Not much early music among our LPs, but I hit a chunk of it here with two lots of Monteverdi. Sadly, I think the eponymous Monteverdi Choir’s performance of the Vespers of 1610 (the earlier, studio, recording) is in too bad a state to be worth transferring. I can buy it on CD, or replace it with another recording. Our other recording of Monteverdi is his third book of madrigals, conducted by Leppard; this must be one of the longest LPs in the collection, at well over an hour.
Another recording which will always stay in the catalogue is Kathleen Ferrier’s recital of (mostly) folksongs, the only mono classical music recording in our collection.
The rest of this batch was the Beaux Arts Trio’s recording of the Schubert piano trio repertoire (including the ‘Notturno’) and the Vienna Philharmonic and Kertesz playing Brahms (Third Symphony and St. Anthony Variations).