Lindsay Swan Song

This BBC Music mag cover disk in conjunction with the record label Sanctuary Classics is a chamber music recital by The Lindsays. The usual slightly rough edged Lindsay sound but good natured enthusiastic playing. There are two works featured, Brahms's String Quartet in A minor op 51 no 2 and Schumann's String Quartet in A minor op 47 no 1. The Schumann is maybe my favourite string quartet work and while the version here doesn't compare with that I have by the Zehetmair Quartet, it is always good to hear. The Brahms work is one of his first two string quartets and like his first symphony, it was many years in gestation. Maybe that ghost of Beethoven haunting him again. Once completed, however, it is a fine work and this is again a useful freeebie from the magazine. It was released to fit with the timing of he Lindsays farewell tours.