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        • Jonathan Dove

        • The Water Remembers (2025)

        • Peters Edition Limited (World)

        Commissioned by Spitalfields Music for its 2025 Festival, with the support of the New Music Commission Fund

        Commissioner exclusivity applies

        • hn/pf
        • 5 min

        Programme Note

        The water remembers is an answer to the question that begins Fred Chappell’s poem Narcissus and Echo: Shall the water not remember my hand’s slow gesture…? In Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Narcissus is famed for his beauty and falls in love with his own reflection in a pool of water. Each of the horn’s phrases is mirrored by its own reflection, subtly varied by the water’s ripples.

        Jonathan Dove