| Composer: | Sally Beamish |
| Details: | Tenor Saxophone, Piano and String Bass. |
| Duration: | 03:30 |
| Difficulty: | Progressive: approx Grade 7-8 |
| Publisher: | Norsk Musikforlag AS |
| Date: | 2008 |
| Score sample: |  Click image to enlarge |
| Programme notes: | The title came to me when I looked out the window and saw a red rose flowering in the middle of January. It seemed like an act of sheer determination and disregard for the season. I had been setting words by Hafez: the love song of the nightingale to the rose, including the line 'no-one plucks a single rose without the risk of thorn'. Sally Beamish 2008 |
| Performance notes: | For Branford Marsalis. |
