Bach's Violin Sonata 6, BWV1019 Adagio ... a truce

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This is your autumn, opening, spreading the strong scent of exile and empty letters. So fill them with the yellow, coffee-brown, gold, and copper – nonsynonymous colors – of leaves that take their time in bidding farewell to the tree because the wind is absent today. You are so lonesome you do not think of loneliness. Because you have not bid farewell to anyone since yesterday, you do not care if your shadow “walks before you or behind you.” The air is light and the earth seems solid.

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This is your autumn, emerging from a hot summer, from a season of global fatique from a seemingly endless war. An autumn that ripens the forgotten grapes on high mountains. An autumn that prepares for grand gatherings where the assembly of old gods reviews drafts of fates still being written, hammering out a truce between summer and winter…”

~ Mahmoud Darwish, In the Presence of Absence, page 80

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Music : Played by Glenn Gould (piano) and Jaime Laredo (violin)
Photo : was taken in October, in Bucharest

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