The composition dolce furioso for chamber orchestra was written in 2003. Its first performance was later that year, on 8th of April, as a part of the Music Biennale Zagreb. Martyn Brabbins conducted the british ensemble London Sinfonietta. On that occasion, the composer himself wrote about the piece: „As the title says, the idea of the piece is continous and persistant balancing of rough and smooth, dark and light, „male“ and „female“ segments, which in a certain way vary the classical motivic-thematic principle of confronting the two extremes, as a ground for vivacity and tension of musical happening. In twenty connected numbers the confrontation of two extreme structures goes on in a similar way, at first, but always differently – from a few shimmering explosions, rough, almost disfigured march paraphrase, intentionally subverted quote from the author's earlier jazz part, an attempt to reach the eternal melody which climbs up to infinity (and then takes the same time to fall down) to polimetric and politonal „furious“ fragments that always find resonance in their own, seemingly calm, lyrical echo.“