The composer writes: “My series of instrumental ‘Sound Carvings’ works through the 1980s and 1990s featured strings and mixed chamber media. Their generic title refers to a formal relationship of short movements, arranged more like sculptures than as a traditional sequence; the works in this series to date have between three and twenty-one movements – while Sound Carvings from the Bell Foundry, which has six, also refers to the distinctive ‘bell’ feature shared by the brass instruments of the en...