Spinning for lunch, Brendel playing the Beethoven Diabelli Variations, one of those old Vox recordings. Brendel recorded almost all the Beethoven solo piano music (and the concerti, too) for Vox in the very early 1960s. Late in life, after having gone on to record all this stuff with major labels, several times over, he dismissed these early Vox recordings as being distinctly inferior, played on crappy pianos and in third rate recording venues with poor acoustics. Hm...