[Mahler once said:] “To write a symphony is to construct a world with all the means at our disposal.” ...it is not just a question of 'fine passages' or 'successful effects’,but of a whole world with its light and shade, joy and sorrow, hope and despair... One might think of [symphonies] as different human individuals; ...they are highly complex beings with many-sided characters,... and yet they are all characterized by specific features...cheerful, ...tragic, ...a mixture of resignation and hope.

Mahler’s dictum that “nothing may be repeated, but... everything must evolve from its own material, “provides a key to understanding the relationship of the “movements” in each work, as well as the connections of the separate works to one another. The same may be said of Sheets of Sound; all are multi-layered, yet each expresses its own distinctive character. As a result, the viewer experiences a growing sense of pleasure as each work unfolds to what ultimately seems its natural culmination.

— Volker Scheruess, from the original CD notes transl. © 1992 Gery Bramail

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