Eostre by Wilma Pistorius

Eostre is about the joy of being a woman in the spring; that feeling of walking in the sunshine with a slight breeze teasing the hem of my skirt. But it is also the raw, wild femininity of spring: Mother Nature in her fundamental, unexpurgated, paradoxical, bud-spurting, blood-guzzling guise.
Some of the melodic lines are based on and inspired by a haiku verse by the my favourite author, Tom Robbins:
"Wherever she goes,
That ghost is right behind her;
Ah! Panty-outline."
The piece is not so much written for two cellos, as for one big and gorgeous instrument consisting of two cellos and two cellists."

Performed by Doris Hochscheid and Renée Timmer on 14 January 2018.
Recording courtesy of De Concertzender.