Instrumentation: piano trio: violin, cello and piano (14:30)
Clouds and Flames was commissioned by the Rome-based ensemble Piccola Accademia degli Specchi.
The title Clouds and Flames and the names of the movements come from lyrical moments in Colum McCann’s novel Let the Great World Spin.
The movements, inspired by events in the novel, are a set of impressions on loss, remembrance and rebirth, and, a meditation on the tightrope wire walk of Philippe Petit between the World Trade Center towers on August 7, 1974 culminating in events surrounding 9/11.