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programme notes p.2 (of 3).
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Tank is a truculent, rumbling piece in imitation of Leonardo's famous (but impractical) design.
Polishing the Imperfections in Glass, with slight tongue-in-cheek, refers to a machine for polishing perfect mirrors for use in telescopes; its gentle regularity perhaps partially reminiscent of a composer far from my own aesthetics....
A Moth to the Light was Leonardo's analogy of our pointless strivings in life, so this is a jittery, nervous scherzo.
Perspectives of Disappearance plays on ideas of the mysteries of drawing and of personal farewells.
La Scapigliata presents a delicate portrait of a young woman, with perhaps an enigmatic smile like a pre-echo of the famous one in the Louvre (....I am told by Prof Martin Kemp from Oxford University that this work is in fact spurious, though Leonardo-esque! In 2014 I turned a corner in a museum in Parma, and there she was!...).
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