Following the recent reference to Katharina Wolpe in the obituary thread, it may interest members to hear a recording I made in 1965 of a live broadcast, in which she played a popular French piano-forte sonata. The enthusasm of the audience is striking:
What an exceptional person she must have been to be able to tackle such a work!
And here is her own description of her excitement at meeting her father after the war:
and 
that she survived her tragic youth to arrive at such marvellous playing
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