Sam Pawlett wroteL

>I'm looking for recordings by William Kapell and Josef Hofmann.  I picked
>up a Kapell cd called Broadcast recordings 1942-3 on VAI that contains
>Pictures at an Exibition and Mozart's k570 sonata.  The playing is
>magnificent but the sound quality ranges from poor to atrocious.
>Anyone know of any recordings by these two that are listenable?

FYI, there is a film of Hofmann playing a truncated version of the third
movement of Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 5.  It was filmed c 1943 with the
Bell Telephone Hour Orchestra, led by Donald Voorhies.  The sound and
picture quality are quite good.

Charles Barber