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 | | The French pianist François Couturier, an admirer of the films of this Soviet director, composes elegies and songs without words, creating soundscapes with Jean-Marc Larché on the soprano saxophone and Jean-Louis Matinier on the accordion, together with cellist Anja Lechner. |
 | | Anyone who wants to may detect the hand of the producer Manfred Eicher in the luminous sounds — the floating soprano saxophone borne birdlike on the winds, the silence seemingly lurking behind every note. |
 | | Several of the dream motifs are taken from a sonata by Alfred Schnittke, the ‘Erbarme dich’ from Bach’s St. Matthew Passion, Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater. |
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