ARVO PÄRT /

 'FRATRES' FOR VIOLIN & PIANO.
 GIDON KREMER & KEITH JARRETT

ABSOLUTELY DIVINE.

 ONE CANNOT HAVE ENOUGH PÄRT IN ONE'S LIFE.

A PASSACAGLIA, A PAVANE, A PAINTING AND A PICTURE FOR TUESDAY.

 JMW TURNER /

 'SHADE AND DARKNESS, THE EVENING OF THE DELUGE', 1843. 

 HANS PETER FELDMANN /

 'BLUMENBILD' #12/170 (2006)

THREE SICILIANAS FOR MONDAY.

JANOS STARKER x GASPAR CASSADÓ / 

MVT. I FROM SUITE FOR UNACCOMPANIED 'CELLO

I'VE CAUGHT THE MUSIC BUG / 

I'M GOING TO SEE THE AMAZING BRODSKY QUARTET NEXT WEEK AT THE WIGMORE HALL!  ON THEIR PROGRAM IS ONE OF MY FAVOURITE EVER STRING QUARTETS:

MVT II: 'ASSEZ VIF' FROM RAVEL'S STRING QUARTET IN F
(HAGEN QUARTET AT THE MOZARTEUM IN SALZBURG, AUSTRIA)

THEY PERFORMED IN CONCERT WITH BJÖRK BACK IN CHRISTMAS 1999 AT THE UNION CHAPEL:

VIBRATING WITH EXCITEMENT.

A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC / 

I WAS AT THE WIGMORE HALL TONIGHT FOR THE WINNER'S RECITAL OF THE ROYAL ACADEMY OF MUSIC PATRON'S AWARD.  'CELLIST LUKA SULIC PERFORMED A SELECTION OF EARLY-MID TWENTIETH CETURY PIECES ACCOMPANIED BY NADAV HETZKA  ON PIANO.

TUCKED IN AMONGST THE REPERTOIRE WAS THIS ABSOLUTE GEM OF A PIECE - ORIGINALLY FOR SOLO VIOLIN & PIANO BUT TRANSCRIBED FOR SOLO 'CELLO & PIANO BY MATS LIDSTROM - SIBELIEUS' BERCEUSE, OP.79 NO.6   

(THE ABOVE RECORDING IS ACTUALLY THE ORIGINAL VERSON FOR VIOLIN & PIANO, A 1985 RECORDING OF SERGEI STADLER ON VIOLIN ACCOMPANIED BY JUHANI LAGERSPETZ)

THE FINAL TWO MOVEMENTS OF BRITTEN'S CELLO SONATA IN C WERE ALSO PRETTY SNAZZY.