Caught in Treetops

Notes

An explosive opening cadenza throws the soloist in at the deep end! Beginning in this way greatly appeals to me, an idea from Sonny Rollins’s ‘Autumn Nocturne’, a piece that also captures something of the relentless energy I wanted to create in my concerto. My work is continuous but in two parts, responding to the poems that were a central muse: ‘A Match with the Moon’ by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and ‘The Moon Sails Out’ by Frederico Garcia Lorca. A sense of mystery pervades both poems; the figurative language of the first has a fun and playful nature, while Lorca encapsulates a subtle but profound sense of loss.

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