Lullaby for Yodit attempts the seemingly impossible – to commemorate and portray in music the personality and soul of a person the composer never met. On the other hand, when Martin wrote to me about Yodit and their life together, the piece… well, it didn’t exactly write itself, but I sort of felt ‘guided’ by powers unknown, and ended up with a short, introverted piece in 3/4 for string orchestra, a simple ‘humming’ in C major: ‘Lullaby for Yodit – the sweetest woman I never knew’.