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Two Strings to a Bow
In the last of eight programmes, Stephen Plaistow explores two composers from different centuries. Liszt and Rachmaninov. Two of the greatest executant-composers in the history of the piano. Tamas Vasary and Sviatoslav Richter play their first concertos, Richter plays some
Rachmaninov preludes, Margaret Price sings in Russian, Elisabeth Soderstrom sings in French, and Alfred Brendel makes a case for
Liszt the seeker and pioneer.
Scottish pianist Frederic Lamond , one of Liszt's last pupils, remembers the master and his piano lessons. Producer Christine Hardwick

Contributors

Unknown:
Stephen Plaistow
Piano:
Tamas Vasary
Piano:
Sviatoslav Richter
Unknown:
Elisabeth Soderstrom
Unknown:
Alfred Brendel
Pianist:
Frederic Lamond
Producer:
Christine Hardwick

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