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This enchanting 8-minute piece for violin and piano - Oliver Knussen's penultimate work - is made up of various kinds of musical reflection: melody reflected in its inversion; a six-note mode reflected in its complement; and the relationships between the three main parts of the piece, which are in a way varied reflections of each other. There are some reflections in water, too, the work's opus number (31a) demonstrating a relationship to Knussen's unfinished Cleveland Pictures: 'The main melody began as a response to Gauguin's painting of a Breton woman swimming', Knussen wrote, 'and there is also, perhaps, an echo of the lonely underwater world of an ondine, eventually breaking the surface at the end of the piece.'

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'This beautifully crafted work is made of tiny aural brush strokes suggesting water: ripples mirroring each other and bursting out in expression and ecstatic high lines.' The Observer (Fiona Maddocks), 27 February 2017 'This short piece has it all... compelling concision.' Die Welt, 1 February 2017

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