This performance by elite American chamber musician contains 100 bars of unheard music.

The performers are:

Nicholas Kitchen, violin; Shmuel Ashkenasi, violin; Ani Kavafian, violin; Hagai Shaham, violin; Katharina Kang, viola; Paul Neubauer, viola; Antonio Lysy, cello; Beiliang Zhu, cello.

(We apologise for loss of video in an earlier version of this post.)

Not our title.

It’s a meditation in Stephen Hough’s new book, Rough Ideas: Reflections on Music and More, out this week from Faber.

Stephen writes: Vladimir Horowitz once said that there were three types of pianist: Jewish, gay and bad. Actually, I have known some that were all three, and instantly a plethora of those who fulfil none of these categories spring to mind, but is there something that makes Horowitz, Sviatoslav Richter and (Shura) Cherkassky (to choose three completely contrasting artists) different from, say, Artur Rubinstein, Emil Gilels and Rudolf Serkin?…

You’ll have to buy the book to read more.

It is five years since the world last heard the phenomenal talent of Christopher Falzone, a troubled American pianist who enjoyed the support of Martha Argerich among others.

Christopher seemed destined for great things. In the summer of 2014 he was consigned to a mental hospital in Geneva. In October he died in a leap from the 10th floor.

Aspects of the case remain troubling. A second musical suicide this year at a Geneva mental hospital raises further questions about safety.

May Christopher’s memory be a blessing.