solos: 2vl.va.vc – 4(4picc.A-fl).3.3.B-clar.3.dble bsn – 4.3.3.1 – perc(4) – hp – pno – str: 10.10.8.8.6

More than my earlier works, this one is interspersed with metrically bound rhythms and musicianly characters that constantly recrystallize and drift towards or away from familiar situations.

The familiar: These are dance-like figures and music-making formulas, but also songs and, in two cases fragments of Bach's music – playfully collected memories of impressions in which – consciou...