The Stuyvesant Quartet <br> Benny Goodman, clarinet <BR> BRIDGE 9137The Stuyvesant Quartet was founded in 1938 by violinist Sylvan Shulman and cellist Alan Shulman, and made its first recording for Victor that year. In 1939, the Quartet began recording for Columbia Records. This CD includes studio recordings of works by Malipiero (recorded in 1950), and Debussy and Ravel (recorded between 1951 53), released for the first time on compact disc. Also featured on this CD is a live broadcast of the Stuyvesant's performance

Taylor's score bridges the gap between jazz and classical music–between improvisation and notated music

Absam 1668

Disc B concludes with two short string orchestra pieces from Walton's historic Henry V film collaboration with Laurence Olivier

Bryan Johanson

Idle Chatter

and as annotator Harris Goldsmith writes

right down to the precise positioning of the nuts and bolts and pieces of felt and rubber that are laid on the strings to ‘prepare’ the piano and produce the percussive

The Rockmore/Reisenberg duo is heard on this CD in 13 never-before released tracks

more revelatory still

“Soprano Susan Narucki headlines all three works and easily proves herself the heiress of Jan de Gaetani and Cathy Berberian in her ability to negotiate the perilous leaps

German and English (translations enclosed)

The Scenes from Nek Chand uses a six-note mode and is based on the sculpure and architecture of Nek Chand in northern India