Composed to commission by the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, Symphony Australia and the Sydney Symphony Orchestra in 2005, this work was first performed that year at Barbican Hall, London, with the composer as soloist. Brett Dean comments that “it was a unique privilege and challenge to have the opportunity to approach the form of the viola concerto as both composer and performer. Above all, it filled me with thoughts about my own relationship with this curiously...