A long delayed project nears completion. At the beginning of this year, Roderick Chadwick and I recorded Michael Hersch’s 90 minute ‘Zwischen Leben und Tod’. The aim was that I would then record his works for solo violin, which I have been playing since we met, many years ago. But Covid intervened. Finally, on Monday, I am back int he studio – the first of two nights recording the 70 odd minutes of music for violin alone. Here’s the last movement of his 2014 ‘Of Sorrow Born’ at the desk this morning, with a glimpse of the north side of Ely Cathedral’s 14th century lady chapel, which Malene Sheppard Skaerved and I visited on Thursday. Astonishing, even after the best efforts of the iconoclasts
