Lim (piano solo) by Ian Wilson, composer published on 2016-11-21T10:55:43Z My concerto for piano and string orchestra 'Limena' was written in 1998 to a commission from the Irish Chamber Orchestra. I was living in Belgrade at the time of writing - a mostly very happy and peaceful period in my life - and was interested in creating an abstract, flowing piece of music which would explore the gentler qualities of the piano. When writing, I actually composed the complete piano part first and then went back to the beginning to orchestrate it. Since it had been written that way I always felt the piece could work well as a solo in its own right, hence 'Lim'. The Omagh bombing atrocity took place as I was writing, and so the central part of the tripartite structure is requiem-like in feel, more darkly insistent and tolling than the rest. Although the piece falls into three broad sections, on a small scale the ideas are very fluid, and I was keen to let them inspire each other, let the music write itself, so to speak. The result is that the music has a stream-of-consciousness feel to it, where ideas grow out of each other, and there is rarely anything like a sudden interjection. Only at the end does the music actually become loud, and then only so it can subsequently die away, as if continuing to sound beyond our hearing. The performer on this recording is Hugh Tinney, for whom the work was written. Genre Contemporary