Brodsky on Sunday

On Sunday Christine and I saw the Brodsky Quartet at Wigmore Hall, which is "justifiably regarded as one of the world's great recital halls." (I'd never heard of it until recently.) It's a small venue that hosts over 400 concerts a year and keeps prices low. The acoustics were terrific, and we had fourth-row seats. Brodsky played three interesting string quartets - Mozart's no. 17, Shostakovich's no. 3, and Schumann's no. 3. plus an encore of Liszt's Liebesträume. The Shostakovich piece, which he wrote in 1946 in between denunciations by Stalin, was the highlight.