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In Search of the Dimmest Stars

for string quartet
Instrumentation:
2vln.vla.vc
Duration:
4'

In Search of the Dimmest Stars was created on Sound and Music's Embedded programme as part of the Embedded: Radio 3's Composer in 3 project and premiered in collaboration with BBC Radio 3.


The title is a quotation from Rebecca Elson's poem Let There Always Be Light (Searching for Dark Matter). The piece was later incorporated into the composer's Clarinet Quintet, At Night, as the second movement.


Performances


7 November 2016 Recorded by the Van Kujik Quartet at BBC Maida Vale, and broadcast on BBC Radio 3

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