LPs: batch 17 – carols and folk poetry

Half of this batch was the rest of the 9-CD Arrau/Chopin box. After the great wodge of Chopin I moved on to Stephen Bishop Kovacevich (as he then was) playing Beethoven’s third piano concerto with Colin Davis and the BBC Symphony Orchestra. For something completely different I followed this with ‘The English Carol’, an LP of the choir of Magdalen College Oxford under John Harper singing settings of Christmas carols both ancient and modern. Finally came a 2-record set of Shostakovich with Haitink and the Concertgebouw: the 13th Symphony and two song cycles (6 poems of Tsvetaeva, From Jewish Folk Poetry).