I play this tune with the violin sometimes, accompanying on the CD. For this CD, A trio consisting of Vladimir Ashkenazy (Piano), Itzhak Perlman (violin), and Linn Harrell (cello) played this tune, and I get an exciting feeling everytime I play with this CD. Honestly speaking, it is hard for me to synchronize exactly with their play.

You say you had 17 boxes of 33 1/3 records in the past. I wonder how many sheets of records you had in total. 1,700 (100 in a box), or 3,400 (200 in a box) ?

I suppose you are a great lover of classical musics, and it might be quite natural for you to love classical musics since your husband was a profesional pianist. You look to be a lover of orthdox classical musics.

It is said the ultimate goal of a classical music lover is to favor the opera. Unfortunately, I have not been interested in the opera yet. As informed previously, I love very unique genre of classical musics.

Here, I let you know an astonishing coincidence I experienced. It was in the summer of 1951, when I was recuperating at house due to pleurisy. I was reading a book titled "Kreutzer Sonata" written by Aleksey K. Tolstoy, while listening to musics on the radio. Suddenly, the radio announced that the next music be "Kreutzer Sonata".

I was very surprised so as to drop the book from hands. As you may know, one of the climax of this novel is a scene of the hero's wife (violinist) practicing Beethoven's Kreutzer Sonata with a young man (pianist) prior to a concert.

I had been familiar only with popular classical musics till then, and did not know existence of such a wonderful music. This unbelievable coincidence put me into the world of classical musics deeply.

I am talking a bit longer. In Japan, autumn is called "a season of the art." I am now striking the keys for this message, listening to the String Sextet No.1 composed by Johannes Brahms (famous for BGM of a French movie "Lovers").

Well, bye now all. Reiji.