In all three pieces presented on this record, the ear notices less the stable ground of tradition and more a shifting terrain of the past destabilized by various techniques of fragmentation and recombination. "The shredding of customary appearances, dismemberment to the point of excess, and - almost from what has been omitted - finally the truth of the musical language comes to light, a language that really has something to say: not the exposition of an organism, not tones that only refer to each other, but the emotion and the protest that live together in the affirmation of what has been lost." Anton Plate Gerda Kosbahn: soprano / J�nos Gallay-Vigh: horn / Godfried Hoogeveen, Barbara Miller, Ludwig D�ll: violoncello / Jerzy Mallek: piano / Theo Altmeyer: tenor / Wolfram Dietrich: piano / Georg W�bbelt: bass drum / Bernhard Hartog, Ronald Hoogeveen, Edward Zienkowsky, Gerda Kosbahn: soprano / J�nos Gallay-Vigh: horn / Godfried Hoogeveen, Barbara Miller, Ludwig D�ll: violoncello / Jerzy Mallek: piano / Theo Altmeyer: tenor / Wolfram Dietrich: piano / Georg W�bbelt: bass drum / Bernhard Hartog, Ronald Hoogeveen, Edward Zienkowsky, Walter Martin Br�nig: violin / Martin Straakholder, Peter Schulz: viola / Ulf Tischbirek, Rainer Bartke: violoncello / Manfred G�nther, J�rgen Malecki: double-bass / Anton Plate: conductor / Gunilde Kramer: piano / Yukiko Sugarawa: piano / Roswitha Trexler: soprano / David Symers, Beate Zelinsky: clarinet / Carlos A. Crespo: horn / Alan Kirkendall: trumpet / Christian Roderburg: percussion / Henry Kreuter, Petra M�llejans, Claudia Beil: violin / Walter K�ssner: viola / Herrmann Backes, Jane Salmon: violoncello / Joachim Tirler: double-bass / Wolfgang Trommer: conductor.