"Listening Pleasures" - Violin Concerto in E Minor by Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy

Ulrich Hägele presents in the "Listening Pleasures" series an LP from Columbia Records dating from 1948 - the first long-playing record with microgrooves, pressed from vinyl.

The media scholar first introduces the origins of vinyl culture in the late 1940s: topics include the aesthetics of cover art, recording technology, and the people involved. He then plays both sides of this 78-year-old record.

Featured is the Violin Concerto in E Minor, Opus 64 by Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy - with Nathan Milstein on violin and the Symphony Orchestra of the New York Philharmonic under the direction of Bruno Walter.