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Click on the link here for Audio Player – The Boston Symphony in Rehearsal – Richard Burgin, assoc. Cond. – Joseph Battista, piano – April 14, 1951.
For this week’s rehearsal, Associate Conductor Richard Burgin leads the Boston Symphony in a rehearsal of the Chopin Piano Concerto number 2, with the noted Italian/American Pianist Joseph Battista as soloist.
As always, not the complete performance but a rehearsal of the first and second movements. Ben Grauer is on hand to deliver commentary, and the whole thing was broadcast on April 14, 1951.