The Hungarian-born composer TIBOR HARS�NYI is now recognized as an important personality in 'L'�cole de Paris'. He had a lifelong interest in modern dance, represented...

The Hungarian-born composer TIBOR HARS�NYI is now recognized as an important personality in 'L'�cole de Paris'. He had a lifelong interest in modern dance, represented here by the Petite suite and Trois Pi�ces de danse, and he also embraced jazz, which was part of the Parisian atmosphere of the inter-war period, and other influences, while keeping the Central European rhythms and tonalities of his Hungarian origins. The Trois Pi�ces lyriques is a rare example of Hars�nyi expressing torment during the turbulent years of the Second World War. GIORGIO KOUKL is a pianist/harpsichordist and composer. He studied at both the Conservatories of Z�rich and Milan, where he took part in the masterclasses of Nikita Magaloff, Jacques F�vrier, and Stanislaus Neuhaus, and with Rudolf Firku�n�, friend and advocate of Czech composer Bohuslav Martinu. It was through Firku�n� that Koukl first encountered Martinu's music, and is now considered one of the world's leading interpreters of Martinu's piano music. As a logical continuation of this work, Koukl has recorded the complete solo piano works of Paul Le Flem, Alexander Tcherepnin, Arthur Louri�, V�tezslava Kapr�lov�, Witold Lutoslawski, and more recently, Alexandre Tansman and Tibor Hars�nyi.