The Kapell CD inexplicably is labeled "Kapell PLAYS Khachaturian", although it begins with his June 1946 Carnegie Hall recording of Beethoven's Concerto No. 2, the one that Artur Schnabel thought was his own recording when he heard it on the radio -- could there be higher praise? Khachaturian's Concerto, recorded in April 1946, most recently was issued in RCA's 11-CD set devoted to the pianist. Kapell's countless performances of this concerto brought him fame, but I find his recorded performance rather overly-serious. My preferred recording is the early Columbia mono with Oscar Levant, Dimitri Mitroupoulos and the New York Philharmonic. It doesn't use the flexatone in the second movement, nor, strangely, does the Kapell. The three brief Shostakovich preludes are tossed off brilliantly. This is the only music of this composer Kapell recorded commercially; doubtless had his career not been so cruelly terminated in an October 1953 plane crash, he would have eventually recorded the Piano Concerto No. 1, which is available in a live concert performance with Ormandy and the Philadelphia Orchestra. William Kapell, pianist NBC Symphony Orch Vladimir Golschmann (Beethoven); Boston Symphony Orch Serge Koussevitzky (Khachaturian).