Un Petit Rien

"The decision as to where the borders of music lie can only be determined by the work of composers, who are always trying to make understandable that which is incomprehensible, to turn chaos into order, to encompass that which has no borders: an impulse of the human spirit since the beginning." (Bernd Alois Zimmermann, 1956) The present CD brings three pieces of occasional music (the miniature ballet "Un petit rien", the Music for a Puppet Theater, "Das Gelb und das Grün" [The Yellow and the Green], and the film music "Metamorphose" [Metamorphosis]) together with the composition which laid the groundwork for the "linguistic compositions" of Zimmermann's Late Period: the highly serialized cantata "Omnia tempus habent". coproduction with Westdeutscher Rundfunk and Swiss Radio DRS 2.