This work, commissioned in July 1993 for the World Music Festival in Kerkrade (Holland), was completed in the summer of 1992, with the composer reading the final corrections in November of the same year. The music consists of three movements, an introductory elegy largely built on a gentle, insistent basic rhythm first heard in the flutes under the oboe's main theme. These two motifs are developed through all the colours of the wind orchestra, sometimes sad and songlike, sometimes with a highly ...