Performed by the Waldstein Quartet.
Fields was initially inspired by ‘Wheat Field with Cypresses’, a painting by Vincent van Gogh, after I took a visit to the National Gallery, London. The painting was completed in van Gogh’s hospital room, near Arles, France. It depicts a landscape being blown by the powerful Southern France winds. Instead of depicting these winds in my piece, I wanted to imagine the landscape both before, and then after a wind has blown through. You may pick up on folk influences and how the music is affected by, and portraying, the breeze. The quartet was completed after a trip to the Devon coast as it was being hit by Storm Noa, which came to be quite inspiring.
