Six works for violin, cello and piano by Charlotte Seither, from 1994 to 2011, played by the elole piano trio. Two piano trios frame duo and solo pieces for each instrument. The disc follows Seither's idea of composing as "dissociation": a patient breaking-down of sounds into their parts, so that the material is freed from the uses and meanings it once carried.

Seither was born in Landau in the Palatinate in 1965. She studied composition with Frank Michael Beyer, Friedrich Goldmann and Aribert Reimann in Berlin. In 1995 she was the first German to win first prize at the Prague Spring international composition competition. Her music has been heard at Gaudeamus in Amsterdam, Wien Modern and the Venice Biennale, and her awards include the GEMA German Music Authors' Prize and the Ernst von Siemens sponsorship prize. The trio is Uta-Maria Lempert (violin), Matthias Lorenz (cello) and Stefan Eder (piano). The disc is a coproduction with Deutschlandradio.

In her first trio, Champlève (1994), the piano loses its leading role. It is reduced to percussive interventions produced by preparations inside the instrument, while violin and cello work together as equal partners. Equal Ways of Difference (2011), the second trio, was written for the elole trio's tenth anniversary. Seither praised the group's dynamic as open to individual differences. Playing Both Ends Towards the Middle (2000) gives violin and cello the same material and asks how individual autonomy can survive shared activity. In Cry (2009) for solo violin, the music begins as near-physical sighing, wailing and choked sobbing, gestures that later turn into abstract material.

Merging Strain (1999) for solo cello was written for a series at the Philharmonie in Cologne, where each Bach cello suite was paired with a new piece. It develops a personal kind of virtuosity while echoing Bach's writing for the instrument. With Cry it is the longest piece on the disc, each running over fifteen minutes. Gran passo (2006) for piano takes its title from a double crossing of borders: between the keyboard and the inside of the piano, and between melody and rhythm.

CD, Wergo WER 7321 2, released in 2015.