With Berlin Music, Brett Dean wrote a threefold homage: to the classical duo combination of violin and piano, to the violin virtuoso Midori, for whom the piece was written, and to the city of Berlin, where he lived from the mid-1980s until 2000 and to Berlin's rich cultural life which played an important role in his development as musician and composer. The first four, relatively short movements of the five-movement work form a suite of character pieces that are followed by a lengthier final mov...