American Flute Quintets <BR> BRIDGE 9373Joan Tower writes: "This is my fourth piece written for Carol Wincenc, an extraordinary flutist with a deep musicality." The main theme in Tower's virtuosic Rising repeatedly ascends using different kinds of scales mostly octatonic or chromatic and occasionally arpeggios. Arthur Foote's A Night Piece and Scherzo published in 1918, proved to be among Foote's most popular chamber works, the nocturne even being orchestrated for larger string ensemble in

Marcel Grandjany

devoid of conventional virtuosity

Sampo Haapamäki (b

the Aquilo is startlingly fresh and assured for a first orchestral work

and in 1996 made his first solo recording for Bridge Records–a highly acclaimed Schubert recital (BRIDGE 9070)

after Machaut: De tout flors (intabulation)

Clemens Dahinden

long thought to be lost

on GM Recordings)

conventional notation sits alongside graphically notated music

pianist Carmel Lowenthal

The Japanese/American composer Akemi Naito’s Mindscape integrates the experimental with the conventional: sensuous melodies co-exist side by side with multiphonics