Proskie??s Soliloquy was composed for my brother-in-law Krzysztof Proskie?, a professional horn player currently first horn in the Wroc?aw Opera. ?It was inspired from a period, now many years ago, when he had aspirations to be an orchestral fourth horn and spent what seemed to me to be interminable hours practising pedal notes. These therefore became a particular feature of this short piece!