Recomposed (2012) 44'
First performed at The Barbican Centre on 31st October 2012 by Britten Sinfonia conducted by André de Ridder with Daniel Hope (solo violin)
Insterumentation: Solo violin + harp, harpsichord and strings
When I was a young child I fell in love with Vivaldi’s original, but over the years, hearing it principally in shopping centres, advertising jingles, on telephone hold systems and similar places, I stopped being able to hear it as music; it had become an irritant – much to my dismay! So I set out to try to find a new way to engage with this wonderful material, by writing through it anew – similarly to how scribes once illuminated manuscripts – and thus rediscovering it for myself. I deliberately didn’t want to give it a modernist imprint but to remain in sympathy and in keeping with Vivaldi’s own musical language.