I forgot last night to mention one other thing about Howard Goodall's documentary which guaranteed him my good opinion forever. He finished up talking about equal temperament by mentioning some of its flaws, and comparing it to Chinese music which uses a system much more closely tied to sounds produced by nature. But, he said, the flaws of our twelve note system are surely absolutely made up for by the beautiful beautiful music it has made possible. And he could think (as no doubt we all could) of single pieces that in themselves justify the system. "And this, in my opinion, is one of them," he said. It was Richard Strauss' 'Im Abendrot'- sung by none other than the always wonderful Lucia Popp.