According to Greek mythology, Euryale was one of the three Gorgon sisters, alongside Medusa and Stheno. The Gorgons were monstrous women with snakes in place of hair, possessing the ability to turn anyone to stone who looked upon their faces. In this piece, musically active and static passages continually alternate: fast-moving—and sometimes aggressive—textures shift into rigid, static directions, and vice versa. In the end, Euryale seems to win the chase and the battle, as the music slowly turns to stone and fades away. TR, 2004