Victor Hanna, Diego Tosi, Nicolas Crosse, Dimitri Vassilakis, Sophie Cherrier, Yeree Suh (soloist), Clément Saunier, Jean-Christophe Vervoitte

Ensemble Intercontemporain, Ensemble Ulysses, Matthias Pintscher

1. Nemeton for Solo Percussion
2. Mar'eh for Violin and Ensemble
3. Verzeichnete Spur for Double Bass, Three Cellos, Instruments and Live Electronics
4. I. Lightly, Floating
5. II. Sospeso, Sospirando
6. III. Erratico, Con Durezza

1. Beyond (A System of Passing) for Flute Solo
2. I. (...)
3. I Will Wade Out
4. To Stand Alone
5. Erstes Schneebild
6. The Moon Is Hiding in Her Hair
7. Lady of Silence
8. Zweites Schneebild
9. Celestial Object I for Solo Trumpet and Ensemble
10. Celestial Object II for Solo Horn and Ensemble
11. Occultation for Solo Horn, Solo Trumpet and Ensemble

‘Going all the way back to the Celts and the Druids, the term nemeton designates a place where forces and energies are crystallised, generally clearings where solemn or ritual actions were performed. The best-known nemeton is certainly Stonehenge. The architectural marvel of Chartres Cathedral is built on a nemeton. In composing this piece for solo percussion, I wanted to depict a “place” of this kind by means of sound. I’m utterly fascinated by the instrumentarium of this work, consisting chiefly of metal, wood and skin instruments that don’t have their own “specific” resonance. The trajectories between the different tones condition and define the energy charge, rather as if two beings, in the mad hope of an encounter, were rushing towards each other’, writes Matthias Pintscher as an introduction to one of the pieces in this monograph of works composed between 2000 and 2018: it also includes his violin concerto Mar’eh, the concerto for piano and ensemble Nur, Beyond for flute, Verzeichnete Spur, Lieder und Schneebilder, Celestial Object I & II and Occultation.