It is with great pleasure that BLLOGU concludes ‘The Listening Journal’ with a final playlist ‘Note Against Note’, prepared for us by guitarist Petrit Çeku.
In this playlist you will have access to pieces by many composers and interpreters such as Encuentro Sanz, Santa Cruz, Christophe Rousset, David Zinman, Berliner Philharmoniker, Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, John Cage. Besides the curated music, Petrit Çeku has also shared his thoughts and intentions in the paragraph below:
“Hello Lumbardhi! My name is Petrit Çeku. I am honoured to be closing this musical cycle, which leaves its discrete traces of musical activity in Prizren during 2020 and I am glad to have the opportunity to share something with you in these times of pandemic. As someone who comes from the world of classical music, I wish to present you with some pieces from that world. I hope that by the end of this playlist you will realise that this is not “serious music”, as it is wrongly called in many countries, nor is it classical, as it is called around the world. This music is essentially inspired by the musical creators’ curiosity for the movements of two or more notes in opposite directions, which was later refined into a science-like discipline called counterpoint, or note against note.”