None of my works has seen so many changes like “Mem´ries of Erin”. Its first (immature) stages were composed during my studies in the 1970s and since then many ideas had been discarded and changed all over again: even the instrumentation and the work’s title have undergone numerous changes.

At last the three-movement work “Mem’ries of Erin” emerging from the initial Fantasy for 12 Cellos was completed and premiered by the Bamberg chamber orchestra in the new residence Bamberg in 2002. I myse...