In spite of the mere objectiveness of things takes its title from Wallace Stevens’ poem ‘Note on Moonlight’, a nocturnal poem which explores the ability of moonlight to lend heightened meaning to the material world, ‘in spite of the mere objectiveness of things’.  The calm and extremely simple opening of the piece becomes gradually more florid and leads eventually to an extended fast section.  The music works up to a protracted climactic passage before subsiding into a coda characterised by the appearance of three solo celli.