Never Mind The Video iPod, here's...

...the manuscript score of the Grosse Fuge, which has turned up unexpectedly in America. It amuses me that the BBC have referred to the piece as though "Grosse Fuge" is actually a title given to it by the composer, when, of course, it was originally just the finale for the Bb major string quartet. All it means is "big fugue".

When I was still at school, I once tried learning the lower part of a piano duet arrangment of the thing with a friend of mine. We barely scratched the surface - it's fearsomely difficult, remorselessly contemporary in its outlook (the first time I heard it I genuinely thought it was by Stravinsky) and completely unlike anything else in music. The manuscript is expected to sell for about £1.5 million. Money well spent if you've got it.