Focusing on the powerful expression and the virtuosic engagement of the instrument, the first part builds up as a succession of events seamlessly following one another and displaying a wealth of multilayered textural formats, colours and dynamics. [...]

Focusing on the spatial quality of the music, the second part could well be described as a ‘resonating canvas’ out of which salient musical ideas of the first part resurface and are reinterpreted and presented in a different context; here they are subdued and invariably muted, as if reaching us from afar! [...]