Birthday girl...

Playlist
Mogwai - Mogwai Young Team
Verdi - String Quartet in E minor

Annie's birthday today...

Many presents and cards, none of which I pictured I'm afraid...

My own contribution was a rather weighty tome on Matthew Bourne, the Exec Producer's favourite choreographer...

Meanwhile, in the post, three CDs of string quartets arrived...

...and, not content with that, I ordered today the last of the 21 on my list of supposedly "good" quartets through the ages, Stockhausen's Helikopter Quartett...

Here's the list (everybody loves one), in chronological order...

• Haydn - Op. 64, No. 5 "The Lark"
• Mozart - K. 465 "Dissonance"
• Beethoven - Opus 135: String Quartet No. 16 in F major
• Schubert - String Quartet No. 14 in D minor, "Death and the Maiden"
• Mendelssohn - String Quartet No. 2
• Schumann - String Quartet in A Major Op 41 No 3
• Brahms - String Quartet in A Minor Op 51 No 2
• Tchaikovsky - String Quartet No. 1 in D major, Op. 11
• Smetana - String Quartet No. 1 in E minor, "From my Life"
• Dvořák - String Quartet No. 12 in F major, "American"
• Borodin - String Quartet No. 2 in D major
• Grieg - String Quartet in G minor
• Verdi - String Quartet in E minor
• Sibelius - String Quartet in D minor, Op. 56, "Voces intimae"
• Janáček - String Quartet No. 1, "Kreutzer Sonata"
• Elgar - String Quartet Op. 83
• Bartók - String Quartet No 6 in D
• Berg - String Quartet, Op. 3
• Shostakovich - String Quartet No. 8 in C minor, Op. 110
• Stockhausen - Helikopter-Streichquartett
• Feldman - String Quartet II

Despite my suggestion, we did not venture forth into the wild and stormy dark for a birthday dinner but, instead, ordered in a Chinese to be delivered which, unlike last time, was very tasty and enjoyable...

We then both fell asleep before the end of "Death in Paradise"...

Rock'n'roll...

Highlight of the day : Birthday girl...