Listening to Albinoni ,The Complete Concertos from a Phillips release in 1997. Having spent way too long listening to Simon Rattle’s Beethoven Symphonies.
It is strange but my work is not as good as it otherwise is if I write when music is playing. I tend to get up and start conducting and get carried away with the phrases I know. My work is done to the silence of the room and the heady music in my head. The images and words flow when music is playing but it is not the same. The rhythms in the sentences try to mirror the music.
I know a lot of people work to music because it helps excite the natural drugs released by the glands to the brain and even increases adrenalin but I find the creation of the storyline does the same thing for me. I love music but it is something that takes all my listening ability. It is a time not to write on the computer or paper but to drift in the mind. It is a marriage of time and ideas.