bastille musique presents its twenty-ninth release »Helmut Lachenmann: Mes Adieux, featuring Trio Catch, trio recherche, Karolina Öhman (cello), WDR Sinfonieorchester and Lin Liao (conductor). With Notturno (1966-1968), Allegro sostenuto (1986-1988) and the world premiere recording of Mes Adieux – Streichtrio Nr. 2 (2021-2022), the album brings together three outstanding works by Lachenmann from three different creative periods.

The WDR recordings are complemented by a 48-page bilingual booklet (EN, DE) with texts by Harry Vogt, Rainer Peters and an interview with Helmut Lachenmann, several autograph pages and sketches, as well as two concertina-fold inserts with photos of the composer and the performers.