Croquis, a fascinating sequence of miniatures for string trio, is coupled with Tristia, a powerful work for violin and piano performed by Peter Sheppard Skaerved and Aaron Shorr.
The recent Tristia for violin and piano [is] the most nakedly lyrical work in Roberts' short work-list. Inspired by Russian poet Osip Mandelstam, it has the quality of a series of sepia photographs animated for a tantalisingly brief moment before the final silence.
