Formosa Quartet: From Hungary to Taiwan <br> BRIDGE 9519This imaginative recording project offers virtuoso treatment of folk music from Hungary and Taiwan, illuminating many aspects of the two cultures, all within beautifully rendered new classical compositions. In addition the recording incorporates arguably, the greatest masterpiece of 20th century string quartet music Bartok's incandescent String Quartet No. 4. Winners of both the First Prize and Amadeus Prize at the London International String

Chinary Ung

Aaron Copland conducted the Harmonie Ensemble in the "Appalachian Spring Suite" and worked closely with conductor Richman and the Harmonie Ensemble on a performance of "Music for the Theatre"

heard here in its first complete recording

Mario Davidovsky remains perhaps the least known of the elder generation of the New York avant-garde composers

“That the music comes across so proscribed by its present medium’s austerities as good-natured gestures to percussive diversity and folk culture speaks to its purely musical merits

Ronald Barrows

“Bland has rounded up a dedicated and skillful batch of interpreters here

His appearance in Hollywood films (with Deanna Durbin)

Makrokosmos I and II have come to be regarded as landmark compositions in the piano repertoire

marimbist Nancy Zeltsman has spearheaded an initiative to commission

The four published trios neatly encapsulate the course of the composer's artistic development

Derek Tywoniuk: For Dean Primmer