Monthly Archives: June 2010

LPs batch 20: displaying umlauts

Our Sibelius LPs are a nice tidy batch comprising six discs containing the symphonies and a few other well-known pieces. This batch included the ones conducted by Karajan. I’m now beginning to finish certain categories and the last of Mozart’s … Continue reading

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LPs: batch 19 – trying to finish Shostakovich

I realised I’d been neglecting chamber music, so I moved on to an LP of Mozart’s piano quartets with the Beaux Arts trio, followed by a couple of string quartets performed by the Quartetto Italiano. Representing solo piano in this … Continue reading

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a shortened Festival

The Navarra quartet was in the end the only Bath Festival concert I got to. (For most of the rest of the Festival we were away from Bath.) I considered going to hear Exaudi perform a programme that mixed Tudor … Continue reading

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