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 batch was Pascal Rogé playing Italie<\/i> from Liszt’s Années de Pèlerinage<\/i>. More Berlioz in the shape of Agnes Baltsa singing Les Nuits d’Été<\/i> together with the only Wagner in the LP collection, the Wesendonk-Lieder<\/i>. And more Elgar: the Scottish National Orchestra and Gibson in his Second Symphony. I’m still trying to get to the end of Shostakovich and in particular of the recordings conducted by Haitink, so this batch finished with the 15th symphony (with the LPO) and the 5th symphony (with the Concertgebouw).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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