I Give You The End Of A Golden String was commissioned in 2013, by the Royal Philharmonic Society/Britten-Pears Foundation, to celebrate the centenary of the birth of Benjamin Brittenand the bicentenary of the foundation of the Royal Philharmonic Society. The piece was first performed on 8th June 2013 by the Britten Sinfonia conducted by Ryan Wigglesworth. 'My aim when I began this piece was to create a long length of string music out of a single strand of melody.While experimenting at the begin...