If any pianists out there are in the market for a German teaching job, there‘s one available here. Please forward to any likely candidates. stellen.hmdk-stuttgart.de/jobposting/5...

Rehearsing Boucourechliev’s excellent and almost-vanished Sonata of 1959 in the Bulgarian Radio. It was in this hall in 1948 that he won the competition which made him famous in Bulgaria and enabled his escape to Paris - just as such escapes were about to become substantially harder (I’m told…)

bastille musique presents its thirty-seventh release »Betsy Jolas: Femme le soir« featuring world premiere recordings by #AnssiKarttunen (violoncello) and @nicolashodges.bsky.social (piano). Get it from @bandcamp.com or your local record store: bastillemusique.bandcamp.com/album/betsy-...

Tomorrow at WDR Funkhaus recording mostly songs (Bill Hopkins, Rebecca Saunders and Hans Thomalla) with Sarah Maria Sun.

In case any of you are looking for a place to study, this is an excellent course. There are still spaces: deadline tomorrow! Tell all your friends! 😎

Well hello there!

❤️ Big Change in Trio Accanto / Große Veränderung im Trio Accanto ❤️ www.trio-accanto.com/index.html ❤️

Release date 14 March 2025.

I'm curious. How does the hive mind think this can be re-notated in a way which is "better" (as judged by me). No prizes. Correct answers only.

Kazimir Malevich, "Self Portrait" (1911), earliest known version of the Black Square

Alexander Goehr (1932-2024) 'Little Harmonic Labyrinth' from 'Symmetry Disorders Reach' (2002) a little from so much open.spotify.com/track/5oEdqZ...

The other day I finished recording #betsyjolas 's solo piano music: 13 pieces written over the space of half a century. It forms part of a 2CD-set along with @AnssiKarttunen 's wonderful recordings of her solo cello works, and 4 duos for us both. Watch this space.

Someone asked me which recording of the Emperor Concerto is my favourite. There won’t be a single answer of course. So far I’ve managed to listen to all of Pollini’s that I have (6). And Gieseking/Walter and Lamond/Goosens. Next up Freire/Chailly.

»Xenakis: Eonta«, »Grisey: Dérives« und »Saunders, Boucourechliev, Clarke, Riehm: Archipels« in der #NZfM: "Die Wunderbox zu öffnen und den Inhalt – in schwarzes Seidenpapier gehüllt, das man nicht entsorgen mag – wahrzunehmen, wird zum Ritual..."

Obbligati III was Justin Connolly‘s only London Sinfonietta commission, first performed by them on 14 April 1971, with soloists Elgar Howarth, Antony Pay, Janet Craxton, conducted by David Atherton.

Happy Birthday to Konrad Boehmer!

Retrospective: this was a very good evening, and I loved playing Op. 11 again after some years. Congratulations to the organisers, performers (teachers and students) and speakers - also to the audience, who stayed solid for what was a substantial programme.

Messiaen: Vingt regards sur l’Enfant-Jésus www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/whats-on/202...

hear ye, hear ye! www.youtube.com/watch?v=upEl...

Métier announces a new album of music by Justin Connolly divineartrecords.com/metier-annou... Photo by David Waldner

Diego Masson - old friend - happiest with eyes closed. (After my duo recital with Anssi Karttunen of music by Betsy Jolas.)

Just out: Dufourt, box, bastille musique, pieces, me, friends, colleagues, please buy!

There are 4 CD projects in my out tray. All 4 are twofers. Time consuming.

So my wife just called the school to say our daughter is sick and can’t come today. She started the call with guten Abend, laughed then corrected herself to guten Morgen. So I made them listen to this at breakfast.

Preorder.

Betjeman, 1984

Mildwife photographer

Sad news for those who knew him, drummer Tony Oxley has left us. Go well.

VAN magazine on me and my wife who is way smarter than I am van-magazine.com/mag/evan-joh...

Release day. nmc-recordings.myshopify.com/products/car... open.spotify.com/album/32t79g...

Live concert streaming tonight if anyone’s curious… www.youtube.com/live/Nr_AvIZ...

"Ligeti Labyrinth" Many manuscript scores and sketches on view at the Historisches Museum, Basel, from November 30 to April 7 next year.

@disgwylfa.bsky.social Let’s all welcome Paul Griffiths to this place.

Found inside some Ligeti.

Correcting (as far as is possible) a live recording of Dufourt's "L'Origine du monde" for piano and ensemble. Good piece.

Ligeti in Lithuania.