An expansive work exploring dissonant harmonies and gathering momentum from contemplation to urgency. Commissioned by Matthew Schellhorn for York Late Music.
As the tender twilight covers its fold of dust-veil
marks of hurt and wastage from the dusty day's
prostrations, even so let my great sorrow for thy
loss, Beloved, spread one perfect golden-tinted
silence o'er my life.
Let all its jagged fractures and distortions, all
unmeaning scattered scraps and wrecks and random
ruins, merge in vastness of some evening stilled with
thy remembrance, filled with endless harmony of
pain and peace united.
(Rabindrath Tagore)
