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Wishing anyone who still drops by a Happy New Year ... 

... I'll skip the usual (empty) promises to post more consistently. 

Here is a Top Ten list of ear food - the kind of music I have been enjoying during the past year:

• Pacal Dusapin (String Quartets & Item in particular)
• John Lurie/ Lounge Lizards (anything I could get my hands on)
• Philip Glass (the Olafsson Piano Etudes recording)
• Frank Zappa (Crux of the Biscuit plus early vinyl reissues)
• Beatrice Rana (that Bach Goldberg recording) 
• Mahler (starting to listen again with fresh ears - Symphony No.2 conducted by Solti is sheer joy)
• Ron Miles (I Am A Man) 
• Hans Abrahamsen (String Quartets) 
• Thomas Demenga (his new recording of the Bach Cello Suites)
• Haydn (the op. 76 String Quartets - thanks to a lucky find of Hans Keller's book in a Camberley charity shop)