As Neil Tesser writes in his liner notes, "This album contains a great deal of remarkable music - music that floats and dives, dances and prods; passages of warmth or warning, fright and flight; phrases both fragile and powerful. They convey epic romance and intimate inspection. But for all that, perhaps the most remarkable aspect of this album is this: not one note of it was written in advance". Sirius Quartet is a string ensemble: Gregor Huebner - violin, Fung Chern Hwei - violin, Ron Lawrence - viola, Jeremy Harman - cello.