Cheryl Frances-Hoad's Bouleumata for solo Clarinet. 'Shortly before writing this piece I reached the final of a competition to compose the music for the Cambridge Greek Play which happened to be Medea that year. Although I didn’t end up winning Euripides’ play stunned me with its depiction of Medea a woman who kills her two children to spite her husband Jason (who has just left her for a Corinthian princess). This piece was inspired by the wildly contrasting emotions that Medea experiences during a monologue immediately preceding the double-murder: that she can’tpossibly go through with it but thatshe must in order to punish her enemies. In one passage she says “I understand that what I am about to do is wrong but my thumos (emotion) has vanquished my bouleumata (ability to deliberate)'.' - Cheryl Frances-Hoad
