Casadesus/ Black Oak Ensemble - Avant L'orage Fulfilled By FYE The pianist Eriko Kagawa and

The pianist Eriko Kagawa and Jurg Eichenberger have been working together for decades and spent a long time planning a recording of Bragato's tango Graciela y Buenos Aires and his arrangements of Piazzolla

and thereafter in Berlin

Benny's Got a Gun speaks on the deadly cycle of retaliation accompanied by Complex of Killing a Man which tells that same exact story from the victim's perspective

writes Peter Wollny in the accompanying booklet article

in which she tackles the fascinating world of the Italian chamber cantata for voice

Casadesus/ Black Oak Ensemble - Avant L'orage Fulfilled By FYE The pianist Eriko Kagawa andBlack Oak Ensemble, the Chicago based string trio with an international following, treats listeners to a double album of stylish and often witty French treasures written between the World Wars. The ensemble offers seven rarely heard delicacies from the 1920s and 30s, including world premiere recordings of trios by Henri Tomasi, Robert Casadesus, and Gustave Samazeuilh along with works by Jean Cras, Emile Gou, Jean Franaix, and Gabriel Piern. Most were