Martin Boykan: Music for Piano (1986-2007) <BR> BRIDGE 9434Pianist Donald Berman's recording of Martin Boykan's piano music gives passionate voice to the music of one of America's most undervalued composers. Berman describes the music as: '.. lyrical, yet atonal; melodic, yet with wide leaps in register; it sustains over large expanses, yet has quick inner pulsing.' Berman describes his encounter with Boykan's music: At the start I was awed by the diamond like purity of individual moments, daunted by the

BRIDGE 9382

Regarded then as ‘ultra-modern'

it is only that it’s too short

Shelley Hirsch: In the Basement

Toward the Sea (1981

Cembal d'Amore

Praeludium in G

violinist Movses Pogossian and violist Paul Coletti

an ‘exquisite hour’ of music

close but not “inside” the guitar

BRIDGE 9326A/B (two discs for the price of one)

Catherine Webster