Ensemble: 2 Violins, 2 Violas, 2 Cellos, Double Bass or String Orchestra

Duration: 13 minutes

First performance: Jan 2021, The Romanian Athenaeum, Enescu Philharmonic Soloists, conductor: Vlad Maistorovici

UK premiere: Jan 2026, Wigmore Hall, O/Modernt Chamber Orchestra, violin & director: Hugo Ticciati

Score and parts available in versions for:

String Septet:

https://www.universaledition.com/en/Works/Winter-Septet/P0339806

String Orchestra:

https://www.universaledition.com/en/Works/Carols-Without-Words/P0339516

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Description:

"...what the music I love expresses to me are thoughts not to indefinite for words, but rather too definite." - Felix Mendelssohn about Songs Without Words

Subtitled "Carols Without Words", Winter Septet is a medley suite of diversely "recomposed" vocal carols (in the Deutsche Grammophon sense of the term), reflecting the popular spirit of their ancient melodies in the present.