I went to a concert on Friday at the Trinity Theatre in Tunbridge Wells (no "Disgusted" jokes, please*) to see my mate Richard Durrant playing the tenor guitar I lent him for his current tour. The bugger can make the tenor talk, and I'm grrrreeen with envy - but that's another story.

Richard played some Bach on it, including a gavotte I've heard many times over the years - Gavotte no. I from the Cello Suite in D - and, though I've heard it many times, I seemed to hear it anew on this instrument. And realised I didn't really know it.

So I downloaded the sheet music in order to make my own transcription for tenor, and I'm staggered all over again by the beauty of the music, the invention, the harmonic twists and turns. There's no question that sitting down and just patiently unravelling a piece, bar by bar, is an education and increases the appreciation of the music a hundredfold and more.

I video'd part of the concert and, should Richard OK it, will upload to YouTube at some point.

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*For US 'Catters, the national joke over here is that one old fogie used to write complaining letters to the Times and other newspapers and sign himself "Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells".