Tansman/ Sahatci/ Koukl - Works for Violin & PianoAlthough Alexandre Tansman was considered a genius in his lifetime, these recordings demonstrate thatmuch of his chamber music remains to be rediscovered after years of neglect. Tansmans early successes included the prize winning Romance and late Romantic Sonate No. 2, ensuring his move from Poland into Parisian cultural life. The exploratory character and exquisite poetry of the Sonate quasi una fantasiacontrasts with the concise First Sonatine with

Dobrzynski is not well known outside his native Poland

Italy and Switzerland during his student days

of all four of Schoenberg's string quartets dating from late 1936 and early 1937

calling on one to get up and sing-a -long

Liner notes include track notes and discussion of Western Samoan culture

The unusual scoring of the flute quintets - using flute

and the scoring allows for performance by cantor or choir

featuring his 8-year-old daughter

Mastered from the original monaural master tapes

Both works are elegantly and spiritedly performed by Ron Squibbs

And why does Sister Julienne appear so unsettled by a mystery benefactor

bringing about a creative synthesis of two worlds