Performances from the International Summer Courses in New Music, Darmstadt.

Title from disc label.

In seven containers, the whole issued in a cardboard sleeve.

Program notes in German with Spanish, English, and French translations (55 pages), inserted in a cardboard sleeve.

Streichquartett Nr.2 op. 13 / Hanns Jelinek (25:36) Streichquartett Nr.3 / Herbert Brün (10:44) Aleatorio : for string quartet / Franco Evangelisti (1:59) ST/4-1,080262 : for string quartet / Iannis Xenakis (9:10) Thirty pieces for string quartet / John Cage (29:52) I open and close : for string quartet / Richard Barrett (19:34) Lied : for bass clarinet and string quartet / Erhard Grosskopf (12:00) Streichquintett / Johannes Fritsch (15:28) Muri IIIb : for string quartet / Pierluigi Billone (24:04) Präludium und Variationen : for nine players / Maki Ishii (6:58) Drei Nocturnes nach Sappho : for soprano and ensemble / Arghyris Kounadis (8:15) Madrigal III : for clarinet, violin, cello, two percussionists and piano / Henri Pousseur (16:26) Zeitspiel : for chamber ensemble / Hans-Klaus Jungheinrich (8:20) Equivalences : (1st version) for 15 instruments / Jean-Claude Eloy (8:53) Diaglyphen : for chamber ensemble / Günther Becker (10:45) Komposition für 19 Instrumentalisten / Hans Ulrich Lehmann (8:44) Psalm 24 : for mixed choir / Charles Ives (3:23) Spazi II : for ensemble / Walter Marchetti (5:45) Knocking piece : for ensemble / Ben Johnston (5:25) Scapes II : a contest for two groups / Robert Erickson (10:04) Requiem (part 1) : for female speaker, male choir (basses), piano, tubular bells, woodblock and four drones, synthesizer, thunder stick and Jew's harp / Frederic Rzewski (12:40) thirteen dreams ago : op. 26 for 11 strings and two tapes / Horatiu Radulescu (33:15) Denk daran, die Erde ist Trommel... : for percussion quartet / Thomas Lauck (10:44) Balbuceos : for sixteenth-tone piano and ensemble / Julián Carillo (11:27) eolo'oolin : for six percussionists / Julio Estrada (39:58) Whisper of the semitones = Szmer półtonów : for double bass and ensemble / Tadeusz Wielecki (10:14) Hawking : for solo piano, bass drum and ensemble / Rolf Riehm (34:52) und aber : music for string quartet / Michael Reudenbach (13:57) zereint : for eight instrumentalists / Weiland Hoban (12:03) Adrenochrom : for ensemble / Genoël von Lilienstern (9:13) viscera : for trio basso / Mark Barden (6:58) radix ipsius : for ensemble und live electronics / Marta Gentilucci (17:31) aide-mémoire : for ensemble / Eduardo Moguillansky (5:39) City of falling angels : for 12 percussionists / Liza Lim (17:40) Fremdkörper #1 : for flute, electric guitar, percussion, cello and live electronics / Stefan Prins (11:25) anstatt dass : for chamber ensemble / Robin Hoffman (9:20) Speicher I : for ensemble / Enno Poppe (16:39).

Akémi Karaki, soprano ; Nicole Rzewski, speaker ; Roger Heaton, bass clarinet ; Fernando Grillo, Tadeusz Wielecki, double bass ; Frederic Rzewski, Martine Joste, Christoph Grund, piano ; Christian Dierstein, bass drum, conductor ; Wieland Hoban, percussion ; Végh Quartet ; LaSalle Quartet ; Quatuor Parrenin ; Kronos Quartet ; Arditti Quartet ; Internationales Kranichsteiner Kammerensemble ; The Gregg Smith Singers ; Ensemble Incontri musicale ; Contemporary Chamber Players (University of Illinois) ; Schola Cantorum Stuttgart ; Ensemble Köln ; Freiburger Schlagzeugensemble ; Orchester zum 13. Ton Nürnberg ; participants of the Darmstadt Summer Courses 1998, 2006, 2008 ; Ensemble Courage ; ensemble recherche ; Kairos Quartet ; Fathom String Trio ; enemble ascolta ; Nada Ensemble ; IEMA Ensemble ; Klangforum Wien ; Bruno Maderna, Pierre Boulez, Gregg Smith, Bernhard Kontarsky, Robert HP Platz, Bernhard Wulff, Ulf Klausnitzer, Julio Estrada, Isao Nakamura, Titus Engel, Lucas Vis, Daan Janssens, Susanne Blumenthal, Emilio Pomàrico, conductor.

Recorded in performances at the International Summer Courses in New Music, Darmstadt, from 1952 July 13 to 2010 July 31 Darmstadt.

Sung in German (Kounadis), English (Ives), and Latin (Rzewski).