of us old boys.'

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