Requiem For a Dying Planet is not the anticipated death song for the earth, this music is dedicated to this wonderful planet and the beauty of living.

Music has always played a central part in the art of film director Werner Herzog. It is never an ’add-on’ but always an integral part of any creation, whether feature-film or documentary.

In 2004 WERNER HERZOG came to Munich to see Stephan Winter because he wanted to find some very personal music for the documentaries "The Wild Blue Yonder" and "The White Diamond". In Winter & Winter’s show room he listened music for hours and Ernst Reijseger’s music fulfilled his extraordinary expectations to create a soundtrack for very special stories about the airship engineer Dr. Graham Dorrington in Guyana (The White Diamond) and the fiction about an exceptional planet (The Wild Blue Yonder). Werner Herzog found what he was looking for: "I want to use imagery and sound in a way you have never before experienced."

This musical vision led to extraordinary recording session in Paris, Ludwigsburg and Munich. Dutch cellist ERNST REIJSEGER, Senegalese singer MOLA SYLLA, and the Voches de Sardinia called CUNCORDU E TENORE DE OROSEI joined Werner Herzog. An initially unlikely assemblage became a powerful and extraordinary work, a very original score was produced.

Now this project became also a cine-concert that makes living the two films’ magic atmosphere. The encounter between author-musicians and images on the screen becomes a multi-media show of image and sound. The final effect is a trance out of space and time. It is a virtuous link and a brave cohesion of the north worlds and the south ones, a tie between the vanguard jazz and the farthest roots of sound, in an unthinkable wedding.

REQUIEM FOR A DYING PLANET is also an album published by Winter & Winter.