"'At Dusk' for violin, viola, cello, bass" genre: Contemporary
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	This composition, written for an unorthodox grouping of solo strings, was based on a poem which was also used for one of the "Four Last songs" of R. Strauss.
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	Story Behind the Song The speech rhythm that would be produced when speaking the words to the poem is adopted instead by the violin. Lyrics "At Dusk" Through trouble and joy we have come hand in hand; now after our wonderings we are resting above the quiet countryside. All around us hills fall away into valleys the sky is already growing darker, two lonely larks still climb half dreaming into the evening haze. Come hither and let them fly, soon it will be time for sleep, let us not go astray in this solitude. O broad, tranquil peace! So deep in the dusk, how weary we are from walking -- is this perhaps death? Joseph von Eichendorff - translated by Chris Wood

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