After the premiere of Catena I for piano at the 2019 Moderne Muziek Nijmegen in the Netherlands, the idea of amplifying this 'chain' of sonority and composing a cycle of works materialised itself. Catena II can be seen and heard as a concatenation of six self-contained movements played without a break [....]
The piece as a whole explores in detail the expressive and virtuosic potentiality of the piano - an ideal instrument for 'spiralling' the sounds in a variety of ways, covering a wide spectrum of colours, dynamics, textures and sonorities [...]