This batch contained some more of my earlier LPs – Rudolf Firkusny playing Beethoven’s Emperor Concerto with the Pittsburgh SO and three Haydn quartets played by assorted Hungarians on an old Turnabout disc with an entertainingly silly sleeve, which include the ‘Lark’, one of my O level set works. Another Hungarian quartet, the Eders, play Mozart’s K575 and K589 on a Hungaroton.
Another discs was one of the rare duplicates when we came to merge our collections, and by far the earliest music altogether: the pioneering A feather on the breath of God recording of Hildegard of Bingen’s music by Gothic Voices. Choral music of a later vintage: Haydn’s Missa in Tempore Belli with forces from St. Hedwig’s Cathedral, Berlin.
This batch also include the VPO and Kertesz with Brahms’ 4th symphony (surprisingly short) and the Juilliards performing Dvorak’s 6th and Smetana’s 1st quartets.