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<br><font style="font-size: 12pt;" size="3">Awfully quiet around here lately I must say - still catching up with your Leonard Cohen albums? "The Future" is my favourite ... not for nothing the GG Prize, n'est-ce pas?</font><font style="font-size: 12pt;" size="3"><br></font><font style="font-size: 12pt;" size="3"><br>Just last week I found a series of "live" lectures on Beethoven's Sonatas given by Andras Schiff in London and I fell under the spell. Has anyone else heard them? If so, will you please comment on them? I wept during the second 'movement' of Opus 111, I just fell apart: it wasn't because of Schiff's narrative, it was the music and how Schiff played it. There is no irony intended here for those of you who might be chuckling. No no. Sorry. I really blubbed and was relieved not to have been among the 'publicke' in such a state although there must have been plenty of people in the audience who found themselves wiping away tears and suppressing sobs, if the amplitude of the </font><font style="font-size: 12pt;" size="3"><u>belated</u> </font><font style="font-size: 12pt;" size="3">applause accounts for anything; applause which Schiff had already expressed was not entirely welcome in such circumstances. Here at my little home station I applauded as well, loud and clear, once the shock of beauty's sting had pulled its weight of tears from my soul. Then I staggered to the window for an eyefull of night sky. </font><font style="font-size: 12pt;" size="3"><br></font><font style="font-size: 12pt;" size="3"><br></font><font style="font-size: 12pt;" size="3">Unfortunately the first "three parts" of this series/link are no longer completely active (there are just a few brief moments of music or discourse and then silence).</font><font style="font-size: 12pt;" size="3"><u> The 'series' begins at: "Part Four: towards The Pastoral"</u></font><font style="font-size: 12pt;" size="3">.</font><font style="font-size: 12pt;" size="3"> I began listening at Part Eight and without ever intending to do so I did nothing other than listen </font><font style="font-size: 12pt;" size="3"><u>for an entire evening</u></font><font style="font-size: 12pt;" size="3"> (and then I blubbed and then I went outside for a walk in the night). </font><font style="font-size: 12pt;" size="3"><br></font><br><a href="http://music.guardian.co.uk/classical/page/0,,1943867,00.html">http://music.guardian.co.uk/classical/page/0,,1943867,00.html</a><br><br><b><i><font style="font-size: 12pt;" size="3">Spoiler alert: Schiff plays Sonata 14 Opus 27 no. 2 as fast as ...</font></i></b><font style="font-size: 12pt;" size="3"><br><br></font><font style="font-size: 12pt;" size="3"><b><font style="" color="#C00000">SOS</font></b>: can anybody tutor me on how I can keep these downloads from The Guardian?</font><font style="font-size: 12pt;" size="3"><br></font><font style="font-size: 12pt;" size="3"><br></font><font style="font-size: 12pt;" size="3">Mary</font><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br> <br> <br><br><br><br><br><br> </body>
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