From the swirling waves of its opening movement Les eaux," the yodelling mountaineers of "La montagne," the pastoral elegance of "Les Champs" with its hushed, stratospheric solo cello lines, and "La ville" the romping "cancan macabre" which bring it to a close, Thomas Ad?s's Lieux retrouv?s for cello and piano traverses an astonishing range of emotional worlds over its 15-minute span. "What can one say about this extraordinary work? ... [Ad?s is]...