Commissioned for the Philips Pavilion at the Brussels Expo of 1958. The pavilion was a cluster of nine parabolic shapes in which music emanated from speakers set into the walls spatially around the space.
A group of primarily German and English composers who thought music had been “dumbed down” and sought to return it to a place of intellectual rigour and craft.
A vast piano solo of approximately 40 minutes duration that takes as the starting point of each of its seven movements an English Country Tune. Those simple themes are subject to extraordinary transformation into a highly complex work.