MELODIA LABILE，pour saxophone soprano et piano（2017）

Among the works I have written hitherto，Melodia Labile is unusual for me in that it went through a particularly difficult gestation period. In the past I might have been suspected of deliberately avoiding melody，but in this work for the first time I strove to foreground it in my compositional style. I found it particularly challenging to create melodies in a modern style that did not come across as feeble imitations of past masters such as Schubert and Wagner.
This piece features several main melodies and disruptive motifs that are used as material for development. As the work moves forward the delicate，brittle motifs are gradually combined into a collage，hence the title，meaning ‘unstable melody’.