Sternschanzen and art...

Playlist

Various Composers - The Alban Berg Quartett Sampler

Boccherini - A Baroque Festival - Händel, Vivaldi, Purcell, Gluck, Boccherini, Albinoni

Leclair - Le tombeau

Haydn - Joseph Haydn Piano Sonatas

Monteverdi - Classic CD (1990)

Monteverdi - The Genius Of Rome (1592-1623)

Monteverdi - Die Macht der Musik

Monteverdi - The Genius Of Rome (1592-1623)

Monteverdi - Hyperion - A 10th Anniversary Sampler

Monteverdi - Les incontournables du baroque

Monteverdi - Musica Oscura: bringing light to the unknown

Monteverdi - The Splendid Rebirth of Italian Music

Monteverdi - Veritas Edition Details

Monteverdi - 10 ans Arts Florissants

Cloudland Blue Quartet - DDHR40

A momentous day for the history of the UK began in Hamburg with the omens of a scorcher...

Once more, breakfast at home then along for the day ticket...

A bus and then a U-Bahn to Meßberg...

...and a walk in the blistering heat around what used to be the warehouses of a bustling port...

...and then, over a bridge to a further island with more modern architecture...

...and an interesting installation in relation to...

 ...the new Elbphilharmonie...

I have since downloaded some music by this Finish ambienteer...

Onward...

Your correspondent trying to master a phone based selfie...

Not too bad...

Down here, is the Unilever headquarters, an interesting building in itself - with the ground floor packed with Unilever goods...

Including Magnum bars....



Good views for the staff here...

We walked along to the Elbphilharmonie for a more up close look...

Impressive...

...and still under controversial construction...

To the jetty for a boat...

...firstly, over the river...

Then, along the river...

...noting again the wonky building from last night...

...and to Landungsbruecken once again...

...from where we took the U-Bahn up to Sternschanzen - our now favourite part of town...

...where lunch was enjoyed...

..and another record shop, Zardoz, was stumbled upon and a disc of Monteverdi partaken of...

More walking under the hot sun...

Eventually the U-Bahn beckoned...

97 degrees in ld money at four in the afternoon...

Some respite from the heat back home...

Then, back into town to the Kunsthalle for 6pm and two hours of art viewing...

In chronological order...

Much like classical music, I like very old and very new work...

A room dedicated mostly to Caspar David Friedrich...

Onwards through time...

Dali, of course...

and Frankie boy Bacon...

To the Cube (which we actually visited first due the contemporaneous nature of its exhibits)...

Some Gerhard Richters here on the left...

More Richter...

More Richter...

...and a few very expensive Richter brushstrokes...

This, by Bogomir Ecker, a 500 year piece, over which time a stalagmite will form...

This after 20 years...

This, by Andreas Slominski, black ink made from the ashes of a Lipizaner horse...

An early version of an OK Go video...

A sunset, by Dieter Roth, made out of an old sausage...

Sigmar Polke's "Apparatus Whereby One Potato Can Orbit Another"...

This piece, Jeppe Hein's "Moving Bench #2", involved sitting on a moveable seat and looking out the window...

Warhol, of course...

Typewriters on the ceiling and a blind person's stick - all of which stop moving as soon as anyone enters the room...

Detritus..

Time for a seat...

K R H Sonderborg's "Peacemaker"...

The work of Hamme Darboven...

Views from near the top of the Cube...

And onwards...

Finally, to the basement...

This a piece discovered painted on a wall during restoration...

Lastly, Richard Serra's "Spot On"...

Superb...

Out into the still hot sun around 8pm...

Someone's lost a crutch - or is it art?

Theatre props?

A walk along Lange Reihe, in search of our last dinner in Hamburg...

Found...

One last walk by the Muelenkamp canal...

...and off to bed, confident that the British peopel would do the right thing, just as the Scots did 14 months ago...

Highlight of the Day : Sternschanzen and art...