In our new series, critics tell us about the music they’re listening to at home, from symphonies to live streams, grand opera to guilty pleasures. This week, Rian Evans moves from Poulenc to Pinocchio, and rolls over Beethoven
My corona-listening is a mix of random v planned. Switching on BBC Radio 3, but missing the beginning of a piece, is one kind of random. The fabulous viola tone in Schoenberg’s intense String Trio turned out to be that of Lawrence Power – I should have guessed – playing with Ilya Gringolts and Daniel Haefliger. Hitting on Poulenc’s Concerto for Two Pianos, with Shin-Heae Kang and her mentor Marta Argerich as soloists with the NDR Radio Philharmonic Orchestra was another plus .
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