After a relative year off having completed the 365 String Quartets in 2011 I’m kicking off the musical journey again with an emphasis on modernism, 20th Century & contemporary classical orchestral music. To be liberal about the 20th Century I’ll listen from the period of Brahms & Mahler to the present.

Kicking off the year is Detailed Instructions (for Orchestra) 2010 by Nico Muhly, played by the New York Philharmonic under the direction of Alan Gilbert.