Today

Day 26 of your cycle· plan suggests this

Run **the next panel's list** in order, cold, with a small number of real takes, and keep the best (see the mock-recording guide). **Through 07-10: NedPhO. From 08-10: Residentie.** Full recording rig. Don't fall into the re-take spiral.

• Morning back check
• Physio set (2×10)
• Warm up — open strings, slow full bows, scales & arpeggios in the day's keys; keep it easy, no étude — don't tire your hands before takes i 8m
• Set up the rig + one quiet play-through of the list to settle in (no take yet) 6m
• Concerto — Mozart 5 mvt I + Sibelius mvt I (both panels, no Mozart cadenza) — recorded takes, keep the best
• Quick break 3m
• The fast excerpts in list order — NedPhO: Beethoven 9 / Rossini / Rachmaninoff / Daphnis / Shostakovich / Tchaikovsky 4 / Bartók · Residentie: Mozart 29 / Mozart 39 / Schumann / Mendelssohn / Brahms 1 / Mahler 9/i / Don Juan
• Quick break 3m
• The lyrical excerpts in list order — NedPhO: Mahler 9 / Bruckner Adagio / Britten · Residentie: Beethoven 9/iii / Bizet / Tchaikovsky Waltz / Bruckner Trio / Mahler 9/iv
• Listen back, mark the takes you might keep, and note the single weakest spot to fix on the next hard day 12m
• Log today's session — how it felt, how many takes, how your back is
• Back check after playing

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