That's from one of my all time favorite historical recordings; the performance of the wonderful concerto on side one is to die for, but the side two gavotte always struck me as a sort of classical equivalent of a pop single, and I probably played it as much as any track on a Beatles album.
I should add that all Angel's reissues of 78s had the same standardized packaging as the above; the album covers felt not like cardboard but like linen, and the booklets that came with them were uniformly fabulous. I can't remember which other ones I had, although one of them was probably Fritz Kreisler doing the Brahms violin concerto.
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Could you play it on the piano?
Captain Al
Never tried, though if I can find the score I might learn it this summer. I have a terrific electronic keyboard with a great piano sound in my home office now.
Always preferred this version to the full-orchestra.
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