Brahms/ Nowak/ Hudziy - ContrastesThis recording traces the heritage of Romanticism in postmodern times. It's vintage opener is the first Cello Sonata by Brahms, a pinnacle of unspeakable but mind controlled beauty. Martinu's second Cello Sonata, written in American exile in 1941, revisits Brahms's old world, but with wider tonality, more expressive shifts, and the extra rhythmic pulse of Czech folk music. In Schnittke's Cello Sonata of 1978, which builds on Shostakovich's emaciated

Psalm" by the Liszt pupil Julius Reubke

soulful music of Latin America

composer and arranger of Rolf Kuhn won the 2011 ECHO Jazz Award for his life's work

affirmations

New works are then realized

' A work by composer Luna Pearl Woolf completes the program: Contact

Noted for his interpretations of contemporary music

written in 1789

but how was Erika to know that the guy in the photo she'd used was another student in her school

From the opening notes of the title track

He should have been back in Denmark long ago

there does exist a declared model for the music of Tartini