The Italian composer Luigi Nono wrote 'La Lontananza' for the violinist Gidon Kremer in 1988. It is an experimental composition in which a lonely violinist wanders through the audience from one music stand to another in an unfamiliar landscape of eight loudspeakers, from which emerge the taped sounds of violins in a variety of forms. The composition begins with the starting of the tape, closely followed by the violinist. The tape comprises all sorts of ambient sounds such as a passing train, a dropped pen, voices, percussion instruments and music stands falling over. This work is rarely played and is a great challenge for the young violinist Wibert Aerts, who in his recent solo CD 'Violin Faces' very convincingly makes a stand for contemporary music.