07-24-2024, 03:02 PM
By Peter Maxwell Davies.
"The title refers to the alchemical process of ‘whitening’ ‘by which a base metal may be transformed into gold, and by extension, to the purification of the human soul.’ This is an interesting piece, which uses the magic square of mercury as its most fundamental compositional structure."
https://larkfall.wordpress.com/2017/01/2...e-of-fire/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzJlMQc02jM
"The title refers to the alchemical process of ‘whitening’ ‘by which a base metal may be transformed into gold, and by extension, to the purification of the human soul.’ This is an interesting piece, which uses the magic square of mercury as its most fundamental compositional structure."
https://larkfall.wordpress.com/2017/01/2...e-of-fire/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzJlMQc02jM