In An Eternal Dusk

solo cimbalom
2025

Duration 10’
Instrumentation cimbalom
First Performance 28 September 2025, Kölner Philharmonie, Germany; Áron Horváth
Commissioned by Müpa Budapest, Konzerthaus Wien and the European Concert Hall Organisation

Charlotte has a worldwide, exclusive publishing agreement with Birdsong
(Performance materials available in 2026)

Further Performances
4.2.26 The Concertgebouw Recital Hall, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Áron Horváth

The title and much of the inspiration for this solo cimbalom piece is taken from Sholeh Wolpé’s excellent translation of Forugh Farrokhzad’s poem. The music is gentle and expressive, “distant sounds” moving freely “unfixed and vagrant like a drifting breeze”. It is intricate, often hearing two ‘voices’ – doves, in the poem – “crossing in the wind”. Introverted and shadowy, we are isolated in an internal world, caught between day and night – an onerous, mysterious “strange land”.