Juozas Rimas wrote:
>Indeed, coughing may spoil a concert recording whatsoever. I once heard
>a Richter's concert recording of the C major prelude - he plays very
>intimately and several well-placed coughs are enough to make me avoid the
>recording... I bet there are even worse coughed recordings.
There's that lovely Toscanini live recording of Beethoven's Third: two
chords, a cough, and a chair falls down.
Walter Meyer