- Rebecca Saunders
Breath (2023)
(for violin duo)- Henry Litolff’s Verlag GmbH & Co. KG (World)
2018/2023
Commissioned by Kunststiftung NRW and Musikfabrik
- 2vn
- Violin, Violin
- 9 min
- 28th May 2024, Elbphilharmonie, Hamburg, Germany
Programme Note
Breath by Rebecca Saunders, is a nine-minute work for violin duo exploring quiet timbral nuances against a canvas of silence. In eight sections, the work traces fragile, intimate and expressive fragments of a two-part melody.