After an intensive working-day I am driving home. Hundreds of thoughts are crossing my mind. Then I decide to switch the audio-system on, and I start to listen to Janine Jansen, who is playing the Violin Concerto in E minor, opus 64 (by Felix Mendelssohn). It is an absolute stunning peace, performed by an amazing artist. My love for this peace probably is also a result of the violin lessons that I have had as a 5 year old child, and my fascination for Mendelssohn at that early age. Janine is a brilliant violinist, in the true sense of the word: a master in her trade, she is playing on a ‘master-violin’ (one of the very rare 318 Stradivarius), and always performs ‘masterly’.
