Conductor Kurt Sanderling was born in 1912 in the Kingdom of Prussia, in Arys, now Orzysz in northeastern Poland. He served as rehearsal conductor for Furtwängler before the war, but was fired by the Nazis for being Jewish. During that war he fled the country to Russia, and he made his career for a long time in that part of the world, mostly in the GDR.
From 1960 onwards he was also found leading orchestras in the West, and he recorded a beautiful series of the Beethoven concertos with Japanese-English pianist Mitsuko Uchida. That recording and this one is thirty years apart, in a totally different world. It would be an interesting comparison. I have not done it myself, but from what I read this recording has a more classical soloist versus orchestra dynamic, where Uchida’s concertos are more playful working together.
Sanderling lived to be almost 99: he died on the day before he would reach that considerable age. By then he was already not on the stage. He stopped conducting in 2002.