A fascinating macrocosm and microcosm in the interaction of sound, space and time Facts — Second Winter & Winter album with ensemble recherche after Hans Abrahamsen's successful piece "Schnee" — Contemporary sounds of romantic beauty — A sonic microcosm of the distant stars and the space between them. — Christian Mason: Composer prizewinner of the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation — Zwischen den Sternen, a commissioned work by ensemble recherche, financed by the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation — Recording sponsored by PRS Foundation, London; support from RVW-Trust — Inspired by Rainer Maria Rilkes poem Zwischen den Sternen Information Mason's work is the result of an intensive exchange with the musicians of ENSEMBLE RECHERCHE. He leaves the Well-Tempered Sound to let floating states arise and disappear. At the tonal center is the piano, with an enraptured mood that appears like a flicker above the sounds of the ensemble. Mason works four-dimensionally with space and time. Sounds move along their paths like meteors, fade away and dive into infinity. He composes sounds, noises and spaces in the course of time. At the end of the piece, the cello is left all alone, lost in an ecstatic semi-improvisation, while the other instruments wistfully penetrate into the distance.