Friday 2 August 2002

Yesterday listened to the remaining Jenö Hubay violin concertos (Szabadi). Well, numbers 3 and 4 are certainly better than 1 and 2. In fact, No.4 was quite interesting and I shall have to re-listen again this evening.
Finished the evening with Elisabeth Batiashvili playing the Beethoven Spring Sonata (off-air recording). I really like this performance. It is "classical" in the same sense as those of Adolph Busch or Joseph Szigeti: you just listen to Beethoven rather than to the playing of the violinist. Yes, it would be even better if the violin were balanced just a little more forward. But we can't have everything. This is a really key performance in my collection.

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