Siloti Mystery Music--Please Identify!

Please forgive the horrible fidelity of these old, damaged amateur records that Alexander Siloti made sometime between the 1930’s to the 1940’s. This clip is a two minute fragment of an unknown piece of music that I wish someone could identify. It starts and ends abruptly at the wrong places, but it is all that has survived. It is possible that it was written by his cousin Sergei Rachmaninoff, or Siloti himself. You can hear Siloti himself adding some vocal sounds as he plays. This piece is too beautiful to be thrown in the garbage, which is essentially where the world has thrown it. I have yet to hear of anyone who likes it as much as me, but that is the world’s problem and not mine. Please leave your opinions as I am curious to know if you like it or not. I was given a cassette tape of these old records by Charles Barber, author of “Lost In The Stars“ which is a biography of Siloti. Mr. Barber was grateful for tape recordings I made of the Duo-Art Reproducing Piano Rolls that Siloti made in the 1920’s. The photograph is of a page in the 1927 Aeolian Duo-Art Roll Catalogue. Please contact me at AeolianPiano@ if you have any comments or questions. Thanks much, Randolph Herr PS: You can find a clip of me demonstrating a virtually lost piece by the great Enrique Granados at :
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