alto vocals Annette Kohler-Welge
alto vocals Paul Gerhardt Adam
baritone vocals Georg Nigl
bass vocals Ekkehard Abele
bass vocals Michael Albert
bassoon, voice Barbara Kehrig
cello, cello [table cello] Michael Kasper
cello, voice Eva Böcker
choir Deutscher Kammerchor
clarinet [clarinets] Roland Diry
clarinet, bass clarinet, alto saxophone Wolfgang Stryi
composed by Heiner Goebbels
conductor Franck Ollu
design Sascha Kleis
double bass, bass guitar Hans-Joachim Tinnefeld
engineer [tonmeister] Max Federhofer
ensemble Ensemble Modern
executive-producer Manfred Eicher
flute, alto flute, flute [chinese bamboo flute] Dietmar Wiesner
harpsichord, piano, harp Ueli Wiget
tracks 25 lyrics by Arthur Chapman
tracks 3, 7, 11, 12, 17, 21, 23 to 25 lyrics by Gertrude Stein
tracks 2, 4, 19 lyrics by Giordano Bruno
tracks 6, 9, 14 to 16, 26 lyrics by Henri Michaux
tracks 10 lyrics by Leonardo da Vinci
tracks 13 lyrics by Mehboob
lyrics by Nicolas Poussin
tracks 8 lyrics by T. S. Eliot
tracks 26 lyrics by Traditional
mixed by Heiner Goebbels
mixed by Max Federhofer
tracks 13 music by A.R. Rahman
tracks 25 music by Estelle Philleo
tracks 1 to 12, 14 to 24, 26, 27 music by Heiner Goebbels
oboe, musette, voice Catherine Milliken
percussion [ngara], daf, guitar [table guitar], drums Rainer Römer
photography by Wonge Bergmann
piano, sampler, accordion Hermann Kretzschmar
soprano vocals Cornelia Winter
soprano vocals Gundula Anders
tenor vocals Bernhard Scheffel
tenor vocals Friedemann Büttner
trombone Uwe Dierksen
trumpet, piccolo trumpet Sava Stoianov
trumpet, trombone Valentin Garvie
vibraphone, percussion Rumi Ogawa-Helferich
viola, voice Susan Knight
violin, voice Jagdish Mistry
violin, voice Swantje Tessmann
voice David Bennent
Phonographic Copyright (p) ECM Records GmbH
Copyright (c) ECM Records GmbH
Made By EDC, Germany
Recorded At Théâtre Des Amandiers
Opera for soloists, choir and ensemble with texts by Gertrude Stein, Giordano Bruno, Henri Michaux, T. S. Eliot, Leonardo da Vinci and Nicolas Poussin

Co-production ECM Records, Ensemble Modern, SWR Baden-Baden

Recorded live October 2004
Théâtre des Amandiers, Nanterre, Paris

℗ 2007 ECM Records GmbH
© 2007 ECM Records GmbH

Printed in Germany
Barcode: 028947658382
Rights Society: GEMA
Label Code: LC 02516
SPARS Code: DDD