Near the end of Dvořák’s forty-minute Piano Quintet in A major, there emerges a beautiful and plainspoken melody, almost childlike in its simplicity. I was so moved by this simple four-bar tune when I first heard it at a concert that, upon arriving home, I immediately wrote it down in my sketchbook. When asked to compose a piece that would be performed on a concert featuring a work by Dvořák, I knew at once that I would compose a fantasy inspired by this melody, and hopefully prolong its beauty beyond the four measures it is allotted in the Quintet.
This piece was featured on an episode of the classical music radio show Performance Today.