- 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
- 7th December 2025, Les Volques, Nimes, France
Programme Note
Breath explores quiet timbral nuances at the top of the lower strings.
Fragments of a two-part melody are fragile and intimate, whereby each fragment is framed in silence.
Silence is the canvas – all threads of sound surface out of, and disappear into, silence.
Breath first appeared in a more elementary form as Hauch Duo in the 60 minute spatial collage, Myriad III (2023), whereby the original violin solo Hauch was spatially split between two players.
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