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For clarinet quintet (2004) “The Clarinet Quintet Hymn to Artemis Locheia was commissioned by Professor Ian Craft in memory of his father.
Ian Craft is a leading specialist in fertility, and heads a clinic in London. I visited this clinic for a whole day, and was privileged, with the permission of all concerned, to observe the various operations, treatments, embryo tranfers and consultations. I found the whole experience profoundly moving – the expression on mothers’ faces at a successful outcome – the skill and devotion of the interventions – that the result became a hymn to an ancient Greek incarnation of a fertility godess, Artemis Locheia – a work which, I hope, captures something of the upbeat and joyous nature of my extraordinary day of observation.” – Peter Maxwell Davies
