This 7-disc box set comprises award-winning documentaries and concert recordings produced and released by Accentus Music that shine the light on the lives and works of a few of the most important and most well-known composers of the 20th century: Erik Satie, Charles Ives, John Cage, Isang Yun, Krzysztof Penderecki, who died in 2020, and Arvo Pärt. Award-winning filmmakers are featured, including Anne-Kathrin Peitz, Allan Miller, Paul Smaczny, and Maria Stodtmeier. Also included are live performances from the Ruhrtriennale 2018 and the Teatr Wielki Warsaw, 2013

A jazz musician - pianist and composer - plays Erik Satie. His stations: SOK, Synopsis, the Ulrich Gumpert workshop band (celebrated on international Festivals), the duo with G�nter Sommer; the trio with Radu Malfatti and Tony Oxley. Gumpert performing in a duo with Dietmar Diesner and Gumpertsolo, playing his own piano music - plain pieces of deep urge. It seems as if Gumpert inevitably had to come to Satie. It is not scores which are the essence of Satie's music but his attitudes. A pianist who feels strange with Satie's nature, can play the pieces key by key from the score and though disfigure them past recognition. l can't name any musician who is more able to play the early works of Erik Satie, than Ulrich Gumpert.

Pianist Duncan Cumming wrote a story for his children, nephews, and nieces in which his nephew and niece from Thailand travel through Europe to America to visit their grandmother. He accompanies his story with piano works by Rimsky-Korsakov, Schumann, Mozart, and others, along with story narration by Lucy Cumming. The album booklet includes beautiful illustrations by Hilary Cumming. This is a magical journey. Duncan J. Cumming has performed concertos, recitals, and chamber music concerts in cities across the United States as well as in Europe. The Kennedy Center in Washington DC, Merkin Hall and Carnegie Recital Hall in New York City, and the Wallenstein Palace in Prague, Czech Republic are among the concert halls in which he has appeared. Concerts outside of the New York Capital Region this season include a concert tour of the Boston area in March as well as the United Kingdom, France, and Switzerland in May. A recent review describes his playing as technically flawless thoughtful, deliberate and balanced, without a wasted gesture or any histrionics, rather like Rachmaninoff.