Marcus Blunt: Piano Sonata No 3 The Life Force [download]

Duration: 7 minutes.

First performed by John Lenehan, British Music Information Centre, 12 September 1991.

First broadcast by Kathryn Stott, BBC Radio Three, 30 June 1992.

'I am in the grip of the Life Force ... The Life Force enchants me.' –George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman, Act IV.

'... Life: the force that ever strives to attain greater power of contemplating itself' –Ibid, Act III.

'... of Life's incessant aspiration to higher organisation, wider, deeper, intenser self-consciousness, and clearer self-understanding' –Ibid, Act III.

'... it is the artist's business not only to project that which might be, but that which should be...' –Colin Wilson, Bernard Shaw: A Reassessment (Hutchinson, 1969).