This is an album of first-rate contemporary American works for violin piano, with superb performances by Pia Liptak, violin, and Yi-Wen Chang, piano. Pia Liptak: Fantasy; Charles Ives: Second Sonata for Violin and Piano; Pia Liptak: Four Haiku; David Liptak: Sonata for Violin and Piano; Baljinder Sekhon: Three Little Lights

Mikhail Volchok was born in 1950 into a family of pianists at the bitter end of the Stalinist era in the Soviet Union. He attended the Moscow Conservatory. Moving to the U.S. many years ago, he concertized as a pianist. He later began composing as well. This album features some of his piano and chamber works.

Pianist and Composer Philippa Schuyler (1931-1967) performed in nearly eighty countries. Her piano compositions are based upon musical cultures from the many places she visited. Sarah Masterson has made a specialty of performing Schuyler's works.

This is an album featuring seven works for string orchestra by Philadelphia-Area composers; all are new commissions. These would be major composers, wherever they were based. This is absolutely first-rate new music for string orchestra.

This is a great performance of the Triakontameron suite by Leopold Godowsky. This is a seldom-heard work that deserves a much larger footprint in the repertoire.

The primary focus here is on the combination of violin, piano, and organ. Superb performances.

Yuting Liu, flute, and Qiaochu LI, piano beautifully perform three major sonatas for flute and piano: Yuko Uebayashi: Sonata for Flute and Piano, Lowell Lieberman: Sonata for Flute and Piano, Op. 23, and Sergei Prokofiev: Sonata in D Major, Op. 94.

KIMOTOKU NIWA IKU JIKAN DA

Schroeder: Pagan Mass

FIRST PIANO TRIO, OP. 24 SECO

SAN PASCUAL BAILON CONTRADANZ

DUO RHYTHMIKOSMOS RHYTHMIC GA

CONCERTO FOR CELLO AND ORCHEST

DUO CONCERTANT ARABESQUE MEN

GLORIA N CIELO DROVER'S LAMEN