scored for two violins, viola and cello 

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duration 14 minutes 

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In an Elegiac Way consists of mourning for what once was — grief, stillness. The music is slow and introspective, expressive and psychologically complex.

 

Strange Sadness centers around an inexplicable sorrow, as if you exist in an in-between world, as if you're living under a glass dome. It seems to give voice to a greater suffering, one you are part of — a loss of freedom. In Surreal, Suspended States, time itself becomes fluid — as though you are drifting through a landscape where everything feels both near and unattainable. In Frozen, fragile… (from afar), time stands still — a frozen world, like the memory of something that was never fully spoken.

 

The work seeks to be a layered and subtle reflection of the disorienting experience of loss and the enigmatic process of mourning. The music does not speak loudly, but rather suggests.

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I Strange Sadness

 

II Surreal, Suspended States

 

III Frozen, fragile… (from afar)

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'In an Elegiac Way' is dedicated to Desguin Quartet. The first performance was on November 18, 2020 in deSingel, Antwerp (Belgium).