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]>