Tag Archives: Stephen Kovacevich

LPs batch 24: Liszt

Posted on August 9, 2010 by vhk10

Quite a lot of piano and chamber music remain to be done, and I tackled some of it in this batch. Beginning with two discs of quartets from Eastern Europe: a Supraphon of the Smetana Quartet playing Janáček’s and the … Continue reading →

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LPs: batch 17 – carols and folk poetry

Posted on May 21, 2010 by vhk10

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 … Continue reading →

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Mozartfest 2005 (2)

Posted on November 25, 2005 by vhk10

I went to hear the Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson trio in the Guildhall. This concert made me realise that with some famous exceptions my knowledge of the piano trio repertoire is very limited and there is lots of wonderful stuff that is unfamiliar. … Continue reading →

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