• 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

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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