On the overnight practice table - one of Sadie Harrison's exquisite miniatures of Cornish Flora for my series Tremenheere Sculpture Gardens. And 'Witherings English Plants' 1830, and there's the Spring Squill found near 'Mrs Watt near Penzance', just where it will be premiered on June 15th.
A glimpse of what we have been doing this week - one of the 13 movements of Michael Hersch's 'Images from a closed ward'. With Neil Heyde, Mihailo Trandafilovski, Morgan Goff and Adaq Khan www.youtube.com/watch?v=afQR...
The opening of one of Sadie Harrison Composer's exquisite Cornish plants for her Tremenheere Sculpture Gardens Herbarium, which I will premiere there on May 8th. More details to follow.Explore her exquisite works here... then buy the album from Toccata Classics ! www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Conversations and plans with Nicola LeFanu this morning. Here's a glorious piece that she wrote for me in 2018, and which I have played many times on both sides of the Atlantic since. This performance in the wonderful Romanesque church at Iffley last September www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOFw...
It was Samuel Wesley's birthday this week - so let's listen to his marvellous Sonata Concertante - live with Aaron Shorr www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oA3...
It was Handel's birthday yesterday - so he is 341 years and 1 day old. In 1985, much-missed Dmitri Smirnov celebrated his 300th, with this extraordinary piece (based on the letters of his name). I have been playing it since 1993, and love it dearly.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NTRoqFHxVo
Inspiration on the overnight practice table. A masterpiece from Jolivet (the 'Suite Rhapsodique') and the Joachim Quartet (a daily memo to do better, work harder, dig deeper). Here are two movements from the Suite (at the desk in New York a few years back) www.youtube.com/watch?v=mG4c...
Planning the next stage of my collaboration with Staffan Storm today - here's the marvellous piece he wrote for KrΓ€marekapellet/Sankt Petri-kyrka MalmΓΆ www.youtube.com/watch?v=2E6s...
Materials for yesterday's SOUNDBOX Royal Academy of Music Stage One of 'The Challenge of the Classical', which is my little love song to an important aspect of who we are. Here's yesterday's playlist, which got from Bassano to Tartini
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First glimpse ... wildly over-excited about this
Here it is ... session outtakes of David Hackbridge Johnson's 7th Quartet, in the studio at the beginning of the week. ... just unedited, raw takes, but a chance to get a sense of this extraordinary piece www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNmd...
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A glimpse of what we have been up to today
A glimpse of what we have been up to today www.yout ube.com/watch?v=VnuSdAaHmfg
Moving towards an incredibly exciting release of Michael Hersch's epochal 'Zwischen Leben und Tod' w/Roderick Chadwick on Metier . Here's a newly scanned page of this extraordinary 100-minute work. And my playlist of our two-decade collaboration youtube.com/playlist?lis...
First chance to hear: one of glorious 2023 Sonatas by David Hackbridge Johnson that Roderick Chadwick, Adaq Khan and I recorded on Tuesday. www.youtube.com/watch?v=19kj...
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Here's 45 seconds of what we were doing yesterday! The joyous ending of David Hackbridge Johnson's 6th Sonata - with Roderick Chadwick. Just mobile phone sound - just wait till you actually here the sound the Adaq Khan has for us - you will just have to wait!
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Michael Hersch & I have spent the weekend working on the programme book for our upcoming release of his epochal 'Zwischen Leben und Tod' w/Roderick Chadwick on Metier . Here's a film Richard Anderson and I did about this piece, in 2018, very much in media Res,
Saturday morning low winter sun, lime trees and coffee
Nevinson on my mind
A moment of calm from Henry Eccles for this dark rainy evening www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuZE...
First chance to see - 'Dialogues', the performance that Evis Sammoutis and I presented, with his music and 17th century miniatures, in Grenoble.
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Here's what we were up to yesterday: unedited outtakes from Gregory Fritze's marvellous Three Duos, with Morgan Goff
With some pictures from the path across the hills to the recording! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vn9z...
First chance to hear - Five of Evis Sammoutis 'Nicosia Etudes' live at UniversitΓ© des Alpes, Grenoble, last month.
With images on the road over the past 5 weeks www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRpy...
Westhoff in Grenoble - his 1694 imitation of bells, live in Grenoble, two weeks ago. I found the extraordinary image of travellers crossing the nearby Alps, in the wonderful city museum. It was painted by Francesco Foschi in 1750
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First chance to hear Evis Sammoutis's newest 'Nicosia Etude' No 7 'Cinyras'. Live in Grenoble last week. Watch out for the whole concert www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiIo...
Coffee and Alexander Calder - 'Les Trois Pics' 1968
Gare Nouvelle, Grenoble
I succeeded in uploading this this morning without the ending...now, that's more like it! youtu.be/EjbOqJJ9tTA?...
First chance to hear - the haunting funeral march from David Hackbridge Johnson's 3rd Sonata ( outtakes from last week's recording with Roderick Chadwick & Adaq Khan. The picture is the CollΓ©giale Saint-AndrΓ© de Grenoble, yesterday
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A pause for thought, this morning ,at the crossing of Notre Dame de Rouen
After the performance
Xenakis , Evis Sammoutis and then this!
At my practice desk in the attic of a house near the cathedral here in Notre Dame, going into the detal of Evis Sammoutis's etude based on Virelai 4 (Cyprus Codex) - almost exactly contemporary to the 'Tour de Buerre' which I can see from my table here
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