This piece was written for my wife Trish Dean's solo CD exploring hundreds of years of Chaconnes/Ciaconas. This was her lockdown project. Listening to Trish practicing and preparing the music for this disc was an enormous inspiration for a composer - hearing the music of Bach, Britten, Walton and the others every day at close range. And far be it that I was swamped or feeling battered by the genius pouring out in the room next to me, it was an inspiration beyond anything I had experienced in my life before. One day on our regular dog walk in our favourite park, I urgently suggested that I would love to give writing a Chaconne a go. I had already had an idea to use a bass line based on the usable notes from the word Chaconne which I extended to Chaconnes which seem to more accurately describe my day of listening. C - B (H) - A - C - E Eb (S). This series or row of notes are heard regularly through the short piece played in differing rhythms in pizzicato. These pizzicato sections are interspersed with a series of variations based on the same series of notes and transpositions of them. In some ways, the work is meant as a personal newsreel of what I had seen as headlines from around the world during this mad year. The loneliness, the fractured lives, the lonely deaths of so many and loss of connection and the deathly silence from the arts world. I adore the way Trish has turned it into a piece of music, which hopefully has meaning way beyond the sadness behind its writing.