Gerard Grisey - Les Espaces Acoustiques (2001)

“Gerard Grisey's swansong, Four Songs for Crossing the Threshold, gained a posthumous reputation in seemingly anticipating his sudden death. But his major achievement is a cycle of ensemble works never hear complete outside continental Europe. The seven parts reinvent the musical wheel with Platonic boldness, cutting loose from the moorings of well-tempered harmony and striving instead for some distant horizon where (to paraphrase Cage) sounds are free simply to be sounds.”