Reflection Op.31a for violin and piano

This
beautifully crafted work is made of tiny brushstrokes suggesting
water, ripples mirroring each other and bursting out in expression
and high line.
Fiona Maddocks

As
a ravishing 8-minute interlude between the two Sonatas from 1917,
today’s performers have offered to play this musical reflection
composed a hundred years later. Reflection
is
the composer’s first work since Ophelia’s
Last Dance
from 2010 and it was written for and dedicated to Tamsin Waley-Cohen
and Huw Watkins.

The
composer says: The
main melody began as a response to Gauguin’s painting of a Breton
woman painting and there is also, perhaps, an echo of the lonely
underwater world of an ondine, eventually breaking the surface at the
end of the piece.