One of Lithuania�s leading artistic figures, Mikalojus Konstantinas Ciurlionis pursued a career as a painter as well as a musician, seeing all art as springing from the same source. His earlier works inhabit a romantic idiom, with the colorful influences of folk-music and the beauty of the countryside intermingled with pieces showing his development while at the Conservatoires of Warsaw and Leipzig. Muza Rubackyte�s recordings of Ciurlionis have been described as �flawless� (American Record Guide) and she herself as �one of today�s most important pianists� (Chicago Tribune).