Nicolas Altstaedts starting point for this recording was the magnificent second cello concerto by Polish composer Grażyna Bacewicz (1909-1969): "When I first saw the work, I immediately thought: why is this never performed? It's remarkable how she can evoke an entire world with just a few notes."

Pianist and conductor Maxim Emelyanychev conducts the Swedish Radio Orchestra and accompanies his friend on the piano in a work composed two years earlier: Benjamin Britten's Sonata for cello and piano and in a work by Morton Feldman from 1960, Durations II … This is followed by a sonata by Sándor Veress, one of Altstaedts favorite composers, this time for solo cello: this groundbreaking work in the solo cello repertoire, composed in 1967, completes this survey of music from the sixties. It ends with a live recording of John Lennon and Paul McCartney's famous "Blackbird", recorded with Thomas Dunford on lute and vocals in a church in Portugal as the bells strike midnight.