Franco Donatoni (1927-2000)
"Marches", pour harpe seule
"Nidi", pour flûte piccolo
"Clair", pour clarinette seule
"Small", pour flûte piccolo, clarinette et harpe
"Estratto", pour piano seul
"Secondo Estratto", pour piano, clavecin et harpe
"Quarto Estratto", pour flûte piccolo, flûte, violon, mandoline, harpe, clavecin, piano et célesta

Ensemble adapter

Kristjana Helgadóttir, piccolo
Ingólfur Vilhjálmsson, clarinette
Gunnhildur Einarsdóttir, harpe
Matthias Engler, célesta

Invités

Aaron Dan, flûte
Chatschatur Kanajan, violon
Seth Josel, mandoline
Petteri Pitko, clavecin
Elmar Schrammel, piano

"We all like music that is rigorous and uncompromising", says Matthias Engler. Donatoni relentlessly strings together di­verse fields of sound, working on them like a sculp­tor. Sometimes there are caesuras and then suddenly we hear something completely. However, contained in every piece is a point of reference, to which every­thing else can be traced back. The four solo pieces and three chamber musical pieces on this CD show exactly this intransigence and connections exemplarily.