Once again – it's becoming a recent habit – I enjoyed a performance of Brahms' concerto for violin and cello. A mellow, autumnal reading by Georg Kulenkampff and Enrico Mainardi, recorded in July 1947. The benign orchestral part (Suisse Romande orchestra) was conducted by Carl Schuricht.

I shall always recall a concert I attended on Good Friday sometime during the period 1955-58 at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris where Schuricht was conducting the Orchestre des Concerts Colonne. On the programme was Wagner's Good Friday music from Parsifal, and also the adagio from Bruckner's 7th symphony (in those days –luckily – it was still acceptable to do isolated symphonic movements, otherwise I might never have fallen in love with Bruckner). The mellow Kulenkampff-Mainardi-Schuricht Brahms performance from 1947 appeals greatly, as does the transfer by Michael Dutton.