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Hofmann, Josef - Vol.9 - Miscellaneous Recordings with Interviews About Hofmann - newly mastered transfers of the three wax cylinders from 1896 & several alternative takes of Columbia and Brunswick recordings & Cadillac Hour program from 1936 mit Beethovens Mondschein-Sonate. Half of the set will feature a collection of recorded interviews, conducted mostly by Gregor Benko. In these, which date back to the 1970s, we hear fascinating commentary by Rudolph Ganz, Jorge Bolet, Charles Rosen, Gian-Carlo Menotti, Glenn Gould, Constance Keene, Nella Rubinstein, Ruth Steinway, and Hofmann’s son, Anton, speaking candidly about Hofmann the pianist and Hofmann the man. One interview, with a minor pianist whose name will be unfamiliar to most, Thadeus Sadlowski, is both fascinating and funny (while most of them are anything but funny.) Choosing these interviews from the large number that Gregor Benko collected and recorded, then editing them For content, has taken hundreds of hours of intense work, and we feel that they make a fitting finale to the complete Josef Hofmann CD series. We will never cease our search For additional Hofmann recordings, which if discovered, we will make every effort to publish