total duration: 48:20
Historic recording of the world première on October 30, 1999, at ZKM Karlsruhe (Center for Art and Media). Recorded by Südwestrundfunk, Stuttgart, Germany.

from the booklet: The music in Entre Deux Guerres claims to be political. How can Eichmann's composition fulfill this claim, when there is no words to be sung or spoken? The days when you could play marches or have the roar of canon fire on stage are over. Mere sound illustration is too banal and imitating a siren will at best evoke wild derision.
Radical concentration is the basic tool in Eichmann's musical language. There is no hint of reconciliation, no compromise, no repetition, quotation, nothing to appeal to cliché, pathos, or sentimentality, nothing that is not always new (unlike Shostakovich's Seventh Symphony, where war rears up like a huge bulky cylindrical drum forever rotating around its own axis). Furthermore, Entre Deux Guerres refuses to even hint at entertainment, or seemingly concede to any listeners' sensibilities. It leaves no room for mercy. (...) Eichmann's music is cruel in order to make you aware of your own ready acquiescence to the state of permanent warfare; it reveals our own moral failure, it is the sound of the cynicism which makes war still acceptable, two hundred years after the Enlightenment, still unaccomplished as it is, and the articulation of the natural human rights, and to the accompaniment of concepts of an 'eternal' peace somewhere else.