Mimi Ezust wrote:

>I didn't know that Grieg wrote TWO string quartets!  I am only familiar
>with op. 27.  According to Baker's, there were two other fragmentary
>quartets, one of which was "not extant" at the time Baker's was revised,
>and the other which was unfinished.

Right you are.  According to Fono Forum (don't have Gramophone to hand),
this is the first-ever recording of Grieg's second, unfinished quartet in
F sharp (1891).  The version was established by Levon Chilingirian - the
quartet's first violin.

Robert Gray <[log in to unmask]>