The Composer writes: 'In February 1987 I saw in the Tate Gallery in London a painting by the Victorian English painter John William Waterhouse. The painting kept haunting my memory, and as I at the same time planned to write a piece for solo Viola, my ideas for the music and the memory of the painting fused more and more. I decided, then, to let my piece borrow the title of Waterhouse’s painting: The Lady Of Shalott . The picture of a mad-like, pale, and perhaps singing woman alone in a boat wit...

• The Lady Of Shalott