For solo piano

Time Unredeemable

for Piano

A solo piano work in which the performer reaches a crossroads and chooses between two possible paths.

Year 2023
Duration 5′
Scoring Solo
Piano
Publisher Boosey & Hawkes
/ Sikorski

Commission

Written for the 17th Hastings International Piano Competition. The second-round competitors performed the work, each choosing between two possible endings.

World Premiere

25 February 2024. White Rock Theatre, Hastings · contestants of the Hastings International Piano Competition.

Character

The performer stands at a crossroads. The choice made inside the piece changes the course of the music.

Form

  • Time Unredeemable

    One-movement work for solo piano.

  • Duration

    Approximately 5 minutes.

  • Performer’s Choice

    The work contains a decisive juncture and two possible paths.

Work Information

Full Title
Time Unredeemable
Scoring
For solo piano.
Year
2023
Duration
5′
Form
One movement, with a performer’s choice between two possible endings.
Instrumentation
Commission
Written for the 17th Hastings International Piano Competition.
World Premiere
25 February 2024 · White Rock Theatre, Hastings; contestants of the Hastings International Piano Competition.
Publisher
Availability
Score available for purchase through Boosey & Hawkes / Sikorski.

The Work

Time Unredeemable is a solo piano work written in 2023. It places the performer at a crossroads, where the choice between two paths becomes part of the musical structure itself.

As the work unfolds, the pianist reaches a decisive point. The choice made there alters the course of the music, turning performance into an act of consequence rather than simple realization.

“Time present and time past
Are both perhaps present in time future,
And time future contained in time past.
If all time is eternally present
All time is unredeemable.” from T. S. Eliot’s Four Quartets
  • Form One-movement solo piano work.
  • Duration Approximately 5 minutes.
  • Forces Solo piano.

Context

Time Unredeemable belongs to Auerbach’s recent piano works, where the instrument becomes not only a field of sound, but a place of philosophical pressure. Here, the central idea is choice: the moment when one path must be taken and another abandoned.

The work’s title, drawn from Eliot’s meditation on time, gives the music its metaphysical charge. The performer’s decision becomes an image of lived time: irreversible, consequential and impossible to redeem once chosen.

A short piano work in which musical form becomes a moral landscape: one path chosen, another lost.

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Publisher and Materials

Published by Boosey & Hawkes / Sikorski. The score is available through the official Boosey & Hawkes / Sikorski purchase page. Rental material has been intentionally omitted because this is a solo piano work available for purchase.