for piano solo by Olivia Belli (2023).

The piece has an elegiac, calm and suspended character, almost an ancient melody, sung by a bard accompanied by the sound of his own zither.

It was composed following a moment of intense recollection and meditation. Moments in which I seek answers to how to defend ourselves from a world that pushes us more and more towards materialistic values and beliefs, where there is no more space for the sacred a...