Pavane - a calm dance from Spain - used to be played as an introduction to a party at court. The invited guests met each other in a dancing way. In my Pavane for violin and organ written in 1997 the meeting is the one with death. The first section full of threat and morn dies away and leads into a very fast second section in which the whole life passes by again like seen from bird's eye view. In the third section the fast rhythms played by the violin come together with the slow theme of the first section played by the organ, symbolising the final meeting with God. This work was commissioned by Duo Antiqua London (Petronella Dittmer and Richard Coulson) and written in the memory of my father in law. (Carl Rütti 1997)
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