VICHOLSON – SPINDRIFT FOR SOLO VIOLIN

“The title refers to sea spray, which is only one of the innumerable forms in which the nature of water is manifested. This is not to suggest that the piece attempts any direct evocation of water, let alone the moods of the sea, but rather that the musical ideas change and develop in a way that is analogous to the protean nature of water, whose variety of form and character is always determined by the intensity of the energy passing through it. It is worth remembering that Proteus was a shape-shifting sea god, and also that, as Heraclitus pointed out, it is impossible to step into the same river twice.” – George Nicholson