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It is said that nature’s most profound beauty lies in its impermanence, and The Fall of a Flower is a meditative, spacious reflection on this philosophical notion - a spiritual evocation of the universal cycle of life, death and rebirth. Ideas flourish and fade: nothing remains as it was, with colourful chords and winding violin duets fading into an eternal sunset, where only stillness remains.
Composer: Rhiannon Randle
Rhiannon Randle is an award-winning composer, violinist, soprano, teacher, and emerging conductor based in London. “Full of energy, snap and sparkle,” Rhiannon’s music has been praised for its “breadth of expression and boldness of communication” (Sir James Macmillan), a “distinctive theatrical talent” (Stainer & Bell) who “turns anguish into art” (Matthew Parris, The Times). She studied Music at Cambridge, followed by MPhil Composition also at Cambridge with Richard Causton and Jeremy Thurlow, and was a Leverhulme Arts Scholar on Guildhall School's MA in Opera Making & Writing, graduating with Distinction under Julian Philips and Julian Anderson. Heralded as one of the UK's bright, emerging choral composers, published by Boosey & Hawkes and Stainer & Bell, Rhiannon's music has been performed by Sarah Connolly; BBC Singers. Britten Sinfonia; Heath Quartet, Choirs of King's and Trinity College Cambridge; and broadcast on BBC Radio 3. She has written three chamber operas, one in association with Royal Opera House.