Wednesday, 8 October 2014

JDCMB: 10 pieces I'd like to hear more often

JDCMB: 10 pieces I'd like to hear more often

How about:

1 Bartok's 2nds string quartet (I would love to hear the old Fine Arts 4tet recording)

2 Beethoven opus 132 (Amadeus)

3Any Rachmanainov played by Richter

4 Any Shostakovitch plated by Oistrakh

5 Mahler 9 conducted by Walter in 1937

6 Pollini playing Chopen Etudes

7 Enesco 3rd violin sonata Enescu & Lipatti)

8 Lipatti playing Ravel

9 Mravinsky & Leningrad playing Tchaikovsky 6

10 Ray Kohn's string quartets

Friday, 21 February 2014

SHEFFIELD MUSIC



The Delphi Trust has been promoting performance arts, especially music, since 1998. Now based in Sheffield, the Trust is running the Sheffield String Quartet competition (£400) for young players; an innovative mentoring scheme for young string players; and live performances that are being updated continuously at http://raykohn.wix.com/delphitrust
We are currently looking for support for our Uncovering Creatives crowdfunding venture http://www.zequs.com/campaign/uncovering-creatives#.UvJRc7QVAWc
as the Trust is aware of numerous quiet, musical creatives whose work needs to be brought into the air

Saturday, 1 February 2014

JDCMB: Did you know...? 10 amazing life-lessons for survi...

JDCMB: Did you know...? 10 amazing life-lessons for survi...: As my father liked to say, we live and learn. Often, though, we don't learn quite enough, soon enough, about this weird and wonderful pl...

Wednesday, 1 January 2014


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lscDPs17JwU shows my 11th string quartet in a little-rehearsed concert performance. Despite the lack of rehearsal, I think the Flight Quartet played well and revealed much of the music that had previously only existed in my head
Particularly fine and original voice: http://neilmcsweeney.com/
Neil performs his own work and is about to go on yet another short UK tour.
Drafted and published new website for the Delphi Trust

This will be useful as a platform from which to announce new music events in 2014