to an utterance by Rebecca Saunders is a 28-minute work for solo piano and orchestra with the following scoring:

3(1/2,picc/3,picc).3.3(1/2,BCl/3,BCl,CbCl).3(1/2/Cbsn) – 4.4.3.1 – 4-8Perc – Pf – Acdn – Hp –Str (12.12.10.8.8).

In this concerto, the solo piano was conceived as a disembodied voice. It tries to tell its own story in endless variations, wavering, quickly painful and inevitably untenable in an uncertain quest. It seeks its ultimate silence through its own excessive voice: an i...