“Dear Peter/Just couldn’t help being affected by the 100th anniversary of the sinking of Titanic./Spent the whole weekend watching documentaries about the incident, and was very moved by the thought of all these people in an extreme situation in the middle of the Atlantic at night. In just a few hours something as simple as water completely wrecked a ship that took humans years to build…/This piece reuses an old idea of mine. “

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I found myself recovering from a short illness, and these works are just the solace, the Dankgesang  I needed to put the violin back in my hands. This is music of terrifying fragility. The player desparately tries to sing a simple song whilst the bow fails in his hands, the rose withers and curls, and time, and frailty over takes him, but the song remains, perhaps better had he not played it…perhaps next time….