Rare Footage of Gwendolyn Koldofsky Playing in Lotte Lehmann Master Class

In the short time that I studied with Gwendolyn Koldofsky at the Academy of the West, she often spoke fondly of her longtime collaboration with Lotte Lehmann. I was very glad to have recently found a six-and-a-half minute YouTube clip of a 1961 Lotte Lehmann master class, in which she coaches Jeannine Wagner singing Brahms' Sonntag with none other than Koldofsky herself at the piano. This master class dates from the time after Lehmann had stopped singing professionally, however, she still sings one of the more convincing performances of Sonntag you'll ever hear, an octave lower than written. For all those who knew Lehmann and Koldofsky, here's a rare moment to see them in their prime over 45 years ago...

1962 Performance of Van Cliburn Playing Brahms 2 in USSR w/ Kondrashin

The height of the cold war was a time of some fantastic performances--here's a video of Van Cliburn playing the first movement of the Brahms 2nd Piano Concerto with a batonless Kiril Kondrashin conducting an unnamed Soviet orchestra (probably the Moscow Philharmonic, with whom he recorded the work, but correct me if that's not the case).

Richter and Oistrakh Play Brahms d minor 4th movement on YouTube

Here are David Oistrakh and Sviatoslav Richter playing the fourth movement of Brahms' Sonata in d minor Op. 108.

It doesn't get any better than this...