A Quintet

Favourite music recordings from YouTube:


Mendelssohn, Trio in d minor, Mvt. 1
Piatigorsky, Rubinstein, Heifetz

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Bruch, Kol Nidrei
Jacqueline du Pré (accompanied by Gerald Moore)
only sound, no video

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Schubert, Piano Sonata D 959, Mvt. 4, Part One
Alfred Brendel, 1988

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Scarlatti, Sonata in E (L. 23) & G (L. 335)
Vladimir Horowitz, 1968

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J.S. Bach, Cello Suite No. 1
Pablo Casals
only sound, no video


I also just discovered recordings by Joseph Joachim from 1903. There is, for example, Brahms's Hungarian Dance No. 1 and Bach's Sonata No.1. Incredible that they should have been made and survived (more or less). The recording quality is naturally low, which is a pity. But it has a certain sad charm too. I think that the Bach sounds like some faint, tearful, wavering echo out of the very distant past. At the same I found a recording of Eugene Ysaye playing the third movement of Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto in E minor, with much light charm, I think. And, last of all, here is a Chopin Nocturne played with beautiful simplicity by Zino Francescatti.