"This music is made out of the blood and tears of tortured souls: a strangled scream, voices muttering amid a terrified silence, the sounds of war in an improvised cadenza. It is about us, our past and our future. At the centre is Hartmann's Concerto funebre. Juxtaposed is Frank Martin's Polyptyque, a piece about God's Passion and the misery endured to attain eternal salvation for humankind. The Concerto funebre, which can also be seen as a Passion, is a testimony to the wrongs that have been done - and are still being done - to human beings, to creation, and to the Creator."
- Patricia Kopatchinskaja
