https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfeHI77Ji-I #classicalMusic ...one night in 1944 Stalin heard a performance of #Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 23 on the radio performed by #MariaYudina, and asked for a copy. Because it was a live broadcast, officials drove her to a recording studio where a small orchestra had quickly been assembled, and made her record the concerto in the middle of the night; a single copy was pressed from the matrix and given to Stalin " - as shown in the film Death of Stalin https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58571011-playing-with-fire