Fumio Yasuda (1953-)
Death Sentiment I
Rain Choral
Lament in Close Distance, concerto pour accordéon

Uri Caine (1956-)
Caprice 6

Mauricio Kagel (1931-2008)
Tantz-Schul I
Rrrrrrr…Ragtime Waltz

Arvo Pärt (1935-)
Trivium

Hans Abrahamsen (1952-)
Concerto pour piano et orchestre

Stefano Gervasoni (1962-)
Descdesasf

Luciano Berio (1925-2003)
Sequenza XIII

Salvatore Sciarrino (1947-)
Storie di Altre storie, Domenico Scarlatti Vivo, L. 446

Fumio Yasuda, piano
Uri Caine, piano
Lorenzo Ghielmi, orgue
Tamara Stefanovich, piano
Teodoro Anzellotti, accordéon
Quatuor Arditti
Quatuor à cordes de l'Orchestre de Chambre de Bâle
Ensemble L'Instant Donné

Günther Wollerseim, récitant
Annegret Mayer-Lindberg, récitante
Saori Furukawa, violon
Elsa Balas, récitante, alto
Nicolas Carpentier, violoncelle

European Art Ensemble
Orchestre de Chambre de Bâle
Bernd Ruf, direction
Orchestre Symphonique de la radio de Sarrebrück
Mauricio Kagel, direction
Orchestre Symphonique de la radio de Cologne
Jonathan Stockhammer, direction
Kazushi Ono, direction

Ten years ago Mariko Takahashi and Stefan Winter record in the Mexican countryside, far away from any big city, in between hens, pigs and cows the folk-tunes of a simple, peasant family. To introduce our selves we give the farmer a recording of Mauricio Kagel . The next morning he talks enthusiastically about his music, sounds he had never heard before. He did not sleep all night as he could not stop listening again and again. Music of our time is often said to be solely intellectual, inharmonious and inaudible to human ears. It is ignorance and prejudice that contemporary classical compositions are living – unjustly, by the way – a shadowy existence. Composers like Abrahamsen, Berio , Gervasoni, Kagel, Sciarrino, Pärt and Yasuda are a source of musical abundance. The album "The Rest is Silence" offers the opportunity to get acquainted with music around the turn of the millenium.