Ring ’er in

In the tradition of rockin’ in the new year without the aid of any superannuated TV bandstand celebrity, my last listening of 2012 was (drumroll, please):

• Tchaikovsky, String Quartet № 1 in D, Op.11(The Endellion String Quartet)
• Shostakovich, Piano Quintet in g, Op.57(Boris Berman & The Vermeer String Quartet)
• Rakhmaninov, Variations on a Theme of Corelli, op.42(Andrei Nikolsky)

(The listening followed ritual viewings of Christmas with the Addams Family and A Christmas Carol with Alastair Sim.)

Why all the Russian listening? Well, honestly, it just happened that way.