For decades, the car depicted as the “Blue Train Bentley” in countless newspapers and magazines, as well as in a commemorative painting of the race with Le Train Bleu by Terence Cuneo, was
Captain Joel Woolf
Barnato’s streamlined “fastback” coupe, which had been bodied by Gurney Nutting and wore chassis number HM2855. However, the Bentley he actually drove that day was a rather unassuming black, fabric-covered saloon that had been built by H.J. Mulliner on a 1929 Bentley Speed Six chassis, number BA2592. Captain Barnato had owned that car for a year before the event, while his Gurney Nutting Coupe was still being built. This recreation was completed in 2018
The feels you have when you’ve been listening to the whole Bach’s Art of Fugue and your heart stops beating on the last notes of the 14th contrapunctus…
The only thing that comes close is the original unfinished version of the Mozart Requiem. The only notes performed here are those written by the composer, nothing has been added or “completed”. The final ‘Amen’ is simply chilling (at 32:52).
W. Mozart Requiem, K626 (autograph fragment)
Chorus Musicus Köln Das neue Orchester - Christoph Spering, dir.
