Violin Concerto (1999)

Each movement of the Violin Concerto (1999) is prefaced by lines of poetry as inspirational starting points. Certainly the brash, almost sardonic waltz climax of the first movement does catch something of Oscar Wilde's 'Love passed into the house of lust' (from the Harlot's House). The elysian, mystical slow movement rapturously played by Oliver Charlier, takes the listener far deeper than the quoted lines of Paul Verlaine's 'Chanson d'automne' and the Irish reel of the athletic finale is at one with Yeats' 'And the merry love the fiddle And the merry love to dance'.