Rachmaninoff – Works for Cello and Piano <BR> BRIDGE 9347The duo team of cellist Steven Doane and pianist Barry Snyder made a number of award winning recordings for Bridge Records in the 1990s. Their traversal of the complete music for cello and piano of Gabriel Faur won several awards,including a citation in the French journal Repertoire. The duo returns with superbly wrought renderings of two major Rachmaninoff masterpieces the heartbreakingly beautiful cello sonata, and the virtuosic tudes tableaux, Op.

he gives these immortal cello works a gutsy

Ancient Voices of Children (1970)Eine Kleine Mitternachtmusik (2001)Ruminations on 'Round Midnight by Thelonious Monk(premiere recording)Madrigals

Marek Sokolovsky: Etude in D major

What remains is the warmth and humor of a true American "original"- a composer fascinated by stylistic clash and the new language that his yields

the score peppered with personal references and messages to well-known musicians and other acquaintances

and the "Tallis" Fantasia

Four Tone-Pictures (piano solo)

has an endearing effect on each he has mentored

Horatio Parker

For those interested in one of the 20th century's least known

Writing about the American Songbooks I and III (BRIDGE 9218A/B)

syncopated passages