Beat Furrer is a Swiss composer of unsettling, crystalline contemporary music. This 1999 Kairos release gathers four chamber and orchestral works performed by Klangforum Wien, a Vienna-based ensemble known for championing difficult modern scores. Guest conductors Peter Eötvös and Sylvain Cambreling bring clarity to Furrer's intricate, often fragmented textures. The four pieces—Nuun, Presto Con Fuoco, Still, and Poemas—reveal a composer obsessed with silence, minimal gesture, and the poetry of sparse orchestration. Instruments emerge from near-nothing, build small architectures, then dissolve. It's intense, meditative, and demands attention. For listeners who've absorbed minimalism and want to hear where contemporary composition goes when thinness and space become the whole point.