Melancholy: For Trumpet and Keyboard, Medium

This work is based on the French poem Il Pleure Dans Mon Coeur (It Rains in My Heart). As expected from the title, this work has a dark feeling to it. Slow and brooding, the piano sets the feel with the soloist playing a slow, haunting melody. The middle section brightens, giving the listener a feeling of wistful hope, but this is short lived as the section ends with the soloist playing a meandering line, searching for an answer.