Images of a Mind

New works for solo cello and for cello and piano by the English composer Adrian Williams (b. 1956)

Spring Requiem is a response to the death of his Serbian father-in-law and has four sections corresponding to the Dies Irae, Kyrie, Sanctus and and In Paradisum evoking the atmosphere of the Serbian Orthodox funeral ceremony, the clangour of bells, the cort'ge along the cemetery, trees with pink spring blossom. ) Quatre Cantileenes is a collection of aphoristic movements, predominantly slow, simple and song-like. Images of Mind is a kind of rhapsody in response to a self-portrait by Sidney Nolan the composer saw fresh in the artist's house. The Cello Sonata is an early piece written while Williams was at the Royal College of Music