THREE ROMAN MINIATURES Op.80

"The first of these three pieces, Animula, was commissioned by Thomas Hyde as a 21st birthday present for Catriona Scott, and was composed while I was staying with friends in Orlando, Florida in December 1999. The title comes from a poem by the Roman Emperor Hadrian, which begins ''Animula vagula, blandula''. ''Animula'' means ''little soul'', and the piece, does, I hope, express something of what I feel to be the essence, the soul, of the clarinet: its agility, its dynamic range, its fluidity, its melodic expressiveness. The remaining two pieces were written in June 2000. Lacrimae rerum takes its title from a famous line in Virgil''s Aeneid: ''sunt lacrimae rereum et mentem mortalia tangunt'', which is more or less untranslatable, but which means literally ''there are tears of things and mortal affairs touch the mind''. The last piece, Actaeon, evokes the death of Actaeon as described in Book III of Ovid''s Metamorphoses. The hunter Actaeon by chance came upon the goddess Diana bathi

• Lacrimae Rerum
• Actaeon

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