We continued our recording in Yerevan with the cellist Mario Brunello and the Armenian State Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sergey Smbtyan. The main work was Mieczyslaw Weinberg’s cello concerto as well as the 7 Dances by Martin Ulikhanyan. At the end of August I went to Shanghai for the start of a large project, recording all of Shostakovich’s symphonies. Long Yu rehearsed the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra for over a week before we arrived (we being the balance engineer Rainer Maillard and myself) and we had 5 days of sessions for Symphony No.5 and Symphony No.7 “Leningrad” as well as concerts.