As well as his humming ❤

The benefits of a quasi-photographic memory. Have you heard his Moscow lecture-recital? He apologizes to the audience for the Webern he's about to play perfectly saying "I haven't played this for 2 years"!

She enjoyed a long career, primarily as a concert and recital singer, first as a soprano and later as a mezzo-soprano. She recorded extensively and in a very wide repertoire. Especially prized are the live recordings, which provide something of the vitality and warmth she radiated on those occasions. The lifelong effects of childhood polio severely limited her mobility, especially in later years. Nevertheless, she appeared occasionally on opera stages and in televised opera, including Boston productions especially staged for her by Sarah Caldwell. Her final performances in opera were as the old nurse in Eugene Onegin, in both Ottawa and Toronto. Early fame came with appearances and recordings with Toscanini and Beecham. For many years, she toured as the soprano soloist in the Bach Aria Group, and sang in annual Toronto performances of Messiah and St. Matthew Passion. -- Wikipedia

One of the greatest violinists of the last 100 years. Fantastic musician, technical perfection. Oscar Shumsky makes almost all other great violinists pale by comparison. Unfortunately he refused to have a career as a soloist, and preferred the less agitated life of a concert master