A work for mixed chorus and string trio (violin viola and cello) to be performed with restraint and majesty. Ikon Of Light was written for the Tallis Scholars. The first performance took place in July 1984 as part of the 1984 Cheltenham International Festival of Music given by the Tallis Scholars and the Leda Trio conducted by Peter Phillips.Instrument Parts.

Piccola Musica is written for string trio and consists of five short movements independent of each other apart from the ‘tie-up’ between numbers I and V. The texture is in the main contrapuntal though less consistentlyso than in Maconchy Quartets and the mood is more relaxed.The five ‘piccoli movimenti’ are: I Allegro moderato II Andante III Moderato IV Poco lento V Allegro moderato- meno mosso-allegro moderato: in its end is itsbeginning.

The first part of Gorecki's remarkable cycle Genesis is a gritty and unforgiving exploration of pure sound and sonority. The strings are treated to a huge variety of effects and techniques including tremolandi glissandi bridge bowing and de-tuning. This approach creates an ever changing and fluctuating timbral journey that has more in common with the Fluxus school Gerard Grisey or even Edgard Varese than with the seminal Symphony of SorrowfulSongs. Music of the very elements themselves.