(©Ezequiel Viñao 2004)</p>

[instrumental]</p>

<b><u>Other Recordings</u></b><br>
Live Recording - Tanglewood Music Festival [performed by JUILLIARD STRING QUARTET]</p>

<b><u>Comments</u></b><br>
Viñao's second string quartet draws inspiration from sources as diverse as the rhythmic cycles of Indian classical music, the Mozarabic chant from Spain and the Tango dances from Argentina. The subtitle of the piece, 'The Loss and the Silence', refers to the story of Aragorn and Arwen -by J.R.R. Tolkien- where an immortal, ageless maiden chooses mortality in order to be with the man she loves. After many years together, Aragorn's life draws to an end. After he dies, Arwen is overborne by grief and a keen sense of the mortality that she has taken upon her: the light in her eyes quenched, "cold and grey as nightfall in winter that comes without a star."</p>