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Programme Notes

A Palinode is, in poetry, a recantation, or more simply, second thoughts. The term applies twice over to this work, since in the first place it reflects the fact that, having set out to write a series of short studies for solo cello, I became distracted by a study in slow tempo, and this became – contrary to my original intention – the basis of the whole piece. But it also relates to the contrast between this work and my orchestral piece, completed a week or so before I began work on Palinode, and whose 200 pages of hectic activity last only just over twice the length of the four pages of this score. Palinode consists in effect, of a sequence of variations on the opening melody, rising gradually to a climax which quite quickly dies away.

Colin Matthews

Reviews

Palinode, the best music on the disc, is an eloquent and dramatic set of variations using double-stopping almost throughout.’
International Record Review (Michael Oliver), July-August 2001

Palinode

Lesiton Abbey (Leiston, Suffolk, United Kingdom)

Alexander Baillie

Palinode

Yorkshire Craft Centre (Bradford, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom)

Robin Michael

Palinode

Purcell Room, Southbank Centre (London, United Kingdom)

Matthew Sharp

Palinode

Meiji Gakuin University Chapel (Tokyo, Japan)

members of Tokyo Sinfonietta

Palinode

Saitama Arts Theater (Saitama, Japan)

members of Tokyo Sinfonietta