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- Rebecca Saunders
Solitude (2013)
(for solo violoncello)- Henry Litolff’s Verlag GmbH & Co. KG (World)
Commissioned by the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival with funds from Diaphonique/Franco-British Fund for Contemporary Music, Südwestrundfunk & Fundación BBVA Bilbao
- vc
- Cello
- 17 min
- 10th June 2026, Arnold Schönberg Center, Vienna, Austria
Programme Note
Absent, silent, sole,
Naught beside.
Solitaire, Santon, pariah,
Cenobite.
Either, neither, solus,
Unified.
A state or quality of being along, solitary or remote.
Implies the absence of all others: inaccessibility, withdrawal, seclusion, isolation.
A state of separation.
A lonely or secluded place: wilderness, waste, desert, emptiness, wasteland.
In silence, vacuous and devoid.