Night Sky
Instrumentation: String Quartet
Duration: 5 Minutes
Year: 2025
Recording: Sallaff String Quartet (Reading) - Nazareth University
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Originally inspired to be the spiritual “successor” (or more likely, the 2nd movement) to The Odyssey of a Seafarer, Night Sky is a meditation on the fragility of life.
The work unfolds in delicate layers—fragile harmonics and quiet suspensions gradually giving way to more luminous sonorities, as if stars were slowly revealing themselves against the vast darkness. Moments of stillness are juxtaposed with fleeting surges of intensity, reflecting both the wonder and the existential nature of existence. The music lingers in a space that is both serene and haunting, inviting listeners to contemplate the beauty of life beneath the silent expanse of the night sky.