Cool>Warm>Hot

Daryl Runswick writes: Cool>Warm>Hot is one of the many pieces of mine which contain no improvisation, though its debt to improvised music is obvious. It was commissioned in 1983 by Antony Pay, who in the tradition of so many virtuosi (Paul Wittgenstein with Prokofiev, Lionel Tertis with Walton...) when he saw it, refused to play it. It is certainly very difficult indeed – full of multiphonics and quarter-tones – but more than one player in more than one country has thought it worth the effort.