The piece avoids any extended techniques: I am intensely relaxed about using the normal sounds of the flute, which for me are still some of the most exciting sounds a composer can write for. Two fast movements, in which a main vigorous leaping idea alternates with smoother more lyrical music, surround an Andante, in which these two main elements continue to hold a conversation, the even crotchets always in danger of being interrupted, like two speakers each trying to get a word in......
