It’s gorgeous isn’t it. I love her (I think) last electronic work - L’isle Re-sonante. And also the Trilogie. After that I really like the Occam pieces - especially the string quartet. We went to see Davies performing one of the harp pieces a year or so ago and it has really stayed with me.

93 years old now and in my view one of the greatest living composers, still producing extraordinary, otherworldly, incredibly profound music.

Listening to this I see now that her more recent “Occam” series of pieces for solo instruments and small ensembles are both a development out of the long form electronic works and a return to ideas she was exploring decades ago.

My feeling was: well ok it’s a start.

Tell it like it is, Victor.

I am not religious, but when people's places of worship are attacked, as when their homes, schools, libraries, etc are attacked it is an attempt to destroy the connections between us. That is what antisemitic violence aims to do.

Just thinking back to those heady internet days when almost any effort to champion anything besides the most aggressively commercial writing was dismissed as “book snobbery”.

True - that is also likely a factor. In a sense it’s all related: he keeps feeling out exactly how far he can go, then edging back a bit if he senses he’s gone too far too fast. But the fact he’s got to here already does I think highlight how unconstrained by social acceptability he now feels.