Caught up belatedly with the Beethoven/Brahms chamber music review segment from 31.5.14 this evening. Apart from having to suppress the desire to fling the radio out of the window every time Harriet Thingummy says "kind of" or "sort of" redundantly in the middle of a sentence (and it happens often ), there were a couple of gems (and a couple of lumps of something else )
The gems were:
1) Corey Cerovsek & Paavali Jumppanen playing the Brahms violin sonatas
I realise I 'only' have the old Decca J. Suk / J. Katchen recording - a perfect classic, but room for another... and I was bowled over by the approach of these two players and the gorgeous violin sound (on Paganini's old fiddle...). Most unlike me - normally I grumble about there being too much solo violin on R3 and on CD Review in particular ... but this is something else. (I recall Cerovsek on the telly in the 80s as a 12 year old prodigy... The boy developed well!)
Download: purchased and playing at the moment (in a break from the Storgards Sibelius purchase earlier )
2) The Zimmermann-Tamestit-Poltera Trio in Beethoven's string trios - totally unknown to me. What playing !!! Spent too much this weekend so gave it a rest but am tempted....
The gems were:
1) Corey Cerovsek & Paavali Jumppanen playing the Brahms violin sonatas
I realise I 'only' have the old Decca J. Suk / J. Katchen recording - a perfect classic, but room for another... and I was bowled over by the approach of these two players and the gorgeous violin sound (on Paganini's old fiddle...). Most unlike me - normally I grumble about there being too much solo violin on R3 and on CD Review in particular ... but this is something else. (I recall Cerovsek on the telly in the 80s as a 12 year old prodigy... The boy developed well!)
Download: purchased and playing at the moment (in a break from the Storgards Sibelius purchase earlier )
2) The Zimmermann-Tamestit-Poltera Trio in Beethoven's string trios - totally unknown to me. What playing !!! Spent too much this weekend so gave it a rest but am tempted....
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