Oliver Knussen's Autumnal: Tryptych Part 1 (1977) for Violin and Piano.
Published by Faber Music.

' Autumnal was composed in 1976-77, being adapted from sketches for an abandoned chamber piece which I made in Serenak in 1975. It forms the first panel of my Triptych (the other two being Sonya’s Lullaby, for piano, and the Cantata, for oboe and string trio). Autumnal is dedicated to the memory of Benjamin Britten, who died while I was composing it, and the two movements, which are quite restrained and austere in manner, are named after his two song cycles, Nocturne and Serenade.'

~ Oliver Knussen

'Knussen wastes not a note, and though the work lasts only for seven minutes, its density of thought suggests something of sonata stature.'

~ Paul Griffiths, The Musical Times, 1st of August 1981