Audio recordings of pianist Alexander Siloti 

He also studied under Nikolai Rubinstein and, after Nikolai's death, briefly with his brother Anton Rubinstein.

Alexander Siloti was the 1st cousin of Serge Rachmaninoff. He also taught piano to S. R.

A rude comment that serves no constructive purpose.

@@iianneill6013- I wasn't rude, I was just giving my honest opinion about an audio job gone wrong, but that wasn't even the main point of my comment. The whole point was to be appreciative of the uploader for helping to save our collective musical heritage, which is why I praised the uploader for the addition of the original audio source in his video. I thought that was a very responsible thing to do. FWIW, over the past two decades, I have dedicated quite a lot of my own spare time to the preservation of the musical heritage of the pupils of Franz Liszt. I have (re-)discovered and published a number of manuscripts of lost compositions by Liszt's pupils, and I'm currently working on the publication of all of Moriz Rosenthal's unknown and unpublished musical manuscripts. As an audio expert, I have collected and restored many historical recordings over the years with the sole intention of preserving them for posterity in the most pristine and authentic sound quality possible. I have every right to criticize what I consider to be the destruction of historically significant recordings through careless audio processing by people who don't know what they are doing. Many unique recordings have been damaged and distorted beyond repair exactly because of this, especially since digital audio tools became affordable for amateurs and inexperienced audio engineers. Sadly, many unprofessional or careless audio restoration attempts result in the permanent destruction and/or discarding of the original audio source, which is not only regrettable, but also totally unnecessary. People need to understand that most of the audio processing done in consumer based D.A.W.'s/sequencers is irreversible, unless the source is being preserved along with the processed audio files. I left a complimentary comment under this video, because I care about our collective cultural heritage and I don't want to see it disappear from our history books, our libraries and our archives due to indifference, or as a result of inept handling of the source material. Next time you feel the need to criticize someone on the basis of assumptions and emotions alone, just ask that person to clarify his comment or ask him to elaborate on it, so you can learn a little bit about his intentions and background. You don't have to rush to judgement. Nobody asked you to be the moral arbiter of RU-vid.

Considering how your Siloti claims have been called into question on other videos, there's no reason to believe you this time, either. No offense intended.

kingjosh1876 Either that or he is improvising on Un Sospiro?