Archive for the ‘Listening’ Category

My Swedish publisher, AB Bonniers Förlag, have compiled a CD with music from my new book. I am, of course, very touched. It can be ordered here: adlibris
It goes without saying that I love this music. There are two very special pieces on this cd:
Firstly the commissioned adagio from the Sonata itself, the Sonata to Miriam. Swedish composer Alexander Ekroth- Baginski has done a wonderful job of transfering my words into music. It is just … well, listen!
The second special piece on the cd is the Passacaille by Szymon Laks. It exists, as far as I know, only in one other recording. Listen and sink into the music!

 

Sometimes it’s good to dance. Here is some music to make you wish you had the right partner to take you through the steps. That, and the right place, and the right time. And if all that is not available, well, then just close your eyes and glide on the sound.

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I am listening to a recording of music by Astor Piazzolla, Histoire du Tango, with Cécile Daroux, flute and Pablo Márques, guitar. Soothing music when the window in my study looks like that of the butcher shop where my grandmother used to live. The world is blurred and the rain looks permanent.

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I am listening to a CD, presenting the music of two violinists who were tragically silenced in their youth, Ginette Neveu and Josef Hassid (Testament SBT 1010). It is with a feeling similar to that which you get when you have just discovered a new author, only to be told that he only wrote a couple of books and is now dead. A kind of sad desperation. This is all. There can never be more. (more…)