First time for me at the Capstone Theatre, a part of the 'Creative Campus' at Liverpool Hope University. A medium-sized hall with excellent acoustics, which are of course essential. Around thirty of us in the audience, all seated to one side. Seeing this piece performed as opposed to listening on CD I was struck by the extraordinary demands of concentration it placed upon the pianist. Page after page of music which is very slowly unfolding, but where the subtle shifts and nuances are everything. The acoustics allowed for single notes to be heard for a long time after the finger had been lifted, but how the finger/s are lifted is the art. I see the piece as an extended series of questions, which very occasionally see some form of resolution, either in the form of a chord or a change in pace. There are moments of real beauty which stand out given their relative scarcity. Given that it's Feldman we know that we are not being taken to a particular place, we are being invited to eavesdrop on a private conversation that could well be carrying on somewhere else after we have left. Thanks to John Tilbury for caring enough about this to share something so memorable, and for producing a set of programme notes that you actually want to read more than once.