In their reviews of the recent disc of piano music by Vaughan Williams (SOMM CD0164) by Mark Bebbington and Rebeca Omordia, both Ian Lace and Nick Barnard repeat SOMM's claim, boldly stated on the CD cover, that this is the first recording of the Introduction and Fugue for Two Pianos.
This work was issued in 1979 by ORION (ORS 79343), played by Evelinde Trenkner and Vladimir Pleshakov.
I realise this disc must be pretty rare, and has never been transferred to CD so far as I know, and was maybe never available outside the United States in any case. Nevertheless, it was made and it, not the SOMM CD, was the first recording (unless anybody knows an earlier one still).
I do wish that companies preparing to issue "first recordings" would do a minimum of research, details of the Orion LP show up easily enough and Trenkner and Pleshakov do not deserve to have their efforts disregarded.
This is not to depreciate SOMM's enterprise in producing the first CD recording and the first that is easily available.
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