The path was long. Lines crossed each other, departed, approached, paused, or remained in their positions. We have circled each other in the past years, listened to each other, discovered one thing and another, pondered. Does a music entitled “In Honour of God” even need other sounds and notes? Is it not complete, finished in itself?

This question crossed my mind while Hermann Voss was playing the Sarabande in Bach´s 5th Suite. My mind hesitated, uncertain whether anything could be added. My fingers on the SoundStone, which I lovingly call my Stradivari, thought differently. They began to feel the music. The stone resonated and gradually the sound was tuned. It vibrated in the depths and formed the foundation for the arpeggio chord columns of the viola. An extract from a poem by Peter Härtling came to my mind…” I begin/ to wander/ through this forest/ from head to head/ and touch/ the pebble lips, / so their song may not end, / into which I am growing,/ into/ the sounding stone.” The music opened itself, grew into another. The tonality of the proto-language of stone wove itself with the complex spaces of old Bach and allowed him to breathe anew in a foreign space. Fascinated and simultaneously deeply moved, we turned to other works; Jolivet was added and Strawinsky was practiced.

We had come much closer than originally imagined. We felt a connection which began to grow through the notes and tones, then spread itself out. In an exchange of thoughts, we perceived new qualities, began to expand our repertoire and our team. Barbara Wojciechowska (viola ) and Alicja Ratusinska (piccolo and transverse flute) with their highly developed musical abilities, created new and inspiring music in an exchange between the worlds. Debussy´s Syrinx gained archaic spaces, Faure´s Apres un Reve , wonderful depths, making them even more inspiringly intense. Part`s Fratres reminds us of Bach in a church as it breathes in the magnitude of the old catherdarals and in Stockhausen´s Tierkreis the SoundStone gives the man-made instruments a spiritual element.

It was, and still is, worthwhile to tread the long path, a path that opens and works on the music of the world. Earth´s memory is diverse and has no limits.