SONATAS & MYTHS: ELIZABETH CHANG, STEVEN BECK <br> BRIDGE 9590This fascinating recital features three works composed during a short period of tremendous upheaval in the world of music. Szymanowski's Mythes: Trois Poemes, op. 30 was composed in 1915, Dohnanyi's Sonata, op. 21 in 1912, and Bartok's Sonata No. 1 in 1920 21. Violinist Elizabeth Chang writes that "the crosscurrents of multiculturalism and the pursuit of a national identity separate from the prevailing Germanic legacy, are topics with searing

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Chansons Madécasses

Wild glissandos add to the sense of extroversion here

we know that the music is the inimitable work of George Crumb

Starobin is a champion for musical truth

this work is haunting and strangely evocative

Sandor Vegh

giving the impression of inexorability

And makes it all sound logical

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Donating their services to a good cause

Julia Bruskin