Five Sonatas <br> Andrew Rangell, piano <BR> BRIDGE 9205Andrew Rangell's latest disc is a series of five 20th century sonatas by four of the century's leading composers. Ernesto Halffter, a native of Madrid, came from a musically accomplished family. The Sonata (1926 32) is saturated with materials presented in the very first measure. Three distinct themes, deftly connected, appear in the exposition, whose motoric and spiky counterpoint has a distinct Stravinskian feel. At the age of 80 Halffter delivered

The program is an affectionate tribute by two excellent artists

Renowned for her Mozart and Strauss interpretations

composed in Budapest

the Italian-American accordion virtuoso-- frequently called "The Great Deiro"-- was of paramount importance in the popularization of the accordion in the early 20th century

Father William

in which pop holds the upper hand

Mary Ruth Ray

plus a new story about space travel

Set to a text by a Babbitt favorite–John Hollander–"Quatrains" is a work of great delicacy and subtlety

the lovely lyric tenor Joseph Kaiser

These excellent performances from 1970 and 1971 were captured in very good sound at the Library of Congress

is a work of true lyric beauty