Dishoom and Ginastera...

Playlist
Asia - Gravitas
This Will Destroy You - Another Language
Max Richter - Retrospective (2) Songs From Before
Flying Colors - Second Nature
Trioscapes - Digital Dream Sequence
Bend Sinister - Animals
Neal Morse - Songs From November
Snow Shards - Blind
Peter Hammill - ...All That Might Have Been... CD2
GoGo Penguin - Fanfares
Bach, J S - Die Kunst der Fuge
Mendelssohn - Mendelssohn Streichquartette
Ginastera - Complete String Quartets
UK - Kawasaki, Japan 08-11-2013
Lee "Scratch" Perry - Arkology
Shura Cherkassky - Wigmore Hall Live

Up, packed and out just after nine...

...taking a walk behind King's Cross Station...

...to the newly renovated railway buildings...

...and recently seen on TV Bombay Cafe, Dishoom...

...for freshly squeezed juices...

...and breakfast naans...

A gorgeous start to the day...

A walk around the environs...

...and back to King's Cross for a Tube down to Covent Garden...

It was freezing - not the best weather for two lurgi infested music lovers...

A quick coffee at Monmouth heated us up...

...before catching a trio of trains to London City Airport...

...for the trip home...

It looked like we might be cutting it fine but it turned out we had plenty of time - even enough to take care of my being stopped and searched at security...

Away, once again the propeller based mode of transport being buffeted by strong winds as we ascended...

Snow in the borders...

...but Edinburgh looked clear...

Landed without a problem and onto the airport bus and up the hill to home...

The Exec Producer was whacked but I made it out this evening to our planned fourth quartet recital at the Queens Hall...

A two year old Venezuelan quartet provided the music this evening...

...the very talented Cuarteto Libartadores...

The programme comprised works by J S Bach (Contrapunctus 1 from The Art of the Fugue), Mendelssohn (String Quartet in A Minor Op13) and Ginastera's 1st String Quartet...

They had to start the 2nd movement of the Ginastera three times, due to wayward tuning of, firstly, the viola then the cello...

Somehow, it made it all the more enjoyable...

Two encores were elicited by the audience, the first by Chic Corea and the second, an unknown to your correspondent jazz piece...

Another great night of quartetting...

...sad the series has ended and a shame the EP could not make it along this evening - I have a feeling she would have very much enjoyed the work of these four young men from South America...

A drive home through the snow...

To bed - very tired after a busy weekend and with the lurgi still clinging on...

Highlight of the Day : Dishoom and Ginastera...