Work for Violin and Piano dating from 1999.The composer writes: 'Sieben Sehnsüchte was written in 1999 for David Alberman and Rolf Hind. As the title suggests it is in seven movements - each more insanely difficult and bothersome than the other. All sorts of possible and impossible playing techniques have been used and the performers have to both whistle and sing. However it is not the intention that the slightly more unusual sound should be heard as effects. Everything is supposed to fuse together into something that is in itself a little opera - a chamber piece . It was written in a period when I was waiting impatiently for the libretto for Under the Sky and I seeit as a meeting (or seven meetings) between two people - two instruments - longing for each other; longing to merge together. The piece is a kind of sister work to Roses are Falling.'
