The Path of His Beloved

Rakastava comprises three movements: the first, 'The lover', is delicate and chaste - we imagine a lover's daydreams and gentle musings. The second, 'The path of the beloved', is a kind of Perpetuum mobile, so light and airy that it might disapperar at any moment - and, after the one brief appearance of the triangle, it does just that. The third movement, 'Good night, farewell', has a clearer profile and falls into three parts: an opening dialogue between solo violin and cello, a more dramatic link passage and a broad, exquisitely sad elegy.