Instrumentation: Violin and Cello
Composition date: 2021
Duration: 7 minutes
First performance: given by Orkney Camerata in St Magnus Cathedral, Kirkwall, on 22nd May 2022
The four short movements reflect the four verses of Áine King poem Playing In Time: marriage, birth, death and a new beginning. The music is also influenced by the George Mackay Brown poem The Finished House that Áine King uses as an epigraph to Playing In Time.