String Quartet no. 1 'Elegies for Tom'  

  I - Delicate-filmed as new-spun silk
       1st Interlude
 II - An eyelid's soundless blink
       2nd Interlude
III - Nocturnal blackness, mothy and warm
       3rd Interlude
 IV - Full-starred heavens that winter sees
       4th Interlude
  V - A new bell's boom

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​My first string quartet responds to the Thomas Hardy poem Afterwards and was written for and with the Ligeti Quartet and Lotte Betts-Dean (there is an optional mezzo-soprano part).

This quartet is a sister piece to my song cycle for guitar and mezzo-soprano Elegies for Emma and is part of a larger Thomas Hardy project that includes arrangements of Hardy songs from across the 20th Century. An album of this music called 'The Past & I: 100 Years of Thomas Hardy' was released in July 2024 with Delphian Records.