Another brief chamber music update, this time one of the four chamber sides recorded in 1917 by Mark Hambourg. This features Marjorie Hayward on violin, Frank Bridge on viola and Warwick Evans on cello, in a heavily abridged version of the Scherzo from Saint-Saëns’s Piano Quartet in B flat major.

Saint-Saëns – Piano Quartet in B flat major Op.41 – Scherzo
Marjorie Hayward, violin
Frank Bridge, cello
C. Warwick-Evans, cello
Mark Hambourg, piano

Saint-Saëns – Scherzo from Piano Quartet in B flat – Hambourg et al

(mp3 file – click to play, or right click the link, then select “Save as”)

His Master’s Voice 08054
Matrix HO 2726ef
Recorded 7th July 1917
Play at 78rpm

The recording contains the following sections of the score:
bb1-60; bb94-113, bb33-60, bb231-318 (end)