Post Rosa: Letters Against Barbarism

Handsome, spirited and erudite, Patrick Leigh Fermor was a war hero and one of the greatest travel writers of his generation. He was also a spectacularly gifted friend.

How composers draw their creative lives to a close continues to fascinate. Are their final works the culmination of all that has gone before, or do they suggest what might have come next? Did illness enhance their profundity or diminish their powers? Can we listen to such pieces without thinking of them as some kind of message from beyond? The music featured on this recording each suggest different answers to these questions and challenges some preconceptions.