Coincidences

Okay, this is strange.

Last week I read An Equal Music (another one of my "everyone should read" books), which is written from the narrative viewpoint of a violinist in a string quartet. One of the more significant (from the story's point of view) pieces that they play is Bach's Art of Fugue.

To my knowledge I've never heard the piece in question, so I was fairly interested when I read a Metafilter thread about it. A poster also provided a link to the Art of Fugue in MIDI format which was, needless to say, expectedly awful but somehow enjoyable at the same time. It inspired me to trot off to the iTunes music store for the first time, and browse for it. Having selected Bach as the artist I clicked on random albums and previewed random pieces, and then found one which I liked enough to buy - Bach's Concerto for 2 Violins in D Minor.

This morning I was reminded of the fact that Fionnaigh's been interviewed for BBC Radio 4 regarding a poem she'd written about Bach's Concerto for 2 Violins in D Minor. Completely slipped my mind (well, the specific piece at least), but I was struck by the chain of coincidence at hand.