The piano and orchestral versions of Tour de Trance are two independent readings of the highly musical and multi-layered poem of the same title by Monika Rinck. Its imaginative appeal lies in the visualization of an event through the description of its most distant reflections: no one heard, everyone felt, the waves of shock. This is achieved above all through images of movement, which lend themselves particularly well to musical adaptation.

Nevertheless, poems and music remain art forms in t...