CD 1:
Loosening
Slow

CD 2:
Distil
Touch
Recur

LOOSENING is a double album of five works by award winning composer GRAHAM FITKIN. Each one has the string quartet at its core but every work includes its own additional soloist. The string quartet is a really homogenous group, steeped in history and tradition, in which timbrally similar instruments

create a well-honed sound through trusted communication and shared pur- pose.

Each work has clearly defined roles for the two protagonists - quartet and solist. Each piece allows for two perspectives, two distinct approaches to the material and yet each protagonist is affected by the other. Approaches often

evolve through the works, perhaps the quartet splits their honed homogene- ity to focus more on individual constituents or conversely maybe they sub- sume the incomer into their group creating a larger group.