SoundBox 8 10 20 – A resource page

Posted on September 24th, 2020 by


Recording of basic text of this talk for the Royal Academy of Music.,

For those of you who were able to attend in real time today, it was great to work with you for the first time, and I am really looking forward to seeing how our ideas develop!

PJSS on stage at St Mary Abchurch, 19 9 20 Photo Richard Bram

Elliott Park brought up the fascinting question of Michael Finnissy’s work on completions: here’s his ‘continuation’ of J S Bach’s unfinished Contrampunctus XIX from the ‘Art of Fugue’

Violin by Andrea Amati, c1570 (photo PSS)
Full tide. Heavy Swell, Wind 6mph NNW, High Tide, Late Nantucket & Bon Accord Wharfs. Wapping 6 7 19
Samuel Pepys-‘Novemb. 19th 1674.
Jacob Collier at home (courtesy of Jacob Collier)
PSS marked copy of the Klagenfurt Manuscript
Bach Adagio BWV1001
Geo. Dance the Younger – Giuseppe Tartini ca. 1764
PSS with Sir Michael Tippett 1995
PSS playing Nam Joon Paik. Galeria Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City 2005
PSS first enounter with the 1694 ‘Gould’ Stradivari. Metropolitan Museum 2015
The back of the 1698 Joachim Strad, just before going on to play…(Julu 2013)