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Florence Anna Maunders - Stuck Inside - Fidan Agheyeva (piano)

A recording of the world premiere as part of a concert given by the wonderful pianist Fidan Agheyeva in the Musikbrauerei, Berlin on the 11th May 2020. Program Note The title of this piece might be taken as a reference to the state of “lock down” or “social isolation” existing (due to the 2020 coronavirus pandemic) at the time of composition, but it also refers to the feeling of entrapment within one's own body – of being literally stuck inside a cage of flesh. This is, I suppose, a very personal feeling for each of us, but speaking for myself, the frustration and limitation of the single human body I have to live inside of is something I continually attempt to transcend – through the composition & performance of music. And I'm still searching for the “zip on the back” that will let me get out of this body for good. The music attempts to express this feeling of imprisonment through the almost static repetitions of chordal progressions, which continually give the impression of a tradition tonal resolution, but this is never allowed to actually occur. Some gentle pulsation provides the rhythmic interest, with a disguised syncopation making the sense of meter difficult to discern, despite the very austere and plain surface rhythms. Eventually some more rapid pulsation is achieved and the music starts to build momentum, but this is abruptly cut off and the piece ends almost in stasis, with long, almost endlessly sustained chorale-like harmonies. Unlike much of my piano writing, this piece explores the beauty and splendour of the long, sustained notes, rather than hard attacks and angry, forceful accents. I wrote the music having listened repeatedly to the live performances that the wonderful pianist Fidan Aghayeva-Edler was streaming from her home, and I knew I had to write something that was right for her precise and beautiful playing. The tempo markings are sincere – the music really is that slow at the end, and players should take the chance to enjoy the slow pace of the music. In fact, in a resonant acoustic it could happily be performed even more slowly at the end. Flori Maunders 2020