Festival Academy Budapest 2018, Day 5 — 2018-07-27

Concert review, Budapest Festival Academy, “The Anchorite Has Gone Back” @ Ferenc Liszt Academy of Music, Solti Hall, Budapest, 2018-07-27 — Prokofiev: Sonata in C major for two violins, op.56; Shostakovich: String Quartet No.8 in C minor, op.110; Schubert: Allegro for Piano, 4 Hands in A minor, D.947, “Lebensstürme”; Poulenc: Le Bal masqué, secular cantata on poems by Max Jacob, FP 60 (1932)

Prokofiev, Shostakovich, Schnittke (Diary 2015-03-27)

Listening Diary — violin sonatas by Prokofiev, Shostakovich, & Schnittke, played by the late Lydia Mordkovich (1944 – 2014). Cross-checking Shostakovich’s op.134 against Gringolts/Vonsattel, and Faust/Melnikov