He was shortlisted for the Becks Futures prize in 2005 for a piece called Bauhaus Revisited which paid homage to Josef Hartwig's 1924 chess set, where the shape of the pieces gave clues as to how they should be moved.
Finding a way to a narrative, to connecting the pieces, gives us a way to defuse those terrifying memories, to release the pressure that has built up around them.
I cannot, in good conscience, finish the piece given the dire circumstances currently facing our financial markets.
Most of the piece, given here in a version about half of its 90-minute original length, is wordless vocalizing, though long passages repeat and deconstruct the poem's opening: "Who'd have thought/that snow falls".
In an extract of the piece given exclusively to the Guardian, Vaughan Gething writes: Rodney Berman's verdict on six years of Liberal Democrat rule in Cardiff was as complacent as it was inaccurate.
One writer has noted the difficulty on finding a suitable organ on which to perform the piece, given the difficulties in finding appropriate registration to meet Britten's requirements.
Even in routine performances, the piece gives audiences pleasure.
For me, the piece gave away its secrets on first hearing.
This brought his lifetime total for the piece, give or take, to 170.
