I’m moving on to some of the boxed sets I haven’t tackled earlier. Three of the discs in this batch were recordings that we very much want to have available: Beethoven middle-period string quartets played by the Alban Berg Quartet. I started another box of Beethoven: violin sonatas performed by Kovacs and Bächer (and long absent from the catalogue, though there is nothing wrong with the performances).
The rest of this batch was two discs of Mozart: violin concertos with Josef Suk and the Prague Chamber Orchestra and closer to home the two minor-key piano concertos with Alfred Brendel, Neville Marrriner and the Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields. Finally a pairing which appears several times in my LPs, the Philharmonia and Carlo Maria Giulini play Schubert’s ‘Unfinished’ Symphony and Brahms’ variations on the St Anthony Chorale.