Yelena Bekman Shcherbina plays Mendelssohn Piano Concerto no. 1

Yelena BekmanShcherbina playing Mendelssohn s Piano Concerto no. 1, op. 25, with the AllUnion Radio SO under Sergei Gorchakov, recorded before 1951. This is ripped from a LP. BekmanShcherbina s list of teachers is amazing she studied with Nikolai Zverev, Pavel Pabst and Vasily Safonov, and learned to play Scriabin s pieces from the composer himself. For her graduation from the Moscow Conservatory she played all of Bach s 48 Preludes and Fugues as well as Schumann s Symphonic Etudes and other works. Sh