Program Note:
Largo calligrafico / “patientiam” is a perforated gloss of an absent center. Ludwig Senfl ’s haunting sixteenth-century tenorlied “Patientiam muss ich han” contributes background pitch structures, proportional matrices, formal guidelines, and large-scale gestural shapes, but the fluttering, intermittent, unstably more or less repetitive ornamental marginalia,
forced through an instrument not given to fluttering, form a drifting supplement to all of that. It is not terribly clear, and it is an open question whether it would remind us of the song if it were there.