Heiner Goebbels - Landschaft mit Entfernten Verwandten (Modern Ensemble)

�Soundtrack� of Heiner Goebbels� massive music theatre piece, �Landscape With Distant Relatives� � �an opera in the full sense of the term� - recorded at Paris�s Festival d�Automne, incorporating texts by Gertrude Stein, Giordano Bruno, Henri Michaux, T.S. Eliot and Nicolas Poussin, and drawing on the services of actor-speaker David Bennett, baritone Georg Nigl, 16 further singers and 19 instrumentalists. The non-linear storyline embraces the ambiguous relationship between art and reality and the nature of political conflict. �The consistently gripping score runs the gamut of styles from Renaissance tonal tapestry (incorporating early instruments) to teeth-baring aggression � including an army of drummers raising merry hell.� (Rob Cowan, The Independent)