A few taps on the timpani; from the depths, a scale rising in the strings, gathering strength as it ascends until it finally bursts into darkness – a stygian, writhing darkness that starts in a-flat minor and then gropes slowly towards the light.  This is the moment of birth, the beginning of an odyssey…

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