Caoineadh

Notes

Commissioned by the London Ear Festival for the London Sinfonietta and premiered by them in the Warehouse, London, 22 March 2018. The piece is a memorial for Bob Gilmore (hence the Irish title, which in his accent would be pronounced ‘keener’) and alternates sections which evoke the shade of Claude Vivier, subject of much of Bob’s scholarship, with sections based on a repeated, falling, mourning figure.