Great question. I love music, and couldn't enjoy a day without at least some time set aside to really listen to some music - usually late evening, when the family have gone to bed.

Tastes range from classical to punk (both UK first-wave and US second-wave) to blues, rockabilly and a big love for flamenco guitar. Guilty (well, deeply unfashionable) pleasures include Gong, Conway Twitty and Shonen Knife - from genres I don't much care for, but these artists always top my most-played counts on Spotify.

Mechanism wise, I use my phone because it's just so easy to cast to a TV in any of our main rooms - all of which have 2 or 4 B&O speakers networked to the smart TV function. Classical does sound better from a CD though...

Very jealous of Heinz having been at a Murray Perahia recital - I have five or six of his recordings and find his Beethoven quite an emotional experience - his phrasing is unique, the way he almost plays out of time to make the melody 'hang' and then 'flow' faster to catch up has a very yearning or wistful quality - very different to the bombastic Beethoven most virtuouso pianists think audiences want.


Stuart
"There's no skill substitute like cubic inches."